15. Creative Collaboration

Its our nature to be competitive. We all strive to be the best and prove that we can do great things as individuals. But sometimes I think we get too caught up in this idea to realize all the amazing things that could be done if we set the competition aside and made room for collaboration. When we collaborate with others, we open so many doors to new possibilities and potentially brilliant ideas. Today in my Visual Aesthetics class, my teacher showed us a video called "Destino". This video was the result of a collaboration of two individually accomplished and talented people: Walt Disney and Salvador Dali. As fascinating as the film itself is the juxtaposition of the two creative geniuses behind it. There truly was no reason for these two very different people to ever cross paths. Both creative and talented, their interests and visions seemed to lie on completely different ends of the spectrum. On one end is Walt Disney, the all-American cartoonist and creator of world's most well-known fictional characters. On the other end is Salvador Dali, a spanish surrealist widely recognized for his striking and bizarre artwork.

Separately these two innovators have created amazing work, but together they were able to create something entirely new and incredibly brilliant. Discoveries such as this one prove how powerful collaboration can truly be.