“I Would be a Creative Animal,” image of Leonardo da Vinci‘s Vitruvian Man from Artble.com
The Daily Create, tdc1988, asks “If you were an animal, what animal would you be?”
My first thought was to go with “human,” and slide in a picture of da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man — but I then thought that might be a bit of a cop out, and decided to engage a bit more fully with the prompt.
Following along the notion of ds106 creativity, I turned to Google (!!) and searched “creative animal” for some inspiration.
- The first item returned in the list was the Creative Animal Foundation, which looked interesting (tiny house on wheels, roaming the continent promoting sustainability)
- The second item was Images for creative animal
- The third was a variant for the first The Creative Animal Tiny House Tour – Creative Animal Foundation
- the fourth link down the list jumped out as a workable premise: 30 Most Creative Animal Logo Designs – I could make a logo for my creative animal?
- The fifth entry in the Google search was, “Creative Creatures: 10 Animals That Use Tools,” and the list that resulted was chimpanzees, crows, orangutans, elephants, dolphins, sea otters, gorillas, octopuses, macaques, and rodents. No real inspiration there. Does a crow count as an animal? An owl, pensive but capable of flight was appealing, but again, it’s a bird, isn’t it?
- Next came creative-animal.com, which is the shingle site for a graphic designer, web designer, and developer.
None of this really got me anywhere. I like the creative animal idea. How to represent that?
The beaver builds dams and lodges. That’s creative, isn’t it? Plus, it’s the national animal of Canada.
Still, all that time spent swimming around in ponds and chewing down trees didn’t sound too appealing. I don’t do a lot of that myself. Plus, as a rodent, it was #10 on that list of creative animals.
It’s July 1st. I could slap a red Canadian Maple Leaf on the Vitruvian Man, and go with that? On second thought, that might not go over too well.
Okay. I started this post on June 19. It’s time to make my decision.
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