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January 15th, 2010

Creative Tipping Point

"Over the past eight years, I have witnessed a coming and going of dominant creative artists. No artist has had creative dominance for more than a few years. Does this trend lend itself to a creative tipping point? Discuss it now."

Jason Soll
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JamesAV30516 years ago
it's an interesting concept. I think that there probably is a creative tipping point. I think what causes it is that we only build ideas based on how we conceive cards in the first place. If you look at how it all started with tudor, you see a lot of sybil variations. Tudor was building off of what was out there and that brought him to a lot of variations on sybil. But then look at Dan and Dave, they took a lot of what Tudor did, and did their interpretation of it. There is only so many times you can change what you have seen. So people like Dan and Dave continue to think of cards the way they did when they were starting, because of this they will only change their style so much. I think you can change this tipping point, but in order to do that, you need to drastically challenge the way you think of cards and card flourishing. Dan and Dave develop on Tudor, Tudor developed on Kenner, and the new kids develop on DnD or whomever. Its just a logical progression, what someone like Dan and Dave would need to do, is step back and look at what the new guys are doing and build a new repertoire based on just those moves and continue to think of things from that perspective. If Dan and Dave got into XCM, or De'vo got into Flourishes, you would see all kinds of new things from both groups because they are thinking of cards in a way that the other side (XCM or Flourishes) haven't been.
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VagueTheory16 years ago
Great point man! If we don't just learn every move EXACTLY how they are taught, but add our own little swag into it, then we would all help contribute to the creativity of the flourishes that we all do.
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