What is Creativity - identify key words - Mashup 2011 Karan Tonight Video
New
Out of old?
Post-Modernism says...Jameson?
Screen a students music video - Unique?
Is Xfactor Creative? Team or Auteur?
Noel Fielding - talks about art clip - can't draw nothing, always forms something
Luxury Comedy Clip - Rudi
Warm up draw the body and turn over
Then Consequences game:
The first contributor writes down 'The' plus an adjective, such as 'Exquisite', then folds over the paper to hide their contribution.
(the game is quite useful for learning parts of speech too if you'd never been taught formal grammar)
The second contributor writes a noun such as 'corpse' and folds over their bit, so each successive contributor has no idea what was written before.
The third writes a verb, such as 'drinks', then folds it over
The fourth gives the game another 'the' and an adjective such as 'new'
And the fifth writes another noun
eg:
The cold book exploded the magic beach
The furry tooth crawls the fabulous cake
the dynamic basket rolls the pretty television
The stupendous dog ate the minute tree
The glamorous monkey strikes the old heaven
the lovely traffic cone shook the coconutish pupil
the phenomenal raisin sucks the shiny tiger
the exploding statue juggles the foolish house
The web has offered far more opportunities for such random art work however. If we take that set of lines and drop them into the engine at wordle.net, it will make a picture out of them, for which I can alter the shape and the colours. Here goes:
Notice how it has eliminated all 'the' without me asking it to do so. No effort on my part, so is it creative? hmmmm there's a question.
A great shared site for creative random art with some effort is on Flickr with the shared CD meme pool. This is a game where you create a CD cover for an imaginary band and upload it to Flickr; 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, then upload it to the CD memepool
