...Creative Spark Talk: Isaac Mizrahi Armando Viscaino PHL/458 August 30, 2014 Enrique Vasquez Creative Spark Talk: Isaac Mizrahi There are many creative people that make a difference in the world. These creative people range from inventers, world figures, celebrities, and designers. One creative person that catches an interest is Isaac Mizrahi who is a clothing designer. He is known for his extraordinary clothing designs and extravagant fashion shows. This paper will include the stages of his creativity, his imagination and curiosity, and society benefits as a whole. One of the most asked questions that creator’s get is where their creativity does come from. In the 2008 “Ted Talk” Isaac Mizrahi gives many examples of how he gets his creativity, one of the most interesting part is that he follows people whom he thinks are interesting. He explains how it may seem weird to others, of course following people, but he finds something interesting like a pair of shoes takes a picture and runs with the creative design. He talks about how he sees colors from a movie and an idea pops into his mind where he finds a vison for a clothing design and creates it. Another stage of his creativity is very common among most creators; he includes how he stays awake at night with an idea and thinks and thinks on how to create something extraordinary. Where does the imagination come from; how can this one person have such an imagination to create an entire clothing line from just one thought...
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...William Boyd Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Instructor: Robert Dubose William Boyd Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Robert Dubose Creative Spark Creativity is a subject that is very disputable amongst psychologists. Psychologists have argued on a definition for the word creativity for many years now. Regardless of what most psychologists chose to think now, most believe that it is a creative act no matter big or small that is unusual and most likely become very useful to society. The video I watched was by John Bohannon and dancers from the Black Label Movement. The name of the video is tilted “Dance vs. PowerPoint”, a modest proposal and was filmed at TEDxBrussels, which was also posted in November 2011. John explains in this video how one of his friends tried to tell him about a science experiment and just simply couldn’t. His friend finally explains what the experiment was about to John, and then he tells his friend that “Maybe next time if you had dancers to try to better explain it will be much easier. He then tells his friend that numerous scientists have started using dancers to describe many different scientific things simply because it is more sufficient. Dancing PHD is the group of scientists that have started using dancers to explain various things. He starts to explains why it would be more productive to use dancers and instead of PowerPoint presentations. John then gives an explanation on how it is a waste...
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...Creative Spark Paper PHL/458 Creative Minds and Critical Thinking July 7, 2014 Abstract In the video John Bohannon, a scientist and writer, gives a presentation which takes place in November 2011 at an international convention hosted TED in Brussels, Belgium. Bohannon introduces a modest proposal for easing our economic financial burden through the use of dance vice power point presentations. The idea first came to Bohannon during a conversation with a friend who is physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His friend was struggling to explain a scientific experiment on “lasers could be used to cool down matter”. Science is a subject where the more words that are spoken the more confusing it becomes. Therefore by the end of the conversation with his friend, Bohannon, was more confused. Then thought the experiment could have been explained more clearly through dance. Dance vs. PowerPoint As I scanned the list of Creative Spark videos I decided to make my selection based on the title that grasped my attention. I eventually narrowed it down to three. However the first video that I watched was titled “Dance vs. power point, a modest proposal by John Bohannon and the only one. In no way shape or form am I a science buff. Therefore when his presentation captured and maintained my attention that spoke volumes. Bohannon makes the statement, “bad power point presentations are a serious threat to our global economy” while it sounds like a ridiculous...
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...confusion and indecision in the poet’s mind. Also, the moon is a symbol of poetic muse. Thus the falling moon becomes a metaphor for his sinking poetic abilities. The moon is supposed to be steady but it has lost its balance, as if to suggest that poetic inspiration is not a steady source; it waxes and wanes like the moon. The poet tries to sleep but cannot. There seems to be a conflict between the man and his muse: the man must get some sleep but the poet inside him cannot put his thoughts to rest, agonising over a vaguely formed idea that he is unable to articulate. He feels that, rather than struggle with himself over sleep, he should go outdoors. Nature and the outside world seem to be the source the poet relies on to stimulate the creative thoughts in his mind. Interestingly, the poet leans “from” his...
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...misconceptions society, and design students have towards the true meaning of being an interior designer and the discipline interior design. Both Waxman and Clemons take a unique perspective when analyzing this issue. This article shares an interesting perspective that involves exposing the noticeable truth that affect students that come into the interior design study. Instead of arguing against the preconceived idea that design-related television suggest, both Waxman and Clemons pose an argument that implies to live with the perceptions but to dig deeper and get an education that really teaches what interior design truly is. My reaction to the article would be in total agreement to the authors’ findings. Starting with their first argument when they talk about how even though twenty-some years have passed since they got their degree in Interior Design and are now professors in the discipline, they still deem necessary to give to people an explanation of what they really do. Personally I can relate to that. Coming from engineering school and an architectural program I never found myself in the position of explaining people what the field of study was really about because it’s rather common knowledge to know what architecture really is. Transferring to an Interior Design program seemed to change the dynamic of conversation when explaining what it really is and what covers as a profession. Upon engaging into conversation with people I would find that most of them just thought the interior...
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...writing style use a circular story format, presenting to the reader a chain of events. At the end of the story, the reader discovers that the characters have ended up in the same event that they started with. The entire story is an "If ____________, then ___________" scenario. The Story: The story begins with a boy throwing a muffin out of the window to a moose in his yard. The moose walks right threw the door and demands some jam to go with it. The moose wants another and another and when they are all gone he wants you to make some more. They have to go to the store to get more muffin mix, it is chilly outside so the moose asks for a sweater to stay warm. The sweater is small and the buttons burst, he asks for needle and thread, which sparks a memory of his grandmother making sock puppets. The make scenery for the show with paints and they put on a puppet show. As the moose is behind the couch for the puppet show his antlers stick out so he asks for something to cover them up, the boy gets a sheet and the moose loses focus and now wants to be a ghost for Halloween, yells “BOO”, scares him and knocks over all the paints used for the scenery. The moose wants to clean the mess so he asks for soap and water and then wans to hang the sheet outside to dry where he notices the blackberry bushes. This reminds him of her jam for the muffins. The boy knows that if he offers the moose the jam, he will want a muffin to go with it....
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...Assignment 1: ‘’Advertising Stew’’ Ken Ernst Strayer University Professor Brad Bridges November 4, 2012 Abstract In this paper we will briefly look at the company Hormel Foods who sell the Dinty Moore Beef Stew Line of goods how they got started and what kind of goods they sale. As this paper continues we will be introduced to Luis who is a new brand manager for the Dinty Moore Beef Stew line. Luis Arroyo has been assigned a project to develop a new advertisement campaign for the entire line of the beef stew line of products. There are several questions that need to be answered before he continues his new assignment. The first question that should be asked of Luis should he consider hiring an outside advertising agency to help create and launch this new campaign. What are some of the benefits that an outside advertising agency would bring to the campaign and would it help the line of products? As Luis considers these options he also needs to figure out what kind of research and planning that needs to go into identifies Dinty Moore’s most loyal consumers and the potential for new consumers. So as Luis’ adventures continues with this new job we should be able to answer these outstanding questions and Luis will be able to bring new consumers to the product. Dinty Moore is a product of the Hormel Foods Corporation which is based out of Austin, Minnesota which was once known as Geo.A Hormel & Co. The company was established in 1891 by George A. Hormel who was a child...
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...February 9, 2003 No votes yet Categories: Fonts, Features Like Related Articles dot-font: Can a Book Teach You to Set Type Perfectly? dot-font: The Typographic Art of Matthew Carter dot-font: Stop Stealing Sheep -Again dot-font: Type Comes Home to Rome dot-font: The "X" Appeal of James Montalbano Gerard Unger's typeface designs have added both style and legibility to any number of publications. Until now, however, his influence has been less obvious than it might be, becaus his work is scattered in so many places. The debut of his own Web site concentrates examples o all of his work in one place, making it easier to see both the forest and the trees. It's also a welldesigned site with a lot of useful information. Related Reading Creative Essentials Type for Everyday Use Unger's best-known typefaces are probably Swift (1985), Amerigo (1986), and Flora (1984). H newspaper face Gulliver (1993) is familiar to millions of readers, as it's the typeface used in bot "USA Today" and several European newspapers; but newspaper readers seldom know the nam of the typeface they're reading, and Gulliver is not generally available except to large publishin houses. If you live in the Netherlands, you probably see Unger's letters almost every day; he ha designed typefaces for the signage systems of both the Dutch highways and the Amsterdam metro. Privacy Information One of Unger's type designs is used on road signage in the Netherlands. Most of Unger's type designs, however,...
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...species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments. Rudolf Diesel and his invention diesel engine is the object of the paper. The goal of the paper is to analize this invention, talk about Rudolf Diesel and his theory of diesel engine, its advantages and disadvantages, types and working principles. The diesel engines of today are refined and improved versions of Rudolf Diesel's original concept. They are often used in submarines, ships, locomotives, and large trucks and in electric generating plants. Technology has affected society and its surroundings in a number of ways. In many societies, technology has helped develop more advancedeconomies (including today's global economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products, known as pollution, and deplete natural resources, to the detriment of the Earth and its environment. Contents INTRODUCTION 4 1. Rudofl Diesel. Biography 5 2. HISTORY 6 3. How diesel engines work 7 3.1. Early fuel injection systems 7 3.2. Mechanical and electronic injection 8 3.3. Direct injection 8 4. Types 9 4.1. Size Groups. 9 4.2. Basic Types of Diesel Engines 9 4.3. Gas generator 10 4.4. Modern High- and Medium-speed Engines 10 5. Advantages and disadvantages versus spark-ignition...
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...Strayer University 05/02/2011 This paper will explain the marketing plan in more detail for southern style coffee shops. Southern style coffee marketing segment will be to supply not only the airports and surrounding areas but to also reach out to department food stores and market international online sales. To give more detail on the marketing plan I will explain four more questions in detail. First I will discuss the type of product the company will offer and identify its primary characteristics. Secondly I will discuss the product branding strategy. Next I will discuss how the product fits within a product line and the depth and breath of the line. Finally I will discuss how the product and target market strategies fit with the organizational strategy. Finally I will explain how the product and target market strategies fit with the organizational strategy. First, southern style coffee shop name speaks for itself. The company is all about selling coffee and to not only market particular demographics but to attract the non- coffee drinkers as well. The Southern style coffee shops have just begun business, and marketing is essential to its success and future profitability. The shops will offer a place for people to meet in a comfortable, person-to-person meeting environment. The basic market need for the shops is place where singles and families can meet new similar people. This environment will give them the opportunity to talk about their everyday travel and living...
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...I always entered the competition where we had to write an essay on the topic that the college professors had chosen for the kids to write about. Thankfully, I got in every year I submitted a piece. I went to West Junior High School in Shakopee, Minnesota, and at the time, I felt I was not being pushed enough as a writer. I wanted to see how much I could enjoy the wonders of writing, without being forced to write some random essay in school, so I made myself take advantage of the opportunity. I remember being a seventh-grader, in my third year of going to the writer’s conference, taking my all-time favorite class. It was a creative writing class and, purple composition notebook and matching colored pencil in hand, I was ready for it. The professor at Bethel University made us do a simple writing exercise that allowed me to take a simple idea and turn it into a story. First, she gave us two minutes to write as many topic sentences for a possible story idea. After choosing the topic sentence, we were give ten minutes to just, write. Words gushing out of me, I seamlessly filled three pages of what probably was based off of a drama-filled episode from the T.V show I was watching at the time, yet it was so much more. I found my voice as a writer as I intertwined my ideas with each stroke of my...
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...self-effacing and approachable (Essig, 2006). Despite his great involvement in civics and politics later in his life, Franklin was first a businessman and a scientist. Franklin’s scientific work and business ventures lead him to become one of the most recognizable innovators of all time. According to Isaacson (2003), one of the main factors that caused Franklin to be thought of as a genius was the varied nature of his interests. He became involved in projects that ranged from civics to science, and he never took himself too seriously. The earliest known invention of Benjamin Franklin was the development of a copperplate press in 1728 that used ornate designs, and different colors of ink to make it more difficult for counterfeiters to forge paper money from the state of New Jersey. It was also during this period that Franklin invented a method of casting printing type by using molten metal and lead mold casts from existing printing type. These innovations in the field of printing and graphic arts would earn Franklin professional recognition nearly 200 years later in 1902 when the Franklin Gothic typeface was named after him. Even though the technology has dramatically changed, the printing presses that...
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...society in preparation for the future. To facilitate deep understanding of a new concept, to facilitate learning, learners must have the opportunity to develop multiple and flexible perspectives. The process of becoming an expert involves failure, as well as the ability to understand failure and the motivation to move onward. Meta-cognitive awareness and personal strategies can play a role in developing an individual’s ability to persevere through failure, and combat other diluting influences. Awareness and reflective technologies can be instrumental in developing a meta-cognitive ability to make conscious and unconscious decisions about engagement that will ultimately enhance learning, expertise, creativity, and self-actualization. This paper will review diverse perspectives from psychology, engineering, education, and computer science to present opportunities to enhance creativity, motivation, and self-actualization in learning systems. r 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Keywords: Creativity; Learning systems; Psychology; Failure; Motivation Education has the dual power to cultivate and to stifle creativity. Recognition of its complex tasks in this domain is one of the most fruitful intellectual achievements of modern psychopedagogical research. Edgar Faure (Learning to Be, Unesco, Paris 1972) ÃFax: 617 258 0290. E-mail address: win@media.mit.edu. 1071-5819/$ - see front matter r 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd....
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...To write satire is to perform a miracle. One must hate the world so much that one’s hatred strikes sparks but one must hate it only because it disappoints one’s invincible love of it; one must write in denunciation of ugliness and put the thing down in unmistakable black and white, yet keep this, as all written things, within the sphere of beauty. (Schorer 23). This quotation of Rebecca West interprets the significance of satire and satirist. Sinclair Lewis, the first American to be awarded the Noble Prize in literature, was one of the superb satirists American literature has produced. His novels highlight the vital issues of the contemporary society and are suffused with convincing characters, realistic dialogues and down-to-earth...
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...Reinforcement Strategies University of Phoenix CJA 510 Organizational Administration and Behavior Dennis Wallace, Yesenia West, Dione Jackson, Antonio Santini, Maria Arroyo, Carolyn Newby-Ruffin Douglas Bryant III, J.D. January 31, 2011 It has been founded since 1923 that, The Walt Disney Company continues proudly to provide quality entertainment for every member of the family, across America, and around the world. Just as the guests and audiences reward the company for its high quality, Disney in turn recognizes and rewards employees and cast members, creating a highly motivating working environment. The company has designed a wide variety of programs and services to assist employees professionally as well as personally. Health, dental, life, and pet insurance, weekly pay, pay incentives, bonuses, free admission passes, and education are some examples of management’s reinforcement strategies that have helped keep happy more than 130,000 people currently employed. (Disney Corporation, 2011) Management at Walt Disney World have focused strategically on their efforts on identifying every employee’s professional needs by creating the Disney Four Core Concept, Dream, Believe, Dare, and Do. Education and training have been exceptional reinforcement strengths that have...
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