I’m a great believer in nurturing creativity and play is an essential part of that. Since I got an ipod touch I’ve found several apps which encourage me to play – especially with my photos.
Here’s a photo I took of Stirling Bridge and the Wallace Monument
And here’s what happens when you run it through the “Lego photo” app –
Isn’t that fun? I guess the next step would be to actually get the lego bricks and make the image in 3D!
Finally, here’s a lego photo-ed version of a picture of Ava, my youngest grand-daughter.
Have you found any apps which encourage your creative play?
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Interesting effects but I say, take both of these altered images a step further and reproduce them using real paint and paper (or canvas). My problem with some of these creative software and app functions is they allow for too much instant gratification and nurture impatience. Is there any real creative thinking going on beyond a few clicks of a button? Just a thought.
oh I know what you mean Steve….but for me, this isn’t about art, and it’s not the be all and end all of creativity. It’s a stimulus. A provocation. And a turning of the attention to creativity.
Just like for me photography is a way of increasing awareness and of seeing what I otherwise don’t see, so these fun “toy” apps are a way of reminding me to play a little – most of my day is very serious!
But I agree, the proof of all that will be…..does it stimulate me to be more creative?
LOVE the blog! I’m in the closest thing I can get to Scotland, on the North American continent – Kentucky. (Well, other parts of Appalachia might qualify, too.)
I spent a couple of happy weeks backpacking in Scotland several years back. I have a lot of Scotch roots, so it felt like going home.
Thanks for your creative, provocative, nuanced thoughts.
Good point! For some folks, this might be all the time they have to do something creative, and hopefully, things like this will carry onto other, otherwise, mundane, daily routines.