Getting Creative...

Ever have one of those days when you are just sitting there at work when something sparks your creative side (no matter how developed that might be)...

It could be a song on the radio, something you read on the internet, something somebody in the office says, or whatever... but you suddenly have this creative urge and it nags at you for the rest of the work day...

I guess I should preface this a little bit...

I'm not what one would consider an artsy person. I tend to think very logically and in straight lines. So if somebody asked me to create something abstract or to write something profound, I would have a lot of trouble. My mind has trouble creating something from nothing. But if you give me an idea, I can usually visualize something...

My problem is that I can't really recreate it. My medium of choice is photography, so unless I can easily recreate it, I can't get it out of my head. I've been told I have an eye for photography, since I can recognize something as being more than it originally looks. I can see something and can instantly know how to best capture it in two dimensions. Which is useful at times, but also extremely frustrating at others. I can have the ultimate image in my head, but no way to get it out...

I have never been good at painting or sketching, which would be the most obvious media for translating an image from mind to paper. I can try all I want to draw something, but it never comes out anywhere near what I have in my head...

At various points in my life I have lived with artistic people, the kind that can paint or sketch. My sister is the main one that comes to mind, as she is about as opposite to me as you can get in many ways. And my college roommate was similarly skilled, and similarly different...

I've often thought 'if only I could draw or paint like that', I could let others see what I can see...

But its all for naught...

Which leads me back to my current conundrom...

I was listening to the song 'Closer' by Kings of Leon a couple of days ago, and I got this dramatic image in my head that I want to get out, but can't...

I can try to sketch it on scrap pieces of paper at work as much as I want, but its never the same...

Which I guess is life for those of us that have trouble putting pencil to paper...