2. Beyond the boundaries / Web-Design

    Several days ago I started with the book "60 innovators shaping our creative future" which as a result caused very contraversary impressions and inspired me on some ideas connected with my work. Two main blocks of the book which attracted my attention were Web-design and, for sure, Photography.  But in this post I'm going to talk mainly about Web-design.     Besides Photography I'm also interested in Web-design because currently this is the main field of my occupation, as I work as a web designer in our university. Although I always stand for creative ideas and new approaches in all fields somehow connected with art, I also consider that web is for everyone that is why to make it to difficult. Too much of a good thing is good for nothing. The same thing with creativity. Your idea can be crazy, innovative, but what is the purpose of its existance if it is not understandable for others? Maybe exactly because of this among all innovators listed in Web-design block I recognized only and was impressed only by Jonathan Harris. This does not mean that I do not understand the ideas and the core of innovation of other artists, but I suppose that I get the main point of these new creative ideas only because I work in this field. At the end of the day what's the purpose of creating web designs which can be understood only by web designers? It is the same as baking bread only for bakers. 
    In case of Jonathan Harris his ideas are so simple, but so amazing and interesting, so they can be shared with people who do not even know the explanation of the word "Web-design", they just see the soul of his creations. I can also explain my admiration for this artist by his idea of conjuction of web design and photography. One of my favorite projects created by him is "Today" which he conducted due to his 30 birthday. Every day he took the picture and posted in to web and this was the result:  Today.

Jonathan Harris: The web as art
The web-site of ADA IT school designed and made by our team
Promo video also made by us :)

1. Hello, this is my first post

     What is creativity? Why everyone cares about it? And what is even more important: Do I have this creaitivity in me? These are the questions which first appeared in my mind when I decided to take the cource of Creaitivity in Arts and Beyond. In my opinion, the question "What is creativity?" is more about philosophy than about some precise definition. However, I expect to define what it is for me in order to get to know if I can call myself creative. Today it became a fashion to cal yourself creativy, full of ideas and new aproaches just to raise your authority among your colleagues, friends or relatives, even if in fact you are just following the crowd in its aspiration to "be different". However at the end of the day all these "different" poeple become copy-paste variaties of each other. 
   When I started to think about my creaitivity, I felt a little bit confused, because, despite the fact I am involved into so many projects in which I am supposed to show all my creativ way of thinking, it is really difficult to state with 100% confidence that I am a creative person. That is why in this blog I am going to tell you one by one about sides of my creativity and my vision of it. 
   In the last lecture I was the one who wanted to spend 1 million on photo equipment and travelling. Maybe 1 million does not worth it and this way of spending it will not bring a lot of benefit to human race, but who said that it has to? Our life is so short and runs so fast, that the best investment you can do is investment in your own knowledge and education. And for me the best education is travelling, seeing new places and new people. And the best way to capture all these precious moments which do not worth any amount of money is to take pictures. Maybe because of this I've been working as a photographer for 5 years. I can't say that I have an outstanding talent, but at least I can say that all my photos have a piece of my soul. And wanted to share a few of them with you :)
    P.S. My hard disk with ALL my photos broke several days ago, that is why I have only a few of them at the moment. However, I also share a youtube link of my present to my close friends a few years ago. This is a video created with 1000 photos taken and edited by me. Hope you will enjoy :) 

Click here to watch the video :)

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