30 Days of Creativity Revisited
My 30 Days of Creativity Calendar as seen from inworld
Last Month I participated in the 30 Days of Creativity Challenge. You are encouraged to create something, anything really, each day of the thirty. For most of the days, my projects involved virtual creations in Second Life. I did a couple of days worth of builds in Minecraft and took a break from Virtual Environments one day to capture a breathtaking sunset with my Camera. On the last day, I put together a web page of My 30 Days of Creativity for 2011.
One place that I frequented during this month of creativity was the Linden Endowment for the Arts Sandbox, a sandbox and self-curated gallery where I built and temporarily displayed several of my virtual creations (tip of the hat to Hamlet Au for mentioning this place on New World Notes). If you wish to pay the place a visit for yourself you can do so via http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA5/122/129/24 or read more about it here. I highly recommend it as an art focused sandbox, a place to display your creations, and a place to explore the creations of others.
There is something about sandbox environments that helps get my imagination working. Even the constraints of my available tools present their own creative opportunities. Indeed, I’ve often found that one of the fastest ways to get over creator’s block is to impose some sort of artificial constraints, rules that you will follow for a particular build. I plan on participating again next year, but I also don’t plan on waiting until next year to recapture my creative spark.
