Originality, Creativity, Web 2.0, Trends…

There is no such thing as true originality no matter how much the artsy fartsy or business types love to talk about it. Everyone gets ideas and inspiration from someone else. In any creative field. Period.

Anytime someone starts to go on and on about how original they are or someone else is I wanna take my dirty sock off and stuff it in their piehole.

Everyone steals ideas from everyone else! Everyone. No exception.

Some steal only in small parts and add their own spin. We call that inspiration.

Some completely rip off someone else’s ideas. The point is we all do it to some extent. And there’s nothing fucking wrong with it!

What’s annoying is that people are completely unable to admit it and constantly trash others’ work for supposedly not being original enough with their obnoxious “hollier than thou” attitude.

Most of these people are just stupid jackasses who follow the latest trend or fad in whatever creative field they happen to be in. Yet, in their own twisted view of the world they are more original than everyone else.

The current web 2.0 (super minimalistic, huge buttons, fields and text) trend in web design is a great example. I mean, I actually like it, but it’s not the only way to design a website, yet every company is now trying to do that like they’ve just discovered the fucking holy grail.

To hear them talk one might think that the evolution of web design has been complete and the web 2.0 style is its crowning achievement. We are done, people. Nothing else to see here.

Two years later all these same people will say, “Eeew, how 2007!” when looking at a web 2.0 site because they have just latched on to a new trend.

Just like they do now when you show them some amazingly beautiful, creative, detailed, difficult to produce website designed back in 2004.

- Eeew, it sucks. So 2004!

Oh, stuff a fucking sock in it already!