Ever find yourself yearning for the days when creativity oozed from every neighborhood nook? I'm Tommy Heitz, your guide to the whimsical and the profound, and in our latest session at the Observation Station, we're plastering our thoughts all over this canvas we call nostalgia. We take a stroll down memory lane, lamenting the lost art of imagination that once reigned from the basketball courts to the skate parks. It's time to unplug and reminisce about the raw, unfiltered inventiveness of yesteryear's legends—Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter—and ponder why it feels like that spark's been dimmed by the constant glow of smartphone screens.
But all is not lost in our quest for creative bliss! This episode isn't just a wistful look back; it's also a hopeful gaze forward into the world of adult coloring books and those luxurious Faber-Castell colored pencils that transform a simple doodle into a masterpiece. So, whether you're someone who's felt that electric thrill of nailing a new trick at the skate park, or you find solace in the zen-like state of shading within the lines, join us. Let's reignite the creative fire within and laugh along the way, because creativity isn't extinct—it's just been hibernating.
Ever find yourself yearning for the days when creativity oozed from every neighborhood nook? I'm Tommy Heitz, your guide to the whimsical and the profound, and in our latest session at the Observation Station, we're plastering our thoughts all over this canvas we call nostalgia. We take a stroll down memory lane, lamenting the lost art of imagination that once reigned from the basketball courts to the skate parks. It's time to unplug and reminisce about the raw, unfiltered inventiveness of yesteryear's legends—Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter—and ponder why it feels like that spark's been dimmed by the constant glow of smartphone screens.
But all is not lost in our quest for creative bliss! This episode isn't just a wistful look back; it's also a hopeful gaze forward into the world of adult coloring books and those luxurious Faber-Castell colored pencils that transform a simple doodle into a masterpiece. So, whether you're someone who's felt that electric thrill of nailing a new trick at the skate park, or you find solace in the zen-like state of shading within the lines, join us. Let's reignite the creative fire within and laugh along the way, because creativity isn't extinct—it's just been hibernating.
Do you ever lift your head up from your phone, look around and think to yourself my God, everything is weird. Well, we do a lot. This is the Observation Station, a unique, entertaining and hilarious podcast. If we observe it, we talk about it. Anything and everything, anything and everything. Let's get weird and let's have some fun. This is the Observation Station and now your host, tommy Heights.
Speaker 2:
Alrighty, ladies and gentlemen, fellow observers, this is Tommy Heights, your host, back with another episode of the Observation Station. Hope you guys have been keeping your eyes out looking at the news and then shutting it off immediately. Today's episode is going to be about the depth of human creativity. So to start off here, I just wanted to have it where, just to have a public statement announcement please, people, get off of your phones when you're driving and dealing with too much of this on the highway. So if anybody's listening to this, stop texting and driving. It's going to segue into my next part here, which is the depth of human creativity, which is the basis of this episode.
Speaker 2:
The phone has been where everybody's face has just been glued, just absolutely vacuumed into the phone, and creativity is falling far off of what back in the day, when we were drawing and having different things we were making in class, to just like art class. Nowadays, yeah, somebody, hey, what's something that you can do creatively? I don't know. Look, even playing an instrument, you come up with different melodies, sounds, things of that nature, or basketball. A lot of things now aren't as creative as I feel like they were in the 80s and 90s. It just seems to be boring. The basketball is not as cool as the early 2000s when there was like Tracy McGrady, kobe Bryant, kevin Garnett, vince Carter. Those were the days the All-Star Games were fun to watch. Nowadays, you have it, it feels like no one's even trying at these All-Star Games. So the creativity isn't even there anymore, when people would be trying to showcase dunks and crazy stuff.
Speaker 2:
But now it isn't inherently where. It's not like the 90s kids or the 80s kids where when you grew up you kind of were thrown outside saying get out there and play with your friends baseball, bmx, biking, whatever it was. So an example was back in the day I used to have a scooter. I loved the scooter. Nowadays you don't see too many people doing like razor scooter tricks. It's now more like electric scooters that cut you off in traffic going 15 miles an hour and you're like why is this guy on the road? So used to have it where you'd go to the skate park with the scooter. People would be with roller blades, skateboards, you name it. So that was the place where people would come up with cool tricks. Meet friends, have it where it's like oh man, let's try that trick, let's think about it here. So that was fun. You go out there, make things happen. Maybe try to be like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater with one of the skateboards out there. Figure out very quickly that they make it look much easier on the game than trying to jump up with a skateboard. You think to yourself why is it that I can't? I'd say you feel like you've made 100,000 Oli's on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. When you get on that board and try to Oli where you've never done that before, it's not as easy as it looks. It's kind of like golf or ice skating. It's easier on TV than when you have to actually play the game.
Speaker 2:
So other ways that creativity is put into place. Now it could be adult coloring books. I love to do that.
Speaker 2:
Some of the things that people don't understand is that colored pencils make a complete difference where you buy them Crayola, great. Once you're an adult and have the means to invest a little bit more into your colored pencils, it's really great because different colors can be used to shade. Since they're a higher quality, say like a Faber-Castell F-A-B-E-R-C-A-S-T-E-L-L Great German company. It's expensive for these pencils. It's a therapeutic thing, so it's an investment in yourself. So the ways that that has helped myself with getting creative is the patience. Behind these adult coloring books there is a lot more intricate patterns In turn. When you finish them, it is so much better to have it where you feel accomplished to have. I know I'm stuttering here, but if I could only show you the photos that I've done with these, you feel like, wow, I'm an artist. I could say you're just coloring, but it takes you maybe a couple of hours to do this. If you're really dedicated and not just trying to have it where it's like oh, I'm just going to make all this green, all this red. Once the patterns start becoming to be made on there and you start seeing it come into life, that's when it's like whoa. This is crazy because you're accomplished, especially when it starts becoming where you learn how to shade. When you shade, it's like whoa, this is bringing these photos to life. So that's another example.
Speaker 2:
I play acoustic guitar, which fingerstyle was the preferred mode for me. You could make all the different notes go up and down, up and down, up and down. With each singular note. Usually, a lot of times on music videos you're hearing a complete strum. So it's like, and instead of a lot of the people where you hear maybe solos, a lot more of the finger style. It's like individual notes. It's like it might be strumming, though it's easiest kind of audibly to listen to it. But acoustic is nice, since you don't have to always have a speaker amplifier with you at all times. That's just what makes it more portable than an electric guitar, so it gives you the ability to be on the move. I'm just giving options and ideas.
Speaker 2:
It could be where stand-up comedy like I've been mentioning many episodes before, stand-up is something that is needed for me to step out of my shell. Get up there, get heckled. That's the biggest thing that I'm worried about. But you have to be understanding. There's going to be somebody that's heckling in the crowd. I don't know why somebody seems that that would be a great way to come out into a crowd and start to yell. It's like the only thing that I've ever heard somebody go in there and start yelling about.
Speaker 2:
If you go into an orchestra or a band, like you're watching a band play, do you ever have it where the orchestra is silently? I've never to this day heard an audience member at an orchestra go louder, louder. I can't hear that. What Can you tell them to turn the mute? You never hear somebody like that. But at stand-up it seems like these people are thinking they're on stage and they just start yelling obscenities. It's like what the hell's talking? Why are you talking in this show? They go oh my god, you can't give us advice. It's like what? Why are these people doing this? So look if it's figured out where it's set in your own mind. Oh, I have no creativity, I'm just kind of a Joe Schmo. Nothing has come up that is like where I make you know spectacular this, that or the other. So I'm just kind of a normal Joe Schmo.
Speaker 2:
Okay, well, you know, nobody's going to want to ever talk to you because you're just going to be a same cookie cutter human. Everybody sees all the time so needing to be standing out of the crowd. That is what's going to get you the good looking woman. It's going to get you the friends that are not like cookie cutter, because you're going to attract what you are. So another way to approach life itself and saying, wow, I'm not getting what I'm wanting right now.
Speaker 2:
This is where the creativity comes into play. Look at what you're reading, watching, listening to all the time when you hear a bunch of CNN or just news negatively talking about how the world's you know, doing this, doing that people are like this and that rhetoric is constantly put into your head, your creativity is going to be not very high because all you're doing is looking at headlines that are made to shock you, where you can regurgitate it back to the people and that's all that. That is there. You're not creating creative. All you're doing is reading and regurgitating to people. So that's not going to be conducive for somebody to have extra spice in their life.
Speaker 2:
That it's like whoa, this guy's different and you can't say in a good or a bad way. But people like different. That's why when you see something like a new song come out, you're like oh, let me try this out. Never heard something like this. And you hear it's like well, I can't put my finger on it, I like it, it sounds different. Well, that's what makes you kind of like it. It's new. So figuring another way to have it where it's like okay, I was mentioning before, you don't have what you want in your life.
Speaker 2:
Take a look at some books you could read here. It is not fun, hell. I'm out there all the time listening to books saying this is boring, shit sucks, I mean, it's terrible. I don't want to be reading books. I hate reading books. Only time I liked reading books was when it was like Pizza Hut Bookit, where I lied and got free personal pan pizzas. It's only time I liked reading with open quotes in the air.
Speaker 2:
So the rest of this is for doing proper training of the mind. If you're gonna say, hey, look, I don't wanna do this, it's just hey, you know, the worst part of it is sitting there and concentrating and not scrolling through your phone or doing this other stuff, really absorbing the content you're listening to, like how to win friends and influence people. Pop, you know, never split the difference by Chris Voss. That's a very good book, especially when it comes down to negotiations. I'd have to say, if there's a book you gotta read, never split the difference by Chris Voss is a very good one. And Robert Green, 48 Laws of Power, stuff like that. Art of War, art of Seduction, art of War with Sun's Zoo, but like Art of Seduction, robert Green. These are things that need to be put into your library.
Speaker 2:
If it's not gonna be where you figure I need to improve myself, well then just stop. Stop today, you're gonna be the same as you were Yesterday and the day before and the day before and the day before. If it's just like I'm not gonna improve, I'm just gonna do this. So I'm just gonna be the same. I'm not gonna be good, leave it up to the big guy. I'm a little guy, you know. No one's even caring what I do anyways, because no matter how hard I work, I always get my heart broken.
Speaker 2:
You may not even audibly say that, but it might be inside of the soul. So you project it out. A lot of things that people don't say is projected out even when people don't even know who you are. It could be sitting in a coffee shop. Somebody looks and they're like man, that guy doesn't. The energy doesn't flow correctly. That could be picked up with people. So it's all about a choice of how. The projection into the world, where absorption of the manifestation of the aura you give out there as being brought back. That's where it's like okay, I gotta get a better attitude to have it. Where more things happen in my life. It's another way of thinking. Be resourceful. Don't have it where it's like oh, I'm just gonna be the way I'm always.
Speaker 2:
You live in the United States or other countries that you know. You got the internet. I mean, if you're in a country where there's no internet, like North Korea or Cuba, you got a problem. Over here, you have the internet. You got stuff that you can look on YouTube and watch on Spotify for podcasts or listen to the observation station. You know, come on, I'm here to just give a radical explanation of my eyes to the world. If you don't like it, I mean, there's billions of people. Somebody's not gonna like it, but there are people that like it. That's why you're here. So it's all about the choices that you make. So, with that being said, it's gonna be wrapping up this episode of the observation station. Next episode, tune in, because it's gonna be what your airline choices says about you. All right, we'll take it easy. Stay safe, keep observing and make it a good week, year, decade, however it needs to be. Let's get this thing going. Where you have good creativity, keep it sparking, brainstorming, never stop, keep adapting, be resourceful. All right, take it easy, everybody.
Speaker 1:
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