[arg_discuss] ToW: Idea Graveyard

[Jeff Hull]

I can identify, Andrea; sometimes I feel like an idea faucet without a  
proper receptacle.  Over the years I came to realize that every new  
creative concept has a time & a place, and opportunities will  
eventually present themselves for each idea to take hold.  Your great  
ideas of yore will rise from the graveyard and become the obvious  
option when the time is right (considering budget, schedule, theme  
etc.)  Otherwise, it can be a strange pleasure to watch others have &  
execute your ideas if you wait long enough.

- Jeff Hull


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On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Jeromy Barber wrote:


> A musician told me an interesting Stevie Wonder story last week.   

> Someone

> asked him how he had so many hits during a certain period of his  

> life...

> There were like three years where he just couldn't miss.  Stevie  

> explained

> that during this period he was writing 10 songs a day, and not just  

> music

> and lyrics.  He was writing full arrangements... horns, drums, BGVs,  

> the

> works.  He said it was just a numbers game at that point.

>

> I think you elaborate as fully as you can your graveyard ideas and  

> then,

> like Stevie, it's a numbers game.  The best ideas will be obvious to  

> you and

> others you are collaborating with.

>

> Jeromy

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org [mailto:arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org 

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> Behalf Of Andrea Phillips

> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 7:55 AM

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> Subject: [arg_discuss] ToW: Idea Graveyard

>

> As I'm sure many of you are, I've grown quite a graveyard of ideas I

> absolutely love, but that didn't ultimately fit into the project at

> the time. (Budget, schedule, theme -- you know how it is.)

>

> What do you all do with these ideas? How many do you have? Have you

> ever had the opportunity to recycle one, or do you prefer to just keep

> coming up with new ones? How many do you have floating around, anyway?

> And: Any that were so niche they'd only have fit into that one

> project, but you're bursting to talk about it because it would have

> been so much fun? :)

>

> -- 

> Andrea Phillips

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