Tutorial Week

Our assignment this week was to visit the S.A.M or the Q8 and select an object can give it 10 emotions.

I decided to visit the art museum and the sculpture "Not Much To See" by Chun KaiFeng really caught my eye.

A pair of ‘Tat Seng’ slippers, the popular and inexpensive footwear of choice for many Singaporeans, easily recognised by their distinctive white base and blue straps.

These slippers can be seen everywhere in Singapore, nothing special and not meant to be special.

However, the artist suggests that these objects wield a powerful influence on the urban environment and the people who live in it, and that these apparently dull objects and settings might be more significant than they seem, being so intimately linked with our everyday lives in Singapore.

The 10 emotions given to us and the situation that the object might experience such emotions is:

Happy - When it's being display in the museum for the first time.

Confuse - When it was first created.

Angry - When it's being called ugly

Sad - When it's being poke.

Depress - When the museum is closed and it's alone in there.

Proud - When visitors take a photo of it.

Fear - When it's about to fall.

Anxiety - When someone looks at it too closely.

Shock - When someone uses flash to take a photo of it.

Calm - When it has been in the museum for a long time.

Analogical Thinking

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Similes, metaphors and analogies are thinking strategies that provide new ideas for problem-solving by making associations between objects that seem different.

Think about it, a candle might be happy/sad when it's lit. 

It might feel mad when it's melting.

Or shock if broken.

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Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind.

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For example, "time is money."

Metaphors is a figure of speech involving the comparison in which one thing is said to be another.

For example, "You are my sunshine."

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An analogy is a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based on.

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Lateral Thinking

"Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic." 

- by Edward de Bono.

This week's class begins with interesting problems.

Draw 9 dots, and join them with 4 lines without lifting your pen/pencil at all.

Why does the bee flies into a painting of a flower instead of the real rose?

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Most of us couldn't come out with a solution as we all tried to make a shape within the square of the dots but after that we know that we have to work out of the box.

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I think it's really useful for art student like us as it help us to boost our creativity, enable us to come out with unique ideas.

Mind mapping

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Mind map, something I bet everyone is familiar with.

This week's lesson is on mind mapping.

We have to do a mind map on how education can lead to a happy life.

Personally, I think mind map is very good for organising your thoughts and ideas.

The topic that we're given was very common, yet I find it very interesting.

Ever since the school started, we're all busy due to our assignments that needs to be done thus we don't really know each other that well yet.

This lesson gave us an opportunity to know more about our group members.

We get to share our thoughts about a serious issue, and we get to know each other's aspiration, their kind of ideal life and most importantly, their life.

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After researching on several mind maps on the internet, we decorated our mind maps with colors and drawing.

After seeing their skills on drawing, it motivates me to work harder on my drawing as I had never drew any decent stuff in my life.

Brainstorming Pt.2

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This week, we watched videos on brainstorming.

I was really interested in this video by Isaac Mizrahi where he talk about how he gets idea by not sleeping.

He spend his nights thinking about his life, thinking about design before he can sleep.

He "learns" from mistakes.

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"As a matter of fact, I think a lot of my design ideas come from mistakes and tricks of the eye. Because I feel like, you know, there are so many images out there, so many clothes out there. And the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken, of course, or very, very surprising."
- Isaac Mizrahi (http://www.ted.com/talks/isaac_mizrahi_on_fashion_and_creativity/transcript?language=en#t-137476)

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He then transform the mistakes into "his mistakes".
He made a mistake, and he work on his mistake.
I think that's a very important.
As people often quit after making a mistake instead of thinking about it and working on it.

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