Juxtaposition 2

My reflection

On this week, En. Razibedu gave the lecture about the juxtaposition. He continued the lesson from last week. He gave the lecture with more details during class and guides us step by step and asking us to do some exercise at class in order to make sure all of us can understand it easily in the class. At the end of the class, i would be able to understand about the topic of juxtaposition. Here are the exercises that i have done during the class, it is quite interesting!

First, we have to copy down the words which is given by the lecturer, then list out 3 numbers which should include 2 digit number you like. Next, write the number from 1-9 beside the words as what i have shown in the image above. After that, combine the word according to the numbers u choose.




This is the drawing that we draw according to 2 digit numbers we choose based on the word but yet not combine.




This is the drawing that we drew based on the 2 words we combine together. This shown how the 2 words formed an images from our own ideas after combine the words.

1. Flower Lighting
2. Ice Tree
3. Fire Wood

Other than that, the lecture also show us the picture of a chili and ask us to write at least 4 lines of sentence to form a poem based on concept of Love.

Here are the sentences i wrote on the class: You look red all the time in my mind

And you are too hot in my heart
Feel like a huge passion pull toward on me
And you always make me feel tasty

Describe the concept of "Life" based on the picture below:

Life is like a candle
It shines all the time
It is highlight and wonderful
When it is end of burning
Mean it is end of the life

Describe the concept of "Man or Women" based on the picture below:

Mortar and pestle are strong as man
They look stable and firm
They act tough no matter what happen
Protect their beloved from dangerous

Describe the concept of "Happiness" based on the picture below:

Time always gives happiness
Spend time on happiness
Could always feel warm and sweet
Although it cannot stop the time
But it is worthy to recall back

This week i would like to share a short funny poem. Here is the short poem, please have a look here:

Toilet Poem

"If you sprinkle while you tinkle
please be neat and wipe the seat
if you do a number 2
just be nice and flush the loo"

By Sarah

Source: http://www.short-poems.org/short-funny-poems/toilet-poem-424.html

Juxtaposition

What is the exact meaning of juxtaposition?

Juxtaposition refer to the alignment of two opposite terms or to place close together or side by side, especially for similarity or contrast in a comparison. It is usually 'turning' something familiar to something less familiar or vice-versa.


Here are some examples of juxtaposition

Here the Church is juxtaposed beside a tall contrasting blue building



The two penquins are juxtaposed in the water, capturing one from above and to the side and the other from below and underneath giving a 360 degree view, clever?



This is a beauty, the smoke stacks with each other and the houses to note the similarities and differences,not forgetting the clouds of smoke with the clouds in the sky, of course


source: http://hubpages.com/hub/Understanding-Juxtaposition-in-photography

My reflection on this lesson is i think most of the thing we see, read, or watch something are always related to juxtaposition. Juxtaposition always 'turning' something familiar to something less familiar or vice-versa as well as include something into similarity or contrast in a comparison in our life.

Associated Mind Map

The lesson that i have learned in class on this week is how to plan and do a logical mind map. During the class, En. Razibedu has lectured about the logical mind map and taught us how to create it. Before create the mind map, we should do some research as what En. Razibedu shown us in the class which is 'Mortar and Pestle'. After collecting the info about Mortar and Pestle, we should write it as a report before start the mind map. Besides that, he also taught us how to choose a random word from the logical mind map on practice and try to think or connect to others creative function of using mortar and pestle.

Mortar and Pestle


Here is the mind map that i have done. The keyword is chosen and we are asked to provide and draw out the new creative function of the mortar and pestle for each that is different from the past and applied it today and also in the future which is posted below.

I would like to share the creative stuff on this week. It is too creative when you see those stuff. It is awesome. Here are some images that i choose from the internet.

Porcelain 'Egg Bank' by designer Kensaku Oshiro. Put the coins in the slot, of course. The only way to get them back is to crack open the egg.

source: http://badbanana.typepad.com/weblog/creative_ideas/page/3/



Artistic Glass Doorknob from the Out of the Blue Studio of Tierra Verda, Florida

source: http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/04/creative-design-artistic-glass-doorknobs/

Convergent and Divergent thinking, Logical Mindmap, Stereoptypes

Method of Creative Thinking

There are 2 types of creative thinking which is convergent thinking and divergent thinking. Convergent thinking is the method of narrowing the playing field. It takes all the possibilities or different thing to bring it together and finally comes out with a choice or turn into a solution. On the other hand, diverging thinking is the method of expanding the playing field. It always involves brainstorming and looking for alternative or different possibility. For example, there is two different of growing direction for a seed, one is grow upward in order to get the sunlight while another is grow downward to looking for water which is needed by the root.

Briefing on mind maps

What will be come directly to our mind at the first time when we talk about the mind map? It is undoubtedly brainstorming this word will come to our mind at the first time because it is a big relevant to the mind map.

Mind mapping is a great tool for idea generation and brainstorming. It enhance both sides of the human brain and widely used in taking notes, research or generating new ideas. Logical mind map is directly connected to stereotype and every word or images that is directly related to the central of the subject while associated mind map enable us to generate random words and also show the links between words that seem have no connection.

Reference : Tony Buzan

Examples of some logical mind map

source: http://living.blogg.se/2008/september/

source: http://blog.mapawatt.com/2009/08/07/top-energy-saving-tips/

This is the mind map about myself which i have done it by taking several hours to complete it.

Introduction to Stereotype

Stereotype is a commonly held public belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of groups based on some prior assumptions. Generally speaking, stereotypes are not based on objective truth but rather subjective and sometimes unverifiable content-matter.

reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype

There are several examples of stereotypes. For instance, all Blondes are less wisdom, all muslims are terrorist, all Black people are lazy and so on. All these are the most popular and common stereotype as we all know.

My reflection on this lesson is we must always have diverging and converging thinking in solving problems in our daily life. Besides, mind map is very useful by collecting and connecting relevant information together and make it less words so people will be easy to understand it in a short time. Nowadays, people are always influenced by stereotypes which is a public belief about specific social groups or types of individuals.

This week i would like to share some creative video. Here are some creative ads video. Lets have some look here.

Creative ads video (Lexus Hybrid : Milestone)


Creative ads

Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

There are many great artists in history created a lot of artworks or contribution to the society. They dedicated their whole life by learning or doing research in order to achieve their goal and produce the good works. Creative people or great artists like philosophy of Plato, Newton's Laws of Motion, Jackson Pollock with his "Action Painting", The Beatles' influential Sgt. Pepper's album, films of Steven Spielberg, Michael Jackson's moonwalk and so on.

Jackson Pollock's Action Painting
reference: http://ebicuba.drealentejo.pt/ebicuba/jornal/jornal09/fotos/


Michael Jackson's Moonwalk.
reference: http://photostock14.in/michael-jackson-doing-moonwalk

The Beatles, the most popular rock band in the 20th century, they made a continuous impact on popular culture and the lifestyle of several generations.
reference: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1397313/bio

Johannes Gutenberg, who creates and produces the printing press, is not only his effort alone, but also the community or society has supported and accepted his idea to produce something which is new and useful that will be added to the culture.

" Creativity is an attitude of the mind that breaks away from the traditional way of thinking" (1996)."

- Theresa Amabile in her book, Creativity in Context

Johanna E Dickhut writes on the meaning of creativity and association of creativity to novelty. He states that it is a universal factor and novelty requires originality and newness.

"Creativity is the process of coming up with ideas, it can best be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst while innovation is the process of turning ideas into practical reality.

- Hermann, 1999

Nowadays, we have the different thought based on the word of "creativity". Every healthy human being has creativity but we only have creativity for the domain of certain intellectual people or it is something gifted to certain individual and group of people only in the previous years.

Sternberg proposed that there is a dialectical relationship between intelligence wisdom and creativity.
We are not only generate idea but also need to analysis it although we are intelligent enough.
Intelligence is not enough for all. But in order to further analysis those ideas that are generated, then there must be higher intelligence.
As a conclusion, a creative and intelligence person may produce a novel idea, but without wisdom, the novel idea maybe "foolish" or inappropriate (Dickhut. J E).


Creating Image of Public Figure - Hayao Miyazaki

Born: 5 January, 1941 (age 69)

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Occupation: Film Director, Character Designer, Screenwriter

Years Active: 1963 - present

About him: He is a prominent Japanese filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He is also a co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production of company.
Hayao Miyazaki, the reason that we choose him is because of his creativity in telling stories in his film and produces a lot of creative films to us. We always get a lot of inspiration from his film or animation. That’s why we admire him so much and regard him as the person we want to learn from.

First and foremost, this Japanese guy becomes the well-known person in this world because of his film and story which motivated and influenced people. Miyazaki's films often incorporate recurrent themes, likes humanity’s relationship to nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. He always has something to tell inside his art piece. Miyazaki was voted from Times Magazine to become one of the most influential Asian of the past 60 years in 2006. Besides that, in 2005, he was named one of the Time 100 Most Influential People.

Miyazaki’s animations implicitly criticize the adverse impact of humans on nature. For example, Princess Mononoke or Mononoke- Hime(1997) which is a story about the struggling between the nature, animal spirit and the humans who exploit the forest for industry. Miyazaki takes a leading role when creating his films; he is the writer, and also director. His creations are able to influenced people; change your original view of the world. A number of Western authors have influenced Miyazaki's work, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Levis Carroll, and Diana Wynne Jones. Miyazaki confided to Le Guin that Earthsea had been a great influence on all his works, and that he kept her books at his bedside. Miyazaki confided to Le Guin that Earthsea had been a great influence on all his works, and that he kept her books at his bedside. Miyazaki always takes society’s problem to be the theme of his works. This action represents the innovative of him.

As a conclusion, he will be our choices when choosing the most creative person for us. All his works and the rewards he get is already proved that.

References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki
Pair work: Lim Lee Kim, Ang Wei Jun

Today, my class reflection for whole lesson is able to differentiate the meaning of novelty, creativity, innovation and invention. Besides, i get to know some great artists who left the significant footprint behind them and creative people always see the thing differently. And also make the life easier as well as bring in change to the society by creating something to solve the problem.


Here are some creativity, innovation and invention images that i wan to share in this week. Those images are shown creativity, innovation and invention.

Creativity...

Clock
Show time management for creative people

source: http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/2007/12/03/time-management-for-creative-people-free-e-book/

Innovation...

Fish in the light bulb

source: http://sandraghitescu.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/creative-meditation-experiment/

Invention...

Rest Room

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4360000/newsid_4364500/4364562.stm