Experiment, fall on your face, don’t be afraid.
Every body is uniquely gifted in some form of creative aspect. Whether you’re the analytical creative who is able to code his brains out to some significantly controlled creative beauty or you’re the type of person who is happier with a paint brush or piece of charcoal in hand doing you’re darndest to create the next big piece of artwork. But no one gets any kind of creative product unless they try at something and fail a few times. Edison definitely didn’t create the light bulb on his first try. Bell had to have a few attempts at the telegraph and phone. I can almost bet that the Sistine chapel has a couple spots with cover up paint from one goof or another.
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep"The point is even if your ideas are crazy or wacked out, or you don’t know how you’re going to accomplish them, go for it anyway. I can guarantee if you don’t know how you’re going to get it accomplished someone around you can figure it out. Or if you give them a round about plot of how to get it done, they’ll improve on it. The first thought I have for your inspiration is to surround your self with other people who can do things. Other creative people to help inspire your process, other analytical creatives who can help streamline and shore up some of your inconsistencies in your process. These can be your most immediate and useful sources of inspiration.
Scott Adams
Secondly start surrounding yourself with other creatives in your field and closely related through networking sites. You’ve got twitter.com with a slew of techies and creatives and media pastors and the like that will help bolster your creative quiver. You will be amazed what insight and ideas you can come up with through reading some other creatives blogs or pictures that get posted of other worship services and or concerts that people are putting together. Sure you might not be able to recreate it exactly but you can pull elements and ideas from it. Go blog diving, most people who are creatives have their blog site in their twitter profile, and in their blogs exist a plethora of other creative blog links.
Gather resources that aren’t necessarily in your field. I personally love to browse through graphic design magazines. These magazines aren’t related to stage design but they get my creative juices flowing, and usually remove that creative block that comes up when im in a crunch. Surround your office with stuff that inspires you, pictures, colors, action figures etc. Most creatives do this in one aspect or another. Another resource kind of related is then industry magazines, http://www.tfwm.com/, http://www.churchproduction.com, http://www.worshipfacilities.com/.
Take breaks. Go outside for a bit, nature is one of God’s most creative masterpieces and if there is one thing that can always initiate inspiration is going outside for a bit and looking at the natural architecture God put out there. The colors that flow so naturally together. The textures, the shadows the gentle chaos that exists. It truly is an awe inspiring masterpiece.
Here are a list of some blogs and creative websites that I enjoy using to get ideas from.
http://www.churchtecharts.org/, http://anthonycoppedge.com/problog/, http://visualworshiper.com/blog/, http://worshipvj.com/, http://www.gregatkinson.com/, http://christavalare.com/, http://productionmusings.com/, http://www.collidemagazine.com/, http://www.elementlabs.com/ProjectsPage.html,
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