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This series of  videos is in a continuous process of development. Some are instructional like The Creative Adventure. Others are documentaries like Poems at an Exhibition and Cabo. Some are installations like Show in Chicago and Winter Garden. Others are  art, poety, music videos or some combination of new media.  I develop these videos in different ways. Some begin with the image and poetry and music follows. In others the image or the poetry  comes last. Many are quite experimental, some just fun. Enjoy.

There are currently 90 videos on www.YouTube.com/jgyoungmd. I have put some on my blog at http://jgyoungmd.blogspot.com/  The most current are on YouTube.com. However, some are too long for YouTube(limit 10 min.) like The Creative Adventure, Poems at an Exhibition and Concerto with Foxes, Deer and Other Wild Ones, so you need to click their hyperlinks below:

To get higher resolution DVDs of the videos, email John G. Young, M.D. See below for a list of possible volumes:


The Creative Adventure


In
The Creative Adventure, a two-part, two hour video, Dr. John G. Young, develops the original conception that love is essential to emotionally healthy creative functioning. He shows you how to develop maximum effectiveness using creative and innovative approaches. Part One: Love and Conception answers the questions, "What is creativity?" "Why is creativity important?" and "How can you become more creative?" It takes the attitude that everyone has creative abilities, but we can all improve our creative approaches. The Creative Adventure, Part Two: Birth and Re-Birth extends the investigation into creative approaches, but shifts the focus to the being side of creativity. We move from the creative process to the creative person. We look more at the "Krainen" aspect of fulfillment, and explore attitudes necessary to creative living, learning and loving. At this level living with purpose is as important as accomplishing a goal; the process becomes as important as the product.

The Creative Adventure, Part One, Love and Conception [1 hour wmv]

The Creative Adventure, Part Two: Birth and Re-Birth [1 hour wmv]


  • Poems at an Exhibition [50 min]

    I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else,” Picasso.

    What started as a documentary of a one-man art show becomes a video poem on disability. In this work Dr. Young blends his art, poetry, animation, and music into a creative autobiographic documentary of his family’s attempts to cope with disability. His wife has multiple sclerosis, his daughter is hearing impaired, even the dog is mostly blind. This multi-media presentation shows how they overcome the challenges of loss, pain, rejection, and despair with laughter, courage and love.  

     With interviews, by and of each family member, emotions emerge as spontaneously as the improvisational background music.  In the end, this video points beyond one man’s family to the needs of all families who struggle with disability.

    To get your DVD of Poems at an Exhibition  plus Collected Shorts contact John G. Young, M.D. at jgyoungmdaic@hotmail.com 


     Concerto with Foxes, Deer and Other Wild Ones [11 min]

    This home movie evolved from a group of video clips of the wild life I took around our home.  The sense of home, one’s territory and boundary issues becomes the focus of this set of five video poems. 

    I came up with a title, "Concerto with. . .". It just appeared out of my Unconscious from the images I was working with.  Never having writing any orchestral music, for the first time I began to learn how to orchestrate beyond the solo piano sound. The music was improvised as the images passed by.

     The Program Notes may help understand the many paths I was  experimenting with in this video.


    Higher Resolution DVDs

    If you would like a higher resolution DVD of these videos, you can order one of the collections in the volumes below by emailing me at jgyoungmdaic@hotmail.com 

    Volume One: The Creative Adventure Part One: Love and Conception

    Volume Two:  The Creative Adventure Part Two: Birth and Re-Birth

    Volume Three: Poems at an Exhibition plus Collected Shorts: Introduction to The Creative Adventure, Invitation, Ballad of Joe and Mary and Concerto with Foxes, Deer, and Other Wild Ones.

    Volume Four: Collected Shorts Part Two: Show in Chicago, Installation at Boulder Creek, Colorblind, Plaza de Toros,  Slice One, Slice Two, Slice Three, Slice Four

    Volume Five: Winter Suite: Cabo, Snow Garden, Manifold, P.I.P, Sublime Suite, Slice Five

    Volume Six:  070220, Cage Color One, Cage Color Two, Cage Color Three,  Begin, Begin Again.

    Volume Seven: Rapt, Hamilton, Just Looking, Crime Scene, Homage to Brakhage, Life is Short.

    Volume Eight: Bedroom Flowers, Glances # 1 - # 4, P.I.P. Squared, S.F. April 5, 2007, Tea, Notes on Nothingness, Homage to Brakhage # 2

    Volume Nine: S.F.Fog, Wind and Color; S.F. Kites, Circle Dance #1, Circle Dance # 2, Color Blobs, Timid Tiger, Timid Wolf, Diamond Hopd, Flow # 1, Vivace

    Volume Ten:  Excerpts, Alphabet, 0706143, Ghosts, Fast Fridays, Father's Day, Rothko, Tangles, Not so Still, Rectangulated, Jet Stream, Flitter, Sisyphus Dysjunct

    Volume Eleven: Doggerel, Strangers, Strangers to Themselves, Less, Mendocino

    Volume Twelve: The Z-axis, Weave, Whirlpool, Earthworks Art, Breath of Peonies

    Volume Thirteen: Walking, Talking and, Arabesque, Rapt, The Wandering Eye, Autumn

     


Adventures in Creativity


 

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