WEEK 2 : RULE BREAKERS IN THE WORLD.

WEEK 2 : RULE BREAKERS

The first rule breaker that I want to talk about is this Dutch designer, Zelda Beauchampet.
She is known for her unusual yet unique handscape ring design. The design features small individual rings that each have a different icon on top depending on the position of the rings different landscapes are created.
The rings come in present arrangements or the user can pick their favourite three icons and make their own personal handscape. She is the rule breaker because of her rings that amazed some people.
She is the definition of creative. Among all the rings that designers made,
I think this hand scape ring is one of a kind!



The next rule breaker would be Marcel Duchamp. He's not just an artist but an artist associated with Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. He is a rule breaker because of his work which is characterized by its humour, the variety and unconventionality of its media, and its incessant probing the boundaries of art.
Fountain is one of his most famous works and is widely seen as an icon of 20th century art.
He saw something meaningful in the fact that their world was gaining many new useful objects.
A way of showing this was to regard a useful object as a significant one. In this case, the art community uplifted a urinal into an artwork.



The third rule breaker is Verner Panton is a rule breaker known for his outre plastic chairs and his psychedelic interior designs.

He focused more on the simple, logical and the use of natural materials. Imaginative, innovative he expressed himself with artificial, colours  fulled of patterns.

Eventhough his designs are hard to understand, the chair is the world's first single-piece plastic chair.

Although he did not win a prize, it foresees the future essence of the Panton Chair with it's S-shaped form.

The fourth rule breaker would be Vincent Van Gogh. His paintings show a sense of passion and tranquility the way of him using colours. Among his paintings, I like his Starry Night painting as he uses strokes of paintbrush to paint the night sky. Although the features are exaggerated, this is a scene I can relate to, and also one that most people feel comfortable and at ease with. The sky keeps my eye moving about the painting, following the curves and creating a visual dot to dot with the stars. His way of painting really shows the reflection of the turbulence of his soul.

The fifth rule breaker would be Madonna. I can say that she's one of the most famous female rule breakers because of her style and glamour. The wedding dress of a "virgin," the crucifixes and Kabbalah bracelets, the bustier, the bared bosom, the bitchiness and bravado, the truths, the dares--Madonna never met a button she didn't push. At 54, the supremely buff, indefatigable Madge can easily outdance, upstage, and outshine any ingenue. Incomparable icon of pop culture remains a legend in her own time.

I'm sure many of you have heard about this fellow on the left. Yes, he's none other than the musician rapper Eminem a.k.a Marshall Mathers. Born on October 17, 1972 at St Joseph Missouri. Can I say that he's the world's famous rapper? He released The Marshall Mathers LP, which was noted as the fastest-selling album in rap history in the 2000! Back into his chilhood days he was having a rough time.  He had no close friends, kept almost entirely to himself and was treated like an outcast at each new school.

Got bullied in the bathroom, school lockers. In high school, he failed his 9th Grade three times and eventually dropped out at the age of 17.

Despite being a poor student, Eminem always had a deep affinity for language, devouring comic books and even studying the dictionary. As a teenage dropout, Eminem found a way to express his passion for language, as well as to release his youthful anger, through the emerging musical genre rap!

At first i think his songs are about sex etc but as years goes by he started to write songs about his life exprience like 'Im not Afraid', 'Beautiful'. He also write a song for his daughter ; 'MockingBird'. Eventhough there's lots of corse language in it, I believed he wrote that to express himself.

I think that he's one of the rule breakers because there was this time where he went under rehabilation. By early 2008, he had managed to kick his addictions to drugs and alcohol and returned to recording music.

He released his first album of new music in five years, Relapse, in 2009, featuring the singles "Crack a Bottle" and "Beautiful."

In 2010, Eminem released another album, Recovery, a highly autobiographical attempt to come to terms with his struggles with addiction and experience with rehabilitation. I really look up to him despite on how much pain and pressure he went through but he managed to stay strong. He inspired me when I was 12 and I've learnt on how hard life is, never give up.

Last but not least, Frida Kahlo. She has always wanted to become a doctor but ever since she met with a bus accident, she started painting instead. During her days, she had overcome obstacles like meeting with an accident which turned her to become an artist, getting divorced.  
 like her painting 'Self Portrait with Necklace of Thorns'. It portrays a picture of her in a frontal pose.
In Mexican folk tradition, dead hummingbirds were used as charms to bring luck in love, but she painted a black cat on her left shoulder to symbolize bad luck and death waiting to pounce on the humming bird. 
The thorns digging into her neck are symbolic of the pain she still feels over her divorce from Diego.
All this had made her became wiser and expressed herself through painting, despite her traumatizing accidents and obstacles. Her deep introspection has influenced many artists to do the same. 
Not only did she paint through Surrealism but she did her own reality and experiences. 
Overall, the reason why she painted many self-portraits stemmed from her loneliness and that she was the person she knew best. 

Week 1 : Introduction to Creative Writing

WHAT IS CREATIVE THINKING?

Creative thinking is the ability to create something by developing and combining ideas that are unique, useful and worthy of further elaboration to form an art. You have to be creative to think creatively especially artists, inventor, designer etc. Actually we humans are creative in our own individual way. Creativity is the form of bringing imaginary ideas into reality. Firstly, you think and then you produce it. When our imagination gets wild, that's where you will get all the creativity from.

However, creativity is not just the use of your imagination, it is the use of your imagination followed by the act of creation. Having great ideas and thoughts is not enough to be creative, without producing, great ideas and thoughts alone would be just being imaginative.

 For example, I drew leaves. When I come to think of it, drawing leaves is just too plain and dull. So I decided to use my creative skills. What should I develop from the leaf? Roots? Leaf patterns maybe?

So yes, I literally developed my leaves into leaf patterns. See how I use my imagination yet creativity to develop such ideas? There you go by the definition and examples of creative thinking.

I agreed with Charles Mingus' quote because different humans have different form of creativity and imagination. Even if you think simple, by developing that 'simple' idea into an awesomely simple, that's where you are creative.