Creativity from Creative Visuals

CREATIVE THINKING A) Brain 1) Functional Areas Five Senses, Thought, Sensory Integration 2) Left Side 3) Right Side B) Intelligence & Creativity C) Right Side Brain Activation D) Whole Brain Thinking

The oral instruction is The visual instruction is

“ Say Hello” “Say Hello”

FACE RECOGNITION

The fusiform face area, seen in green here, is active when we see faces, and also when experts are presented with images that they have learned to distinguish at very specific levels.

Problem in

recognizing

inverted

images

Left hemisphere: Logical, Analytic, Quantitative,

Rational and Verbal

Right hemisphere: Conceptual, Holistic, Intuitive,

Imaginative and Non-Verbal

The left brain process information

in logical analytical stages

Right side – The Artistic Brain

Look at the chart and say the COLOUR

not the word YELLOW BLUE ORANGE BLACK RED GREEN PURPLE YELLOW RED ORANGE GREEN BLACK BLUE RED PURPLE GREEN BLUE ORANGE

Left - Right Conflict Your right brain tries to say the colour but your left brain insists on reading the word.

This brain dominance makes left-handers more likely than right handers to be creative geniuses. This is supported by higher percentages of left-handers than normal in music and the arts, media in general. Left-handers are better at 3-dimensional perception and thinking. Left-handers are good at most ball sports and things involving hand-to-eye co-ordination.

Creativity is a mental process utilizing all of the brain's specialized capabilities. It is, therefore, "whole brained."

CREATIVITY Creative thinking is a mental process that usually produces novel solution to a problem Possible to have highly creative but average intelligent persons Divergent Thinking Non-logical Approach Fresh & new Solutions INTELLIGENCE Measured by tests for abilities, aptitudes and skills Possible to have high intelligence but entirely poor creative persons Convergent Thinking Logical Approach Conventional Solutions

Intelligence Tests - Puzzles

Anagrams Geometrical Puzzles

Charades Hieroglyphics

Coin Puzzles Logic Puzzles

Crypt-arithmetic Match Puzzles

Digits Number Puzzles

Dissection Puzzles Pentominoes

Doodles Tangrams

Double Acrostics True or False

Doublets Word Puzzles

10 9

Value for ? ? 2

8 7

What is the next letter in this Sequence?

O,T,T,F,F,S,S,?

Make this equation equal by replacing

1) one, 2) three and 3) two matches

10 9 15 2 8 7 What is the next letter in this Sequence? O,T,T,F,F,S,S,? O ne ,T wo ,T hree ,F our ,F ive ,S ix ,S even

One Match replaced

Three Matches replaced

Another Solution

Two Matches replaced

CREATIVITY – TIPS

1) Look beyond the first right answer!

2) Make connections

Use metaphors, similes and

analogies to generate new ideas

3) Do something different than you usually do

4) New insights, inspirations and creative leaps

can appear any time any place – in the shower, over lunch or when you awake in the morning

They can disappear just as quickly as they appear. Record it. Jot down or draw a picture.

Creative Visuals

Young or old ? Vase or

Human Figures?

Woman

doing makeup

in front of a mirror

looks like a skull

from a distance !

(Charles A Gillbert, 1892)

FIGURE IT OUT

LANDSCAPE - CASTLE

Matthaus Merian, the elder (1593-1650)

Oil on panel 31.8 by 41.3 cms

Can you see the nine people ?

How many

Faces ?

Can you see the Baby ?

Palindrome

In Eden I

ADAM: Madam-

EVE: Oh, Who-

ADAM: (no girl-rig on)

EVE: Heh?

ADAM: Madam, I’m Adam.

EVE: Name of a Foeman?

ADAM: O stone me ! Not so.

EVE: Mad! A maid I am, Adam.

ADAM: Pure, eh? Called Ella? Cheer up.

EVE: Eve, not Ella.Brat-star ballet on? Eve.

ADAM: Eve?

EVE: Eve. Maiden name. Both sad in Eden?I dash to be

manned. I am Eve.

ADAM: Eve. Drowsy baby’s word. Eve.

EVE: Mad! A gift. I fit fig. Adam.

ADAM: On hostess? Ugh! Gussets? Oh no!

EVE: ???

ADAM: Sleepy baby peels.

EVE: Wolf! Low!

ADAM: Wolf? Fun, so snuff “low.”

EVE: Yes low! Yes, nil on, no linsey-wolsey!

ADAM: Madam, I’ m Adam.

Named under a ban. A bared, nude man

Aha’

EVE: Mad Adam!

ADAM: Mmmmmmmm

EVE: Mmmmmmmm

ADAM: Even in Eden I win Eden in eve.

EVE: Pure woman in Eden. I win Eden in- a mower-up.

ADAM: Mmmmmmmm

EVE: Adam. I’m Ada!

ADAM: Miss, I’m Cain, a monomaniac. Miss, I’m-

EVE: No son.

ADAM: Name’s Abel, a male base man.

EVE: Name not so, O stone man.

ADAM: Mad as it is it is Adam.

EVE: I’m a Madam Adam, am I?

ADAM: Eve?

EVE: Eve mine. Denied, a jade in Eden, I’m Eve.

ADAM: No fig. (Nor wrong if on)

EVE: ???

ADAM: A Daffodil I doff, Ada.

EVE: ‘Tis a – what- ah, was it-

ADAM: Sun ever! A bare Venus…..

EVE: ‘s pity! So red, un girt, rig-nude, rosy tips…

ADAM: Eve is a sieve!

EVE: Tut-tut!

ADAM: Now a see-saw on…

EVE: On me? (O poem!) No!

ADAM: aha!

EVE: I won’t! O not now, I-

ADAM: Aha

EVE: No! O God, I- (Fit if I do?) Go on.

ADAM: Hrrrrrrh!

EVE: Wow!Ow!

ADAM: Sores? (Alas, Eros!)

EVE: No None. My hero! More Hymen, on, on…

ADAM: Hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh!

EVE: Revolting is error. Resign it, lover.

ADAM: No. Not now I won’t On, On…..

EVE: Rise sir.

ADAM: Dewy dale, cinema-game…Nice lady wed?

EVE: Marry an Ayr ram!

ADAM: Rail on , O liar!

EVE: Live devil!

ADAM: Diamond-eyed no-maid!

EVE: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

(A polindromic dialogue by J A Lindon)

M C Eschar

(1898-1972)

Netherlands

UPSIDE DOWN PICTURES

Muffaroo warns Lovekins But she does go and By falling off the

not to go near water alarms a nice lady embankment

Old man Muffaroo And throws it to The boat strikes the

brings a boat Little Lady Lovekins water with a splash

And a big wave takes All seems well When suddenly a great

her into the boat duck comes along

And takes Little Lady Old man Muffaroo jumps Both on shore, she gets

Lovekins in to the rescue scolded all the way home

Lovekins and Muffaroo in They enter through Genie says “ Open the right

a lovely palace with a lake the front door closet but not the left”

Genie vanishes and He opens the right door. Fairies left. Lovekins wants

two closets appear Little fairies greet them to open the left closet

Lovekins opens the left Hobgoblins appear and Hobgoblins leaves and

closet throw them up in the air terrible sound comes

Huge bullock tosses them And throws them through They climb down

with his horns the door to the tree and run away

An enormous fish Lovekins takes the fish Fight with a sword fish

caught by them and Muffaroo goes again

Sword fish fight ends Near the land another Canoe sinks and

fish-fight Muffaroo jumps ashore

Meanwhile big birds came A Big bird picks her up She was carried in air

towards Lovekins

Muffaroo saw Lovekins Muffaroo raised the fish Lovekins is dropped.

Bird took the big fish.

One day they are A fierce tiger They escape

walking along pounces out from by leaping

when all at once a pile of stones into the sea

Finding a raft they Here they come to And suddenly a huge

made for the shore a marsh with grass snake confronts them

They ran Get caught in Find shelter until it stops,

a shower they proceed further

The tiger appears again Old Muffaroo kills him And all ends well

Lovekins rescues a And Muffaroo helps him The little boy is glad

little long-haired boy across the river to be safe on shore

Lady Lovekins He bounces on her But is saved

is seen by the bird by old Muffaroo

Decided to climb up the tree Muffaroo got tired and

decided to give umbrellas

Lady got the umbrellas Walking on a big solid cloud

Fragment from "The Mermaid and the Floating Mine". In the beginning of the story, Lovekins and Muffaroo have built a boat and a wigwam. To the end of the story, they hit a mine and they're thrown in the air

Samuel Loyd (1841 – 1911)

Sam Loyd

This is one of the most popular puzzles ever created. The original was made of cardboard, with a rotating disk in the middle. The Chinese warriors are partly inside, partly outside the disk. If you turn the disk, one of the thirteen warriors mysteriously disappears ! ( Published in 1898)

This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody asked anybody!