Trainstorming

Trainstorming

Paul Kusmaul

Trainstorming is a shortfilm about ideas and creativity. This film is basically a visual recreation of a personal thinking process of mine. The script were generated out of a brainstorming while going by train. Thats why I called this film Trainstorming.

Credits

Music: Jules Isaac Bikoko Bi Njami - Whistling Calypso

Sound Design: Alexander Kusmaul

Motion Design/ Script: Paul Kusmaul

For those who can't understand german but want to know what the text is about here is a translation:

The origin of the word idea comes from the Greek and means something like image.

To have an image in mind.

Or to grab a thought.

Or simply to find a solution for a problem.

But behind every solution there is a new problem.

So what is the solution? And what is the problem?

This machine goes on and on and raise new ideas - all over.

Small ideas like eating, if you are hungry.

Or bigger ideas which seems to be more important.

How you should name your baby?

No matter if big or small,

we think in ideas,

every idea end up in a new idea until the time of one idea has come.

All the forces in the World are not so powerful.

(All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. quote by victor hugo)

But what turns an idea into a good idea?

A good idea forms new connection,

it organizes and cause chaos.

A good idea is like thousands of synapses jumping around.

But are there really good and bad synapses?

Welcome to Plain Theory.

In this world ideas can be good and bad at the same time.

So that means there must be…..sex

The origin of the word idea comes from the Greek and means something like image.

Its not really about good or bad.

Its about to find an image which time is now.

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