What Makes a Creative Person?

Just checkin out some videos and stuff, de ja vu about creative things... so I decided to post it here, check this out!!

Just to refresh my memory.. Anyone can be creative, and if you want to, so can you. :)

Random Word Association

Problem/situation: Keeping student focus in class,

random word: balloon.

Association:

Decoration: Nice and neat environment
Helium: Make a funny and squeaky voice in high pitch In practice

 What might this mean?
Helium that make a funny and squeaky voice in high pitch – Recommended for lecturer before teaching, inhale this gas and this method will be 200% make student focus in listening lecturer funny voice and die laughing.

Decorate the class, nice and neat environment – This method is already studied and applied everywhere, create some artsy and neat classroom will make student more eager to study and focus.

All work of design are derivative...

We realize that work of design, all of them come from various sources. Either combine, bluntly copied make it better or even worse.. my point is that all creative works have many similarities and are inspired from older works. even "original" works. e.g - world of warcraft takes stuff from lord of the rings, which in turn takes stuff from folklore and older stories, and star wars lifts ideas from flash gordon.

The video is about how nothing comes without inspiration and how just because something is based of something else doesn't make it a ripoff.

Analogy Exercise

Life is like a chess game because…
1. Chess will always need plan. Planning for the future: Think long term - that’s the key to survival in this game. Before deciding to make a move, think a few steps ahead, as well as in life, this is the foundation of all financial planning exercises.
2. The value of sacrifices: Sometimes there will be a time to give up some of smaller assets to achieve bigger milestones later in the game. Thus like life, sacrifices has to be made to achieve a bigger goal.
3. The importance of consistency: It doesn’t matter how intelligent people are; if they don’t hang in there with consistent positive efforts, the opponent will eventually start eating defenses. Like life because life is a game of mental tenacity.




Life is like a river because…
1. River sometimes has a strong current and slow or smooth, just like life, there will be a time people need to struggle, and there is a time when people have their peaceful life.
2. River flows on it’s course to the final destination, nothing holds it back. Just like years in life, no one cannot hold them off or turn back in time. What can people do is go with the flow and enjoy the ride.





Life is like a dream because…
1. Dream is unreal, the worlds that people live is unreal, the real world is afterlife, and that is where people “wakeup”.
2. Dream offer a random sequence of image, just like life, people will always have random event and random situation.




Life is like novel because…
1. Article has an author. Just like life, the author is the people themselves; everyone has different way to live their lives.
2. The story on each page is like life, each day is a page of a story.





Life is like taxi because…
1. People will need to pay to get on it. Thus like life, we have to pay the fare in order to live.
2. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether they are getting somewhere or just standing still. Just like life, moving or stay the clock keeps ticking.

Analogy tips :)

I surfed some video before doin exercise about analogy, I found this video on youtube. The analogy exercise is about life, hmm I tried to connect some stuff related to life, anything can be related. I think:) and I hope this help..

Lateral thinking

Edward de Bono is regarded by many to be the leading authority in the world in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.

He invented the term lateral thinking in 1967. It was first written up in a book called "The Use of Lateral Thinking". For many years up till today, this has been acknowledged in the Oxford English Dictionary which is the final arbiter of the English Language.

Based on Edward's book, there are several ways of defining lateral thinking, ranging from the technical to the illustrative.

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

This means that trying harder in the same direction may not be as useful as changing direction. Effort in the same direction (approach) will not necessarily succeed.

Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perceptions

With logic you start out with certain ingredients just as in playing chess you start out with given pieces. But what are those pieces? In most real life situations the pieces are not given, we just assume they are there. We assume certain perceptions, certain concepts and certain boundaries. Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. Lateral thinking is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

The brain as a self-organising information system forms asymmetric patterns. In such systems there is a mathematical need for moving across patterns. The tools and processes of lateral thinking are designed to achieve such 'lateral' movement. The tools are based on an understanding of self-organising information systems.

This is a technical definition which depends on an understanding of self-organising information systems.

In any self-organising system there is a need to escape from a local optimum in order to move towards a more global optimum. The techniques of lateral thinking, such as provocation, are designed to help that change.

This is another technical definition. It is important because it also defines the mathematical need for creativity.

Juxtaposition Exercise

For this assignment, I picked some random number and the are:

73 = Dog & Wind
07 = Fly & Tree
52 = Fire & Rock

Dog...Wind...

The neighbor’s dog can cast a big wind through its mouth



then.. mixing them together

dog and wind




become "DOGWIND"






the next is Fly... Tree..

My cat run away and fly onto the top of the tree



then mixing them together...

Fly and Tree
as a "FLYTREE"




Last but not least is Fire...Rock..

Someone starts a fire and everyone try to extinguish it with a rock



mix them together as..

Fire and Rock

"FIREROCK"

Juxtaposition?

By definition in composition, the placing of verbal elements side by side, leaving it up to the reader to establish connections and impose a meaning.
These verbal elements (words, clauses, sentences) may be drawn from different sources and juxtaposed to form a literary collage.


So simply stated, juxtaposition means things side-by-side. In art this usually is done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used. for example "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors", contrasting those 2 colors brings about some effect.... brings out some emotion, or recognition, etc.


There are many of good juxtaposition posters around, but this time I'm gonna share some of billboard juxtapositions that have been making companies and causes look dumb for years. here are some examples.