Lesson 2: Novelty, Innovation, Creativity and Invention

INNOVATION, defines as the improvement from the existance product with new ideas. The video belows is about the I-phone, which changes from a normal cell phone into a multi-functional phone.





NOVELTY, defines as the quality of being new (taken from Wikipedia). The example that I would like to show is the HDR pictures.





HDR or High Dynamic Range is a new technique which is popular among photographers. To create HDR picture, photographer needs to get the images between the lightest and the darkest.

CREATIVITY, defines as the ability to invent new thing. The only thing that can reminds me about creativity is AVATAR, a 3D movie by James Cameron. It is a movie that clearly shows that how creative that James Cameron could be.

Reference: Video taken from http://www.youtube.com/
Picture taken from google pictures.

Lesson 2: Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

Class Exercise: Creating Image of Public Figure


JAMES CAMERON



James Cameron is a well-known director and born in Canada, 1954. His directed many movies in Hollywood, for example, Titanic, The Terminator and Avatar which received many positives feedback from the viewers.

Some of his characteristics are:

Able to invent something new- In his previous movies, you can find that the ideas are totally different from what we can see in daily lives.

Patient- In order to produce a quality movie, he spends years to create the movie Avatar.

Perfectionist- You are hard to critisize his movies because they are edited well and able to amaze viewers.

Sensitive to the social issues- In his latest movie, Avatar, the message that he tries to carry out is violence, love and peace.

Lesson 1: Defining CREATIVITY

I found a very interesting idea from internet and wish to share to everyone.
The artwork is created by Elliot Mariess and her colleauges, a group project on waste.









































As shown in the picture, the artists have made use of the plastics spoon and folks to build the skeleton. Why the artists chose to use human skeleton as their reference? The only answer is the skull and skeleton represent death. This picture brings a strong message that our lives will be in danger if we continue to create wastes. It catches viewers' attention easily when look at the artwork, hopefully the viewers are more aware when dealing with wastes.

Pictures taken from: http://www.behance.net/gallery/waste/442654

Lesson 1: Defining CREATIVITY

Creativity can be defined as the ability to generate a new idea. In the class, the lecturer has shown few examples that how people use their creativity and invent new stuff which bring benefits to the society.

I have create an image for my friend, Gihan Baratha.















I choose his face with a smile, to represent that he is a positive guy.
The rays behind his back show that he always give the positive energy to his friends.
He is very friendly and likes to help people to solve their problem, so I hope that the picture above can represent his characteristics.

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