How to find ideas that really drive you (links included)
Hey, thanks for opening this one up. I have some stuff in here that will hopefully be interesting for you (with links). I wanted to talk a bit about the topic of my next video - how to find new space for your ideas through travel & experience (both geographical movement and journeys outside of your familiar creative style, form, or genre).
In the Youtube script I talk about George Orwell’s experience travelling to Spain to fight the fascists in the civil war (this linked audiobook is a great listen), Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale in West Berlin (another great audiobook linked there), and the journeys outside America that Kendrick Lamar took, which defined some of the major themes of (in my opinion) his best album, To Pimp A Butterfly.
In my own short trip (travelogue video posted below for paid subs), I took a more manageable 3 day walk to explore the ideas of psychogeography, how it can be useful to purposefully look for less usual kinds of journeys to take, and how finding new kinds of experience, even if they’re small and manageable, can help feed our work.
The Youtube video (coming at the end of next week) will have a load more info on all this, but if you want to check out some background around the ideas of hwo psychogeography might feed your creative inspiration, I’ll leave a couple of good watch/listens below.
Speak soon, and paid subs don’t miss the video below,
Will
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