ASSIGNMENT 2 - FACULTY OF CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA

Faculty of Creative Multimedia

Faculty Creative Multimedia is a special faculty that it is very different from others faculty, where the course structure is unique too. It could be found only in Multimedia University (MMU) among all universities of Malaysia. Course structure included media innovation, film and animation, interface design, virtual reality and digital media; and Hollywood-style film making course will launch on 2012. These courses are different from the other universities where it does not teach only the creativity but the designing skill to fulfill the insatiable global need for information, entertainment and telecommunication by the technique of thinking, computing skills and business fundamentals. The innovations of multimedia of FCM changes constantly keep up the track of the global technologies changes. These innovations changes is the main point to keep up the trend, so FCM improving it by some events included the “FCM alpha week” to shows the result of design done by the students. In the history, the faculty of creative multimedia was the first courses that open in Cyberjaya campus. From the name of the university, we may know how important of FCM in the university. MMU is in Cyberjaya is all about the multimedia and this is also one of the reason that why Multimedia University is the top 7 university in Malaysia. The purpose of FCM have its own equipments to the students to learn about the flow of technologies in the world such as design studios, graphic labs, interactive labs, set background studio, animation labs, audio labs and so on to let the students used to know the multifunction equipment and the handiness of these equipment before they graduate. The Hollywood-style film making course is the first course launch by multimedia media among Malaysia. This course takes Multimedia University’s student to a different level of designers, due to the entertainment needs in new centuries. Content is the key to setting one from the others, so do the industries ideas. It has change from the very beginning – from traditional to modern ways, that FCM improving the syllabus each and every year. A very simple way FCM could keep up the trend through social network. Social network connect everyone from anywhere through the improvement of multimedia design, where it connects information and content as well. Lastly, MMU has obtained the name of top 7 University and first in all private University in Malaysia through the improvement and effort.

Creative Multimedia

Nowadays, creative multimedia can be seen easily anywhere. Digital, video, audio, animation, still images and texts are consider as multimedia; while in modern days, multimedia does not stands alone, but creative multimedia. The creativity of multimedia has made the global change towards a whole new era, where global people are force to follow up by new era’s atmosphere that has been surrounded by the technologies of multimedia. The product of “creativity” comes from scientific discoveries or great works of art as producing the new sense of feeling. The major theories of creativities interpreted the experience and knowledge to create a useful piece of framework. Where multimedia comes with the combination of different content forms; it act as a medium to transmit to an understandable language such a broadcasting or cinema presentation. The meaning of multimedia is taken from the invention of forty years work, the combination of text, graphic art, sound, animation and video. The innovation of multimedia has been familiar to a lot of people, where people could only see the best innovation of work because the data and information are too much, and it has been created multiply. It included all industries such as entertainment, commercial, engineering, art, advertisement or businesses consider as a part of the multimedia. The industries of 21^th centuries are moving towards another level due to multimedia. The creativity multimedia used by the industries make the economy to a new entry of modern age where it brings the economy to a peak in history. Entertainment has become one of the most popular industries where everyone would spend effort to, at the same time, it connect each other by creating a network to let everyone socialize with each other through the multimedia. This invention of creative multimedia has include the principle of design to balance the global changes, the proportion become even clearer to everyone and bring the rhythm to a new age, emphasizing point of view in everyone eyes, and unity creative multimedia with everyone. The technologies of the modern age, industries, entertainment, social and principle of design are all part of the creativity multimedia.

When we talk about creative multimedia, the first thing that came out from our mind will be media and innovation. There are a lot of colleges and universities also offered the courses which related to media and innovation such as graphic design, film and animation, media art and more. Media and innovation is already become a very important propaganda in the society, without innovation, the society will never step forward and only stay at the origin. Innovation can create things more effective and efficiency. For example the computer from the first generation until now 21st century had improved from a heavy, slow, low quality “square box” to a lighter, high speed, high definition of graphic and multi-function which make people convenient during this modern age. Besides that, innovation is also the creation of better or more effective processes, services, technologies, or ideas. Innovation is depends on the creativity of people and create something new to the society. In year 2011, Steve Jobs had created a new product and had improved the idea of the product of his company – i-Phone to the latest version i-Phone 4s which has more applications and function. It is also the top product of his company and there is always a reason for people to buy his product, they felt that i-Phone had bring up a wave of the trend and it is very convenient for the rush era. On the other hand, Steve Jobs’s ideas had create a wave of the trend causes many companies follow the trend and create something new – the smart phone, which is the combination hand phone and the idea of i-Phone. On the other hand, Japan is the most technologies countries where they the innovation of themselves and created a whole new different level from the others countries. Although mobile phone is a great inventions, but in these modern years, it is hard to transform to a higher level until i-Phone have become a popular product to the world. From the information above, it’s already proved how important of innovation could be and how it works. It is one of the important points in creative multimedia to lead people move forward and success in every industry. In additional, it is easy to improve an idea and create something new but in creative multimedia, we also have to use innovation to create something acceptable by the public; the market to achieve the aim of creative multimedia which is the ideas that must be get known and familiar by people and society. With that we only can improve our society to a more advance and more convenient in the future, even create a whole new digital modern era.

The technologies are growing fast that not a single person could keep up with the trend. The rapid increase of technologies has been discovered and predicted by David House, and it’s been call the moose’s law. The moose’s law describes as a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware that has been predicted the period of “18months” and is doubling the chip performance (the combination of effect to make transistors even faster). The transistor can’t support the invention of multimedia’s information that is created by the people themselves since a network has connected to a global, internet that are easily get the new data of one new invention or creativity. Technology is the making and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, systems. It creates an environment to everyone to make each and everything related to it, and is part of our life. It is the creativity of technologies that makes a better life style and easier work to save time. One of the main important creativity concepts for all inventors is to make multiple works at the same time. The creativity from most of the technology is to create a new matter by following the path of multimedia because multimedia has become much popular to everyone. Such as Japan, it is the most advanced countries in the world. Information age of technologies is where Japan began to separate them from the rest of the world. Japan improved created new industries like televisions, walk men and fax machines to the world. To create an easier and save more time equipment, Japan created the first emotion robotics that can understand most of the human languages and have emotion towards different situations. Although the robotics is not a great success, but the creativity give a very strong impact to global and change the world trough a future where Japan lead as the first. In addition, automobile and electronic of Japan is well known to the world. More advanced super computers are created by Japan too. This creativity of technologies brings a brighter future towards everyone and it automatically go through the track and create a whole new style of multimedia.

Moreover, we can see a big improvement with creative multimedia in film and animation. From the old time, the film is low quality, come out with black and white screen, always shoot movie at the same angle, the way that the actors play with and the effects that made in the movie is not enough realistic. Now, with the help of multimedia, film and animation had become much better. Graphic is clear and play in high definition mode, even some of the film and animation had improved to a better version which is 3 dimensional screen and awesome sound effects. This may lead audience to enjoy the realistic of the movie and feel more worthy for watching the movie. Besides that, the new generation of the animation also changed a lot, it becomes very interesting and sticks more to our real life. From the creativity of global, some of the story line for the film and animation is also brings out a lot of imagination for the audience to satisfy the desire of people towards entertainment. By the way, film and animation will improved to a more advance industry with the concept of improving creative multimedia.

Creative multimedia is very important to every industry; it is no way to success without creative multimedia. There are a few examples of industry that have been used creative multimedia for their works. One of the industries is journalism; they have used creative multimedia wisely from the olden days. The first journal is always talking about the war and government matter and this is the start of creative multimedia contact to the public. In olden days, although people create newspaper with black and white pictures and articles but it could attract people to read it and get know about it. Because of the creativity of people, the society get closer to the government and also easy get information from the other part of places by the journalism. Nowadays, global have many type of journalism and every country also have their major journalism. In Malaysia, some famous newspapers are “Berita Harian”, “Putusan Malaysia”, “The Star”, “China Press”, “Sin Chew Jit Poh”, and “Tamil Nesan”. They become so familiar to the public because of their creativity and intelligent. They are the good thinker who make changes and improve their outcome to attract more people to read and get know to their newspaper. Furthermore, there is no limited of the news reporting to the traditional outlets. Freelance journalists can make use of different new media to produce multimedia pieces for their news stories. It engages global audiences and tells stories with technology, which develops new communication techniques for both media producers and consumers. Common Language Project is an example of this type of multimedia journalism production. It is very important to create a new communication way in journalism because we have to catch up the pace of new era. Multimedia reporters who are mobile (usually driving around a community with cameras, audio and video recorders, and Wifi-equipped laptop) are often referred to as Mojos, from mobile journalist. Part to part of improvement give everyone get in touch with the news around global faster and easier by the help of journalisms, from the traditional way to a modern way.

Newspaper has become a traditional way to convey the latest news and information. Compare to the journalism, multimedia is now the famous way to convey everything. We can easily get know about the global news anytime or anywhere with the high speed internet access. Therefore, the generation now didn’t interested with the paper work anymore because they love to see nice and real things and they can get the news or spread out the news immediately with the high quality and interesting images from the web. Creative multimedia brings convenient to the global, it improved the multimedia to become a socialize community. One of the most famous recent online multimedia is Facebook. Facebook is an online socialize network, the creator of Facebook is Mark Zulgeburg, who could thinks a further vision and create it by using multimedia technologies to create a social network connecting everyone in the world. This strategy used as the same way of a product as mobile phone. Mobile phone is being used by the world where it connects everyone from anywhere and everywhere in the world. Due to the improvement of this modern era, people like entertainment more than any other things; therefore, both Facebook and mobile phone using these advantages to create entertainment on their own product. Before the production of Facebook, there were a lot of online social media try to connect to everyone, but is not as successful as Facebook, because some does not have entertainment or its not interested. So, to communize everyone by create entertainment needs of the global changes through creative multimedia is one of the best choice.

In nutshell, FCM has create a surrounded by technologies and handy equipments environment for the students to make them keep up the flow of the global changes, to improve not only the creativity, but the technique and skill to persuade and accept by the public. To create a new era and changes the world, very creative ideas are needed, so do FCM students are trained to be so. Technologies that are to keep up the global and innovation of modern era are taught to the students to make them able to create a new environment for themselves by the used of current multimedia. Students of FCM are the beginning of the new generation to make multimedia reached another peak in the 21th centuries.

RAnDOM WORd / IMaGe.. XD

Come to the last A3 exercise that we did in class,
which is a new method - RAnDOM WoRD/IMaGe.
This is quite interesting method but also a simple method which can bring us go further.
The task for this week is to Create a scary image or object that will instill fear among people throughout the ages.
"Wow!" is the first thing come to our mind,
how to create a scary image or object from a cute cute kitten????
But at the Last we also done by using our creativity and also think out of logic.
We follow step by step and understand what's the method teaching about and also had discuss among our group.
So, our works are here :-


by Ong Sim Wey


by Tiew See Ben


by Tan Chee Yung


by Tang Wai Yung


by Siyu Chen


by Wah Jia Min

After we did the Random words or Image,
we learn how to create something new by observing and imagination.
If we use this wisely,
We believe that our imagination and creativity will become stronger and stronger and not only a designer that only know the skill but also know how to think differently.

by Freedom Create Money Group

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is using two different subject to replace each other. Mostly both of the subjects are not related to each other such as abstract concepts, though it refers to physical objects. Juxtaposition is a stimulation of creativity to solve problem or design by joining the both object, and pursuit by confronting two unrelated object. The object chosen are mostly the goal or the problem to be solved taken in one hand and another hand selected randomly.

The creativity of juxtaposition also used the two concepts or objects from unfamiliar for others to make everyone familiar to it. There are some video below that show some of the photo that are unfamiliar to others and the concept or some theory that are related to juxtaposition.

David Macaulay: All roads lead to Rome Antics

He went to Rome and sketches a lot about Rome, not only how the building is, the lines, the shade, or the texture but the shadow and how their lifestyle was. He drew about scene and the situation that are happening on that time; how the historical of their culture live in their country. He even drew the details of lifestyle such as the waiters in a restaurant accidentally pour the plate of, and the top view of the city (the sky of Rome) that normally won’t draw by others.

Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights

"Seth Godin may be the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age," Mary Kuntz wrote in Business Week. Seth Godin thinks new marketing ideas in the perspective of our digital age. His speech speak the words of a digital marketing, where no one’s really care about the spam or advertising that people did not care about. People do not care about things that they see every day, because that is too common and very familiar to them. So he taught advertising the way in an unfamiliar way to make a successful marketing. One of the good examples he tells is the purple cow. If everyone saw purple cow every day, it will be familiar and bored as well.

Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good

He is Britain’s former prime minister and became one of the world’s most experienced political leaders. He also pushed for universal broadband and a general increase in spending on science. He speaks about the war or protesters that can’t be seen or hidden. He said everyone is at a unique moment in history, that we are the first generation to change and create. There are many challenges that cannot be solving with just a country alone but global together such as global climate change that need global solution; that truly needed to re-create a global society.

Three of the video above have told the concept and meaning of juxtaposition where the meanings of juxtaposition were very wide. Juxtaposition also is a visual art, most of the time people need to visualise the image to understand. The simple example of contrast side of juxtaposition such as “it’s raining, but I am not taking umbrella”; it’s an unusual conflict.

By

Tang Wai Yung

1112702882

JUXTAPOSITION 2 (CONTINUE)

Follow by last week, this week we learn about another type of juxtaposition which is create an animal that is can't survive in the world.
Besides, we also create the poem by using chilli and have to related to love.
We also have to create a poem by using mortal and pestle and have to related to man or woman.
Therefore, must think out of the box and create something really new that never seen by human before.
The task for this few week also is try to make us become more creativity and intelligent.
Below are all the output that we create in 15 minutes :-


by Tang Wai Yung



by Wah Jia Min


by Ong Sim Wey


by Siyu Chen


by Tan Chee Yung


by Tiew See Ben

Our Conclusion is ->>>
~"We had tried for many kind of animal combination and some are really cannot survive but some still can, which mean we sill have to improve ourself to become more creativity and always think out of the box the box then our design will only become very attractive and creative."~

by Freedom Create Money Group^v^

JUXTAPOSITION (ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE US THINK MORE CREATIVITY ^V^)

The another way to make us think more creativity is by the juxtaposition method.
this is also taught by our creative studies lecturer.
We feel that very lucky to have this course after this few week because the method that we learning is really useful.
This week, we are trying to create something new by using word,
the difficulty of this method is we have to throw all the logic away and think from the origin,
that we have to act as we are first time see the words.
The exercises that we had done in class may show how it's work :-


by Wah Jia Min


by Tiew See Ben


by Siyu Chen


by Tang Wai Yung


by Ong Sim Wey


by Tan Chee Yung

We will never forget what we had learnt from this week class and we strongly believe that think creativity will be very useful for our future even our life time.

By Freedom Create Money Group

Invention, innovation, novelty and creativity

Invention is a composition of novel, device, or process. It can be said as a derived from a pre-existing model or idea; and it depend on the radical breakthrough. Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience. The skill or the novel that are in the same field may not be the same invention.

“Keep it simple stupid (KISS)” is the main idea that go through all inventors, eventually it is showing the idea of “less is more”. The simpler the invention or idea, is the best. The invention must not be invented due to the inventor but to the user, where everyone knows to use it easily.

There are some of the great inventions that create use by century till present, but some have been prohibit. Any invention does not consist of bad idea or good idea, good inventors or good inventors. The invention that create is depends on different situation on some users that may be well used.

The history of the Atomic Bomb is the one of the greatest invention ever made that used in World War II. Just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt told that uranium-235 which could be used to build an atomic bomb. Over the course of six years, the formulas for refining uranium and putting together a working atomic bomb were created and seen to their logical ends by some of the greatest minds of our time.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” by Leonardo Da Vinci. His hundreds of inventions and ideas had recorded in his notebook, but nothing had been built. This book of his has languished for centuries but some said the industrial revolution was set back two centuries because his ideas were buried.

Innovation is different from invention. Innovation is the pattern that turns an unsatisfied art work better and more effective by using the original product, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself.

According to the Peter F. Drucker, the general sources of innovations are different changes in industry structure, in market structure, in local and global demographics, in human perception, mood and meaning and in the amount of already available scientific knowledge.

In other words, innovation is the creation of better products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by the society. The process by which an idea or invention is translated into a good or service for which people will pay, or something that results from this process.

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Basically, there are two types of innovation. First is to create new things, like things that can touch or hear or smell, and the other innovation is the development of new things, things that people can do. Such as computer programme, business process, biotechnology, industrial process, or even carried bricks. “Invention is the 1% inspiration, which is the easy bit; while innovation is the 99% perspiration, which is the hard bit” by Thomas Edison, where he is a great innovator. Therefore, innovation can be simplified as a simple definition, the transformation of an idea into something useful.

Innovation by businesses is achieved in many ways. One of the examples is the access of internet, where it changes over time to connect everyone from the world together. Facebook is the innovation of social network; it is the simplest linear model innovation that recreates to accept by the society.

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Novelty comes from a Latin words means “new”, it is a state of quality of being new or unusual. It could also be express as a new being of art, such as abstract art. The innovation of novelty has made a novelty in patent law, which is to claim of the priority of an invention. It is to protect the invention of the inventor or their successor in title. There are two novelty, relative novelty and absolute novelty.

Relative novelty protect the invention for 6 to 12 months in normal, absolute novelty protect the invention forever to protect from the public that are written publications, sales, or public demonstrated. Nowadays, novelty law only use by some countries.

This unusual toilet serves a dual purpose: as a waste receptacle and as an aquarium. Many people have already introduced goldfish to the toilet, but usually that happens when they die. The Fish n' Flush is an actual kit that turns your toilet tank into a living space for your pet fish an aquarium. It comes with simulated reef and real fish. Fish n' Flush is meant to create a relaxing atmosphere in the bathroom.

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The word “creativity” consist of the word create, it means to create some things new, or unique, either it is physically or mentally. The ideas of creativity come from everywhere that are rich to everyone but the creativity within them have slowly swallow up by the environment in everyday life. When we are still a child, we think everything is possible and create things that are different from the others, although some are not effective, but the idea comes from oneself.

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Before children start their school, what they know is what they see or hear or taste is the world of them and the creativity beneath them are unlimited; but when they start school, they will learn what is correct and what is wrong, that is what kills their creativity. Anything we could see is an idea or a creation either by Mother Nature or man made. When children try to avoid mistake, their creativity has going down; therefore, the patterns of everyday life has become 1 of the main reasons that kills people creativity.

by Tang Wai Yung

1112702882

The mind map of CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA and MIND MAPPING AND THINKING.

The mind maps are made by me and Tang Wai Yung.Acually this is a normal mind map but i make it colourful without the topic but its useful for the creative multimedia and mind mapping and thinking.

~ AFTER MORTAL & PESTLE ~

After done the exercises of the Portal & Pestle, Our lecture let us to think more creativity and widely by using different things to invented something new.
The thing that we choose for our FREEDOM CREATE MONEY group was "TIN".



This is the mind map that we had create after we choose the subject to invent.^v^
After that, everyone of us had create something new with our own idea.
Our Works :-


by Tang Wai Yung


by Wah Jia Min


by Ong Sim Wey ^u^


by Siyu Chen ^v^


by Tiew See Ben ^u^

After we done all the things,
we know how to think more creativity and know how to get more idea from a subject.
This are the powerful of creativity,
it is not only can learnt from drawing but also thinking. >u<

PORTAL & PESTLE ^O^

by Siyu Chen


by Tan Chee Yung


by Wah Jia Min


by Ong Sim Wey


by Tiew See Ben


by Tang Wai Yung

We learnt to To Think more widely and use another way by invented something new with the mortal and pestle.
Those below are the exercises that we had in our Creative Studies class with our lecturer.
Besides, we also learnt from the others, some of the idea was really awesome and creative.
We may use this way to improve out thinking also.

By Tang Wai Yung, Tiew See Ben, Ong Sim Wey, Wah Jia Min, Tan Chee Yung, Siyu Chen

creAtiVitY???tHinKinG???

BelieVe... thAt w3 arE Sup3r CreAtive....



Sources from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Bx7ADx1XI

When i finished watching this video,
I' m totally agree with it which is creativity is start from believe..
It make me think about the lecture gave by our lecturer last time
:"My child look out of my car's window and said 'Dad! You see! The cloud looks like a dragon!', that time I was just thinking that, why I didn't notice that the cloud looks like dragon but my son did?" and then my lecturer continue and said:"It's just because adults always think of too many things and scare of too many things,and this make us become not creativity anymore. For the child, they just do what they think, they just do what they want. We should do so."

Yes, we all are creativity when we are born and why should we reduce our creativity, our imagination when we growing up? We should keep improve our mind and creativity and should believe that we can make it always.
Everything is possible if you trust on yourself and said ' I can do it!' for yourself then you will done it very well, just believe that you are creativity.



Sources From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdlBJ-q-4JE

Creativity is to create something new to change our life, to make our life simple and to improve the quality of life.

♥ Creativity can let us communicate. (Phone, Computer, Laptop, Msn, Facebook...)
♥ Creativity can be conserve. (Cars, Natural Energy...)
♥ Creativity can make us captivate into something. (Movie, Games, Camera, Photo shooting...)
♥ Creativity can make us comfortable. (House, Chairs...)
♥ Creativity can make us uncomfortable and cause tragedy. (Guns, Talks...)
♥ Creativity can let us define a nation. (Buildings, City...)
♥ Creativity can define a generation. (Movie, advertisement, Games, Animation...)
♥ Creativity can open a mind. (Drawing, Thinking...)
♥ Creativity can transform...
♥ Creatuvity... ... ...

So we may know how many things can do with creativity.

And there are still a lot of things that haven't find out from creativity...

And this will be done by us - The New Generation.

Thinking Initiators

Sources From : http://www.i-learnt.com/Thinking_What_is_2A.html

The above is all about the initiators of thinking.
There are still a lot of thinking initiators such as arts.
The thinking initiators is very important to let us improve our thinking and mind, we cant walk forward without improve our mind our thinking.



Sources From : http://www.i-learnt.com/Thinking_What_is_2A.html

Thinking is the main thing from everything, we cant do anything if we don't think.
i believe that everything is start from THINKING...

By,
ONG SIM WEY
1112701901

Creativity vs Critical Thinking

Brain are divided by left and right that are logic(Left Brain) and creative(Right Brain). This both part of the brain are very important, it helps us to think, create new things, solve problem, etc. Without left brain, we are only a thinker that won't do anythings and keep on thinking living in a unrealistic world. Without right brain, we only live on our 5 sensors(see, hear, touch, taste, and smell), and won't think of doing something better.

Creativity could be art, when we design something new, think of a solution, create new technology and evolution is creative that make us moving to a future. There's a quote told by a celebrity of how to be creative, "the secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your source - Albert Einstein" He create a lot of things, and make new theory and concept that no one dare to think of it. He dare to think creatively and solve his own question by thinking critically. When both creativity and think critically join together, something new will come out, either the new things is bad or good, it is an invention, a creation.

As my opinion, both creativity and critical thinking are very important. Think critically can help us reflect on uncertainty and response things even faster; and creativity that can make us think of many uncertainty, so we could solve it before it even exist.

Tang Wai Yung(1112702882)

Creativity And Thinking :)

CREATIVITY && THINKING ...^^



Sources From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A3IM06xgr0


Sir James Dyson has reinvented the fan!
He had apply his creativity on the old type of fan.He has reinvented a fan that do no need the leaf for the fan and will produce more air flow to keep us cooler without the dangerous blade.The idea of creating this special fan derives from the jet air hand dryer .This shows he is able to think critically of a common design to create a new design.







Sources From : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpPspvRUCHw

Creativity can be an art.It depends on how you look at it and which angle are you looking at.
Since the time of socrates and aristotle ,a human kind has been using the power of creativity to resolve human needs and problems .Some people use creativity to fulfill their ecstatic needs.Example of such people are Van Gogh and Leonardo Davinci.
Besides,creativity is for us to create something new.To be creative,we must change the way we see the world and start creating new combination. We can keep all the new ideas relevant by keep thinking with all the information that we have.We should always combine everything we know with everything we know to create something that we don't know or something that we have dreamed of. We are able to think because we have knowledge or information. Where we get our information and knowledge? It all come from books,internet and school. Moreover we also get our information and knowledge via our eyes,nose,ears,tongue,and also skin. All the information are stored in fixed pattern in our brain.Therefore,all thinking works in the exact same patterns. For example, if we see a frog, we will automatically know that the frog is green colour , it lives in pond catching flies. That is what thinking had tie our mind with but Creativity is about thinking freely, like a frog could be anything and a frog is not just a frog. So we have to break all the boundaries in our mind. Creativity is pure freedom of thinking.



By,
Wah Jia Min
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1.Creativity takes time and silent space. Each creative talent needs to stake out some quiet time regularly. You can schedule time daily or a couple of days a week. This needs to be an appointment and commitment you keep with yourself. 2.There are cycles of creativity. Just as there are seasons in a year and cycles in preparing, planting, nurturing, waiting and harvesting there are creative cycles. We are not always in the harvesting phase. We do go through the dormant cycles of winter that feel as though nothing is happening. We complete the cycle and move into the planting and harvesting phases. 3.Select mentors, friends and dream partners wisely. "Don't expect anyone to be happy for your success or big dreams. If you have a loved one and a friend or two who are happy for you, consider yourself lucky." Other people can stop or delay your project or idea before you even act on it. So select your creative team carefully. Remain friends with lots of people but when it comes to working creatively, choose like minds and train them to be honest and unconditionally constructive.4.Commit to yourself. Many people feel guilty when they take the time to engage in their projects. It may mean leaving something undone, not over committing and saying no. In a study of women and creativity the biggest fear was fear of lost or weakened relationships. People still need to be connected. This may mean speaking with friends, lovers and children about staying connected and nurtured during this process. 5.Set strong boundaries. "I say no to many things, so that I may say 'Yes!' to what gives me life." We need strong boundaries so hat we have energy and time for our creations. 6.Work from your strengths. If you were to spend 80% of your effort to become good at a weakness you might improve that area 20%. But if you were to spend that same 80% of your effort to improve an area of atrength. you may improve your strengths 100-400% or more! 7.Fear is a companion of creativity. Make friends with fear. Unless you have a high risk, thrill seeking personality you will experience fear when you venture out into unfamiliar territory. It's OK to pause, look at it, slow down for a moment. However, do NOT let it stop you! Feel the fear and continue! The only way to lessen fear is to do the things we are most afraid of. We are always in a higher state of emotional arousal when we try something new. Expect fear, redefine fear as performance energy and move on. 8.Stop criticising yourself. We can defeat ourselves before we start by constantly feeling we come up short. When you try something new always stay positive about your performance. Yes, you can polish it and improve, but you don't have to make yourself 'wrong' to make something better. 9.Get over perfectionism. When you have to do something perfectly, you will rarely try something new because you can't do it perfectly the first few times. Yes do great work, but don't hold onto it until it's perfect. By the time it's perfect, it'll probably be outdated anyway. 10.Play, have fun, feel joyful, get in the energy flow. Creativity is about play, fun and flow. When you lose track of time and have boundless energy, doing the thing you love, you know you've found your highest creative expression.

10 Secrets of Creativity

1.Creativity takes time and silent space.

Each creative talent needs to stake out some quiet time regularly. You can schedule time daily or a couple of days a week. This needs to be an appointment and commitment you keep with yourself.

2.There are cycles of creativity.

Just as there are seasons in a year and cycles in
preparing, planting, nurturing, waiting and harvesting there are creative cycles. We are not always in the harvesting phase. We do go through the dormant cycles of winter that feel as though nothing is happening. We complete the cycle and move into the planting and harvesting phases.

3.Select mentors, friends and dream
partners wisely.

"Don't expect anyone to be happy for your success or big dreams. If you have a loved one and a friend or two who are happy for you, consider yourself lucky." Other people can stop or delay your project or idea before you even act on it. So select your creative team carefully. Remain friends with lots of people but when it comes to working creatively, choose like minds and train them to be honest and unconditionally constructive.

4.Commit to yourself.

Many people feel guilty when they take the time to engage in their projects. It may mean leaving something undone, not over committing and saying no. In a study of women and creativity the biggest fear was fear of lost or weakened relationships. People still need to be connected. This may mean speaking with friends, lovers and children about staying connected and nurtured during this process.

5.Set strong boundaries.

"I say no to many things, so that I may say 'Yes!' to what gives me life." We need strong boundaries so hat we have energy and time for our creations.

6.Work from your strengths. If you were to spend 80% of your effort to become good at a weakness you might improve that area 20%. But if you were to spend that same 80% of your effort to improve an area of atrength. you may improve your strengths 100-400% or more!

7.Fear is a companion of creativity.

Make friends with fear. Unless you have a high risk, thrill seeking personality you will experience fear when you venture out into unfamiliar territory. It's OK to pause, look at it, slow down for a moment. However, do NOT let it stop you! Feel the fear and continue! The only way to
lessen fear is to do the things we are most afraid of. We are always in a higher state of emotional arousal when we try something new. Expect fear, redefine fear as performance energy and move on.

8.Stop criticising yourself.

We can defeat ourselves before we start by constantly feeling we come up short. When you try something new always stay positive about your performance. Yes, you can polish it and improve, but youdon't have to make yourself 'wrong' to make something better.

9.Get over perfectionism. When you have to do something perfectly, you will rarely try something new because you can't do it perfectly the first few times. Yes do great work, but don't hold onto it until it's perfect. By the time it's perfect, it'll probably be outdated anyway.

10.Play, have fun, feel joyful, get in the energy flow.

Creativity is about play, fun and flow. When you lose track of time and have boundless energy, doing the thing you love, you know you've found your
highest creative expression.

Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking Skills

Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking Skills
Scott Isaksen's and Donald Treffinger's critical thinking and creative thinking model.

By Mary Bellis adapted from materials written by the USPTO

Creative Problem Solving Model
The third model developed by Scott Isaksen and Donald Treffinger as described in the book "Creative Problem Solving: The Basic Course (1985) by Isaksen and Treffinger" and published in Buffalo, New York, by Bearly Limited, also describes both critical thinking and creative thinking. Creative thinking is described as making and communicating connections to: think of many possibilities; think and experience in various ways and use different points of view; think of new and unusual possibilities; and guide in generating and selecting alternatives. Critical thinking is described as analyzing and developing possibilities to: compare and contrast many ideas; improve and refine ideas; make effective decisions and judgments; and provide a sound foundation for effective action. These definitions are used in a six-stage, problem-solving process. A brief description of each of the six stages follows:

1. Mess Finding: Just what's the mess that needs cleaning up, the situation that demands our attention? We have to identify and acknowledge this first before we can proceed.
2. Data Finding: Once the general mess is defined, the next stage involves "taking stock"--unearthing and collecting information, knowledge, facts, feelings, opinions, and thoughts to sort out and clarify your mess more specifically. What do you know about the situation, and what do you still need to know?
3. Problem Finding: Now that your data is collected, you need to formulate a "problem statement" that expresses the "heart" of the situation. You must try to put aside the common assumption that you "already know what the problem is" and try to state the problem in such a manner as to invite novel perspectives on it.
4. Idea Finding: This is the state in which you brainstorm as many ideas or alternatives as possible for dealing with your problem statement. Don't evaluate your ideas at this point, merely list them as an idea pool from which you'll draw in putting together a variety of solutions to your problem.
5. Solution Finding: Now that you have a number of ideas that can serve as possible solutions to your problem, it's time to evaluate them systematically. To do this you have to generate a variety of criteria and select the most important for your problem. Is it cost? expediency? pleasure? time involvement? etc. In this way, you'll be able to identify and evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of possible solutions.
6. Acceptance Finding: Having decided upon a solution, it's time to formulate a plan of action to implement your solution. Determine what kind of help you'll need, what obstacles or difficulties might get in the way, and what specific short- and long-term steps you are going to take to rid yourself of that original mess!

(http://inventors.about.com/library/lessons/bl_isaksen_treffinger.htm)

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Self's comment:
This is an article is about the way that think criticaly and creativity.Two different kind of world but have the similar way to solve problem.But the different is,critical thinking must be logic and prefect example a biology exam or an accident.The creative thinking is to think creativity and have an idea that people will not think about it.No matter it is critical thinking or creative thinking,the most important is the presentation.