Creative ideals come from the strangest places. Ever since macaroni in the shape of the state of Texas was found, the uniqueness of it started the creative thought process. What can be done with this stuff? It has been in a zip-lock bag in my camera bag for over a week now. When at last the opportunity came around were it would be a good day to shoot, it didn't totally turn out that way. It seems what when the macaroni was set up on the felt sheet, and the camera was placed to focus in on the shot, a gust of wind would hit the felt and upset the design. It became frustrating. Even more frustrating is the fact that one of my basic tenets is never do work twice. Do it right the first time and never work twice on the same project. Well, it wasn't in the cards that day. Finally, on day two, the wind died down and a second problem developed. It seems that the macaroni is not the best material to place on felt and there were no tweezers in my bag to set the pieces in the planned layout. Finally, it was more work than the outcome would bring. Cut your losses and move on. Yet, being more stong willed than that, working with the stuff finally made a rather crude take but it was enough to get the point across and to use the ideal in yet another project that would benefit more. So, with two samples after the edits, the fun that was had was worth more than any monetary reward had it all come out the way planned. But, that just proves than money isn't everything by any means and the reward was even more rewarding from a creative process.
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| 356-1F270521 The State of the Macaroni |
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| A sketch artist was having the same creative process. |
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