Rube Goldberg's Work - Very Creative and Inspirational!

I think that it demonstrates creativity really well because it is something different and needs a lot of imagination, resourcefulness, inspiration and originality in order to work effectively. It is good because Rube Goldberg’s concept has been used in advertising (Honda advert) because it is different and people recognize his work because of the originality and inspiration. A theory that contrasts to his work is ‘‘Technology has taken all the creativity out of media production’’ because adaptations and inspired ideas have included technology to make them more inventive (such as the Honda Advert whereby it uses cogs and gears, bearing and other mechanical parts of a car). This makes the advert more memorable and has a greater chance of selling the car. Another contrasted quote is ‘‘A project that is too well planned lacks opportunities for spontaneity and creativity.’’ Goldberg’s work contrasts this because in order for the idea to work, a lot of planning had to go into it in order for it to work successfully. However, it may be supported when ‘trial and error’ is used because the invention may not work the first time and so the designer makes changes to aspects and sees if that works – until they gain a successful idea.

Quotes about Creativity - Just Someone's Opinion?

Creating a CD Cover - With Limits on Creativity

The trick is you have to create it from 'found' materials, again following a set of rules.
1. Generate a name for your band by using WikiPedia's random page selector tool, and using the first article title on whichever page pops up. No matter how weird or lame that band name sounds.
2. Generate an album title by cutting and pasting the last four words of the final quote on whichever page appears when you click on the quotationspage's random quote selector tool. No matter what those four words turn out to be.
3. Finally, visit Flickr's Most Interesting page -- a random selection of some of the interesting things discovered on Flickr within the last 7 days -- and download the third picture on that page. (Even better: Click on this link to get a Flickr photo that's licensed under Creative Commons.) Again -- no cheating! You must use the photo, no matter how you feel about it.
4. Using Photoshop (or whatever method you prefer), put all of these elements together and create your very own CD cover.

Name Generated by 'WikiPedia': Rock Rabbit
Album Title Generated by 'QuotationsPage': Don't Fool With It

Final Product:

The decisions that were made for me was the Name of the Artist, Name of the Album and the Image used for the CD Cover. The only thing that I did have freedom with was the Font Style, Size, Colour and the Positioning of the Text.

Section A

I think that the set menu of tasks has had both advantages and disadvantages to my use of creativity in both of my coursework pieces. An advantage to having a set task with the music video is it allowed me to have a key focus point with my research and planning and meant that theories and narrative structures of music videos were easily taught to the whole class and so my vision of the whole task could be structured better. It also allowed me to extend my imagination because before the music video coursework’s research and planning, I had not really taken a massive interest in music videos and so my knowledge was developed further because I could apply my interest in film narratives to narratives in music videos.
   However, the disadvantage to having the set task of a music video was that the use of equipment for more creative shots (such as aerial shots or tracking) were not available because I didn’t have a large budget to purchase equipment and time constraints on the project meant that actually constructing the equipment cheaply was not possible. This disadvantage with the time constrains also applies to my AS coursework because I could have built a zip-line to have the camera fly down at the beginning to make the opening shot more ingenious.

“If you look to the future and keep one eye on the past you are blind in one eye. If you keep both eyes on the future and no eyes on the past you are blind in both eyes and God have mercy on you.”—Beniton

“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” - Desiderius Erasmus

Postmodernism rejects this ideology and treats both the past and the future as the same. It also highlighted the paradox of making everything depthless.

If the 'master craftsman' is no longer needed, what does that say about creation and talent? If everyone is talented then no one is, if everyone can make music then no one can.