Creativity and Children
One of the joys of working on a project like Moshi Monsters is that we get sent a great deal of wonderfully creative stories and pictures from kids all over the world. It’s hugely inspiring to build a product for an audience that is so deeply immersed in our creation.
It’s a worrying fact though that children seem to lose their unbridled imaginations as they get older and are worn down by the school system. Sir Ken Robinson gave a great talk on this subject at TED a few years back.
I stumbled across the following video recently and it really struck a chord. It features a 4 year old French girl telling an incredible story about baby monkeys lost in frightening trees, lions, monsters, ghosts, witches, potomuses and a tremendously bad mammoth.
I’m not sure if she plays Moshi Monsters but I’d love to read one her stories if she did ever find herself in Monstro City.
I hope she doesn’t lose her gift for telling stories as she gets older.
Once upon a time… from Capucha on Vimeo.
cute!
February 7th, 2009 at 6:18pmThis is so adorable!
March 1st, 2009 at 9:43pm