Creative Multimedia

ART DEVELOPS OUR BRAIN TO BE CREATIVE

The first thing comes in our mind when it comes to creative multimedia is Faculty of Creative Multimedia. We try to figure out the meaning of creative multimedia and we decided that it was actually two different words that have its own meaning. The term of creative is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them from thought into reality. And multimedia is a transmission that combines media of communication such as text, graphics, audio, animation and video. From the term itself, we come up with five elements represent creative multimedia which is design, social media, tools, innovation and art. Those elements involve many factors that makes it powerful tool in delivering information especially art in creative multimedia.

Art history spans the entire history of humankind, from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century. In modern times, art history has emerged as a discipline that specializes in teaching people how to evaluate and interpret works of art based on their own perspective. Art history has frequently been criticized for its subjectivity because the definition of what is beautiful varies from individual to individual. Learning to evaluate what we see by building on the art forms we already know can develop our aesthetic understanding.

The main purpose of art is the expression of boundless ideas and concepts. Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects the senses, emotions, and/or intellect. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings. There are so many types of art and also various medium are used to make art. The media used often influences the form and it is different for various artists.

In creative multimedia, artist often use digital as a medium. They have many levels of artist such as amateur, beginner and professional. Amateur and beginner artist usually among students, freelance and newbie in the industry. There are also professional freelancers. But for professional’s artist, they usually hired in a well-known or big company and make lot of money from it and because of that their work obviously high risk with extra tension.

There are many places where we can find art. For education, there are a lot of university and college that offers art or art-related courses such as One Academy, Multimedia University and Lim Kok Wing University. There are also galleries about art in
Malaysia located in KLCC, Central Market and Shah Alam. Nowadays, people often use internet to promote and shows their artwork to everyone.

Art plays a large part in making our lives infinitely rich. Imagine, just for a minute, a world without art. Art is our everyday lives that we may hardly even stop to think about it. Look at the desk or table right this minute. Someone designed that. It is art. All functional design, well done, is art. So, art is something that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing to our eyes. On the other hand, art stimulates different parts of our brains to make us laugh or incite us to riot, with a whole gamut of emotions in between. Art develops our brain to be creative.

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General Mindmap

Focus Mindmap
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Situation: Art Develops Our Brain To Be Creative

Random word: Brain

Characteristic: The mind maps.

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Sketches and Research:

These are the sketch process. It is based on the mind maps we have done.

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Idea Development: Combination the ideas

Here are the pictures that we choose to combine.

There... The reason that we choose the cube is that the cube itself are a sculpture which describe the art. Furthermore, the rubic cube are a complex stuff and to solve the puzzle, we have to use our brain. With just solving the puzzle, we can be more creative due to many solutions.

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The Final Concept:

This are the final concept we have done.

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Final Output in 4D Form

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Group Member:
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Muhammad Aizat bin Malahi
Fazreen bin Mohd Fadrillah
Abdullah Abbas bin Fuad
Aizuddin bin Zakariya
Zulfadhli bin Zulkafli

Random Association

For this lesson, its about create or manipulate things such as kitten as the concept for this lesson to a scary image or object. The purpose is to make people realize if something that usually they see as cute and harmfless become a dangerous carnivore that will rip your flesh and your guts. So, ths is what I come out with:-

Juxtaposition Class Activity

Matching Words and Images

Step 1- Choose 3 pairs of number from 0 to 9.


My numbers:-

1. 76- dogspider
   
2. 50- firehead
   
3. 67- ducktree
   

Step 2- Create 3 sentences for each pair of number

1. The dog step on a spider
2. His head was caught on fire
3. The duck hid itself under a fallen tree.

Step 3- Create an images from the combining words or numbers.

1. DOGSPIDER
2. FIREHEAD
3. DUCKTREE
   

Juxtaposition-Poem Writing

The class was asked to relate pictures into words. And the best way to do that is through poem writing to to describe the picture. These are few samples of mine.

LOVE

Food without chillies spice taste flavorless
Life without love feel loneliness
A little bit of spice make a lot of difference
Turn the foods to flavorful dish
A lot of love make a huge difference
Turn life to happily ever after



PAIN

An ice cream without sweet
taste plain and bitter
A life without pain
gain neither hardship nor empathy
Just emptiness taste of flavor



LIFE
Life is like a lit fire on a lamp
But without oil
Sooner or later it will disappear
Without guidance
Life is like dim light
Will it die out
or survive with no purpose



HAPPINESS

Tick, Tock
The sound of a clock
Tick, Tock
The moment happiness of a clock
Tick, Tock
The anger of a clock
Tick, Tock
The sadness of a clock
Tick, Tock
The sound of a clock
No matter what hardship comes
Moment of happiness will surely appear
Like a rotation of time
Hours to Hours
Minutes to Minutes
Seconds after Seconds
Tick, Tock
The sound of a clock



WOMAN

A world with only women
Is an incomplete cycle of life
A world with only women
Is a emptiness life
A world with only women
Is neither happiness nor nothing
But a world with men and women
Is a complete pair of life
Like mortar and pestle

Juxtaposition

A word that describe the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development. From what I learn, juxtaposition is a daily use of word towards the action of creativity which is in the process of creating something by placing two variables side by side to compare and contrast their similarities or differences in every aspect in creative process.

The Logical of A Mindmap

Last week, we have to make a mindmap about ourselves. In the map, we need to elaborate more about ourselves such as your birthplace, education or perhaps your hobby and etc. As the subject matter of the mindmap, I've drawn somethng that maybe similar to any of my characteristic or personal matters. Then to elaborate more amout myself, I've put a short information about family, education, interest, hobby and my personal details.

Mindmap isn't just where you take piece of paper and scribble down. Its a development of your ideas by step by step reaching towards the main goal. Mindmap can become handy when you need to create new concept of ideas. Its a must to somebody who wants to make a perfect but simple mindmap by referring to Tony Buzan rules.

Creativity, Novelty, Innovation, Invention

Invention is a word to describe a creation of a new form that been made by people who have study and done many different sorts of experimentation to archive that level of understanding in invention. After that, comes the word innovation which an important process to make improvement by introducing new concept ideas from realizing the social context of a creative ideas.

Then, Creativity budge in to generate new level of ideas from combining, changing, reapplying and then develop to a different kind of concept ideas by only utilizing from the root itself. Another word that be needed to complete the process is the word of novelty which also derive from word novus in Latin, mean the quality of being new whether in a form of subjective which mean the concept idea is well known to people who common to it but when it travel to a part where it is new with the concept, it became a whole new level of understanding or objective, meaning the concept ideas is something fresh and unique for people and new to their five sense until whole world accept it as part of their life.

Whether is creativity, novelty, innovation or invention, they couldn't be separate because each other got their own objective and from that, a lot of different ideas can be develop from combining the 4 words.

This is a humanoid robot, ASIMO was created by one of Japan company, Honda in 2000. From this picture, we can see how invention, innovation, creativity and novelty have combine together and create then develop back until it become the latest new concept idea. This is only the beginning of the development.

Yusuf Islam(Cat Steven)

Biography

Born as Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21st July 1948 in London, England commonly known by his former stage name Cat Steven whom a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam.
Stevens converted to Islam at the height of his fame, in December 1977, and adopted his uslim name, Yusuf Islam, the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars away for charity and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community.
Steven Georgiou was the third child of a greek-cypriot father, Stavros Georgiou and a Swedish mother, Ingrid Wickman. He has an older sister, Anita, and brother, David. The family lived above Moulin Rouge, the restaurant that his parents operated on the north end of Shaftesbury Avenue. He attended other local West End schools, where he says he was constantly in trouble, and did poorly in everything but art. He was called "the artist boy" and mentions that "I was beat up, but I was noticed". He went on to take a one-year course of study at Hammersmith School of Art, as he considered a career as a cartoonist.
He wanted to establish a musical career and began to perform originally under the stage name "Steve Adams" in 1965 while at Hammersmith. At that point, his goal was to become a songwriter. Among the musicians who influenced him were Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, blues artists Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, John Lennon, Biff Rose (who played on his first album), Leo Kottke, and Paul Simon. He als wanted to emulate composers who wrote musicals, like Ira Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. In 1965 he signed a publishing deal with Ardmore & Beechwood and cut several demos, including "The First Cut Is the Deepest".

Musical Career

- Signing with Island Record in 1970
- "Lady D'Arbanville" from Mona Bone Jakon has become the first to be released and was rewarded gold record in 1971.
- Mona Bone Jakon was the precursor for Stevens' international breakthrough album, Tea for the Tillerman, which became a top-10 Billboard hit.

Movie Soundtrack

- In July 1970, Stevens recorded one of his songs, "But I might Die Tonight", for the Jerzy Skolimowski film Deep End.
- In 1971, Stevens provided nine songs to soundtrack of the black comedy Harold and Maude.
- In 1997, the movie Rushmore was allowed to use his songs "Here Comes My Baby" and "The Wind" after his religious conversion in the late 1970s.
- Followed in 2000 by the inlusion of "Peace Train" in the movie Remember the Titans, in 2000 by use in Almost Famous of the song "The Wind", and in 2006 the inclusion of "peace Train" on the soundtrack to We Are Marshall.

Later Recording

In May 2003, he received his first Platinum Europe Award from the IFPI for Remember Cat Stevens, The Ultimate Collection, indicating over million European sales.

Awards

Philanthropic and humanitarian awards

• 2003 World Award also known as the "World Social Award" for "humanitarian relief work helping children and victims of war".
• 2004 Man of Peace Award presented by Mikhail Gorbachev for his "dedication to promote peace, the reconciliation of people and to condemn terrorism", the ceremony was held in Rome, Italy and attended by five Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
• 2005 Honorary Doctorate by the University of Glocestershire for services to education and humanitarian relief.
• 4 January 2007, The Mediterranean Prize for Peace in Naples, Italy. The award was received "as a result of the work he has done to increase peace in the world."
• 10 July 2007, honorary doctorate (LLD) by the University of Exeter, in recognition of "his humanitarian work and improving understanding between Islamic and Western cultures'" The ceremony was attended by esteemed personalities including Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu and guitarist Brian May.
• 6 November 2009, Special Achievement Award of the German Sustainabolity Award.
  

Music awards

• 2005 Nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• 20 October 2005, ASCAP named Songwriter of the Year and Song of the Year for "The First Cut Is the Deepest"
• 8 June 2006, listed as #49 in Paste magazine's "100 Best Living Songwriters".
• 11 October 2006, awarded Songwriter of the Year for the second year running, for the same song "The First Cut Is the Deepest".
• 25 March 2007, received the German ECHO "special award for life achievements as musician and ambassador between cultures", Europe's Granny, in Berlin
• 2008 Nominated for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

The main reason why I choose Yusuf Islam (Cat Steven) as a creative public figure because he has developing his artistic in music industry for a long time. Apart from being a world known musician, he also become a person who give birth to songs, the songwriter. As he converse to Islam, although he wanted to make path towards philanthropic, he still give his creative ideas in the music industry.

"Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music stisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony."

Yusuf Islam