Sucker Punch!

Over the weekend I stumbled across this AWESEOME clip and the first watch, I was just completely blown away by this kid’s talent. Cirque du Soleil should really snap him up. On second watch I couldn’t get the song he performed to out of my head, so I quickly Googled it. Both the original video and the cello performance inspired by it were like a sucker punch to my creativity and as the wind WHOOSHED out of my inner editor, my creativity lunged at the page hungry for expression after being kept on a leash for well over 3 weeks.

It feel good. I wrote for three hours, not once editing what fired out of my fingers. But as I take a break, I’m left wondering why my editor can’t play nice and allow my creativity the room to play before tromping in and fixing it all, strangling the words so it can correct as I go. I don’t enjoy smashing him to pieces like the broken glass in the foreground of the first video, because he’s really good at what he does…just not when he’s doing it at the same time my creativity is trying so hard to manifest.

I know one thing though, because this is usually the way it goes, I will not hesitate to sock the wind from his sails again the next time I need the room to create.

March 3, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Articles and Reviews, AWOL Nation Sail, cello, Cirque du Soleil, creative, manifest, out of your sails, play nice, POW!, sock the wind, sucker punch, whoosh | Leave a comment