Driving to IKEA today and listening to Simon Mayo interview the director/special effects editor of the BBC series Attila the Hun made me think of the Chisel Theory. This states that when you haven’t got a hammer whack it with a chisel! No not really. It kind of says that when chisels were all the [...]
Driving to IKEA today and listening to Simon Mayo interview the director/special effects editor of the BBC series Attila the Hun made me think of the Chisel Theory. This states that when you haven’t got a hammer whack it with a chisel! No not really. It kind of says that when chisels were all the rage lots of people had them and used them and some could produce the most fantastic works of art because they really knew what they were doing. Well the director of Attila the Hun explained that the special effects of his program, especially the battle scenes – the ones with thousands and thousands of people fighting each other but in reality they were “thirty blokes in Bulgaria” – were done with what amounted to the animated version of Photoshop. I guess it’s the same of the Chisel Theory, if you know what you are doing you can produce a work of art. If you don’t then…………………………. its just a big lump of wood.
If anything the Chisel Theory is a strong argument for ensuring that ICT (whatever it is now and whatever it will be in the future) is used to inspire the imagination of people in education.
With the same tools available to mostly everyone, the end result can be a lump of old disfigured wood (woodwork at secondary school was never my favourite subject!) or creativity at its best.
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John Sutton
June 17, 2008
8:43 am
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Hi Peter, you kept your blog quiet! Let’s hope it’s not like your Twitter account: one post only!