What is the "Helsinki bus stop theory" that turns the way of thinking of creative work gully?

ByAndy Siitonen

Finnish-American photographer Arno Minkkinen talked about "Helsinki's bus stop theory" at a graduation speech (Graduation Speech) who graduated from school in 2004. Among them, Minkkinen develops an opinion that "The secret to complete a creative career formation is hidden" about the theory of the example of Finland's capital Helsinki bus route. Since then, the Helsinki bus stop theory has been diffused among photographers for several years, but The Guardian argues that this theory is not limited to photographers but also valuable in many creativity-related occupations It is.

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The outline of "Helsinki's bus stop theory" is as follows. Assuming that there are bus stops with about 20 platforms, you will leave on one of the bus lines. All buses departing from the platform run through their respective fixed routes and stop at the bus stop on the route. Minkkinen explains this as "the bus stop represents a year in the life of each photographer." For example, if there were a photographer who began to build a career as a nude photographer, three years passed and three early nude photographic works were acquired when they reached the three stops.

When opening a photo exhibition with a nude photograph taken in 3 years, the expert who saw the work said "Irving PennAre not you familiar with nude pieces of work? I will ask. I noticed that Irving Pen's Bus was also running on the same bus route I got on. A photographer who realized that he was running the same route as a prominent photographer did not notice might jump off the bus hating being thought of as man's manet.

After that, the photographer who got off the bus gets a taxi for the new start point and returns to the first bus stop. Minkkinen points out that "Things like happening will occur in three years," as Mr. Minkkinen says, "Meeting new work and being compared to others is common in creative situations".

Comparing yourself with others in searching for originality, always challenging new possibilities seems valuable behavior at first sight, but in the end you often end up running the same route as someone. Minkkinen advises me about this dilemma, "The answer is simple: Stay on my busy bus (Stay on the fucking bus)". The route of Helsinki's bus diverges very diversely, and it may pass through a steep route toward the final point. In other words, in order to find true originality, keep shooting pictures of yourself satisfying without regard to others, it will be a shortcut for reaching yourself.

ByThomas Leuthard

The reporter of The Guardian says that there are two persuasive metaphor about this theory. Firstly, "In the creative occupation, it is important that sustaining is important, not yourself or feedback from others in the first few years, not reliable" and the other is " It shows the dangers of the world religiously believed. " Many self-enlightenment books are trying to encourage the courage to become a "special person" to drop out of college and make a startup successful, but the Helsinki theory is unlikely to become a hero even pursuing originality unnecessarily It suggests that it is difficult.

ByGlasseyes view