There’s a certain pace by which the world works. As a whole this pace has more dramatically increased in the past hundred years than throughout all of human history. This is largely due to a chain reaction of inventions starting with the printing press through to the combustion engine, the telephone, the microchip and the internet. The one thing standing in the way of this exponential acceleration in the pace of our daily lives is quite simply us.<\/p>\n
There’s a pace to creativity too. In my experience, this pace varies somewhat from “artist” to artist. Mine tends to be in the turbo charged vicinity most of the time. And I’m not equating the pace of creativity to the quality of the creation, merely that I tend to work fast and often on a wide range of projects for better or worse. This was all well and good as a one man operation where I could incubate an idea and see it through to distribution all by myself. But upon entering the realm of doing things with others I discovered that my creative pace – perhaps any creative pace – is incongruous with the business side of show business.<\/p>\n
I was speaking with a local player recently who put it this way: “The less they say ‘yes’ to, the longer they keep their jobs.” The ‘they’ is the business dudes. The “non-creatives” – sorry, business dudes, it’s true. The people who keep the wheels of the entertainment industry turning albeit at a snail’s pace. Without them we’d just be a bunch of creative lightning bolts jutting out in all directions until we starved to death. With them we’re a controlled, slow moving current that’s more likely to die of boredom than starvation. And ‘saying yes’ refers to these executives and bureaucrats actually acting on any of the creative energy that’s constantly being hurled in their direction. Backing a script, approving a budget, acquiring a film; these may be the bottlenecks of creativity but they are the sword of Damocles for the executive.<\/p>\n
So what does that give you?<\/p>\n
Impetuous enthusiasm smothered by fear, laziness and an acceptance of mediocrity. The human pace. And the pace at which things move regardless of how instantaneous ideas can now be typed into a computer and beamed around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Running the 3 minute mile on the treadmill of show business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}