Frankly, creativity is one of the qualities I value most. I value it because this is the quality that can break through the existing boundaries and change the world. This is the value that can truly make a difference to the world.
I don't have a lot of passions, but I do really love computer programming. (Recall that my definition of passion is love for things you do). Anything related to technology catches my eyes and that is why I am in Computer Science major. Probably another passion of me is to think about new crazy ideas. One of the best things I retained from my childhood is my crazy imagination. I like to think and imagine things a lot that I can just day dream for an hour and spend many hours following up with the idea (like searching for information, drawing sketches and mockups). The third thing is probably soccer, which I am not very good in. I don't know why, I just feel happy playing soccer though I do not achieve anything. That's the weird thing about passion.
Out of topic: The explanation of the words Fluency, Flexibility, Originality and Elaboration is seriously lacking in the lecture. A lot of things are trying to be stuffed into our brains, and the final result is we heard of everything but never really know it. We never really understand it. This is the same case in many other topics like the Toulmin's model and empathetic listening. I am sorry to say that is not the way teaching should be, or rather how learning should be. Because teaching is not the goal, the goal is learning. There is nothing constructive done when teaching has done but no learning occurred. Seriously, this is something that has to be revised in the future iEFX courses.
See this for elaboration on what those weird words means: http://www.acteonline.org/uploadedFiles/Publications_and_Online_Media/files/files-techniques-2008/Research-Report-April-2008.pdf
My partner has a long list of passion, which I sort of categorize them into a few, and omitted those weaker ones that I can tell not as strong as the others. (sorry for the phrasing)
1. Technical theater - lighting, sounding and stuff in a theater
2. Acting
3. Music instruments
4. Furniture building
5. Camping
You can see that our passions do not have a lot of overlaps, and this is exactly what makes this mashing up interesting. So I will start listing out the endless possibilities of mixing the two lists of passions. Occasionally I will add in elaborations for the ones I think prominent.
1. Computer + Acting = Pixar : )
2. Soccer + Camping = Soccer camp - pretty boring
3. Computer + Technical theater = Smart theater, like in smart home all the things are automated, in a smart theater all the stuff are automated by computer. There can also be virtual characters using holographs and 3D graphics.
4. Computer + Acting (again) = Avatar real time animation monitor. I don't know what this is called properly. This is the monitor system that James Cameron use to monitor the effect of the scene after addition of computer graphics in real time.
5. Software + music instruments = ocarina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfrONZjakRY
6. Programming + Camping = Augmented reality camping: use software programs to provide a richer camping experience. For example, a virtual treasure hunt using mobile phones to search for the treasure and to display hints.
7. Soccer + Furniture building = Build a goal
8. Programming + Furniture building = Autocad used for furnitures
9. Music instrument + Soccer = music playing soccer ball? That will be weird
10. Programming + soccer = augmented reality soccer -> see the offside line in real time
11. Technology + soccer (again?) = 3D soccer broadcast
12. Technical theater + soccer = Goal: the Dream Begins on theater
13. Music instrument + thinking = developing the idea in a musical form. Must be very cool
14. Acting + soccer = Goal series. Someone has done that.
15. Camping + programming = 30 Hour hack-a-thon in a camp site? I doubt if there will be internet connection.
16. Furniture building + thinking = Let's make a The Thinker sculpture
17. Music + programming = Miuro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzMirJhEepc
18. Camping + furniture building = I would rather build a house for myself on the site
19. Acting + programming = Robot acting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pnLtsdSqU4 That's only computer graphics, not a real robot acting... But this is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQDQKqO44QI
20. Software + anything = automated anything. In this world, whatever thing you can think of, there is some way software can help you.
Everything else left to imagination
What is real creativity: http://blogconcept.wordpress.com/
I like this interesting list. It really contains many wonderful idea. Some of them are practical and some of them are fun enough to make me laugh, ha ha. Among this long list, do you have one combination that is particularly interesting to you? Is there any one that you want to talk about in details? It might be a good idea to follow your list with a developed idea on just one or two combinations that you have in your list and tell us what exactly you want it to be like and what is it used for? How will people like it, etc. Overall, these are all cool idea, just interpret it deeper or broader.
ReplyDeleteI think you made a very interesting point about iEfx. I agree that I am probably not going to take much away from the lecture because we barely skim the surface on many seemingly important topics. I am very curious what the founders of this program wanted us to take away from it?
ReplyDeleteI really liked your list of combined passions. I loved that they were kind of goofy at times. The one that jumped out to me the most was a music playing soccer ball. First of all, that would just be super fun to play with. But second it could also be very useful if a blind person wanted to play soccer. The noise from the ball would tell them where it is so that they could participate in the game too. That would be really cool to have a blind person on the national team someday. It would really show how technology can bridge the gaps between people.
Those are some pretty interesting combinations of things you have! First off, let me say that I share a lot of similar interests with you, which is pretty cool! I love playing soccer, and I used to program as well. Now I like to build things more with my hands, but I don’t mind typing a few lines of code to make something cool. I agree with what you said about iEFX, but I also think iEFX is just a way to introduce us to all of those ideas. It would take a lot of classes to perfectly cover all that material, but iEFX shows us a little bit from everything so we have an idea of what it is. Regarding your combinations, that ocarina video was hilarious! It cracked me up, but it’s pretty cool that there’s an app for that!
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