...Creative Spark Talk Analysis July 20th, 2013 For this assignment I chose to review Stefon Harris’ “There are no mistakes on the bandstand” TEDTalk. After review I found the concepts and narrative to be very applicable to the business realm as well as daily life. Stefon presented many different ideas and opinions to the process of creativity that are normally lost in typical creativity examples. From what I gathered, Stefon is a musician, a vibraphonist to be exact. While I am not familiar with what a vibraphonist is, I assume it focuses mainly on instruments such as the xylophone and similar instruments. Stefon is not who I would have expected as a guest on TEDTalks but his perspective is refreshing. I viewed Stefon’s on YouTube which showed the video to have been posted in December of 2011. This talk was very interesting because it used jazz music as the example to creating something organic and fresh. The driving point of the presentation was that perceived mistakes are commonly viewed as problems when in reality they should be not be seen as mistakes but as a shift in the mainstream thought process. Creativity comes in many forms so what one person sees as a mistake can instead be seen as a new way of continuing. Commonly, creativity is stifled due to perceived problems with the thought process and non-conformity is extinguished. We view these non-conformers as hiccups generally which eventually wears on a person’s creativity and ends when that person no longer wants...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis Sonya Walls PHL 458 December 2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis In the video, Elizabeth Gilbert, a 40-year old author, explains how she began her start in writing. This speech takes place in California, February 2009, in front of hundreds of people. There, Elizabeth digs deep into her past to convey to the audience “the elusive creative genius.” As a teenager, Elizabeth knew exactly what she wanted to do. Her dream was to become a professional writer and she felt determined to achieve her goal. Being looked at as a far-fetched idea, people would often ask her if she felt that it would be the right career for her. She would always respond with a yes but fear began to grow. She was afraid, but she still had a vision to be what she felt like was her calling. If she didn’t take a chance and try, she would never know if she could achieve it. She ignored everyone and began to pursue it anyway. As she began to research the “arts” what was revealed to her was simply shocking. According to Elizabeth, everyone that pursued the arts or were trying to pursue the arts were considered to be mentally unstable. To Elizabeth, this statement had to come from a source where creativity was not present. Elizabeth felt that people who pursued the arts were often misunderstood and their thought process was different from the average person. Elizabeth explained that Romans felt that their creativity came from an outside source, For example, if there was an...
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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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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL 458 August 26, 2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis In the 2011 TED talks video, “Taking Imagination Seriously,” artist Janet Echelman speaks to a TED audience in Long Beach, California about taking imagination seriously. She relayed her experience about how she creatively came up with an unusual art material after some of her paints disappeared on Fulbright a trip to India. According to G. Walles, a forerunner in creativity theory (Jens, 2010), there are four stages of creativity: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. In the video, Janet illustrates some of the stages of creativity. After arriving in Mahabalipurma, India and discovering her paintings did not make it, Janet was forced to come up with a solution to her problem. Mahabalipurma is well known for their famous sculptures, and in an attempt to resolve the dilemma, Janet demonstrates illumination when she attempts to try bronze casting. However, after realizing that making large forms would be too heavy and expensive, she sought out a different approach. She came up with the idea of using fish nets as a new method to sculpture. The idea came to her while walking on the beach and seeing village fishermen bundle their nets into mounds of sand (Echelman, 2011). She collaborated with the fishermen to make her first sculpture titled “Wide Hips.” Janet utilizes preparation by studying craft traditions and collaborating with artists in Lithuania. She came up with the...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis: “How Schools Kill Creativity" by Ken Robinson Jeff Talley University of Phoenix PHL/458 May 20, 2015 Faculty Name: Sonya Walker Creative Spark Talk Analysis: “How Schools Kill Creativity" by Ken Robinson At the TED conference in February 2006, Ken Robinson argues that schools are only teaching education and not creativity, which the school system should be concentrating on. He feels the students of today are not taught so much in the arts and music area. There is only a strong focus in educating the students in the math, science and literacy areas. Robinson also goes on to say that the sad part about this is if a young student enjoys either or both of the arts and music area, they are told that those areas will never get them a job in their future. He feels that having creativity (music and the arts) in the educational curriculum is just as important as literacy, math and science and that educators should treat it the same as the core subjects. Students lose their creativity when they are told at a young age that they are wrong because they don’t ever want to make another mistake again. When a child is growing up they don't care that they are wrong. Now, when a child is told that they are doing something wrong they don't ever want to make another mistake ever again. This in turn will cause...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Creative Spark Talk Analysis The video I have chosen is titled “Everything is a remix” by Kirby Ferguson, who is also the speaker. The presentation takes place in the year 2012 at Edinburgh, Scotland. The premise is that all creative thinking is based on the work done by those who came before us. In Kirby Ferguson’s words “Everything is a remix”, meaning there is nothing new under the sun. Ferguson defines the steps involved in making a “remix” of a song as consisting of 1) copy, 2) transform and 3) combine. This consists of copying each part of the song, transforming each part into something “new” and then combining them back into something new but based on the song or songs from before. Ferguson goes on to say that these steps: 1) copy, 2) transform and 3) combine, are the basic elements of all creativity. He goes on to use Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie as examples of great songwriters borrowing from others to make something uniquely their own. According to Ferguson, something like 66% of Dylan’s melodies was borrowed from folk singers that came before him. The lyrics were, in most cases, his, which brings us to the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie and his take on songwriting. Woody believed that it was perfectly acceptable to “borrow” a melody here and there as long as the lyrics were original. Folk singing is mostly about telling stories anyway and Guthrie realized there are only so many chord changes that you can go through...
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...Creative spark talk Analusis Rodrigo Botello PHL/458 April 23, 2015 DOUGLAS PETRIKAT TED known to many as Technology, Entertainment and design is a website that has videos that encourages new ideas and new ways of thinking to user. This website is nonprofit design to spread ideas by short and encouraging talks (TED, 2015) some of the greatest minds of our time such as leaders, Teachers and the greatest thinkers of our time have videos for viewing on this website. While browsing the website I came across a title names Taking Imagination Seriously that was recorded in June of 2011 by creator and Artist Janet Echelman. Janet Echelman is a true inspiration to all the view this video, she saw art in the form of fishnets and made her creations to life. She Mentions in the video that she herself never thought of herself as being an artist in her life. After she has been reject from 7 different art schools she began to paint ten years later on her own. One day she was offer a Fulbright in India where she had the opportunity to have an exhibition of her paintings. When she arrived in India to show off her art in her exhibition she ran into a slight dilemma, her paintings never arrived with her. While trying to come up with a solution to her problem, she stayed in a fishing village that was famous for sculptures. While observing the local she tried to create a bronze casting but realized that creating a sculpture out of bronze would be too costly and heavy to create. One...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 October 6,2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis To find ones creative spark, one must look beyond the possibilities of failure within yourself and your peers and do what makes you happy. There will always be a time that the creativity will not be readily available, and the creative thinker will be able to recognize this and not get frustrated, and just find a way to put that spark away for another time. After watching a few of the TED Talks videos on Creative Spark, the one that caught my interests the most was Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius. The video was shot in February of 2009 in front of a live studio audience. Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the popular bestselling book Eat, Pray Love. Throughout her speech she goes into detail about her creative thinking process, using explanations to why she thinks the way she does, and gives incredible stories about other creative thinkers in which she discovered and developed her creative thinking process through. There are many elements to this video that made me choose it over the others. Elizabeth is both funny and intelligent, she knows the way she thinks and could easily explain this to an audience in such a way that it inspires one to think like her. Key points There are specific points that she hits throughout the video. The first thing she goes into is that She is a highly successful bestselling author that everyone feels sorry for and tells...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis Creativity is defined as an act or product is uncommon and is useful to society, many of us have ideas that are sometimes different and innovative, but many of us don’t realize them and do not materialize them. “There are four stages in the creative process that are the preparation stage, incubation stage, illumination stage and finally the verification stage” (Creativity Portal, 2004). “The first step is the preparation stage where your idea is investigated, then comes the incubation stage that is when you start to think on your idea unconsciously, the third step is the illumination stage that you begin to put your idea together and finally comes the verification stage that is finally the point where your idea is accepted” (Creativity Portal, 2004). From all the videos in the TED channel the one that I found most interesting was the video “Taking Imagination Seriously” by Janet Echelman that was shoot in June 2011, she was inspired when her paints went missing, which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes rising, flowing, building sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. She materialized her ideas by considering and using unorthodox methods and materials in order to make giant sculptures that now stand in many cities around the world. She first had an idea back in the late 90’s to make building size sculptures out fishing net, a material she saw useful in order to materialize her vision. The first sculpture...
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...about education and the current system. The Importance of Creativity To begin his talk Sir Ken Robinson states that children have a great capacity for innovation. I can certainly relate to this being a father of two girls and stepson. They all have their unique gifts and talents. My stepson is whiz when it comes to math he is only nine years old, my twelve year old daughter love to play cello, and my five year old daughter loves to sing and dance. I once was waiting in a very long line and she started to sing a song I had never heard before. It appeared that she just made it up. Everyone in the line seemed to enjoy the shoe she was putting on. He also goes on to say that creativity be treated with the same importance as literacy. Creative Thinking Sir Ken Robinson continues in his talk with stating that children are not afraid to make mistakes. That by the time they become adults they lose this. As adults we are afraid of...
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...4. Google is constantly pushing for growth in their industry. Their Google Plex is set up to spark creativity and they’re constantly coming out with new apps and technology. The problem Google might face with this drive for growth is that when a company gets big and fast by outdoing their competitors, like Google has, it sparks jealousy and excites different parties to capitalize on litigation or reporting on their miscues. Google also has the tendency to hire people rapidly in order to pursue their growth. They may be hiring faster and more than they can handle on their profits. All this being said there has been criticism against Google saying that their Cocky and self absorbed because of all their growth. They feel entitled and elite. I think what’s so dangerous is that Google fosters and promotes creativity in the technological world, which is at the forefront of young thinkers, and is what we concentrate on in our generation. If Google is so quick to feel entitled, and seem cocky while they are still in a potential growth stage then they may be taking young hopefuls, and the genius minds they’re looking for and turning them off with their attitude to go else where. Whether the accusations are true or not if Google really wants to continue to grow they would have to seriously concentrate on their PR and make sure that they maintain a relatable, do no harm persona to keep up a reputation that can foster their growth expectations. 6. Microsoft definitely would...
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...While old rivals and new players are able to successfully commercialize their innovations and grow their companies Microsoft struggles to do the same (Exhibit 1). Microsoft can’t effectively commercialize its innovations; Windows Mobile, TabletPC, Zune and e-Reader were not successfully brought to market and its “Online Service Business” and “Entertainment and Devices” divisions are not profitable. Where they continue to succeed is in the Server & Tools, Client and Business Divisions. Microsoft needs to do the following: 1. Fire Steve Ballmer. Under his leadership the company can’t make business divisions profitable, commercialize innovation, or return value to shareholders (Exhibit 2). Bring back Gates for inspiration while searching for a successor. 2. Rebrand the “Business Division” the “Applications Division” and make applications available on all platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, Cloud…etc.). Mobile markets are growing 70%/year and can’t be ignored because they don’t run windows. 3. Merge the “Client” and “Server and Tools” divisions to create a “Platform” division. Develop platforms for all technologies (PC’s, Social Media, Servers, Cloud, Phones, Tablets…etc.). The merged unit will reduce internal competing. 4. Spin-off the “Online Services Business” and “Entertainment and Devices” divisions. These as stand along companies will be smaller and more nimble and may innovate successfully on its own, as they are not able to innovate within...
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...Submitted to: Submitted by: Mr. Cristoff Sia LIMOS, Kamille E. III- St. Lucy of Light I. INTRODUCTION A. The Choice B. Nicholas Sparks *Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Patrick Michael Sparks, a professor, and Jill Emma Marie (née Thoene) Sparks, a homemaker and an optometrist's assistant. He was the middle of three children, with an older brother Michael Earl "Micah" Sparks (1964) and a younger sister, Danielle "Dana" Sparks (1966–2000), who died at the age of 33. Sparks has said that she is the inspiration for the main character in his novel A Walk to Remember. Sparks was raised Roman Catholic and is of German, Czech, English and Irish ancestry. He and his wife are devout Catholics and are raising their children in the Catholic faith. His father was pursuing graduate studies, and the family moved a great deal, so by the time Sparks was 8, he had lived in Watertown, Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska. In 1974 his family settled in Fair Oaks, California, and remained there through Nicholas's high school days. He graduated in 1984 as valedictorian from Bella Vista High School, then enrolling at the University of Notre Dame, having received a full track and field scholarship. In his freshman...
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...center of gravity with fuel), kerosene heaters are typically very sturdy. Tipping over a kerosene heater takes some doing. Additionally, because there is fuel involved, people are probably more cautious than they might be with an electric heater. Users have the responsibility to use extreme caution when operating any fuel-based component, especially any type of heating device. Due to the stability of these types of heaters, a corporation should not be held liable for recklessness that results in a kerosene heater tip-over. Using these arguments, I would recommend that CSH does not incorporate an automatic cut-off when tipped over on any of its units. Instead, one of the most important features that should be implemented is an electric spark ignition. The first danger of no electric start option is simply the repetitive lighting of a match. While it is the users’ responsibility handling matches safely in their own home, a combustible fuel is also involved, which increases danger significantly. According to...
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...Qualities of an Epic Story in The Notebook What is an epic? An epic, by definition, is the telling of an epic hero’s story through the vast journey and sacrifices he makes. The Notebook would be considered an epic for many reasons. Some may disagree and say it’s just a love story that contains no characteristics, and no proof of being an epic. But in this paper the characteristics of an epic will be explored through facts and examples from the text and from today’s present life and culture. The epic hero, Noah Hamilton in Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook states, “I am no one special, just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me. And my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived (The Notebook).” Some examples of the characteristics in The Notebook that proves this is an epic would include vast settings, the story begins in medias res, the characters have epic digressions and that the hero embodies the values of the culture. Because of how the story starts, media res would be considered the first characteristic of an epic that can be noticed in The Notebook. Our story begins at a nursing home in the south where Allie is being looked after due to her dementia. The nurse is in her room, attempting to have Allie come out and go outside for a little while until a mysterious man shows up. Now, we don’t know who this man is that has just entered her room, and we’re not...
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