Juxtaposition 2

Juxtaposition exercise: placing two random words together and deriving meaning out of them.

OIL AND WATER

Oil and water can't mix

in order to make Oil and water one i made my own compound called H2Oil

 LIGHT AND TREE

There's a light on that tree

 FLY AND HEAD

There's a fly on his head

LION OSTRICH!!!

Okay juxtaposing just got out of hand,i mean what on earth is this!!! a lion ostrich,interesting indeed...however disturbing it may seem,creativity has way of opening doors for discussion on subjects such as these,like say for example being a combination of mammal and bird makes you wonder if it would lay eggs,not only that,what does this lion-ostrich taste like?or is it still carnivoroes...hmm i wonder.

ELEPHANT SPIDER!!!

What happens when the biggest land mammal decides to have kids with a spider?...well if you asked me a few days ago,i wouldn't have been able to answer that question.Well fortunately some crazy elephant out there decide to give us the answer and here it is the Elephantspider.I just keep on asking myself does this fancy gobbling up flies and if it does how many does it need until it gets full.!!!

THE KITTEN!!!!

Just when i thought our lessons and assingments couldn't get anymore twisted,we're told to turn an innocent picture of a kitten into something ditsurbing and will send chills down someone's spine!!!

i love to think of this image as the image of a mentally disturbed kitten...what can it do?what will it do?why does it do what it does???? Freaky i tell ya!!

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposing is the act of placing two objects together in order to compare and contrast the two objects or deliver more meaning to something.Juxtaposing is commonly used in advertising to enhance meaning to a product,say if an extremely beautiful young lady was placed next to a sports car the entire meaning of the sports car and a person's perception would change.

Marlboro often uses well built handsome men in cowboy outfits to enhance 

there advertising

The smoking hot young lady on the car makes our perception of the car

different

Juxtaposing involves placing of to images side by side.the brain automatically tries to derive understanding of a relation between the two images.

MY HOT CHILLI POEM!!!

Love like a chilli

Like smooth hot chilli,so is our love.

The burning sensation with each bite reflects the passion that we share,

through rain and storm,our love shines bright red 

fearlessly battling the tests of time and fluently preserving it's aroma

and just like the chilli's smart tip points forward,

our undying union will march on forever.

Mind Mapping!!!!

Mind mapping is a tool used in idea generation that involves building on a subject using other subject that are directly or indirectly related to the central ,main subject.It was designed by Tony Buzan

A logical mind map involves branches that are all directly related to the central subject while an associated mind map involves generating random words that seem to have no connection to the the central subject.

Logical mindmapping exercise

Using the skill of mindmapping on a classmate i was able to draw fairly accurate facts about there characteristics as a person.

From the above mindmap i concluded that Nana is a quiet and reserved person that mostly loves time to herself.She loves her mum and has a close relationship with her,i drew this conclusion because she still uses the ninckname her mum gave to her when she was little.She also loves RnB music which is a soft genre of music,this i deduced,shows that she really loves her quiet time.Being the last born in among her 3 siblings made me assume that she is well taken care of a lot back at home and therefore explaining her preservative behaviour in public.

She also loves food (don't we all),and takes an interest in seafood,sushi in particular,seafood is known to stimulate ones brain and so i also guess she's a deep thinker.Role playing games are her favourite kind of video game,she plays 'the sims' in which the player assumes the role of a member of a family or,from Nana's point interest,the family head.I came to understand that she is responsible and loves the idea of a family and can't wait to start her own.To sum it all up, Nana has a soft personality and loves to be taken care of or in my words "She's AWESOME"

Mortar and pestle

Using the assoiciated mind map of a mortar and pestle i came up with these ideas for the possible use of the tool long ago...i chose "power","suffer" and "Talk"

POWER

In the year 1206,it was a common practice for the African people to use thMortar and pestle as a symbol of power. Leader would wear the mortar on his head and the pestle as sort of a royal staff.These were their crown jewels

SUFFER

Long ago people in societies would punish wrongdoers by forcing them to eat the mortar and pestle,usually by swallowing the whole!!!

TALK

In earlier years when very few wors existed,the mortar and pestle.Sounds created by banging the mortar on the pestle in a rythmic way provided meaning for expressions that could not be put in words....the man above is asking his colleaguthe toilet is!!!!e where 

BILL GATES

Chairman and founder of  microsoft Henry William Gates is well known throughout the world for his contribution in the digital world.He is responsible for causing a revolutionary change in the way we use computers in our lives.His success was due to his abilty to think way out of the box.

Bill Gates is an unconventional and innovative person, and he is seen as a rebel, reformer, or highly unusual in his manners, appearance, or attitudes. Bill enjoys being unpredictable, and he does not conform to the standards that other people have set. Above all, Bill Gates is an individualist, and he does what he pleases regardless of customs and norms. His environment and life circumstances may change frequently and abruptly.

His childhood and early home life were colored by a great deal of confusion or by people with unusually active imaginations, aspirations, or fantasies. It is difficult for Bill Gates to see his childhood and his relationships with his parents in a clear, realistic light. Bill may search for the ideal, loving home he wishes he had, or believe he had, when he was a child. Finding inner peace and a sense of emotional security within himself is important to Gates.

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THE GOOGLE BOYS

Search engines before 1998 such as Yahoo and AltaVista were providing a means of searching for information that brought up more junk than what the user was looking for.

It was only until 1998 that Google, the Brain Child of two former Stanford University Students Sergey Brin and Larry Page broke through the barriers of search engines to become the most efficient and useful search engine for the web.

Both co founders had been studying there Phd. when they came up with there revolutionary breakthrough in how people get information on the net.Interestingly the two young men had not intended to start up a company of there own,there original plan was to sell there idea to an existing search engine company,but unfortunately or fortunately they were turned down.

They focused on what the user needed and put the user first.They understood that a keeping everything simple and precise,shown from the simple layout of there website page to the ease at which one can get information from there site,was the way to go.There continuous  success is greatly stimulated by the fact that they believe in a free environment of working in which the mind is encouraged to be creative.All Google employees enjoy free food,fun and games at the Google headquarters,this work approach has developed new creative ideas such as Google earth and Google chrome.The Google boys are a good example of Creativity with big 'C',there ideas and have brought about changes in the way we acquire information in the world,making it easier and more accessible at the simple click of a button.

CREATIVE STUDIES

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus"

   (Mark Twain)

Creativity manifests everywhere whether arts or sciences,creative people exist generating new ideas.

Creativity is a process of developing original ideas that have value...

Being creative involves innovation,invention and a degree of novelty.

 Innovation

Innovation involves a revolution of an existing product in terms of the way it is seen or used in new way that had not been thought of.Innovation involves an economic replication of an idea.

Invention

An invention or the process of invention refers to the creation of an entirely new product that was either conceived or derived from an existing idea.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the first practical telephone

 Novelty

Is the abilty of something to have a striking,unusual and new feel...never seen before.

(i found this little boy running about imagining what seemed to be
him fighting aliens,unfortunately he stopped to pose just as i was going to take his picture)

I admire a child's imagination.A simple block of wood could become a jet fighter aeroplane in a little boys mind,and i guess it's because of this child like imagination that grown ups are often forced to re-explore or re-live their childhood inorder to gain creativity.

(The Jabbawockeez winners of "Americas Best Dance Crew season 1"  incorporated
masks into there dance routine which had never before been seen)

A creative mind sees something out of nothing and has  an ability to create what has never before been seen or thought of. Sadly In the world today the number of creative people has drastically decreased and in my opinion i would lay the blame on education.

The education system of today has made and  fashioned a lifestyle in which people measure someones intelligence and worth through the grades they are able to acheive, and therefore this makes people who should have been working more on their creativity gear their lives in the direction that seems fit to the general society.

Pablo Picasso once said;

  "All children a born artists,the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up "

Using these words as a reference it is evident that the journey that we take through life as we grow up affects our creativity. It is so easy to lose track of your personal creativity since you are constantly being discouraged about what exactly is acceptable and what may not be. Take for example Learnado da Vinci a great artist and inventor was called mad during his time for his ideas and inventions and his creativity was challenged.

 "Being creative requires great faith and determination"

Two kinds of Creativity

There are two existing types of creativity;


Creativity with a capital 'C' is aimed at affecting a change in society and therefore needs to be understandable and accepted by the public.This kind of creativity is not common and is usually backed by a great deal of "good luck" unlike creativity with a small 'c' that serves personal satisfaction and fullfilment, a good example is solving problems in everyday life,this shows that everyone at some point makes use of small 'c'  creativity.