Henry Darger: Genius or...Not?

Henry Darger: Genius or….not?

Lucas Dies

            Upon viewing the movie "In The Realm of The Unreal" it truly showed me what goes through a mind with a major case of creativity. 15,000 page memoir and he did not tell anyone? That is crazy, truly. Mr. Darger was an average person like anyone of us. His day was like our day; go to work, home, eat, draw and write. Only one thing separated us from him…it was his creativity. His mind drew pictures and wrote stories that he lived. Darger had taken all of the life experiences that he had gone through and put a minor twist on them, which in my mind was the most creative thing he could do. Darger had taken it to a different level though. Darger made one of the greatest feats in life, I believe, he wrote his life story down onto paper. It is remarkable also that Darger had created his own work, it was not just his life word for word but he created a story out of it!

            Well now you're probably asking was this guy crazy or what? Well to answer your question it all depends what your  perspective is on a genius or a physco. To be honest, I believe he is a CREATIVE genius. Darger made a world around him into his own story which he had the power to control. He had his pencil, paper, and a imagination that would not be able to stop and never be able to end. That is truly a genius. His world around him consider of a few people and work.  The people seemed to had always supported him. Although the ways may have been minor, I am a firm believer that it is what’s around you that can make you to who you become. Henry Darger was a different kind of writer. He wrote not because of critics, not because of the fame, but because he LOVED to.

 

-Lucas Dies

"Creativity" in Cleese's Eye's....Well This One's in My Eye's

What'd you say Cleese?

                So in the beginning of John's 30 min (roughly) speech, there was a lot of information that he said is all as important as the last chunk of knowledge. All of John's ideas seemed to fall under this idea of a shell that everyone is in and to get out of it you must break free. This idea to me made no sense at all. So you are going to tell me that you have to stop being you to be creative? I'm sorry but I believe that I am creative in my own ways and this so called "shell" doesn’t exist. In retrospect, it is the inability to keep doing what you have always been doing. That in no way is a shell. It is only the shackles that are put on us as we are young and begin to spread our wings in the realm of writing… our teachers begin to make writing project that are so precise that there is no room to fly.

                So here is my professional, freshman at college, advice: BE YOURSELF and USE YOUR IMAGINATION. It seems that many people in school always try to be what your teacher/professor wants you to be. It confines you to be something that you're not, which is what your teacher wants. I am a firm believer that if you do what your teacher asks of you and to the best of your ability, you'll get the 'A'. Instead if you be yourself and strive to also do your best you will get the 'A' and you  will open your teachers eyes to what you may be able to achieve. Whoever you may be reading this article, I hate to be cliché but just 'do what you do' and you will open eyes. I guarantee that it will turn out for the best.

                And a little side note as well, this may or may not be a part of this essay, be able to take criticism.  If you can't… you better do whatever you can to because that is key when you are trying to become 'creative'  or even just life in general. Next she says she and other writers write a “child’s draft, ” and this helps her to see what should be written next. In addition, she talks about how she wrote food revises for California Magazine before it folded, and she describes the bad first drafts she wrote. She says she would write without stopping until she knew what she wanted to write about. After that she talked about editing what she wrote, and then even later she would finally know what she wanted to say.

 

"Today you are you, that is truer than true.

      There is no one alive who is youer than you."

                                                                        Dr. Suess.

 

 

-Lucas Dies

Creativity.....Huh?

Creativity.......Huh?

What is creativity? have you ever wondered what teachers talk about when they say you have to be creative? well I do to don't worry.

For me, creativity is what happens when someone steps outside the box to attack a new idea. If they ever ask you to be more creative.....think of what you have to do through someone elses eyes, that really all it is. You must begin to think as others do because thinking only one way is what you got you to look at this blog about creativity, or because a class, but it is all the same.

Creativity is also a fingerprint. Every teacher who has ever had you as a student know you because of what you write about, or what you believe in. They will be able to read any paper that you have written and be able to recognize it as you because you do write in a certain way, or talk in a certain tone.

In college it is almost implied in ever project you do. The days of doing what you always did is over because the World is not as nice as high school and college professors, its much worse than what our parents put it out to be. We all must begin to begin thinking outside the box on tasks that are at hand, or will be, because i believe being creative is what will put you ahead of everyone else.

So when you think of creativity, just think its what you are when you let your mind wonder.

-Lucas Dies

Hello fellow bloggers and bloggets,

My name is Lucas Dies. I am a freshman at the University of Mount Union. I am majoring in intervention specialist, and or kindergarten education. I will be minoring in physcology or socialolgy. I am a member of the Mount Unioun wrestling team, in high school (Manchester) I placed 4th at the state Tournament,
 

 

I have a father and mother, Steve and Kim. I also have to brother, Jake is 21 and attends Akron U, and little brother Paul, 15, attends Manchester High School in Akron, Ohio. I also have a dog named Max. He is 145 pound yellow lab. I also have an amazing girlfriend named Magdalene(maggie) Elizabeth Huggins. On march 6, 2011 I asked her to be mine, and she said yes, and yesterday was our year and a half, I love her to no end. Always and Forever..

This blog will be about everyday struggles you will face as you begin your steps into the world, college problems, and also some asignments for my FYS (first year seminar) class.

I am excited to start a blog of my own. So please subscribe :)

-Lucas Dies

                                                  
                         -Maggie and I.