Concert Hall Light

This is a screenshot I took when I was watching a concert on YouTube. I immediately paused the video to take a screenshot. In this picture I can see the blue vertical lights and the yellow circle lines at the bottom. It gives me the feel of seeing a fire and rain in one picture. The vertical blue lights move up and down giving you the illusion of falling rain at least from my perspective. I think this would make a really cool art installation. I wonder if I can make something like this in a painting.

Seeing Things Through a Water Bottle

I was on my way to the nearest hawker from where I live and I took my water bottle. I put it in front of my eyes then I took a picture and this was it. The background was a pretty dark street and streetlight in the background. To me, it looks like a corridor of a convention hall where you would usually find the lift. I think if I have more time walking around the city I would find a lot of cool stuff that I can snap through a normal water bottle. I wonder if I can make an entire exhibition and people have to see everything through a curved plastic bottle or a distorted curved plastic cover.

Edward de Bono Video Response

Where does creativity come from? According to Edward's video, creativity is not natural talent. Some people may seem better at generating new ideas and it can make you feel like you are not a creative person. The truth is, that person might have trained his creativity skill a lot more that you do. Creativity is a skill which everyone can learn. It is true that some people might be better than others just like everyone can play tennis and some people are better at skiing. 

How to train lateral thinking:

-Challenging existing concept or idea

-Extraction - is where we find the concept and new ways out of it.

-Provocation - we set up a provocation and we move forward from that to a new idea

-Random entry where we enter different point

You can learn lateral thinking and the more you practice your lateral thinking skill, the better you are at it. Rather than waiting for someone to come up with an idea, you can generate some new ideas.

Amy Tan Video Response

By far, this is one of the most interesting talks on TED that I've ever watched on YouTube. She talks about how everything happens for a reason. She also involved supernatural things in her talk which is very unusual for a normal creative process. I managed to write down a couple of things from her talk:

-When you are faced with the idea or prospect of death very soon, you begin to think very much    about everything.

-What you are going to find is what matters.

-If you try too hard to think what is the story about, then you will only write about that.

-We are all concerned with the things that we see in the world than what we are aware of.

-Sometimes you can feel that the universe is helping you like it’s giving you hints and clues but you    are not quite sure about it.

-Sometimes you are equipped with skill but they may not be the kind of skills that enable creativity.

Kaws

This sculpture is called Kaws. These sculptures are very versatile. They can be made into other popular characters such as The Pinnochio and Bibendum or the Michelin Man. I see it as a very contemporary piece of art and I think if the artist would let other artists use his design, people would come up with crazy designs. I wonder if you can put one in very unusual places like at the traditional market just to confuse people. It would be a very cool experiment.

Accordion Paper Sculpture

This is a paper sculpture made by Li Hongbo. The first time I saw it, I thought it was a normal stone sculpture. But then someone with white glove started to lift it up and then it looks like that thing in the picture. I think this is a very brilliant idea and very well executed. I wonder if you can make something similar to this but with an actual building where the building can be stretched out without compromising the strength of the building.

Connectome

Connectome is a neural connection map of the human brain. To be honest, I had no idea what that thing is the first time I saw it. But with a little bit of research, now I know that it's something very interesting. It looks like a flower bouquet. I think if we use the same technology to create the map to create the same thing with the human nervous system would result in a unique artwork. I wonder if we can 3D print this map and put it in a museum.