Exploration on random word /image association

Problem: Create an image that human fear

Random Words: Durian

*Sharp Surface*

*Smelly*

*Heavy*

*Sweet*

*yellow*


I have created Naz' Algul to scare people away.

Random Words Association

When to use it?

Use it to stimulate open and divergent thinking and seek creative new ideas.
Use it to re-ignite creative thinking when you are running out of ideas.
Use it to get people out of a rut when their thinking is still rather conventional.

How to use it?

1. Find a random word
Find a random word that will be used as a stimulus for new ideas. You can do this in a number of ways, including:

-Look around you. What can you see? Can you see any words? What about things? What else is happening?
-Open a book at a random page. Run your finger around the page and stop at a random point. Look for a suitable word near your finger.
-Ask the people you are with to give you a random word.
-Select a word from a prepared list of evocative words (fire, child, brick, sausage, etc.)

Good random words are (a) evocative and (b) nothing to do with the problem being considered. Ambiguity also helps. Nouns are usually best, but verbs and adjectives can also be used effectively.

2. Find associations
Think about other things about which the word reminds you. Follow associations to see where they go. Think openly: associations can be vague and tenuous (this is creativity, not an exam!).
When working with a group of people, you can write these down on a flipchart as people call them out. It can be useful (but not necessary) to leave a space after each associate for use in stage 3.

3. Use the associations to create new ideas
Now create new ideas by linking any of the associations with your problem. Again, the linkage can be as vague as you like: what you want is ideas!
Write the ideas either next to their associations from step 2 or on a separate page.
If other people give ideas that trigger further ideas from you, then you can go off down that route to see where it goes.
As a variant, you can do stages 2 and 3 together, finding an association and an immediate idea from this.

Example:
I am seeking a way to reduce discomfort for passengers on trains.
With a group of passengers, we look out of the window and see a school.
Associations from school are learning, bullying, exams, playtime.
Ideas include teaching the rail company how uncomfortable the seats are, taking a firm stance in this, giving marks for different trains and seats and having games on trains so passengers do not notice the uncomfortable seats.

How it works?

Random Words works in particular by making you go elsewhere for ideas, and hence pushes you out of your current thinking rut. It uses the principle of forced association to make you think in new ways and create very different ideas.


Reference: creatingminds.org/tools/random_words.htm

Tattoo~!!

"London Ink"

You need passion and creative to do this.

The shop which is actually called LoveHate Tattoo (Formerly 305 Ink - The show is called London Ink is a reality show on Discovery Real Time that follows Louis Molloy and three other tattoo artists
Each of the artists brings a different style to London Ink. Louis Malloy, is an expert in parallel and straight lines and other difficult shapes, and has tattooed David Beckham. Dan Gold is an avid Graffiti artist in the free hand new wave graffiti style. New Zealand artist Nikole Lowe specializes in Japanese, tibetan and Indian-themed art. American Phil Kyle brings a new wave old school style with his own twist over to England.

Legendary A. Samad Said's Poems

Empty House

One night, mother was restless
she asked: When will you
buy a house? Sad, but with
a smile, I promised, soon -
a year or two, the latest. But
a month later she was gone,
regretting not able to see the house
of her child - her look was peaceful, while
her eyes were like holding a secret.

That is my only regret,
nothing else, that is my agony
forever.



Al-Amin

Life History of Prophet Muhammad SAW in A Poem

1(1) = Page 1 (Verse 1)

Glorification was first say, clean first intent, service first wish,the friendly morning sun rose, delirious was the core self that searched.Longing was the seed of love, sadness the balance of restlessness, the tongue the psyche of voice.
from the ancient heart the store of belongings asking the soul;until the core was the search, until the root was the digging, between lostand found, dreaming or awake, the restlessness of human history;tracing the path of return, preparing the path of coming, the soul was the navigator.This is the sheet, crumpled and ignored, the most difficult tear. (5.2.2004)

1(2)

Everything restless, the world and weather in black roll.Scratches of winks, quakes of lightning and red emberbetween them the dance of sand vapors of an era hot torturing;in fright the polite breath of quivering quarrel peak, searchingeverything - the restlessness of the sky and valleys, the hardened dates seeds,the camels' skeletons, the swords' rust marking the drop of blood clot.This was the face of an era angrily hot wild cut the breath full of worries,the voice of tired yells quakes of lightning of animals in doubt. (5.2.2004)

1(3)

Foot soles cracked here, memories twinkled a twilight or two,recollections are always unfocused. Sands of era of amber startedsprinkling odours and dusts from yesteryears, from all prejudices.Happiness was not a tale of the sons of Adam choosing the world. Massesof clouds were too far, pale and weary. The rush of wind was eerily torturing.caravan silent burned by anger within the waves of sand dunes.The camels nodded, tins knocking, every eye holding a secret.Happiness was not the tale. A while equivalent were the animals and humans. (29.4.2004).

By A. Samad Said.

Merdeka Poem

POEMS

"Mountain"

Love is a wonderful MOUNTAIN
Patient lead you reach the top
No spirit live will go away
struggle and patient, you'll make it to the top


"Ice Cream"

Ice cream is sweet
love can be sweeter than ICE CREAM
You always wanted a sweet moment
Enjoy it like you liking the ICE CREAM



"Money"

Love need a MONEY
No money no love
Girls Don't like boys
Gilrs like car and MONEY



"Sport Car"

love is like a sport car
It happen so fast
You wanted to tounch her
but you couldn't reach her



"Time"

Time is valuable
Spent so much time in love is a waste
Let the time decide
One day you will find the one




"Rubbish"

Love is hormony
You want to cherish the time with you love
Sure u had a best moment in your life
Makes smelly rubbish smells good



"Cat and Duck"

Cat and duck is two different animals
but they still love each other
Human being have a brain
Why not everyone get along

HEY YOU!!! YEAH YOU.. SEE THIS!!

VISUAL PUNS

Creating an artwork in which several visual forms which look alike are connected and combined as to bring out two or more possible meaningful ideas in humorously ways.

*ANALOGY is make a comparison between two things or ideas in order to show a similarity in some respect. A comparison of two things that are dissimilar but are shown through the analogy to have some similarity.

*Metaphor*

>> Two different things are linked by some similarity. Comparison that are not metaphor.
It occur when 2 different ideas are combined in imagitative ways and agreed to be dissimilar.

>> Not using as or like

>> Example: Let’s go to Koh Phangan. The full moon party comes once is a blue moon.

*Similies*

>> Using as or like to show the idea.

>> Example: Life is like a ball. Sometime you can be on the top but sometime you can fall.

ANALOGIES

*Logical Analogies*

>> Use similarities in the design, structure or function of to connect back to the subject.

>> Example: bird and aeroplane can fly.

*Affective Analogies*

>> motional resemblances

>> Example: He is lazy like a cow.

WHAT IS JUXTAPOSITION?

Juxtaposition is an act of comparing two random things, especially in a way that suggests connection between them and turns it into one meaningful form. For example, turns word -> image

Class Activity

The lectures ask us to select 3 numbers between 0 – 100. For example if u choose 2, your number must be in two digits that is 02. Each number will represent each object. Based on two objects, create a word relate both objects. See the table below:-


I have chosen:
07 Fly, Tree: There is a fly tree at my house
22 Lighting, Rock: The lighting strike a huge rock
36 Ice, Spider: There is an ice coming out from the spider

07

22

36

WHAT IS STEREOTYPE?

Stereotype is someone’s perception of first impressions: The behaviors that presumed by a group of people judging with the eyes ones outer appearance to be associated with another specific group.

Method of creative thinking

Mind Mapping is an idea generation and brainstorming. It enhances both side human brain and widely used in taking notes, research, generate new idea. Create interest to the individual and also to the viewer. This is an effective way to generate idea and remember all the points.

There are two types of mind mapping which are:

Logical Mind Mapping- Draw a mind map only based on one topic. Then, find several subtopic related topic. Use only one or two words. Drawing is necessary to help u remember and make it interesting.

Associated Mind Mapping- It similar to logical mind mapping. The difference, associated mind mapping is using more then one mind mapping such elaborates subtopic.

Logical Mind Mapping about me:

Bill Gate’s Documentary

PART 1



PART2

Class Activity (Bill Gates)

We have to create an image of bill gate or google owner. We are required to cut the image from from the magazines and start using our creativity to create the image. I had chosen bill gates.

Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

NOVELTY is the quality of being new. Create or modify using your own idea and creativity such as a souvenir, gift and many more. For example, a new style of art coming into being such as abstract art or impressionism.


CREATIVITY is Using imagination rather than imitating something else. Generation of ideas, images and solutions. This is very important for individual to develop their creative skills so they can be able to think creatively in solving problem, studying and many more situation can be applied.


INNOVATION is the act of starting something for the first time and introducing something new which means doing something in a new way. A distinction is typically made between Invention, an idea made manifest, and innovation, ideas applied successfully.


INVENTION is discovery or creation of a new things, device, or process. Some inventions are based on existing models or ideas.

SEE THIS...!!

These are some of the geniuses below:-

Bill Gates

Bill Gates is the founder and the Chairman of Microsoft. He invented something which did not exist in the world before and change the perception of people to buy his personal computer. Until now, the business keeps growing and growing in the eye of the world. Now, he is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.


Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, who was also celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His profound love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavours. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century lbert Einstein after his death.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2. Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism and his general theory of relativity, which was intended to extend the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion and to provide a new theory of gravitation.

Ibnu Sina

bu Ali Sina and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna was a Persian polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, scientist, soldier, statesman, and teacher. Ibn Sīnā developed a medical system that combined his own personal experience with that of Islamic medicine, the medical system of the Greek physician Galen Aristotelian metaphysics He was also the founder of Avicennian logic and the philosophical school of Avicennism, which were influential among both Muslim and Scholarist thinkers.


References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Gates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna#Biography

WHAT IS PROBLEM SOLVING?

is part of thinking in which finding a solution to a problem. In this process, involving conflict between left and right brain in respond to resolve conflict to generate ideas. We need to think creatively in order to find a good solution for a problem. There is always a problem in life, knowledge in creative studies will be very helpful to think for a solution that gives benefit and awesome.


Let’s play a game and try to figure it out. I’ll give the answer the end of the video. Click the video below :-

Video 1

Video 2

WHAT IS CREATIVE THINKING?

Creative thinking is a process that we use when we come out with a new idea. Brainstorming is part of creative thinking. Brainstorming is a group activity to generate new idea. This is most effective way to build a large number of ideas.

Creativity in Education

Class Activity

Find a partner in class try to get as many information about him/her as you can. From the information you get try to draw an image that can be related to your information about him.

The picture describe about small, short, strong, calm, funny, pierce tounge and show off. haha

WHAT IS CREATIVE?

can be understood in many ways. creative people also have an ability to invent something which did not exist before. For example, Bill Gates who invented Microsoft makes him the first richest man in the world. Creative does not only developing something new to the world, it’s more about developing something new to ourselves.

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE STUDIES

Hi all,

I am Asyraf Faiz (id:1061111847). This is the journal for CREATIVE STUDIES subject. This is an interesting subject because we are learned to use both part of our brain to produce and generate idea.

I have learnt a lot of things in studying creative studies. I have been able to think smartly to find a creative solution for my problem that I need to be solve immediately. This subject make me feel more focus with what am doing or gone through. Its help the way of I’m thinking to think more creative and deeper to find a rational and great result.

Mr Razi Bedu and Miss Helena are doing a great job in delivering the message clearly. The class is fun with all interesting class activities. They make the environment in class always cheerful.