Why making professional-sounding music is easier than ever, but making something people want to listen to still requires creativity.
Author Archives: Bay Backner
What I’m Learning About Creativity from AI-Assisted Workflows for Video Games
Early reflections from designing AI workflows for game studios, and how we need to make room for the unexpected ideas that make creative work actually creative.
Creative confidence is an outcome, not a starting point
Why creative confidence may be the result of repeated experience within supportive structures, rather than the starting point for creative work.
The Missing Foundations: Why some of us become artists, but most don’t
An early exploration of how community, self-belief and structure shape creative opportunity, and how the advantages behind creative success can disappear from view.
The Real and Imaginary Benefits of Social Media for Creatives: Addiction, Content and Connection
A 2021 argument against the idea that access to a platform automatically democratises creative opportunity, with connection and community emerging as the more meaningful benefit.
Why you need the permission to start creating and how this affirmation can help
An early exploration of how the need for permission can shape whether we act on our ideas, and the environments that make creative action feel possible.
