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.

IPod Shuffle

1.       How to Save a Life – The Fray

2.       Immunize – Pendulum

3.       Not Afraid – Eminem

4.       Chelsea Dagger – The Fratellis

5.       Before I Fall to Pieces – Razorlight

6.       Turn It Up – The Feeling

7.       Read My Mind – The Killers

8.       Violet Hill – Coldplay

9.       Fire – Kasabian

10.   Kids – MGMT

11.   Hands Open – Snow Patrol

12.   Don’t Stop Believin’ – The Journey

13.   Worried About Ray – The Hoosiers

14.   Human – The Killers

15.   I Luv U – The Ordinary Boys

16.   American Idiot – Green Day

17.   This Ain’t a Scene – Fall Out Boy

18.   Omen – The Prodigy

19.   Ruby – Kaiser Chiefs

20.   For the First Time – The Script

'The Death of Uncool'

Brian Eno — 25th November 2009

It’s odd to think back on the time—not so long ago—when there were distinct stylistic trends, such as “this season’s colour” or “abstract expressionism” or “psychedelic music.” It seems we don’t think like that any more. There are just too many styles around, and they keep mutating too fast to assume that kind of dominance.

As an example, go into a record shop and look at the dividers used to separate music into different categories. There used to be about a dozen: rock, jazz, ethnic, and so on. Now there are almost as many dividers as there are records, and they keep proliferating. The category I had a hand in starting—ambient music—has split into a host of subcategories called things like “black ambient,” “ambient dub,” “ambient industrial,” “organic ambient” and 20 others last time I looked. A similar bifurcation has been happening in every other living musical genre (except for “classical” which remains, so far, simply “classical”), and it’s going on in painting, sculpture, cinema and dance.

We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all “now,” in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

I think this is good news. As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich range of sources—cherry-picking whatever makes sense to them—it becomes more natural to do the same thing with their social, political and other cultural ideas. The sharing of art is a precursor to the sharing of other human experiences, for what is pleasurable in art becomes thinkable in life.

This article first appeared in the December edition of Prospect magazine