Creativity from Creative Visuals

Slide 1: 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

Slide 7: The oral instruction is The visual instruction is “Say Hello” “Say Hello”

Slide 8: 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.

Slide 9: Problem in recognizing inverted images

Slide 11: Left hemisphere: Logical, Analytic, Quantitative, Rational and Verbal Right hemisphere: Conceptual, Holistic, Intuitive, Imaginative and Non-Verbal

Slide 15: The left brain process information in logical analytical stages

Slide 16: Right side – The Artistic Brain

Slide 17: 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.

Slide 18: 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.

Slide 20: Creativity is a mental process utilizing all of the brain's specialized capabilities. It is, therefore, "whole brained."

Slide 21: INTELLIGENCE CREATIVITY Measured by tests for Creative thinking is a abilities, aptitudes and mental process that skills usually produces novel solution to a problem Possible to have highly Possible to have high intelligence but entirely creative but average poor creative persons intelligent persons Divergent Thinking Convergent Thinking Non-logical Approach Logical Approach Conventional Solutions Fresh & new Solutions

Slide 22: 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

Slide 23: 10 9 Value for ? ? 2 87 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

Slide 24: 10 9 15 2 8 7 What is the next letter in this Sequence? O,T,T,F,F,S,S,? One,Two,Three,Four,Five,Six,Seven

Slide 25: One Match replaced Three Matches replaced Another Solution Two Matches replaced

Slide 26: 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.

Slide 28: Young or old ? Vase or Human Figures?

Slide 29: Woman doing makeup in front of a mirror looks like a skull from a distance ! (Charles A Gillbert, 1892)

Slide 31: FIGURE IT OUT

Slide 32: LANDSCAPE - CASTLE Matthaus Merian, the elder (1593-1650) Oil on panel 31.8 by 41.3 cms

Slide 35: Can you see the nine people ?

Slide 36: How many Faces ?

Slide 37: Can you see the Baby ?

Slide 38: 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.

Slide 39: 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

Slide 40: 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: ???

Slide 41: 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!

Slide 42: 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)

Slide 44: M C Eschar (1898-1972) Netherlands

Slide 46: UPSIDE DOWN PICTURES

Slide 54: 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

Slide 55: 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

Slide 56: 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

Slide 57: 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

Slide 58: 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

Slide 59: 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.

Slide 60: 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

Slide 61: 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

Slide 62: 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

Slide 63: Decided to climb up the tree Muffaroo got tired and decided to give umbrellas Lady got the umbrellas Walking on a big solid cloud

Slide 65: 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

Slide 67: Samuel Loyd (1841 – 1911)

Slide 70: 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)

Slide 73: 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!

Slide 74: Lateral Thinking A sailor Walks into a restaurant, sits down at a table, and orders albatross sandwich. When it arrives, he takes one bite, leaves the restaurant, takes out the gun and commits suicide. WHY ?

Slide 75: Inside of a locked room Romeo and Juliet were there. A glass bowl with water was on a table. After sometime when peeping through the key-hole, Romeo and Juliet were found to be dead. Glass bowl was broken. Water was on the floor. Develop the story.

Slide 76: Challenge the status quo Confront Assumptions Exhibit curiosity Investigate new possibilities Tend to take initiative in most matters Be highly imaginative Be future orientated Tend to think visually See possibilities within the seemingly impossible Be not afraid of taking risks

Slide 77: Be prepared to make mistakes Be adaptable to different work environments Be adaptable to changing circumstances See relationship between seemingly disconnected elements Distill unusual ideas down to their underlying principles Synthesize diverse elements Spot underlying patterns in events Be ready to cope with paradoxes Look beyond the first right answer