Monday, July 16, 2007

6/14 Abbey Road and Graham Fink

We went to Abbey Road this morning and were huge tourists...which im okay with. I hadn't been that excited to go, but it ended up being pretty cool to actually see Abbey Road, stop traffic, and tag the wall.

Later in the day we had a talk with Graham Fink, when we got there I really liked all the wall paper, different colors and doodles all over the offices (and also the lobby that was graffitied by the daydream network). Graham Fink talked to us mainly about where ideas come from, as well as creativity and originality. As the story goes, when you're trying to think of an idea you cant, and when you're not you do. I personally get most of my ideas from the sleep fairy, either right as Im falling asleep or when I wake up. He talked about nothing being original, but it is in forming relationships between two things in a specific context that gives new meaning. I really liked the VW commercial they showed us with the guy singing in the rain. Afterwards a bunch of us went to get a drink at the pub with Graham Fink and his assistant and happened to run into the people from the Daydream Network, the ones that did the lobby which was very cool.

"Only those with short memories claim originality"

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