I'm sure it will. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but I'd bet boredom was the father. The fun thing about owning gear is you can always find pretty interesting and random ways to use it.
The other night I was unpacking some stuff in my closet and my daughter took a shine to an ancient board a friend bequeathed me. I'm not too attached to that one, so I gave it to her. We took it apart and checked the
circuit board,
power supply and
transformer. There's not much else in that particular board. I made her put it back together, cause I'm a horrible Ogre who wants her to know how to fix stuff. Of course, she wanted to see how well the board worked. So we grabbed two of the little
par 56's my wife keeps hoping I'll
throw away. We Gelled one blue and one red and plugged them into the back of the board. We turned out the lights and tapped out some Morris code into the neighbor's back yard. I had to look up the Morris code of course but she was able to tap out some fun stuff. It was just a little bonding moment that got her to turn off the T.V. for about an hour.
I can't speak for everyone, but stuff like that really does encourage me to try out weird new things and become a better designer.
I love taking lighting out of the box, off the
page and seeing what I can come up with sometimes. Now that you can video everything you can create some pretty wild stuff that you can take into production meetings or post on you tube. I'm already debating talking to one of the choreographers at the Dance company I work with to come up with something where I can add in a little
bit of Morris code.
Well..... that is, I'll try if kid doesn't go behind my back and underbid me for that contract.
The cool thing is once you know enough stuff to step out of the box, you turn around and realize there was never a box there at all. It was just you the whole time. Now I'm getting tired and before I commit the sins of major misspelling on this thread, I am headed off to bed. Thanks for chatting!