Week 9: Analogical Thinking

 This is the first model of the submarine today. It was named Turtle and made in 1775 for the purpose of war. As its name states, the inspiration perhaps came from a turtle.

This is my painting. I use a lot of objects to combine them together to translate my message. For example: the keys and the hands  and the facial expression to represent the public attitude and acceptance towards the released prisoners. hands and snakes to represent the sin, the guilt which holds back the prisoners. 

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This is my painting. I use butterfly as a metaphor to represent my love. i feel that love is a beautiful butterfly, it comes and stays only for a while. 

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In my country,  we used to describe women as lion " she s a lion" or " she is aggressive like a lion" to show character of an aggressive woman. 

This is a glider, an early development of aircraft. The inspiration came from bird. For centuries, human had been trying to fly like a bird. This idea only became successful with the Wright brothers, when they made an aircraft to fly successfully. 

This is a painting by Rene Magritte, "The collective invention" in 1934. It is a representation of a mermaid by combining a half naked woman body with half the body of a fish. The artist intention is to mock our imagination of a beautiful mermaid, and to show us the real mermaid if it existed.

This painting is "The Empire of Light" (1953) by Rene Magritte. Although it is said not to represent anything, to me it seems to represent loneliness by the light, and the illogical depiction of light and time in the painting.

Week 8: Making faces

1.       My name is Big because I have a big mouth. I personally think it is small compare to my eyes. My eyelashes r long and bushy. My hobbies are watching the roads and people rushing to their destinations. The most exciting thing in my life is eating human every day.

2.       My name is Lickitung, because I have a long tongue. My hobbies are eating lots of things, licking ice cream. However, people sit on my tongue and I eventually lick them every day.

3.       My name is Dexter. I love to sleep and close my mouth. If you want to wake me up, you have to pull my mouth down hard. My eyes function like my mouth and my mouth functions like my eyes.

4.       My name Boring, because I only see the same thing in my life. However, people love to look at me and point at me sometime. I think they find me interesting. I hope someone could change my view in life.

5.       My name is Ken. My eyes r the brightest ever. I love to help people to study. That is why I stay in the library. Sometimes I see people bringing food and eating in the library, but I can not speak.

6.       My name is Jolteon. I love to fight by hitting my head with the others. Sometimes I can wrestle with them for days. Even though I look cute, I am the strongest one.

7.       My name is Klaz. My hobby is cooking, and I love rice the most. I help the worst cooker in this world not to burn their rice. 

Week7: Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes another sensation. This technique helps me to relax my mind and to generate more idea. Thus, it helps me to become more creative. Here are some of my experiments with synesthesia.

I listened to a sad piano song, and some colors appeared in my mind. Therefore I expressed them on paper. I used blue and violet to express my feeling that song brought to me. It was sad made me feel a bit moody.

This is my expression when I listened to a funky song. It was fun with lots of beats.

When I look at this picture, I have a flashback of where I stayed before. I was living in US and this landscape picture makes me miss US very much.

In this picture I feel happy and peaceful, because the green pleases my eyes. It brings me hope and happiness.

The colors of white and blue brings me a feeling of loneliness. It feels cold and sad.

The amber color of the leaves in autumn makes me feel calm, but there is a bit of sadness in it.

This is my felling expressed in colors when i watched a video clip of cityscape. It makes me feel cold and isolated by the fast changing life in the city. 

Week 6: Forced Connection

Forced connection is a creativity skill or an ability to combine multiple objects together. Forced connection can be seen in our daily life. These combined objects make our life more convenient and refreshing.

1.       Printer +scanner + photocopy + fax: this convenient printer helps me to save a lot of space in my room instead of buying individual one. I can also get my paper work done faster.

2.       Fork+ spook+ knife: This cutlery is a great deal for a lunch packed or a picnic.

3.       Perfume + dumbbell: This Davidoff perfume attracts people by the interesting design. It shows the power of man by the shape of the dumbbell. Thus it is unique.

4.       Jeans+ ipad cover:  This ipad cover is made for those who love jeans. It is a fashionable item.

5.       Pencil + watercolor: It would be too heavy to bring two separate sets of water color and color pencils, therefore I prefer to use these watercolor pencils.

   

6.       Map + UV lights+ dots: Artists also used forced connection to convey their ideas and to mamake their works more interesting.   

7.       Skeleton + high heel: The forced connection in this fashion item is made for those who would like to express themselves in fashion. 

Week 5: Lateral Thinking

 1.When the glasses are stuck together, you may break the glasses for pulling them apart. The best way to remove is to submerge the bottom glass with hot water and put ice in the top glass.

2.When the lock is frozen, you can either pour hot water over it or heat up the key.

3. A man died and went to heaven. There was thousand of naked people around the age of 21. He looked around to see if there were people he knew. Immediately, he spotted Adam and Eva. It is because they were not born from mother, so they do not have navels. 

4. When you want to unclog a sink or a toilet bowl, you just need to pour coca cola into it. The carbonated soda will help to unclog. 

5. You are asked to draw a circle, but you do not have a compass a templates. You just need to use two pens and a rubber band to tie together. One pen will act as a support to spin, and the other will draw.

6. When you want to erase , but you do not have an eraser. You can find some rubber band to tie them up at the top of the pen and erase. 

7. Iron the clothes without iron ? you can try to heat up frying pan. 

Week 4: Mind map

Mind map is a diagram, in which the central idea is placed at the center, and branched out other connected ideas. Each connected idea continues to branch out small related ideas. Mind map can be a rough note drawn during lecture. Images can be added, if there is time. Mind map is a helpful tool in many areas, such as business, fashion, architecture. In my experience, I usually do mind-mapping to organize my thoughts and ideas for certain things such as writing essay, giving presentation, solving problems. Whenever I have a passage to memorize or analyze for English subject, I often make a mind map of that passage. Indeed, it helps me to understand the passage easier. Next, mind map also helps me to review things faster. Finally, it helps me to memorize faster and easier, since the main ideas and details are written down in simple phrases. 

Week 3: Brainstorming

Brain storming is a process of thinking to solve a problem, in which a group or a person generates as many ideas as possible without discarding any of them. Next, a selection of best ideas should be carried out to examine its usefulness. People are recommended to open their minds and let the thoughts and ideas flow freely. This process of thinking helps people to think more creatively rather than constraining themselves to certain extent. The invisible barriers in mind indeed reduce our creativity. In my experience, when I have a project to complete I brainstorm by drawing many different things to see what works best for my project. After trying out different objects in different materials, I select the best idea which I think is amazing.  It is more helpful than staying at one place and thinking what might work best without actual test. In conclusion, I do believe that everyone should try to brainstorm their ideas when they have too many ideas or nothing for a problem. Let the creativity flow freely, a suppression will only result in a stagnant mind. 

Week 2: What are the rules can be broken?

1. David (1501-1504), Michelangelo

2. Feast in the House of Levi (1573), Veronese

3. The Kiss (1907-08), Constantin Brancusi 

4.Autumn rhythm no.50 (1950), Jackson Pollock 

5. The Sunrise (1872), Claude Monet

6. The Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp

7. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), Damien Hirst

The contemporary art today is a result attributed by many of the prominent rule breakers. These people have been endlessly redefining the definition of art. I would like to zoom into the fine art discipline to name out some of the rule-breaking artists with their contribution. Michelangelo who was one of the most influential artists broke the rules of nature and established his aesthetic taste of an ideal beauty. This ideology of beauty had become a measure ruler for many artists in the Baroque and Rocco eras such as Pontormo, Caravaggio. Veronese was brought to court with his painting “Last Supper” which was later changed to “Feast in the House of Levi” for his imagination of painting Christ with buffalo and drunkards. Brancusi and Jackson Pollock broke the whole set of ideally realistic beauty and established his new style which is called abstract. Claude Monet challenged the art critics with his visible brushwork of an impressionist. On the other hand, Marcel Duchamp and Damien Hirst broadened the definition of arts. They challenged the critics to what extent it is considered as art with the use of their materials. After all, we should appreciate these brilliant rule breakers for making the art to evolve and shaping our presence