January 2009
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Happy new year
Well, back again after a long hiatus. Happy new year!
Starting off 2009 with a link to one of my posts from september last year, as Obama is getting inaugurated today: HOORAY!
November 2008
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Digital Domain →
The previous link reminded me of these guys. Digital Domain are truly awesome and one of the very best visual effects and animation companies out there in my opinion. Just take a look at some of their showreels, I’m sure you’ll be convinced.
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Mørk & Lys →
Accidently stumbled upon a this link in some article the other day. Whaaaat, a norwegian special effects company?? …I thought at first. Which of course they are not. It’s actually a California based company who somehow found out that “Mørk & Lys” is “Dark & Light” in Danish (and Norwegian, you ignorant bastards!).
Anyway, they make cool stuff and you...
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the end of creativity
So I guess this is it, the “exploring creativity” course is over. Instead of rambling on about what I thought of the course, my reflections, summaries etc, I’ll end it with the following “qoute”:
Stanley Kubrick was making the movie, ‘2001’. He was shooting the apes. He had a second unit shooting the space station. Rotating in space: the docking sequence. This was a...
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Exploring Creativity
Exploring Creativity 10.11-14.11 This entire week was dedicated to our elective courses. In the exploring creativity course we were supposed to write our essays. Last week we had a lecture by Erik Lerdahl. Having read parts of his book it was really quite interesting to hear him speak about his subject as well. Anyway I had a hard time deciding what to write about. I did however thoroughly enjoy...
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About the Process →
Instantaneous picture of the contemporary graphic creation process
October 2008
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happy accidents
Exploring Creativity 28.10 Einar held a lecture on “applied imagination” today. It was short but informative and interesting, touching upon some stuff I find to be really cool. Einar mentioned for instance the “Rorschach inkblot test” (a method of psychological evaluation) emphasizing the implied shapes that we make up to be something in our own minds. Example below.
He continued...
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How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity →
Read this article in “Harvard Business Review” a while back and recently found it again online. It’s about Pixar, their “collective genius” and management of creativity. Great stuff, really interesting!
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workshop part 2
Exploring Creativity 21.10
Second round of workshopping! Mikael started off as he had to leave for Gothenburg a bit early. His workshop theme was “presenting and order information on the web according to an architectural studio”. We came up with and evaluated different ideas for presenting a portfolio for an architecture studio on the web. Quite interesting, made me reflect on my own “soon” to be...
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workshop part 1
Exploring Creativity 14.10
This was the first of two days we were supposed to conduct workshops. This meant that we were all to bring in some kind of problem or task from our studio course project and try to get some new ideas and/or solutions from the workshop group. I workshopped with Espen and Geir who are both doing architecture, Mikael Johansson who is also a architect and swedish as well on...
September 2008
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5 hour design challenge
Exploring Creativity 23.09 We met in the schools large auditorium today, quickly learning the first lesson of the day: why get a small room when you can get a big one… Each student had to write down a single word on a post-it note and hand it over to Einar (our course teacher, for those of you who still might not know). We were divided into groups of four and each group was given four...
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Brainstorming
Exploring creativity 16.9 Creative methods were the focus of the day. We explored the well-known brainstorming technique, very commonly misunderstood and misused in various ways. A thorough description from our collection of idea generation methods can be found in the previous post. We tried brainstorming in groups and used the post-it notes version of the technique. I worked with three...
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The Brainstorming method
From “all known idea generation methods”, researched by Martin Leith:
Although the word “brainstorming” is often used to refer to any meeting in which people generate ideas, it is in fact a specific method, invented by advertising executive Alex Osborn in 1941, with an explicit protocol that is described below. Osborn-style brainstorming is the classic ideas generation technique, and...
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Mandolux Backgrounds →
Some seriously cool wallpapers. Large high quality images, most of them even suited for two or three monitors.
Thanks to my friend Ida for pointing me to this
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FeONIC
I attended a visiting lecture at DogA friday morning featuring Brian Smith, managing director of FeONIC. This company has through the means of innovative research and design developed some truly unique products. These products when attached to a surface that is able to resonate, such as a tabletop or a window, transforms the whole surface into a loudspeaker.
We were given a demonstration during...
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pang!
So yesterday we had this workshop at school (PANG!) where all students, teachers and staff where supposed to participate and work together in groups.. We were given a set of materials consisting of bamboo, some bad textile material and twine, and told to make “something”. And so we did. Below are a few pictures from the workshop, which was rather cool actually and culminated in a...
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10 impressive parkour and free running videos →
Parkour can be really really cool. Take a look at some of these videos, awesome stuff
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10 Incredible Sound Illusions →
Really cool, also recommended are the optical illusions on the page
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London from above, at night →
Awesome pictures! Be sure to check em out
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Digital Creativity
Exploring creativity 09.09
Today we had a lecture on digital creativity with Birger Sevaldson, which was really quite interesting, and also a bit different as regards content. Presenting some of the few notes I made during the lecture: :: Creativity should be uncontrolled, messy, spoiled, and not perfect. -It should get its hands dirty :: Renowned design company Alessi wants 15% failures, or...
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Peter Yang photography →
Amazing portraits. Check out the site!
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illustrated ape magazine →
picked up an issue of this when I was in London a couple months back. Worth a peak if you’re into weird kind of magazines, and apes
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the most dangerous roads in the world →
unbelievable…
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WatchA really cool awareness test! Try it out
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test your color IQ →
Kinda cool actually! Didn’t even know there was such a thing as color IQ…
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not again...
I just realized, life without a laptop really sucks. Mine broke down…AGAIN…
unnecessary is the word of the day
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library day ...
Exploring creativity 02.09
Einar (our course teacher) was sick today so there wasn’t any lecture. We were however instructed to use the day in the library to find and research books about/related to creativity.
Some of the books I wanted to get were unfortunately already on loan, but I got this one norwegian book. Its title, roughly translated, is “practical rethinking -systematic...
August 2008
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Exploring Creativity
So, there is this course…called “exploring creativity” We are supposed to discover, research and explore our own direction within creativity. I think.
But what exactly are directions within creativity…? Enlightening suggestions anyone?
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the mandatory first post
Well, this is it.
Blogging for the very first time…