Brian Hendricks: The Lecture

First of all, to explain the title: This was the best speech we've had, inspiration-wise. I can expect it will be the best one. Perhaps it went off in a few more directions then we were accustomed to, but that's what made it special. It didn't come off as rehearsed, or planned. There were no visual aids. All it was was pure inspiration. It was one person talking about what inspires his creativity, what HE considers to be creative, and just showing us what we can do.

It was simple. There were no lectures about creativity as viewed from a subject standpoint - just personal views on creativity. I have to say, it was absolutely engaging, and it fit perfectly into what I thought this class would be like after the first class.

However, this kind of a lecture poses a problem for me, creative act-wise. This is a difficult lecture to have to tie into a creative act.

The more I thought about this, though, I realized that I could attach ANYTHING to this particular lecture as a creative act. This was the first lecture that really inspired you to break boundaries in your creativity. Therefore, I present you with my unrelated, but related, creative act. And no, I will not do this more than once, because I expect this to be the only lecture of this type.

INSPIRATION

He went for a walk,

He hit with his feet,

A big speckled rock

That he kicked up the street.

He got so inspired,

But hard as he tried,

Out went the fire,

The moment had died.

He looked at the clouds,

And traced their fat shapes,

A pig and a cow,

A crow and an ape.

He got so inspired,

But hard as he tried,

Out went the fire,

The moment had died.

He sat in his bed,

Apprising the day,

Mundane and no different

Except in one way.

He made no great art

From internal fire,

But was it enough

Just to be inspired?