"What does Mobile Creativity mean to you?" Allow me to ramble.

I think the interesting aspects of mobile creativity come from the context: Where I am, what am I doing, who am I with. Personally I think the best strategy is not to try to compete with the desktop, but rather to do things that the desktop is simply unable to do.

So a mobile Photoshop application will never be as good as the desktop Photoshop. But the desktop (or traditional laptop) will never be with you and active while I'm sitting in a bar, or hiking in some forest.

So: Utilizing the here and now, and being inspired by it. Mashing up the real and the virtual.

- Virtual graffiti on real walls, seen only with the device camera.
- "Music bombs", i.e. planting a song to a given physical location, and other people hearing that song when they come to the same location. (Or any media format.)

Augmented reality also gives additional ways of being inspired. There might be things around us that we are just not observing, or that we do not know what they are. Travel applications are of course the easiest example of this: Walking in a strange city, pointing your camera towards targets and the view giving realtime info about what you're seeing and experiencing.

Mobile can be a tool for literal ESP: Extrasensory perception.

Well, just as much as it can be a tool to actually detach you from whatever is actually going around you at any given moment. That's the thing that I personally find myself struggling with. For instance in zen practice a lot of emphasis is put on being involved with the moment, and the ... even the definition of what the moment is - when nearly anything that is online will be available with you always - gets rather blurred. It's almost like why some people do drugs, or why people get addicted to World of Warcraft.