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The Blue Man Group and Creativity

What is it that sets the creative individual from the uncreative, unable to create individual? Is creativity something that can be learned? Can it be nurtured, developed, accelerated? In children? In adults? In children only?

Can creativity be discovered? Uncovered? Can creativity be released? Unchained? Is creativity hidden, needing only the right vehicle or situation to be released?

Can we all be/become creative?

In a profession where creativity is of up most importance(Landscape Design) creativity is sorely lacking. Landscape Design has become a profession where mediocrity has become the accepted norm. Where the routine is good, and the overdone, bloated landscape is great.

What happened?

Or in reality has it always been this way? Has the mediocre always been acceptable? Has the bar always been this low? Lower? and where does the constant barrage of today’s media play into how we determine the accepted level?

I am asking all these questions because of something I was watching today on HDNet(another good topic on creativity), it was a Blue Man Concert . . . . .

I watched with complete amazement, humor, enjoyment and awe . . .

who else in the entire would plays PVC pipe, uses wind vibration as a musical instrument, plays the strings of a baby grand piano, spits paint on audience members(who gladly accepted spitted paint), oh, and by the way . . . paints themselves solid blue never talks(talks) to the audience . . . etc, etc, etc . . .

On top of that, they play really great music with a solid group of professional musicians. totally engaging their audience without ever mentioning “we’re so happy to be in _______ “, or “How ya’ll doing out there”.

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