What is Creativity?.

 Today's lesson we talked about creativity, what is creativity.  The activity was to produce a CD cover, with totally random band name, ablum title and picture.

•  To create a name for the band we used WikiPedia's random page selector tool, using the first article title on whichever page pops up, Mine was 'Armenia'. 
• To create the album title by cutting and pasting the last four words of the final quote on whichever page appears when you click on the quotationspage random quote seletor tool. The four letters turned out to be 'or the only truth'.  
• Finally to for the cover we went on Flickr's most interesting page and downloaded the third picture on that page.  
• Then using Photoshop I created the CD cover putting all these elements together, I have created something new from something old.

My version;

Ideas & Theories: 

• "A process needed for problem solving...not a special gift enjoyed by a few but a common ability possessed by most people" - Jone 1993
• "The making of the new and the re-arranging of the old" - Bentley 1997
• "Creativity results from the interaction of a system composed of three elements: a culture that contains symbolic rules,a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain, and a field of experts who recognise and validate the innovation." - Csikszentmihalyi 1996
• "There is no absolute judgement [on creativity] All judgements are comparisons of one thing with another." - Donald Larning

Taken from Media Magazine blog.

What is creativity?

One of the possible areas you could be asked about in the exam is creativity. The projects you have undertaken will hopefully have felt like an opportunity to display your creativity, but you will need the chance to discuss what you understand by creativity and what it might mean to be creative.

The assignment options at AS and A2 all offer constraints for your work, whether it be making pages for a music magazine, the opening of a film or the packaging for an album; one of the reasons why you aren't offered total free choice is because people often find that working within constraints gives them something to exercise their creativity, whereas total freedom can sometimes make it really difficult to know where to start. It's why genre can be interesting- how has something been created which fits with certain structures and rules but plays around with them to give us something a little bit different?

The word 'creative' has many meanings- the most democratic meaning would really suggest that any act of making something (even making an idea) might be seen as a creative act. In more elitist versions of the term, it is reserved for those who are seen as highly skilled or original (famous artists, musicians, film-makers etc). an interesting third alternative is to think about how creativity can be an unconscious, random or collaborative act that becomes more than the sum of its parts.

Tech

Postmorderm Music.

THE BEASTIE BOYS

They sample differnts songs to create new ones sometimes they sample up to 17 songs just to create one song of their own. They have also sampled other postmordern artists such as Afika Bambaataa.  Also other artists sample the Beastie Boy songs such 'Best foot forward by DJ shadow', which sampled 'Parties getting rough'. Their are more recent artists that sample there songs; T-pain, lil wayne etc. Another postermodern artist that sampled there songs is 'Girls talk'. 

Shake Your Rump (1989) sampled
• Funky Snakefoot by Alphonze Mouzon (1974)
• Super Mellow by Louis Bellson, Shelly Manne, Willie Bobo and Paul Humphrey (1975)
• Tell Me Something Good by Ronnie Laws (1975)
• 6 O'Clock DJ (Let's Rock) by Rose Royce (1976)
• Yo Yo by Rose Royce (1976)
• Born to Love You by Rose Royce (1976)
• Dancing Room Only by Harvey Scales (1979)
• That's the Joint by Funky 4 + 1 (1980)
• Jazzy Sensation by Afrika Bambaataa and The Jazzy 5 (1981)
• 8th Wonder by Sugarhill Gang (1981)
• Unity (Pt. 6 - World War III) by Afrika Bambaataa and James Brown (1984)

Postmodernism && Music.

Postmodernism is taking other forms of art to produce something new.
•The postmodern sensibility that anything can be considered cool in an ironic ‘I know it’s bad, but it’s so bad it’s good’ way.
•Work that is created based (entirely or in part) on older material. This incorporates sampling and will take you from the realms of hip hop culture transporting you finally in today’s modern fragmented musical landscape.

Dead or Alive - You spin me round.





Flo Rider has sampled this song to make it his own version...
FloRider - Right Round.