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Everyone is creative in their own way, but we can unintentionally limit our creativity. It is possible to get beyond our self imposed limitations and become more creative. A good part of creativity involves seeing relationships between things that at first do not appear to be connected. Creativity and longevity have some interesting connections and this instructable explores a few of them.
The intro pic shows a glow lamp I made using curved circuit board material and LEDs. I coated it with Ooglo, a luminous silicone paint, so that it would glow even when it was off. The picture was taken under ultraviolet light. By way of illustration of some aspects of the creative process, this instructable will also detail the build of this glow lamp.
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Signing UpStep 1Learning Is Evolutionary
Creativity involves learning and learning is a continual perception and adaptation to what is. Old ideas that don't work must be abandoned and replaced with new ideas and actions that better fit reality. To do this well, requires a certain objectivity and a willingness to give up any of our cherished ideas that do not work. It is when we give up our own dogmatism and bad habits that we begin to become more creative and healthier.
Let It Go, Let It Flow
Forget the deadline, forget the goal, let it flow. Begin where you can and see where it takes you. Try a few ideas and see what the results suggest. Don't just sit and endlessly chew on ideas like bubblegum, see if they can be expanded or will just pop in your face. It is in the attempt that you will discover new things. Maybe not what you expected, but something new to you. As someone has put it: "Things are better done than said"
The step 1 pic shows some of the shapes I have experimented with in order to create functional curved circuit boards. Not shown are the dozens of other shapes tried and discarded. Sometimes I start with a form and fit the circuit to it as in the touchless touch lamp in pic a. And sometimes the circuit and form evolve together as in the double helix lantern in pic b.
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squozzer, LOL
I'm just blasting through.
Bye
Which would you take -- living to 60 a life filled with pleasure, intellectual stimulation, beauty, and independence; or living to 100, where you eat bad-tasting food, exercise all the time, grow ugly and old, spend all of your retirement money on doctors and meds, end up wearing diapers, and finally expire in a nursing home, surrounded by strangers?
What would be cool is that doing the right things gets your life extended in the 20 - 50 range, maybe by using hexadecimal.
It would go 20, 21...29, 2A, 2B...2F, 30, 31...39, 3A... you get the picture.
BTW, the lamp looks gnarly...love it!