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how do you jot down ideas for a film, sculpture, or painting?
hey all!
i'm a fan of keeping an idea journal. little snippets of poems or hastily written descriptions of d.i.y. projects that you can go back and pick up once you get some free time.
how do you keep an idea journal for visual projects? like if i have this visualisation in my head of a bit of video, or a sculpture, or a painting i want to create, what's the best way to write that down and still be able to come back to it later?
cheers,
bishop
For a while I just went with the though that if it can't remember the idea, it's probably not worth remembering. But obviously that's not a very good strategy.
I also found if I try to scetch or represent an idea visually that takes too much time and defeates the purpose of quick note taking and just turns to developing the idea.
So I guess - I would record my key insigt in a few words. The rest comes when I sit-down to develop the whole thing. As to where to record it, thats upto you, notebook or some digital equivilent, could even do an audio log of your self describing it.
I have notes for ideas everywhere hahaha; online, ON the computer, old calendars, in my google account, the fridge, probably a sticky note on the cat at some point...