Thursday, April 8, 2010

Digital Creator. Creation v. Creative?

After reading the reading (ha), I think a creator is a digital native or settler (settler's being the older generation that is very active in Web 2.0 and user generated content). The topic of being an artistic creator on websites like Youtube and Facebook is certainly up in the air. They certainly create stuff, but is it creative? Stuff on Facebook or Twitter aren't necesarrily creative or artwork, but I have seen some artwork on these stuff.

I could create all day long (now if only I would create these blogs on time)... But it's really just data, 1's and 0's, that I'm creating. Then again, a painting done in Photoshop is the same thing. It's incredible when you think about it. Any digitized artwork can be translated to code.

Now go to sites like DeviantArt and nearly all the work on there would be considered creative and not just online creation. But underneath, you can comment and that's really just creation.

Also want to mention that since Twitter allows only 140 characters, people do really have to be creative to sometimes get their message across.

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