WEEK 9 : Analogical Thinking

What is Analogical Thinking? 

• Analogical thinknig is what we do when we use information from one domain (the source or analogy) to help solve a problem in another domain (the target).
• Experts often use analogies during the process of problem solving, and analogies have been involved in numerous scientific discoveries. However, studies of novice problem solvers show that they often have difficulty in recognising that one problem can be used to solve another. 

For example....

                                  

For example, this top. This is not just an ordinary top. Below it has a figure like skirt so it's a combination of top + skirt which is equal to Peplum Dress.

                                

Here is a pencil box comes with a sharpener compartment so you can just sharpen your pencils from it without having the need to use just the shrarpener to sharpen it.

                                               

Look how creative this is! A coke bottle + Tissue box. Together it would form a coke Bottle tissue box.

                                 

Feeling bored of the old boring basic alarm clock? Check this out! A gun laser alarm clock so when it rings, you just take the gun and shoot it to snooze it. Isn't that awesome? I would probably get myself this. So it's a gun + alarm clock = gun laser alarm clock.

                                

Rubber band + Stick = Catapult

WEEK 8 : Making Faces

Making Faces. We were told to go outside and snap some pictures which you think it looks like a face. Something like this....

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Taken from my school at Level 3. You will see the eyes and the small mouth below the window.

I love this picture as it really shows that angry face. The eyes are the 2 holes above the long window and the teeth is obviously the long window. 

This is funny. I came across this 2 red dots. Not only that, there's leaves that makes the face look like a face.

After taking the picture above, I came across this. Windows which look like eyes, the trunk which looks like a long nose and a curvy branch which looks like a mouth! Superb!

I took this picture from this Internet as I find it cool!  It somehow looks like a fireplace. 

I couldn't managed to find sockets that make faces like this. I think this is the first time saw this picture which have faces in it.

Last but not least, this house. If only the house can talk. We would all be shocked by it!

Week 7 : The Journey and Synesthesia

So what is Synesthesia?

According to the dictionary, " it is a condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes. Recently, people are having difficulty in finding the definition of synesthesia,as many different phenomena have been covered by this term and in many cases the term synesthesia ("union of senses") seems to be a misnomer. A more accurate term for the phenomenon may be ideasthesia.

Something like this ....

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You see, singers made explicit videos like this not for the heck of it. There are meanings behind those songs.
Tunnel Vision by Justin Timberlake.

While maintaining central vision, “tunnel vision” would be the effect of losing your peripheral view. Ideally, you’d be solely focused on whatever your eyes are looking directly at. JT uses the side effect as a metaphor to the girl of his dreams; he only sees her, regardless of whats around him.

Week 7 : The Journey and Synesthesia

This week's lesson we're going to learn about The Journey and Synesthesia. The first thing that Kelvin opened was this unrated video, Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke ft Pharell and T.I and I was like "Oh my god hahaha I don't usuallt watch this video with people lol!" So we had to draw anything that has got to do with this video. What does it mean/ What is the motive of the video etc. So i drew this :

Pretty censored I know, but who cares?! It's Art man!

I finally found out the meaning of the song..

Robin hates when girls act like they don’t want him even when he knows for sure that they do. They just want to blur the line that separates them.

And on a sexual level, “blurred lines” refers to girls being interested in casual and dirty sex but having to maintain the good girl image. The Madonna-Whore Complex is messed up.

Also, “blurred lines” refers to the moral ambiguity of flirting with a girl Thicke knows isn’t single. Even if she’s in a committed relationship she’s a “wild animal” with independent thought, and thus her significant other doesn’t own her, so is it really all that wrong?

Week 6 : Force Connection

What is Force Connection?

 It is an intuitive development center designed to support you in your greater growth on all levels- Our comprehensive programs teach you how to deeply connect with your intuition, break through internal blocks that have been holding you back, and to learn the tools to monetize your gifts.

If this protective glasses has lens on it, I think people would buy it by now.

Week 6 : Force Connection

Week 6 : Force Connection

This is also taken in SAM too. A microphone which is made from a bulb.

Week 6 : Force Connection

I came across this artwork. I find it cool  because in the dark, the light will glow and you will see some sort like a country. Before the lights had been switched off, it's just an artwork will dots all over with us trying to figure it out what was the outcome.

Week 5 : Lateral Thinking

The solution is this. You have to move three balls to make the triangle point downwards instead of up. the solution... Like this...

Thinking laterally requires the abandonment of ordinary reasoning, thereby eliminating inhibitions. In other words, rather than making assumptions to decipher explanations, think abstractly to reveal alternate (and the actual) solutions! 

http://ideaz-that-live.blogspot.sg/2011/02/lateral-thinking-isnt-just-kids-stuff.html

Week 5 : Lateral Thinking

Thinking Outside the Box Game

In class, we were given this puzzle to solve. We have to draw lines to connect 9 dots without lifting your pen form the paper and without writing over a connection twice.

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Give up? Here's the answer.

After a few attempts of trying it, I still couldn't figure out the answer. So the solution is this.

Your exercise at lateral thinking makes you shy away from the usual line of thought to solve this puzzle.  Just like your muscles, the more you exercise your brain, the more robust it gets and the more primed it becomes for optimal performance. 

{Picture from:

http://www.vth.biz/driver/blog?page=9

Week 5 : Lateral Thinking

Impossible Paper Trick

At home, I tried a couple of puzzles burt unfortunately, I failed.  So this is the solution of solving this.

Firstly, start with a paper rectangle, any size, 9" x 6" is fine. Make two right-angle cuts to the exact centre on one long side, at 3" and 6". Make one right-angle cut to the exact centre on the other long side at 4.5". Lay the sheet flat, fold over the central flap making a neat hinge and fold it back. Lift the sheet by the two short sides, with the flap away from you, and twist one of the L-shaped ends 180 degrees (half a full turn).
Lay the sheet flat again, and fold the flap down both ways to create a hinge. The flap should now be erect, with half of the cut-away on each side - which looks like an impossible construction. This is what you show your audience. Ask them to explain it.

Something like this

Week 5 : Lateral Thinking

A man and his son are in a car crash. The father is killed and the child is taken to hospital gravely injured. When he gets there, the surgeon says, 'I can't operate on this boy - for he is my son!!!' How can this possibly be?


Answer : The surgeon can not operate on her own son; she is his mother.

Week 5 : Lateral Thinking

Lateral thinking question samples that I got it from the net.

1. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus:

1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.

Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you choose?

Answer :

The old lady of course! After helping the old lady into the car, you can give your keys to your friend, and wait with your perfect partner for the bus.

Week 5 : Lateral Thinking

So today in class we learnt about Lateral Thinking? So what is that?

So basically Lateral Thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step by step logic. It's like more thinking out of the box.

Who created Lateral Thinking? Edward Debono in 1967. It was first written up in a book called 'The Use of Lateral Thinking'. He has written over 40 books translated into 25 languages and has also made two television series aired around the world. He is the author of the famous thinking program used internationally to directly teach thinking in schools.

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. Lateral thinking is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then process. The techniques of lateral thinking, such as provocation, are designed to help that change. This is another technical definition. It is important because it also defines the mathematical need for creativity.

Anyway I kind of take some of the texts from http://www.slideshare.net/akhanna78/lateral-thinking-by-edward-de-bono because i think it is useful to put it here for my Creative thinking class.

Week 4 : Mind Mapping

Week 4 : Mind Mapping

My simple mind mapping of Peace. Nothing much actually. Hahaa

Week 4 : Mind Mapping

Week 4 : Mind Mapping

Gonna do mindmapping about Science.. to be continued..

Week 4 : Mind Mapping

Picture adapted from Google Images : Mindmapping
To be continued.....

Week 4 : Mindmapping

LOVE

Today, we did Mind-mapping on Love. Love is a very strong word to me.. and to most people. Don't take love for granted. Don't tell them you love them when you don't mean it. Guys, if you love someone, tell them before it's too late. It's okay to get rejection, it's part of everyone's life. Hey, I got rejected once. At first I felt heartbroken but time will heal itself. Okay enough with my deep words. Love doesn't have to be BGR, it can be family, friends, teachers, pets and to something too. As you can see the pic above, it's half done. I've got to do more on love.