Minecraft, Creativity, and Building
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I admit I may have been living under a rock: I never followed Minecraft. (Or really, any video game.) Recently, I stumbled across some Minecraft scenery, and wow. It's creative, it’s sunny. It's a cool other world.
Who knew that stacking virtual blocks could lead to colorful, soaring cathedrals or entire pixelated forests? The Minecraft community are lyrical builders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe might have seen it the same way? He said, “Architecture is frozen music.” I love this quote. Although substantively different—stone and steel versus sound and silence—architecture and music both rely on similar core principles: harmony, proportion, and balance. Whether you’re looking at a cathedral or moved by your favorite song, you’re experiencing something where every detail is important to the whole structure holding.
Which brings us back to Minecraft. A great build in that game can feel like a musical masterpiece—blocks and shapes expertly stacked in visual rhythm.
Maybe that’s the hidden takeaway—not just about Minecraft, but about life: sometimes a grand plan starts with a single block. You don’t have to start with perfection—you just have to start. Stack one block. Try one idea. Iterate. Pave the way to something worthwhile.
“What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” — also Goethe.
Start small. Stay curious. Keep building :)
A Minecraft scene:
More Minecraft, from pixabay 🤩
An illustration of Holbrook House at The Conservatory, San Francisco. The architecture is impressive.
I love flowers, and ended up giving The Conservatory similar color treatment as the illustration I shared in a post a few weeks ago, A Right Brain Assessment of the MTA
