Creative Cars

So have you seen this care on the road at your place before? No right? Well this is what we called creative design in automobile. This picture is specially designed just to attract the public attention. It has the design of a huge mouth at the front area of the car and when it's closed it will look like just a normal car. Why this type of cars are seldom found on the road? This is because not everyone are interested to design something out of the box. They would rather keep it to it's original design. Besides, I think this car is creative because it can attracts the attention on the road. It makes them feel that they are the only owner that has this kind of car on the road.

This is another image of a car with a unique design in a creative way. I feel this car is creative because it has the design of a pyramid at the especially at the roof top area and if it looks from far, it's like the shape of a box. So this will attracts the public's attention by looking at this car. Besides, not only the body shape is creative, but also the front light of the car is creative because the light of the car looks more like a torchlight and maybe this design is more convenient to the driver itself. Maybe the light is so much brighter than the normal car. Not only that, this car is also capable to fit 1 person only that is the driver itself. So the car will be lighter and it can move faster than a normal car. On the other hand, in my opinion this car is designed not only creative but it can change the design of a motorcycle in a better way. This will reduce the amount of motorcycles and at the same time reduce the amount of motorcycle accidents.

This is also a creative car with a futuristic design. I like the design because it gives me the impression of an elegance car and when it is driven on the road, sure all eyes will looking at me. Besides, the design is aerodynamic so that it can move even faster than an ordinary car and it will save more fuel in the future.

This is a design from BMW Auto Bavaria that it doesn't look like a car but it is a car. I call this car creative because the design is not look like a car but it is a car. So it gives the public an impression of a creative design that will impress them. So this will attract them to purchase their products and at the same increase their reputation.

In conclusion, this is four images is mainly the reason why it is design in this way and it has the element of creative into design that will guide them to design more and better design in the future.

Mind Maps

The way where we can create a mind map from that is using creative thinking. Therefore creative thinking is divided into two sections: divergent thinking and convergent thinking.

Divergent Thinking
A thought process of method used to generate new creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. It is often used in conjunction with convergent thinking, which follows a particular set of logical steps to arrive at one decided solution. Besides, it typically occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing manner, at the end that ideas are generated in a random. Many possible solutions are explored in a short time so unexpected connections are drawn away. So ideas and information are organized and structured using convergent thinking.

This is an example mind map of how the
method of divergent thinking is used and generated.

Convergent Thinking
This method a term coined by Joy Paul Guilford as the opposite of divergent thinking. It means convergent is the ability to give the correct answer to a standard question that do not require significant creativity. For example in most task either in school or on standardized multiple-choice tests for intelligence.

This image shows how convergent thinking method is used
in providing information.



Mind Mapping

Introduced by Tony Buzan and mind mapping is a great tool for generating ideas and brainstorm at the same time. It will enhance the both sides of the human brain and widely used in jotting down notes, doing research and generating new ideas. Therefore a creative Mind Map is able to stimulate and create interest to the individual and also to the viewer.

Logical Mind Map

Based on Wikipedia.com, a logical mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central keyword or idea. Mind map is used to explore and develop ideas for a specific problem, use it to think, take notes during discussion and summarize books and papers. We can identify, prove and understand the structure of a subject. Mind maps encourage creative problem solving, summarizing information, and thinking through a complex or difficult problems.

Associated Mind Map

It is a mind map that enables us to generate a random words out of a thousand words for example and also show the links between the words that seemingly totally have no connections with each other. The human brain is very different from a computer, whereas a computer works only in a linear fashion, but the brain works associatively as well as linearly in comparing, integrating and synthesizing as it goes.Association plays a dominant role in nearly every mental function, and words themselves are no exception.

Stereotype

A stereotype is a commonly held public belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. The concept of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings. Therefore, stereotypes are standardized and simplified conception of groups based on some prior assumptions. Stereotypes are not based on objective truth but rather on subjective and sometimes unverifiable content-matter. In another word, stereotype is also a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified on conception, opinion




Well, this a simple mind map about myself. Even though i arranged it not according to order, but yet you can start to view it according to you because no matter where you start, it will give you the same information. As you see the mind map, I have only stated three parts that represents myself that is About Me, Personality and Interest.
So when I started to do this mind map, firstly I will gather all the information about myself. Then after choosing the best points that represents me more, I will group it into a smaller group so this time will be lesser points. After tat, I search for images that represent my characteristics and start to design my mind map. The reason why I arranged like that is because it won't look messy and it is easier to read even from a far distance. At the end, I inserted images that has the same meaning with the points so it won't make my mind map looks boring with words only. In conclusion this mind map is all about myself and it looks very simple compare to other mind maps.

Disadvantages of Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.

Most traditional communications media, such as telephone and television services, are reshaped or redefined using the technologies of the Internet, giving rise to services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and IPTV. Newspaper publishing has been reshaped into Web sites, blogging, and web feeds. The Internet has enabled or accelerated the creation of new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking sites.



As we all know, internet provides us with a lot of information for us from all over the world. For example, we can get the latest news about what is happening around the world and it's updated. So we won't be left out from what is happening around us. Therefore, internet news are more faster than other social media. Besides that, media such as facebook or twitter can also provide us the latest news on what is happening. For example, if we have any latest news to share with everyone, we can post it at our wall so that anyone that is interested can see it.



On the other hand, internet not only has it's advantages, it also has disadvantages that will make other people misunderstand about an issue. For example, like what is happening around us now, as we know we can get the latest news from internet sites but there are a few people who like to vandalize it by creating own story to satisfy the readers. For example, there is a person who creates national news at websites and there people who really believes it. This is because there no protection on websites where it can blocks unknown writers from posting any unwanted news at the websites.

In conclusion, i do not often believe what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it because I had experience it for the first time where i receive news from my friends at facebook where they wrote there will be a earthquake happening in an hour time. So i was really into that news until I believe it that it will really happen in that period time. But after that one hour, I don't feel any effects of earthquake so I asked my friends why there are no earthquakes. Therefore they answered, they got the news from an unknown person but not the official news website. So from that time onwards I realize that I was being cheated by an unknown person. So in the coming time, we must not believe what news that is on the internet unless it is checked properly. If not we will be the victim of misunderstanding.

Pika Pika (Stop Motion Video)

PIKA PIKA

Stop motion is a video that uses a light source such as touch light and when the light source is moved then it will formed an alphabet or icon. Stop motion or also known as stop action or frame-by-frame is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on it's own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Therefore, the frames of the stop motion will only be captured using a digital camera or the most common is Digital Single Lense Reflex camera (DSLR).

Pika-pika or in another word 'Light Writing' is an emerging form of stop motion animation wherein still images are captured using the technique known as Light painting or light drawing are put in sequence thereby creating the optical illusion of movement for the viewer.


So this is the procedure how the Pika Pika is done: by sequencing skills taken with 4-30 seconds exposure as lights are moved in and through the frame this effects creates the optical illusion that the light is moving. Zoom, pans, tilts, and most other motion camera techniques can be applied with standard stop motion approaches. The most common technique is to capture multiple second exposures of light moving from one point to another in the frame. As the sequence is built the beginning and ending points of the lights motion can be moved along a given path.

In other words, light writing is most akin to another term of stop motion animation known as direct manipulation animation. A series of long exposure photograph of people waving around lights are combined to create very cool abstract animation, bringing happiness to all.

These are the few examples of Pika-pika that is uploaded at the website.

This video was awarded the Pika-pika 2007

This is a pika-pika that filmed at Kanagawa, Japan

Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention.

Novelty
What is novelty? Novelty is the quality of being something new. Some said that it may have an dimension but it only exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals. The objective is to create something that is new for all humanities in its development through ages. Therefore it's originality is not a decisive feature of creative work and is always based on what has been created before. Then the concept of novelty should not be taken for granted and the three elements that is levels, aspects and types should be distinguished. A historical approach implies that it is understood in either terms of contrast with a context and transformation of what was borrowed. the tendency for performance to initially improve when new technology is instituted, not because of any actual improvement in learning or achievement, but in response to increased interest in the new technology.The increased attention by students sometimes results in increased effort or persistence, which yields achievement gains. If they are due to a novelty effect, these gains tend to diminish as students become more familiar with the new medium.


Creativity
Creativity is the process of generating something that is new and has value at the same time. Even there are many new ideas and concepts, but some may not have value and may not be considered creative. Therefore, a creation is something that is original and has value on it. (Haggins, 1995, p 3) Creativity does not happen inside people's head. but happens in the interaction between a person's thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic phenomenon compare to individual phenomenon. (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996, p 23) However this issue has surrounded a mysterious process that causes sparked discussion and arguments among scholars of psychologist. Creativity involves translation of our unique gifts, talents and vision into an external reality that is new and useful and it takes place unavoidably inside our own personal, social, and cultural boundaries. Furthermore, creativity can be identified based on a particular, specifiable features of products or persons thought or thought process. The ways in which societies have perceived the concept of creativity has changed thought out history, has the term itself. Renaissance men sought to give voice to their sense of their freedom and creativity. The first to apply the word "creativity," however, was the 17th-century Polish poet Maciej Karzimierez Sarbiewski — but he applied it only to poetry. In the 19th century, art took its revenge: now not only was art recognized as creativity, but it alone was. When later, at the turn of the 20th century, there began to be discussion as well of creativity in the sciences and in nature, this was taken as the transference, to the sciences and to nature, of concepts that were proper to art.

Innovation
The definition is to bring in new ideas or make changes on the ideas created. (Oxford Dictionary) In another meaning, innovation is the process of making improvements by introducing something new, the realization of a creative idea in a social context or a process where an idea or invention is translated into a good or service for which people will pay. Therefore an idea must be replicable at an economical cost and satisfy a specific need. Although many innovations are created from inventions, it is possible to innovate without inventing, and to invent without innovating.

Innovation are divided into two broad categories:
1) Innovations are brought by numerous incremental advances in technology or processes and are of two types:
a) Continuous innovations in an alteration in product characteristics instead of in a new
product, and do not require any user-learning of changes in his/her routine. Examples,
multi-blade shaving razor, fluoride toothpaste and laptop computer.
b) Dynamic continuous require some user-learning but do not disrupts his/her routine.
Examples, fax machines, instant photography, and hand held computers.
2) Revolutionary innovations require good deal of user-learning, and often disrupts his/her routine, and may even require new behavior patterns. Examples, photocopy machines, personal computers and even internet.

Considerable literature has been produced on this hypothesis, which is often presented in terms of the effects of wage increases as an encouragement to labor-saving innovation. The hypothesis has also been applied to viewing increases in energy costs as a motivation for a more rapid improvement in energy efficiency of goods than would normally occur.

Invention
An invention is a new process or composition that creates a new item. Invention is a very creative process. It derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived in which may be a radical breakthrough.In addition, there is cultural invensions which is an innovative set from useful social behaviors adopted by people and passed on to others. Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience. Invention are something new created by inventors who take existing knowledge and generate new ideas or in other word invention is an open and curious mind enables one to see beyond what is known to enable inventors to think outside the box. Invention has a long and important history in the arts. Inventive thinking has always played a vital role in the creative process. While some inventions in the arts are patentable, others are not because they cannot fulfill the strict requirements governments have established for granting them.


Well from my experience as an art student, I can say that every design or drawing that is related to my course are required to fulfill all the required skill stated. This is due to once all the four skills is used then a good n creative design is created or invented. For example, during my foundation year at FCM Multimedia, I was required to produce an artwork that is about myself and have to do it as creative as possible so it is not wrong when in the starting there is not much ideas generated because ideas don't come instantly. Therefore with intensive thinking, more and more new ideas is created and finally I can produce a creative artwork about myself. This is the pictures of my artwork from the beginning until the finishing.

This is first drawing with just a rough idea
about myself.

After ideas is generated from the first painting,
the drawings become more detail.

This is the final design after the details about me is
transformed into paintings that represents the same meaning.

Are Bloggers Journalist??

Well, I can say that a big portion of people in the community are wondering about this issue which is 'Are Bloggers Can be Consider as a Journalist'?? Actually bloggers are people who always writes a blog or weblog and comments other people's blog. While journalists are people who collects and disseminates information about up to date events,people, trends and issues. Therefore, his/her work is acknowledged as journalism. Journalist is a career and who have received professional education and training, have responsibilities, and have certain skills

One example of journalist are reporters. Their responsibilities are creating reports aas a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines and the internet. Besides reporters, columnist is also known as one of the journalist who writes pieces that appear regularly in newspapers or magazines. Some journalist adhere to the to the standards and norms expressed in the Society of Professional Journalist ethical code. Therefore most of practicing journalist are concern about about the issue of maintaining credibility.



On the other hand, bloggers plays a similar role compare to journalist. Usually bloggers will post about what they think or feels about a something. Then anyone can be a blogger by just registering their names at the websites. Bloggers do not need to be well educated such as have good language but they have the freedom to write whatever that suits them. They can even post blogs in multiple languages until they feel comfortable with it. Currently there are many websites that can be used by bloggers to post their articles.



So are bloggers considered as journalist?? Actually I feel that bloggers have the same characteristics with journalist but they are not in the same field. Bloggers are actually people who like to express their feelings, thought or maybe even telling people about something new. They don't even care about whether is it true or not or maybe it's just a myth. Usually bloggers intention is to let other people know what he/she is thinking or planning to do. They don;t even care if the post they blog will hurt other people feelings or maybe will create a chaos. This is because there are many useless people who like to act as 'anonymous' or 'unknown' and post bad
comments or critics about their post and makes the bloggers wondering who is he/she. Therefore for the long run, it creates a bad impression to other people on that specific post until government can't do anything about it. They can just watch the problem happens. Besides that, journalist differs with bloggers. They are assigned to create blogs or articles about what is happening around us and all of it totally relates to common sense. Even most of the article is a true by the sense it really happens in the real world. Therefore, most of the comments from outsiders are good and there a less majority of bad comments. On the other hand, people who like to be 'spoilers' or 'anonymous' to damage people's comments or blogs about something they don't like. Therefore, the government or relevant authorities should take deep action on this matter. If not it will be a disaster for the bloggers and maybe will effect the journalist in the future because they are in the same field. For example, both of their working field are the same that is writing articles or blogs that is related to the surroundings. Just that the articles they post are slightly different.

Besides that, journalist is career that receive professional training in education and communication skills so do professional bloggers. Actually they do have careers that makes them professional bloggers. Not like newbie bloggers who like to post blogs that is not related to their life at all because from what I saw in most blogs, they like to give bad comments about someone they don't like or hate then it will create a mass chaos and misunderstanding. This shows that bloggers are not well educated in moral values and language where they can use not proper language in writing their blogs. It will effects their future when they start communicating with other people in the outside world. I suggest that journalist should be an example to all bloggers because journalist have limitation in such as bound to the rules or can't post sensitive issues that will hurt others feelings.

In conclusion, not everyone will think that bloggers are not journalist. The problem is how each
different individual look into this matter. Maybe some will think bloggers have more freedom in creating blogs and journalists not or maybe is another way round. Furthermore regarding the language problem and moral value, if government or related authorities doesn't take serious action about this, in the long run will affect the young ones in the future because they are the future leaders in the community. If they are not well mannered from small, then sooner the whole community will be full of not professional peoples and criminals.

Defining Creativity

Creativity

There are many definition of creativity stated in black and white. So the main definition is the generation of new ideas or a new way of doing things. In another meaning, creativity is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them that is from thought into reality. The original process involves original thinking and then producing it. The process of creation was historically reserved for deities creating "from nothing" in Creationism and other creation myths. Over time, the term creativity came to include human innovation, especially in art and science and led to the emergence of the creative class. In order to be creative, we must be able to view things in new ways of from a different perspective. Among other things, you need to be able to generate new possibilities or new alternatives.
Tests of creativity measure not only the number of alternatives that people can generate but the uniqueness of those alternatives, the ability to generate alternatives or to see things uniquely does not occur by change; it is linked to other, more fundamental qualities of thinking, such as flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity or unpredictability, and the enjoyment of things.

So i would like to share with you all about one of my friend that I think is creative and has the creativity mind to me.


This is Howard Tai. He is my friend and also my roommate at the same time since my foundation year. He is 22 years old this year and studies in Film and Animation. Why I think that he is creative? Because of his look? Or his apprearence? That is all wrong. Do you ever seen people holding a camera and keep snapping pictures everywhere? No right? Well this friend mine likes to take his DSLR camera everywhere he goes and start taking pictures that he thinks is nice and brings meaning to him. If for some people, they will think that is useless and is a waste of time. Whenever he goes out whether is for meals, outing with friends or etc. he will takes his camera along with him also. Besides, he also likes to carry his bag pack wherever he goes. Even though sometimes it has nothing inside it but he still carries it whenever he goes. Most of his friends feels weird with his action for doing so but i don't think is weird and at the same time is creative because taking photograph is a creative way to sharpen the photography skills and can be different with other people.

This is an example of him taking photos after dinner
at Old Town, Cyberjaya.

This is another picture of him taking an insects
at the school corridor.

Another picture of him holding his camera at
at the river side during a camping activity.

This is a picture of him holding his camera and
bag pack at the same time.

In conclusion, creativity is defined as the ability to see something in a new way, to see and solve problems no one else may know it exists, and to engage in mental and physical experiences that are new, unique, or different. So i feel that my friend here uses the method of creativity in changing his lifestyle to a better one.