yes, i do. I do have 5 drafts. (6 including this one.)
But, since non of them seems suitable just yet, i unfortunately have to say that I will not share my new media thoughts with you this week. But i will make sure to edit those to the presentable condition and post at least one of them by the end of the week.
Blog is a weird thing. I’ve been writing those for a while and familiar with those ups and downs in writing. It is thus most unusual been pressed to write blog under deadline conditions.
Of course, if you would put it somewhat like: imagine you are writing the weekly column for a new media design online journal and you are working under deadline, you will manage to come up with something every week without all this “inspiration rubbish”. Surely, I can’t agree more. But it all depends how you put it to your self. A matter of habit, I’d say. Blogs for me were always more of an inspirational sort of activity rather than a necessity. So, I can afford being ‘in search’. On the contrary, if my paycheck would have depended on it, I’d have to break my habits eventually.
The 6th week through interactive media program I am taking in Centennial showed that one of the biggest weaknesses is my most frustrating inability to cope with deadlines. So much, in fact, that it threatens to turn into a major turn point of my potentials being suppressed by time shortage, greatly affecting my overall performance. And it is all being aroused around the inspirational aspect of work.
One thing that is most uncommon to me (culturally-wise, or, that is to say, nationaly-wise, since I moved to Canada 4 years ago from Moscow, Russia) and that differentiates the views between my home country and Western culture is the perception of creative field performance.
Western culture made their point clear that no matter what you do you have to be productive in order to work in the creative field. It is thus means that there’s no such thing as inspirational dilemma of an artist struggling to get one piece done all his life. It is literally unacceptable if you are field professional. You are either productive getting something done literally ‘weekly’, or you are not suitable for the field and might as well go to the different working area. Preferably, other than creative. It has almost turned into a production line, which, to note, works !
On the contrary, in Moscow I’ve met many people in the creative fields who, upon hearing word “deadline”, were making scary grimaces of excessive disgust and saying they are better than that. That surely not how the industry works, since if it would, it would’ve died out in no time. But I am still talking about a good half of people freelancing in the creative media fields.
It all comes down to my somewhat lame but, nevertheless, strong respect of the western views and attitudes towards certain things. The age of the culture indeed matters as well as the age of the industry within the culture. There are things one culture is in a state of experiencing and tasting while other already gone through it and learned its lessons. Mature western creative media industry have overcome the threat and neglect of deadlines in creativity and accepted it as a valuable tool instead of picking their noses at it, while East (and by East I mainly mean my home country – Russia) is still struggling with ‘masterpieces’. Or at least flourish its thoughts that they are indeed a masterpieces..
Most valuable to know that, anyway.
and that’s how the announcements about delayed posts turning into trailed away debate about rhetorical dilemmas.. I hope this one will not turn into Draft#6..
Wait I’ll show you my overview of inspiring super person – Bill Buxton, who has definitely become my hero of a life time. I produce music too, Bill, can I someday become as cool as you ?..
