Week 6 Assignment.

Week 6.

Others functions of Mortar and Pestle. 

Game.

Mortar and pestle can be used as a game. Like as shown in the picture above, the player will throw the pestle and try to aim it into the mortar. If the player able to place the pestle inside the mortar within the distance of 1 meter he will be able to get 1 point. The longer the distance of the player from the mortar, the  higher the point the player will get. But if the player fails, no points will be given to the player.

  

Statement.

Mortar and pestle also can be used as an item to give a statement. Like as shown in the picture above, by hitting the mortar using the pestle, a sound can be produce to attract other people attention to give them a statement. The larger the size of mortar and pestle used the louder the sound can be produce.

Weapon.

 

Mortar and pestle also can be used as a weapon. Like as shown in the picture above, the pestle will be used as the holder and connected to the mortar with a steel chain. Besides that, it also can be swing and it also can be used to attack further distance target by increasing the length of the steel chain.

Week 5 Assignment.

Week 5.

Invention - innovation :  

Again, not all inventions bring innovation, remember. 

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/tech/article/japans-gadget-failures-the-futures-that-never-happened/  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20400239 

But it sure makes good Sci-Fi stories.    

What can we learn from here? something to blog about, perhaps.

    

I my opinion, based from the article and the video form the link above, I have learn that not all inventions that are created in the past will still be the same in terms of its usage in the future. For instance, there some popular devices which are created  in Japan around 1950's which was widely used during that time but today those devices are no longer been used and hard to be found because of  no demand for it. This shows that not all of the devices invented will bring innovation. In addition, some of the devices will just be forgotten when a brand new devices is invented.

Here are some example of devices invented in Japan around 1950's.

 

Week 4 Assignment.

Week 4.

Historical Examination Of Creativity.

 Look at people and times to understand creativity better.

- What traits made them creative?

- What environmental condition existed?

- What is the process of creativity?

Nowadays there are a lot of artistic and creative historical evidence which can be found all around the world. Those evidence had exist for hundreds and thousands years ago. One example is the Medieval European art.

The Medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at times the Middle East and North Africa. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, genres, revivals, the artists crafts, and the artists themselves.

Art historians attempt to classify medieval art into major periods and styles, often with some difficulty. A generally accepted scheme includes Early Christian art, Migration Period art, Byzantine art, Insular art, Pre-Romanesque art and Romanesque art, and Gothic art, as well as many other periods within these central styles.

- Early Christian art.

- Migration Period art.

- Byzantine art.

- Insular art.

- Pre-Romanesque art.

- Romanesque art.

- Gothic art.

In addition each region, mostly during the period in the process of becoming nations or cultures, had its own distinct artistic style, such as Anglo-Saxon art or Norse art.

- Anglo-Saxon art.

- Norse art.

Week 3 Assignment.

Week 3.

 

1. Visit the http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/tech/article/the-pc-is-dead-long-live-the-tablet/ 

What does it tell us about the process of invention and innovation?

 

In my opinion, based on the article that I have read I can see that the process of invention and innovation is really important. It actually helps use in many ways that we can't imagine. For example invention, the creation of tablets and smartphones. Those two inventions have made a lot of changes in our life and it also have a much greater technology compare to mobile phones and desktop. Those inventions are able to be created with the help of innovation. With innovation a lot of creative and unimaginable things can be invented. For example innovation, the invention of the tablet which predicted will replace computer in the year 2016. Besides that, it is also known as the key accelerator to mobility. All of this able to be achieve through the process of invention and innovation.    

2. And this one http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20071644. Ask yourself what kind of environment, situation etc., would make you to become a creative/inventive/innovative person?

Open discussion and expression! write, sing, draw, make image... 

In my opinion, I would like to have a peace environment  and calm situation to become a creative/inventive/innovation person. This because for me with a peace environment and calm situation I can easily get creative ideas and inspiration without any loud noise disturbance.An example of peace environment is like at Switzerland.

 As you can see, the view of this place is very peaceful. It can help to relax our mind to generate new creative ideas to become more innovative.

Besides that, I also believe that by observing unique building structure it also can help me to become a much creative, inventive, and innovative person. This because when we see those building we can see the artistic value, the texture, and the perspective of the building which we can help us in inventive and innovative. Example of a unique building structure are like:

Eiffel Tower at Paris.

Big Ben at London.

Tajmahal at India.

More than that, I also believe that creative and unique fashion style environment also can help to me to become more creative, inventive, and innovative person. This because as we observe those fashion styles, we can see a lot of beautiful colors, texture, and types of materials used to make it into unique and wearable design. We also can observe the invention and innovation that was applied on that design. An example I take is at the streets of Japan. There are a lot of cool and unique designs that can be seen. Here some examples :

Week 2 Assignment.

Week 2. 

 

List A - 5 words associated to 'creativity'. 

List B - 5 words not associated to 'creativity'.

 

1. Explain further, discuss (or illustrate) how/why you came out with each word/idea? Can improve from words and see where it gets you.

 

 List A :
- Idea
- Invention
- Imagination
- Innovation
- Hard work

For List A, I came up with five words that are associated with 'creative'. Which are Idea, Invention, Imagination, Innovation and Hard work. Idea is really important to show creativity. With great ideas we can enhance our creativity skills in expressing our ideas in a creative way so that it will be more interesting. 
Besides that, with creative ideas it also can help us to create a new and useful invention just from scrap or unused items. More than that, imagination also can help to show our creativity. With imagination we can thing a lot of creative things even beyond our logical mind. Innovation also play an important role in creativity because it helps us to be able to think out side the box to create some thing new and greater than before.
But among those things, the most important thing in creativity is hark work. With great hard work and countless effort a lot of great creative artworks, inventions and ideas can be created. In conclusion, with great hard work nothing is impossible.


List B :
- Not Confident
- Scared
- Plagiarism
- Copying
- Give up 

For List B, I came up with five words that are not associated with 'creative'. Which are Not Confident, Stereotype, Plagiarism, Copying and Give up. Confident is really important to become a creative individual. This because without having a high confident we are unable to express our creative ideas and creative talent to show it and express it to others. Besides that, scared is also another word which is not associated with creative. Scared come in many different ways like scared to try new things, scared of expressing new ideas and scared of failing. This examples shows that, if we are scared of those things we are scared of all those things we are unable to think, express and become creative. More than that, plagiarism is also not associated with creative. In this case, plagiarism is and act of stealing others creative ideas or artworks and clamming that those are theirs. This plagiarism is not good act to enhance our creative skills because it doesn't help us to brain storming to think of new creative ideas. Same goes to copying, by copying other people artworks or ideas without trying to improvise it, this dose not make them much creative but this will make them much more uncreative. Lastly is give up, by hard work and countless amount of effort it can help use to become much more creative. If we easily give up event without trying first, we will never ever able to improvise, think and become much more creative.        

2. Respond and reflect to the Ken Robinson 2006 Ted Talk episode on creativity education and intelligence. You can find the link at the reference note of Lecture notes for Week 2. 

 

 

Based on the video above, I believe that creative education is really important in our life but most of use does not feel the same way. Most people tend to think that creative education is not important because based on their opinion it will not help use in getting a great job and a promising future. Nowadays, most people have no interest in learning creative education. Most of them much prefer to study in much higher educational courses such as science and mathematics. This because they believe that those courses will provide them a much better future by getting a good job, rather then taking creative education which by their opinion does not provide them any future. Besides that, Sir Ken Robinson also mention a phrase by Pablo Picasso which is "every child is born an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up". In my opinion, this is true. This because when we are little kids we do a lot of creative stuff like drawing, coloring, and singing. But as we grow up like in middle school or high school, we does not have a chance and time to do creative stuff because we are busy studying of others educational subjects like science and mathematics. This blocks our creativity preventing use to be creative and think creatively.

Week 1 Assignment.

Week 1.

   1. Why did the Titanic hit the iceberg?

There are some possibilities why did the Titanic hit the iceberg. One of the possibilities is because probably because the Titanic cannot avoid from hit the iceberg because of the huge structure of the ship which hard to move fast and freely.

Besides that, another possibility that cause the Titanic to hit the iceberg is due to the structure of the iceberg which is small on the tip but large in bottom of the sea.

The boat crew thought that the ship can pass through safely without hitting the iceberg but eventually they were wrong. The bottom of the Titanic ship had crashed with the iceberg which caused the ship to sink.

 

 

       2. What is this object of curiosity? What does it do? How and why?

This object of curiosity looks like it can be used as a pencil holder which can place pencils. This because due to its stability at the bottom surface and its cylindrical shape at the middle which can be used to place the pencil. Besides that, this object of curiosity also looks like it can be used like a vase which can place flowers.  This is also due to its stability at the bottom surface and its cylindrical shape at the middle which can be used to place the flowers.

More than that, this object of curiosity also can be used as an object that can hang up dry clothes by connecting it with a long cylindrical shape of wood or plastic.

Besides that, the length of the cylindrical wood or plastic also can be increase by applying another piece of long cylindrical shape of wood or plastic to the object. By this way, more clothes can be hang up.