Week 7 Exercises related juxtaposition

1. Choose 3 pairs of numbers between 00-99
2. Refer to the image given and pair two words together according to the chosen number.
3. Make 3 sentences and draw the images

I had chosen the number 17 (Flower tree), 59 (fire rain ) 

& 31 (ice water)

Week 7 juxtaposition

This is the 7th week ...and we are given a lecture on juxtaposition

What is JUXTAPOSITION ????

an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

Many creative processes rely on juxtaposition

By juxtaposition two abject or word next to each other.human brain will automatically associate and transfer meaning.

the Church is juxtaposed beside a tall contrasting blue building

Week 6 Mortar and Pestle

This week , we are given a lecture on mortar and pestle..

The mortar is a bowl, traditionally made of hard wood, ceramic or stone. The pestle is a heavy club-shaped object, the end of which is used for crushing and grinding.

What i think about useful of Mortar and Pestle???

Week 5 Invention - Innovation

Japan is a country with high technology .
Japan has a reputation for copying things and making them better.Throughout their history, the Japanese have been imitative in their way,  they have often applied strokes of inventive genius to transform what they have borrowed, thereby producing something eminently suited to the new environment, something that is very much more than the mere sum of the borrowed components.
Japan is also well known for film and animation as they invented lots of things that have been used in lots of very famous films.
Japan is well known for its automotive and electronics industries throughout the world, and Japanese electronic products account for a large share in the world market, compared to a majority of other countries.

Here is some of their Inventions:

1. The Compact Disc

Created jointly by Sony and Philips in the late 1970s, the compact disc, and the Sony-developed CD player, are perhaps the most important technologies to come out of Japan. Originally intended strictly as a replacement for vinyl records, the CD proved useful as a general data storage medium in the form of the CD-ROM and then the CD-R. Its successor technologies, the DVD and Blu-ray disc, are also both joint Sony/Philips creations. The optical disc remains one of the modern world’s most ubiquitous inventions.

2. The High-Speed Passenger Trainfilmmaking, and eventually brought video recording home.

The 12-car 0-Series Shinkansen bullet train, which ran from 1964 to 2008, was the world’s first high-volume, high-speed passenger train. Superior rail transport was one of the major factors that helped to power Japan’ economy to number two in the world, and the design of the early Shinkansen influenced overseas engineers as well.

3. The Quartz Wristwatch

Released in 1969, the Seiko Astron was the world’s first quartz wristwatch. Quartz technology represented a substantial upgrade over old-fashioned mechanical watches, as it eliminated the need for easily damaged moving parts, while keeping time more accurately than previous watches. Quartz remains the standard for wristwatches to this day.

4. The Portable Music Player

Before the iPod, the Sony Walkman was synonymous with music on the go. While technically not the world’s first portable cassette player, the Walkman was by far the most successful, bringing the concept of portable music to the masses. Sony introduced a number of new features along the line, including a recording function (still sorely missing from modern music players!), and playback of other media, like CDs (1984′s Discman), and even TV and video cassettes (with the Video Walkman, released in 1989). Just try to imagine what the world would be like without portable music players.

5. The Pocket Calculator

Although the first so-called ‘compact’ calculator was also made in Japan, it wasn’t until 1971, birth year of the Busicom LE-120A, that truly portable calculators became widely available. 1978′s Sharp EL-8086 was the first solar-powered calculator, and this further extended the reach of the device, helping to conserve battery and brain power around the world.

6. The Camcorder

As hard as it is to believe now, the process of on-location video recording used to require at least two people. Prior to the 1980s TV news crews used video cameras – that is, the devices that were actually used to shoot video – with separate recording units. The earliest portable video recorders still had to be connected to the camera via a cable, which limited their utility. With the Sony Betacam, released in 1982, a video camera and video recorder were combined into a single device for the first time. The camcorder, as it came to be known, revolutionized journalism and 

7. The Video Cassette

The video cassette and VCR, both Sony creations made available in 1971, represented the start of a new era in home entertainment. Thanks to the video cassette, consumers were finally able to watch films at home, and at a time of their choosing. Studios benefited enormously too, as they were granted a new revenue stream in the form of the home video market, which eventually overtook the box office in value.

8. The Digital SLR Camera

The first known digital camera with single-lens reflex elements was the Sony Mavica, revealed to the public in 1981. However it wasn’t until 1999 and the release of the Nikon D1, that Japanese-developed, full-fledged digital SLRs started to supplant 35 mm film as the popular choice among professional photographers, thanks to their superior combination of speed, ease of use, and image quality.

9. The Floppy Disk

The floppy disk is counted among the many inventions of the colorful Yoshiro Nakamatsu, AKA Dr. NakaMats. The details behind the invention, and how the technology wound up in IBM’s hands, are shrouded in mystery, but Nakamatsu was awarded a patent for the base technology behind the floppy disk in 1952, long before they went public. While floppy disks are now considered a relic, they were the primary portable storage medium for computer users everywhere for a good three decades.

10. The Flat-Panel Display

The first commercially available flat-panel display of any kind could be found on the Sony Watchman FD-210, a pocket television released in 1982. The FD-210′s display was a paltry five centimeters, but the technology involved was impressive and paved the way for the home flatscreens we see today. The first LCD and Plasma televisions were also created by Japanese companies, Sharp and Pioneer respectively.

There are also some invention that are not successful from Chindogu ,Japan

The snooze button on this alarm clock sits amid a bed of spikes.

Butter sticks

fancy panoramic 360-degree photo taking apparatus

The Eye Drop Funnel Glasses

Tie with pockets

Source:http://www.tofugu.com/2012/02/20/chindogu-useless-japanese-inventions

From the research , i feel that they are not bad inventions,they just not as slick as their refined products of european inventions. 

Innovation VS Invention

Basically, invention is coming up with a new idea and innovation is successfully bringing a product to market in a way that people want.I feel that that innovation is a lot more important than invention. Successfully bringing a product to market is what makes the world a better place  because it satisfies needs in the market and expands the economy. 

Innovation will turn ideas into results

Week 5 Mind Mapping

This week , in our creative studies class , we are given a lecture on mind mapping.

What is MIND MAPPING ????

From my understanding , mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping us to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas.A mind map might enable us to do our thing step by step without any mistake .

Examples of mind map

Source:http://www.mindmapart.com/art-and-design-mind-map-ian-gowdie/

Source:http://www.mindmapinspiration.co.uk/#/gallery/4532919590

Mind Map by Tony Buzan

The terms of mind map is introduced by Tony Buzan.

Mind Map are an effective method of note-taking and useful for the generation of ideas by associations. To make a mind map, one starts in the center of the page with the main idea, and works outward in all directions, producing a growing and organized structure composed of key words and key images.
Key features are:

• Organization

• Key Words

• Association

• Clustering

• Visual Memory
 - Print the key words, use color, symbols, icons, 3D-effects,arrows and outlining

   groups of words

• Outstandingness
 - every Mind Map needs a unique center

• Conscious involvement

Mind Maps are beginning to take on the same structure as memory itself. Once a Mind Map is drawn, it seldom needs to be referred to again. Mind Maps help organize information.

Source :http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/Mindmap/

Example of Mind map by Tony Buzan

What is Mind Map???

Mind Map Guidelines

1. Start in the center with an image of the topic, using at least 3 colors.
2. Use images, symbols, codes, and dimensions throughout your mind map.
3. Select key words and print using upper or lower case letters.
4. Each word/image is best alone and sitting on its own line.
5. The lines should be connected, starting from the central image. The central lines are thicker, organic and thinner as they radiate out from the centre.
6. Make the lines the same length as the word/image they support.
7. Use multiple colors throughout the mind map, for visual stimulation and also to encode or group.
8. Develop your own personal style of mind mapping.
9. Use emphasis and show associations in your mind map.
10. Keep the mind map clear by using radial hierarchy, numerical order or outlines to embrace your branches.
11. Source: Wikipedia

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IT IS IMPORTANT ACTUALLY....

Mind map method is a learning process which involves graphical way in representing ideas and concepts. It is like a visual thinking tool that helps you structure information, analyze a topic much better, comprehend, synthesize, recall and also generate new ideas easily and we can also say that the information through mind map is structured in such a way so that it can help your brain works faster.


Mind map is the simple and short text used enabling us for easy understanding its content, along with it's not too small font size so that our eyes will not feel tired when looking at it. Graphical signs being used in your mind map such as arrows, squares and round shapes definitely help you to create network interface for easy understanding of certain topics. By adding picture drawing or sketches for explaining certain content in selected topics will provide easy understanding, and also strengthening your memory on each of the related pictures involved.


Having different colored branches on  Mind Map will us you differentiate the different themes  ,topics and ideas .It will also making us more easier to understand . Futhermore it makes the whole mind map more interesting and makes the us more enjoyable to understanding it.. 



In the others word , what we can get from create a mind map????



• Dramatically accelerate your learning capacity
• Instantly see connections and links between different subjects
• Develop effective brainstorming techniques
• Help your mind become a powerful idea generator
• Quickly gain insight into the big picture of any project
• Increase your ability to memorize and remember
• Boost your creativity
• Optimize and simplify any project you may have

This is the mind map create by me

Week 4 Traits, Environment and Process

Creativity affects society – "Creativity is the engine that drives cultural evolution."                            Source:M. Csikszentmihalyi in Handbook of Creativity, Robert J. Sternberg (ed.), 1999, 320

Society affects creativity – "There are indeed certain instances in which social/cultural realities largely determine the possibility or lack of possibility for developing creativity in a given field."

Source:D. H. Feldman in Handbook of Creativity, Robert J. Sternberg (ed.), 1999, 179

THIS WEEK , I DOING RESEARCH ABOUT CREATIVITY OF MESOPOTAMIA.

FIRST HISTORICAL CIVILIZATIONS 
MESOPOTAMIA

Mesopotamia is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq and to a lesser extent northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran.The history of ancient Mesopotamia begins with the emergence of urban societies during the Ubaid period (ca. 5300 BC). The history of the Ancient Near East begins in the Lower Paleolithic period, and ends with either the arrival of the Achaemenid Empire in the late 6th century BC, or with the Arab Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and the establishment of the Caliphate in the late 7th century AD, from which point the region came to be known as Iraq.
WHAT TRAITS MADE THEM CREATIVE??

War brought new cultures to mesopotamia which expanded and blended.

The art of Mesopotamia reveals a tradition that appears, homogeneous in style and iconography.Art became decorative, stylized and conventionalized at different times and places. Gods took on human forms and humans were combined with animals to make fantastic creatures. Large temples and imposing palaces dotted the landscape. History and poetry for the first time was recorded and set down to music. Lyres, pipes, harps and drums accompanied their songs and dances.The soil of Mesopotamia yielded the civilization's major building material - mud brick. Stone was rare, and certain types had to be imported for sculpture. Variety of metals, as well as shells and precious stones, were used for the finest sculpture and inlays.
Source:http://www.nazarene.ch/barnsley/art/index_files/Page468.htm 
Then they constribute 

•      Agriculture, Plow
•      Cities
•      Bronze and iron ages
•      Wheeled vehicles
•      Writing (Cuneiform)
•      Mathematics (60 and 360)
•      Astronomy and zodiac
•             Bible and monotheism

The invention of chariot

        Chariots were one of the wheeled vehicles that the Mesopotamian people invented. Wheels helped transport them instead of walking everywhere. This was helpful, expecially in taking royal people different places. Since wheels roll they are easy to pull and so, the Mesopotamians decided to attach them to vehicles. And Voila! A wheeled vehicle like a chariot. The Mesopotamian people lived in the land of firsts. They invented many of the devices that aid us today in all that we do.

Source:http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/vammesopotamia5.html

The invention of cuneiform

 The Sumerians invented their own form of writing. They called it cuneiform. This happened about 3000 B.C.This began in Sumer as a way of keeping business records. For example, a merchant might have to keep track of how much grain he was trading for lumber. Using cuneiform he would be able to keep good, accurate records of what he traded and how much he traded.
By pressing a stylus against the clay, they could make cuneiform. All early civilizations regarded writing as very magical. If one could write a name, then that person was thought to possess power over that person.

Source:http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/vammesopotamia5.html

What ENVIRONMENTAL conditions existed?

     For the ancient Mesopotamians, their cities were the centers of life. When they looked back to the beginning of time, they did not see a Garden of Eden, but rather an ancient site called Eridu, which they believed was the first city ever to be created. Ancient Mesopotamia is where the world's first cities appeared around 4000 - 3500 B.C

   No one knows for sure why urbanization began in Mesopotamia. The development of cities could have occurred due to environmental conditions. Lack of rainfall might have been the inspiration for people to organize themselves in a common effort to build canals for the irrigation of farmland. Another reason may have been the need for protection on the open plain, which could have led people to gather together to create walled enclaves. Whatever the reasons, this was the first time in history that humankind channeled its energies towards addressing the needs of a community as a whole.

    Imagine three spaces that are sparsely populated, yet well watered and fertile, in a time before written history. Two are river valleys, another lies between two rivers forming a rich plain. Imagine that humans settle in these regions and domesticate plants and animals. The domestication made possible by these riverine territories and the success of that domestication,farming and grazing,lure increasingly greater human and animal migration to these spaces. As these populations increase, so do their needs. These needs give rise to the social and political economic formations that characterize the ancient urban spaces and states of Mesopotamia.

  Mesopotamian civilizations are noted for their dense populations, urbanization processes, and cultural innovation. These elements are tied to the growth of commerce and broader cultural interaction. That is, as empires these civilizations can be thought of as collections of peoples, goods, and ideas whose existence and dynamism were built on movement and exchange. This can be seen in the movement and exchange of people, the movement and exchange of goods, and the movement and exchange of ideas

Source :http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/cities.html
               http://history-world.org/rise_of_civilizations.htm

What was the process of creativity?
       In the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (Mesopotamia) and soon after in the valley of the Nile in Egypt, human beings use their creativity moved from a life in agricultural villages, using tools of wood, bone, shell, and stone, into a much richer and more varied social organization that we call civilization" . That is, instead of merely agricultural villages, we see the beginnings of real cities.Learning to work together for the common good was the beginning of the creative spark that led to the development of civilization mesopotamia first. The Sumerians (Southen Mesopotamia) were highly innovative people who responded creatively to the challenges of the changeable Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Many of the great Sumerian legacies, such as writing, irrigation, the wheel, astronomy, and literature, can be seen as adaptive responses to the great rivers.
Source:http://historymedren.about.com/library/text/bltxtiraq2.htm
              http://socsci.gulfcoast.edu/rbaldwin/mesopotamia.htm