Juxtaposition

HAPPINESS...

Happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts
Just like knowing the right time depends on the quality of your clock
If you never know what time it is
Then you will never be able to things you need to do the time you need to do them
Thus if the quality of  your thoughts does not please you
You will never be able to reach the dream that every single human being is chasing
Being happy


PAIN IS LOVE

They say pain is love
The more you love
The more likely it is to get hurt
Loving the wrong person always ends in pain


MAN AND WOMAN

Man and woman are like sheep of different colours
They are different in many ways
The way they think
The way they look
The way they do what they do
But in the end they are just two creatures of the same species in different coates

Juxtaposition

Below are more examples of how we can compare a picture that would otherwise have no connection with a certain topic but still make it work good.

LIFE..

Life is like a glimpse of light
At first it is not there
Then it glows strongly in different forms and ways
Until it can not glow anymore
Then all that is left is darkness
Loneliness....Stillness
So one should live their life to the greatest
Before the light goes out
Before the darkness engulfs you...

PAIN...

Opening your heart is like eating ice cream
You know that it might hurt in the end
Sometimes you feel blue
Sometimes you feel good
Something which gives you so much pleaseure
Can also give you so much pain
In the end the pain goes away...only numbness remains
All that is left is the cold around the heart..

LOVE...

Love is like a hot, steamy cup of coffee
In the beginning it is hot, steamy and passionate
It is hard to handdle and comprehend
You have to go at it with great care and precausion
As time goes on
It cools off, becomes much more easier to handle
And more comfortable
Even though what used to be hot became cool
It does not mean its any less good

LOVE...

 A woman in love is like a woman with a credit card

She will literally lose her mind if she does not know how to deal with it

Its exciting, enticing and addictive

It comes with problems and responsibilities

But she will still get excited at the site of a new credit card

Just as she will get excited when she falls in love

MEN against WOMEN

The next exercise is filled with quiet a bit of contravention...we all know that if we compare women and men it would be an endless debate..the problem is men always blame women for all their problems, so naturally the women will also blame the men.. below are a few pictures i found interesting when it comes to this issue..from a women's point of view of course...

Do you agree with this, personally i am not taking any sides.. :-)

Here i am comparing mortar and pestle to a man

Men are just like mortar and pestle

They are good for some things

But in the end easily replaced

Men are like chilli

They think they are hard and strong

But can be easily crushed and softened

Just like chilli in a mortar and pestle

We would never truly know who is right and who is wrong, because there is no human being who is both man and woman... so maybe the picture below sheds a bit of light

JUXTAPOSITION

Exercise 2

This exercise is all about metaphor, making words out of a picture.

We were supposed to choose 2 pictures of two different animals which we feel wont make a good merger, the two animals we chose must not be able to exist if put together to make one animal. There are animals which could possibly exist if they were to be put together, like for example the cartoons catdog,

or a mermaid,

or the hourseman,

the animals we choose must absolutely no doubt be unable to exist if put together.

I chose the animals fish and bird, the head of a fish and body of a bird ,the fishbird could never exist is it was an animal because a bird can not swim, so if put in the water it wont be able to survive, and a fish can not breath out of water, so it would definitely die.

Exercise 2

On this exercise, we must make a statement about love comparing it to chilli..

This exercise shows how much you can take something which completely could not define a certain thing or feeling, like love, and make it work for you in a creative word..i put down a few of my ideas of how i could compare LOVE to chilli..

1. Being in love is like eating chilli,too much chilli can be painfull,just like love. But eventhough I know it might hurt,I still want to be inlove.
2. Loving you is like eating chilli, sometimes too much chilli can hurt,just like your love, but eventhough I know I might get hurt, I still want to love you anyway.
3. Love is hot and spicy like chilli,too much chilli can make you cry, just like love. But eventhough it might hurt for a little while, its wonderful in the end.

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition means placing 2 variables side by side and contrast or similarity are shown through comparison.

 Simply stated, juxtaposition means placing things side-by-side. In art this usually is done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used. The viewer's attention is drawn to the similarities or differences between the elements.

Juxtaposition can be used in different things like writing poetry, art, science and many other different things.

Below is an example of Juxtaposition in poetry

I thoroughly hate loving you.

      Your heart is a perfectly-carved stone;
      Set deep into your chest, soft as granite.

      I grip you gently with angels’ claws;
      Icy breath scorching your warm, shivering skin.

      Your hard topaz eyes shimmer liquidly;
      Evaporating my soul with their numbing heat.

Together we fall upwards, drowning in the very air that whistles past our entwined, separate bodies.

      Your moist lips deliver a dry kiss upon mine;
      I can live neither with nor without you, my sweet oxymoron.

You and I;
      A perfect juxtaposition.

Another example of juxtaposition is below

InBeowulf, the poets skillfully use juxtaposition to suggest a subtext that ridicules the Germanic warrior's misplaced love of treasure, the bestiality, futility, and wastefulness of feuding, and, finally, inBeowulf's last fight, the failure and dissolution of the comitatus.

To the Germanic warriors the possession of treasure such as gold, silver, famous swords, and helmets symbolized loyalty, allegiance and protection. The Beowulf poets show the reader that the warriors' value of treasure is misguided by first skillfully mentioning treasure, in detail, at times that make it seem worthless such as burial and death. When discussing Shild's burial, the poet notes that his men "heaped up.....

Juxtaposition of the use of regicide in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth. "Crowing achievements are best made in cold blood"

Almost everyone uses juxtaposition in their nomal lives with out even realising it.

The best photographers in the world use it, juyst like in the pictures below..

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, NYC. 

Christmas decorations provide an altered perspective up on the famous shot tower (left) and the steel conical dome of the Melbourne Central shopping complex

Inside of one of the large cathedral in downtown Chicago. Since the church was actually in service, I took this shot from the hallway, which was separated by this avant-guard metal lattice work from the nave. The glass plates of the partition had a horrible orange tint, so I decided to convert the image to grayscale. 

People, usually women, use creative juxtapositions of objects, those that could be defined as art or artifact and those designated as commodity, to classify their home as a certain type of space, to identify themselves as certain kinds of people, to push the boundaries of middle-class identity, and to conform to middle-class ideals of home decoration.

To be creative is not a state of mind, we are all born as creative being but as we grow older we tend to pay attention to other aspects of our talents and lives and never really practice and nurture our creativity.I have done a few exercises to sharpen my techniques and i will share them below so that all of you can also practice.

Exercise 1
Choose three sets of numbers

0 Flower	9 Head
1 lightning	8 Rain
2 ice	7 Wood
3 light	6 Tree
4 fire	5 Spider
5 duck	4 Root
6 dog	3 Mountain
7 oil	2 Wind
8 leave	1 Rock
9 fly	0 water

Then after look at the list of words above and choose a set of words which represents the numbers.
Then make a sentence, how ever simple it might be with the words u chose, each sentence for 1 set of words you chose..
My set of words
01-fly and water
: I saw a beautiful bird fly by and it was as blue as water..
05-fly and root
: The naughty fly was caught by the big root..
10-flower and head
: The boy put the pretty flower on the girl's head
Then after u have written your sentences, draw an illustration of your sentence.
The next step is, put together the 2words you chose to make 1 word…
1.fly+water = flywater
2.fly+root=flyroot
3.flower+head=flowerhead
Then draw a picture of the words you just made to illustrate what the object u just named would look like. below are my illustrations

The next step is, put together the 2words you chose to make 1 word…
1.fly+water = flywater
2.fly+root=flyroot
3.flower+head=flowerhead
Then draw a picture of the words you just made to illustrate what the object u just named would look like.
Below is my illustration

associated mind mapping

There are two types of mind mapping...my last post was about the logical mind mapping..this new post is about the associated mind mapping..Associated mind mapping is very different from the logical mind mapping because unlike in logical mind mapping,where you stick to the stereo types, in associated mind mapping you try to get away from the stereo types,you try to come up with ideas which don't link to that topic what so ever...Logical mind mapping helps u recall a memory by using either diagrams, pictures or certain words, while associated mind mapping help u come up with new ideas..
In my last lesson we where using the words MORTAR and PESTLE to try and come up with ideas which dont really have any relation to the original use of a mortar and pestle. For those who do not know what a Mortar and pestle are, here is a picture below

Mortar and pestle is used to grind food,or spices.

The three ideas that i came up with for the use of a mortar and pestle are :

Marrige: It can be used as bride's price from the groom's family to the bride's family, the mortar will be given to the bride's father and the pestle will be given to the bride's mother.

Pain: it could be used by prison guards as a torturing tool for the prisoners. The mortar will be put on the prisoner's mouth so that no one will hear them screaming and the pestle will be used to hit the prisoner on the fingers to get information out of them.

Hair: It could be used as hair care products. The mortar will be used to store the hair cream and the pestle will be used to brush down the hair..

Those are my three crazy ideas,i could go on and on for ever but id rather hear what your ideas are...please share with me on the comments...

mind mapping can be used to help anyone archieve anything in a timely manner and it also helps a person to understand more because when u put everything out in an easy and understanderble way it becomes rational...you can use mind mapping for many different things,be it studying or just to organise your activities..

Creative Attitude

Creativity requires a certain attitude. Everyone is creative in their own way, the difference is some people take their ideas to the next level and other people keep their ideas to themselves and don't take them further. 
Today id like to look at a few attitude ideas to help you be creative..
1.Curiousity : We should learn to ask ‘why’, ‘what if’ and ‘I wonder…’ these are great questions to build into your life if you want to be a more creative person.  We should reinterprete the problem, look at it from a different perspective and not in the usual way that everyone else is looking at it.
2.Constructive Discontent :Creative people often have an acute awareness of what’s wrong with the world around them – however they are constructive about this awareness and won’t allow themselves to get bogged down in grumbling about it – they take their discontent and let it be a motivation to doing something constructive.
3. Optimism :Creative people generally have a deeply held belief that most (if not all) problems can be solved. No challenge is too big to be overcome and no problem cannot be solved (this doesn’t mean they’re always happy or never depressed – but they don’t generally get stumped by a challenge).
4.Seeing Hurdles as leading to improvements :This relates to some of the above – but by ‘hurdles’ I mean problems and mistakes in the creative process itself. Sometimes it’s on the journey of developing an idea that the real magic happens and it’s often out of the little problems or mistakes that the idea is actually improved.
5. Flexible Imagination :creative people have this amazing ability to see a problem or challenge and it’s many potential solutions simultaneously and they have an intuitive knack at being able to bring previously disconnected ideas together in flashes of brilliance that seem so simple – yet which are so impossible to dream up for the average person.


If you follow these guidelines,you are sure to become one of the following creative people..we have different types of creativity:

•  Novelty /Asthetic-is when someone does something which is new to them, this person does not create something which will have a big impact on the society or the world. Most people have this, novelty peices are usually artist or painters or sculptors, the create something which suits their needs.
• Innovation /Boundary pushers-this is the use of an already existing idea and then adding a new perspective to improve it. Innovation is usually for commercial reasons
• Invention-Inventors take already existing knowledge  and create a new idea. invention is also usually for commercial reasons, 
• Boundary Breakers : These people are very very rare, they are usually thought of to be insane or delirious when they try to tell people their ideas, they create something out of almost nothing.
• The most common example of some one who is a boundary breaker is Leonardo da Vinci,
  • He had a keen eye and quick mind that led him to make important scientific discoveries, yet he never published his ideas.
  • He was a gentle vegetarian who loved animals and despised war, yet he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons.
  • He was one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, yet he left only a handful of completed paintings. 
  • If you want to learn more about this increadible man you can go to  http://www.mos.org/LEONARDO/

The Mona Lisa is one of the many paintings and the most known created by Leonardo da vinci

Hey everyone!!
 There is a poll at the bottom of the page..please take a vote..

Creativity is in the past, present and the future

Where and when did we as human beings start being creative??where did it all begin?

Frankly speaking,if it was not for human development and creative ideas then we would not be where we are right now,i.e, we wouldn't have cars, airplanes,internet,software, video games,mobile phones or even the smallest things we take for granted like stoves or watches.

Edward de Bono stated that “There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”

The level of development we are at right now at this very generation is a clear demonstration of creativity at its best,life with out creativity is simply boring and unproductive,creativity revolves all around us in every way,when someone moves into a new house,the way they decide to arrange their furniture takes some form of creativity, i'm very sure that no one in this day and time could truthfully say that they can turn off their mobile phone, internet, and any sort of technological thing around them for a whole complete day and not feel like they are going crazzzy!!
drop me a line and tell me if you could do that..