As the world misses Steve Jobs, his fans lined outside the Apple stores and purchased more than two million iPhones over the weekend to commemorate his creativity and innovation. The record breaking sales exceeded all expectation, and according to PCWORLD, iPhones user base will hit 100 million by end of 2011.

Jobs lived 20,677 days on this earth and throughout his life he was creative and inventive. He was the co-founder of Apple, Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios and helped produce some of the most amazing products and films.  As he matured, he delivered even more elegant yet simple solutions that touched many lives.

California Governor declared October 16 as Steve Jobs day!

Today’s young artists and filmmakers can learn a lot from Steve Jobs life. His life, from beginning to the end, was full of challenges. Yet, he passionately focused on creating the best, whether it was a product, technology or customer experience. He understood complexity of nature, derived simplicity and thrived!

His elegance for simplicity enabled him to know what consumers will enjoy and delivered it without compromise.  A great lesson for any artist.

Recently, while watching KCET Fine Cut films from student filmmakers, we observed different storytelling techniques. Obliviously, some were more effective than others. You may judge for yourself by watching these films on KCET.

One of our favorite student film was Dad? by Zesung Kang. It conveyed the message elegantly while keeping it simple and connecting with audience.

Presumably, if Jobs was here, he would tell the young filmmakers to focus on the story and reduce complexity which sometimes may fog the audience.

This is especially true, as today’s filmmakers have access to more tools, advance technology and diverse media platforms than their predecessors. It is easy to make things more complex than it needs to be. As these student filmmakers master their craft, we wish them great success.

We salute Steve Jobs and all artists who touch the world with their unbound creativity and able to inspire others.

To fully harness creativity, we ask a basic question: Does creativity change as we age?

Anyone who has worked with young artists can attest to their unbound creativity.

At what age creativity peaks, and does it change based on environmental factors?

To answer these age old questions, we did some digging.

We found early scientific research by Alphonse Quetelet on how creativity changes across the life span. His 1835 quantitative study consisted of eminent French and English playwrights, and his measure of creativity was their output of plays in consecutive 5-year periods.

In 1953 a noted psychologists, Harvey Lehman, published Age and Achievement Studies. He created age distributions for important achievements and used these distributions to conclude that the most productive ages were:

• 32-36 for painters,
• 26-31 for lyric poets,
• 40-44 for novelists and
• 35-39 for movie directors.

Do you believe this age distribution for creative career is still valid today?

A recent study, by David W. Galenson, Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity, examines creative careers of variety of artists and shows that there are two fundamentally different approaches to innovation, and that each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over a lifetime.

We believe when an artist is inspired,  he/she can innovate and produce finest work of art  at any age.

We would love to hear your thoughts on the subject.

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