The Spectacular Fail: Blue Scholars On Creativity and Cinemetropolis

After a four month hiatus from the channels of Vimeo, NYC photographer/filmmaker TONE has returned with a string of 3 new videos within a one-week span. The second of these three is the above video interview with Seattle-based hip hop duo, Blue Scholars.

Among the topics covered in this epic 8-minute piece are conformity in the music industry; imitation, influence, and creativity; and the conceptual idea of “the spectacular fail”.Quite an interesting and insightful piece indeed. Pay attention as Blue Scholars drops knowledge.

Cinemetropolis is slated to drop in 2011.

Often times it’s frustratingly easy for creative souls to run into a wall, a dry spell of mundane predictability where nothing we lay our hands upon seems fresh. No matter how hard we try, we fail to produce anything of tangible value. I named this blog TheCreativeRoutine because all of us go through periods where true creativity seems foreign to us, where the only routine we know is mediocre compromise and half-hearted pursuits. Habitual creativity is a learned practice. It takes time. It takes effort and commitment before creativity can really be routine in someone’s life. It’s something we’re all working for.

If you have sincere passion, a strong work ethic, and a will to create, there truly isn’t any creative undertaking you can’t conquer. Levi Maestro is evidence of that. The creator of Maestro Knows teamed up with Tone (another individual that knows what a creative routine is all about) to share his thoughts on creativity, drive, and achievement.

Go get it. Truly. No one else will bring it to you.

Thoughts anyone?

Q:why do u focus on all this rap and no real music? anyway, people just spel rap wrong, they need a c in the front

Anonymous

I would love to know who you are so I could perhaps answer this question more adequately. I focus more on hip hop now because I’m really in a hip hop state of mind right now. I’m a lover of all things of creative value. Hip hop, world music, indie, electro pop, folk, traditional rock. I love all these things. Vampire Weekend, Sublime, The Avett Brothers, Switchfoot. These are among my favorite musical acts. I invite you to give hip hop a chance. I think you’d be surprised how your opinion of it just might change.