Have fun reading ^_~
We started the class by looking at some of the student works
that were printed on the CMYK Magazine... which is a student magazine as well. Prof.
Jimmy’s purpose was to inspire us by seeing the work of students from other
universities. He also advised us to talk
to unknown people, I think artists (mostly designers), to find out about them, and as we learn from them it can help us develop our creative process even more. It's somewhat intimidating, but worth trying B-) We then continued
our class with our homework assignment.
From our five images that I mentioned in my previous blog,
we had to choose one and give it ten different words and/or phrases (kind of
like headlines) that would completely change the mood of the
person/product/place in the picture…
that was our homework assignment.
Prof. Jimmy did an example from one of my classmate’s picture, which was
a red handbag that had a star hanging from it.
He then read her ten different words, and since the mood didn’t change
from any of the words, the class had to come up with ten new words/phrases. For instance, she had, The Devil Wears Prada…
that was actually helping reinforce the
meaning of the bag, so one of my classmates said, My Dad’s Bag… which changed
the mood of the bag entirely, because now the owner of a female bag belongs to
a male… so gender difference worked wonders \^O^/ LOL!!! The class was then divided into two groups to
go over our words and phrases… it was a challenging task ~_O
My group went into the room across the hall. We sat in a circle and looked at one of my classmate’s picture… we were pondering and smiling as we were thinking hard to come up with different words/phrases. We then decided to read our words while showing our picture, and then come back to each one and continue by providing different words. One of my classmate’s had a wrestler holding a chair, and his phrases were really good and funny. He had, Does this Make Me Look Fat? Trick or Treat, and so on. He said that he made this tough man look weak, and that helped him come up with many different phrases that changed the mood of the wrestler. After we all finished saying our words/phrases, we tried once again to change the meaning of the images from everybody… we were completely stuck. Until, Prof. Jimmy came and told us that the harder we tried to come up with ideas the worse it would be, and he gave us another warm-up example. He had a Starbucks coffee, well, we had to pretend it wasn’t from Starbucks. We had to promote the coffee in an artistic way. We spent a lot of time just thinking without saying much, like we’ve been doing with our pictures… so Prof. Jimmy told us to just let out what we were thinking, that it’s not a failure to brainstorm. He told us that Edison didn’t invent the light bulb on the first try. I loved when he said that creative people are also inventors \^_~/ Still, how could this exercise be so difficult? <=O That’s when I noticed that I have a stiff mind >_<’ Even when I write on my blogs it takes me a while to publish them before I’m satisfied with what I’ve written. I take it as if I’m a journalist that keeps editing before the deadline to finally submit his/her work. I also think about the titles that I give to each blog, because for me, not to name a piece of work is like a person who doesn’t have a name. That’s why I don’t like when some paintings, for instance, are untitled. However, what I want to start doing, to exercise my stiff mind… is that I’m going to start writing on my blogs every Tuesday and Thursday, on the same day that my class meets. I need to challenge myself by decreasing my deadline… so no more writing on my blog during the weekend ^_^’ (must get rid of my stiff mind).
^_Ő/ Wish me luck!
My group went into the room across the hall. We sat in a circle and looked at one of my classmate’s picture… we were pondering and smiling as we were thinking hard to come up with different words/phrases. We then decided to read our words while showing our picture, and then come back to each one and continue by providing different words. One of my classmate’s had a wrestler holding a chair, and his phrases were really good and funny. He had, Does this Make Me Look Fat? Trick or Treat, and so on. He said that he made this tough man look weak, and that helped him come up with many different phrases that changed the mood of the wrestler. After we all finished saying our words/phrases, we tried once again to change the meaning of the images from everybody… we were completely stuck. Until, Prof. Jimmy came and told us that the harder we tried to come up with ideas the worse it would be, and he gave us another warm-up example. He had a Starbucks coffee, well, we had to pretend it wasn’t from Starbucks. We had to promote the coffee in an artistic way. We spent a lot of time just thinking without saying much, like we’ve been doing with our pictures… so Prof. Jimmy told us to just let out what we were thinking, that it’s not a failure to brainstorm. He told us that Edison didn’t invent the light bulb on the first try. I loved when he said that creative people are also inventors \^_~/ Still, how could this exercise be so difficult? <=O That’s when I noticed that I have a stiff mind >_<’ Even when I write on my blogs it takes me a while to publish them before I’m satisfied with what I’ve written. I take it as if I’m a journalist that keeps editing before the deadline to finally submit his/her work. I also think about the titles that I give to each blog, because for me, not to name a piece of work is like a person who doesn’t have a name. That’s why I don’t like when some paintings, for instance, are untitled. However, what I want to start doing, to exercise my stiff mind… is that I’m going to start writing on my blogs every Tuesday and Thursday, on the same day that my class meets. I need to challenge myself by decreasing my deadline… so no more writing on my blog during the weekend ^_^’ (must get rid of my stiff mind).
^_Ő/ Wish me luck!
Golden Adjectives:
1.
Stiff: Unable to move fast. Blocked.
Insecure to advance.
2.
Determined: To accomplish a goal with
inspiration and motivation. To look
forward. Strong-willed.
3.
Concerned: Preoccupied about failing towards an
objective.
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