11.5.04
Continuando con la idea del mainstream: Paul Arden, en su excelente libro "It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be" argumenta que los concursos son un lastre a la creatividad. ¿Por qué? Porque en un concurso se selecciona y el criterio es siempre "lo que se lleva", el mainstream. Un proyecto realmente original, creativo, nunca ganará un concurso porque no hay nada con lo que compararlo. Y eso si el concurso no está ya dado de antemano, que es lo cotidiano por aquí...
Keeping up with the idea of mainstream: Paul Arden, in his excelent book "It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be" argues that prizes are a burden to creativity. Why is that so? Juries in prizes select the winner by means of "what's cool", the mainstream. A really original project, a creative one, will never win a prize, because there is nothing to compare with. And that is if the prize is not already conceded beforehand, something quite common here...
Keeping up with the idea of mainstream: Paul Arden, in his excelent book "It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be" argues that prizes are a burden to creativity. Why is that so? Juries in prizes select the winner by means of "what's cool", the mainstream. A really original project, a creative one, will never win a prize, because there is nothing to compare with. And that is if the prize is not already conceded beforehand, something quite common here...
