Gordon Price speaks at Creative Mornings/Vancouver Friday, August 2nd, at 8:30 am. To get a ticket, sign up here.
CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 2- minute talk, followed by a group discussion and Q&A. The gathering begins at 8:30 am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00 am and everyone taking off for work by 10 am.
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Here’s my profile and Q&A done for Creative Mornings:
CMV: How do you define creativity and apply it in your career?
GP: Applying observations, knowledge or perspective from one area of interest (or, better yet, passion) to another.
CMV: Where do you find your best creative inspiration?
GP: Trail running. Or times when, focused on a physical activity, you let the mind sneak in some connection you wouldn’t achieve through concentration.
CMV: What’s the one creative advice or tip you wish you’d known as a young person?
GP: Persistence. Don’t worry whether a project is perfect or complete; just get that draft done, leave it to gestate, and when you return to it tomorrow, it’ll seem better than you thought it was. Or at least you’ll be less frustrated and prepared to take the next step. Then revise, revise, revise.
CMV: Who would you like to hear speak at CreativeMornings?
GP: Steven Johnson: “Where Good Ideas Come From”
CMV: What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
GP: Kayaking the Capilano River in flood. Still have the scar from a dislocated shoulder to show for that one.
CMV: How would you describe what you do in a single sentence to a stranger?
GP: Well now, that entirely depends on the stranger.
CMV: What keeps you awake at night?
GP: Whether our eventual (and incredibly delayed) response to climate change might be too late for this civilization.
CMV: What are you proudest of in your life?
GP: Helping found AIDS Vancouver and hopefully saving some lives.
CMV: If you could do anything now, what would you do?
GP: Traveling without a carbon footprint, in good health, with enough resources, to meet people in fascinating places who could show me the world through their eyes.
CMV: Where was the last place you travelled?
GP: Madrid and Barcelona.
CMV: What is the one movie or book every creative must see/read?
GP: Koyaanisqatsi. So many of its techniques (particularly time-lapse and minimalist music) have been ripped off so often, they can seem like cliches now. (So it helps to know where they came from.) Regardless, this visual essay (slowest moving and fastest paced movie you’re likely to see in one sitting) is still so powerful and relevant, and provokes new perceptions when you leave the theatre. (And you have to see in a theatre.)
