Brainstorming

Brainstorming refers to a group of people who come together to do an act in a good and a meaningful way. 

According to the definition, Brainstorming is a group activity by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members.

The normal view of brainstorming is where a group of people sit in a room and shout out ideas as they occur to them. They are told to lose their inhibitions and that no ideas will be judged so that people are free to shout out any ideas at all without feeling uncomfortable. People should build on the ideas called out by other participants. The purpose of this is to gain as many ideas as possible for later analysis. Out of the many ideas suggested there will be some of great value. Because of the free-thinking environment, the session will help promote radical new ideas which break free from normal ways of thinking.

Tutorial week

Week 8, Tutorial week we were asked to visit SAM. So this morning i got up, took my camera and decided to capture emotions through my lens. Today i saw things differently because i was asked not just to see things but to see emotions in them. Like how people say, ‘He made a puppy face’ doesn’t mean he was looking like a puppy, he just made a cute face. How we define and see emotions in normal day to day things.

So i captured some emotion through my camera and i’m going to take you through it .

This image is to shows protection.

This is show fearlessness.

I capture you, you capture me.

Force Connection 2

During the second lesson of Force Connection,

each group presented their ideas and designs.

I've learnt a lot from others.

Finally I got this idea.

I call this POWERGLASS.

It's like an hourglass,but with energy instead of sand.

Basically it's a portable charger with an LED screen which shows the current time. 

And you can put a micro SD card inside to make it become a mobile HDD.

As you can see,it can be fixed onto a belt.

And you can flip up the LED screen to check the time.

And also it's very convenient to charge your phone by it.

Usually when people are walking on the street,

they need to hold both their phone and a portable charger at the same time.

Because portable charger is too big to put into a pocket,

and people can't put their phone into their suitcase or bag,

because they won't be able to hear the ringtone.

So if people were using this product,

they can just put their phone in their pocket and use a very short USB cable to connect their phone to this portable charger.

Force Connection

Today teacher taught us what force connection is.
It's like 2 or more different things mix together to become one thing with many functions.
I kept thinking,but it's really hard.We can't just randomly pick 2 things.For example,pencil and eraser,althought it's 2 different things,but there's a connection between the functions of these 2 things.
Finally I got 3 ideas.

The first is a pants.I call it Zip Transformer.It's a long pants with a few zips on it.You can make it become a shorts or a minipants by opening the zips.And as we all known,usually girls' waistline is smaller than guys'.So I put two zips upon the pockets,so that the waistline can be suitable for 2 people.

The second is a fake 2-piece.The upper part is a mini dress,and the lower part can be a dress or a pants.

The third is a bag with a foldable chair.Imagine people are traveling to somewhere famous and popular,they need to queue for quite a long time,but the bag is very heavy,what a bad experiance they will have.What if the bag can be a chair?So that when they're queueing,they can just open it up and rest on it!

Lateral Thinking

Problem: 1. If you were alone in a deserted house at night, and there are an oil lamp, a candle and firewood and you only have one match, which would you light first?

My Answer:

For this question,I got my answer in my mind without thinking.Since I'm an emotional person,I would light up the candle first,and it would be the last thing for me to light up.I would sit against the wall and put the candle beside me,then I would keep thinking till it finally melts into liquid.

Problem: 2. What can you put in a wooden box that would make it lighter? The more you put them in the lighter it becomes, yet the box stays empty.

My Answer:

Since the word light has different meaning.The answer can be:
1.Hole.  Of course put holes inside will decrease the weight of a box,and also it allows light to come though.
2.Plastic wrap. It makes the color become lighter.
etc...

During the class,we did some exercises,and we learnt a lot.
Although teacher told us we need to break the rules,but it's quite hard to achieve it.

This is an example to show how to break the rules.People always like to use a dot as the beginning of a line,but if we don't break the rule and find another way,we won't make it.

Usually we need at least 5 lines to connect these 9 dots.
So I started thinking how can we use less line?

I found that maximium we can connect by 3 lines is 7,since our pencil can't leave the paper,we shouldn't draw any parallel lines.So we got this.Since we still got one more chance left,the only choice for us is to connect these 2 dots by 1 line,so lets try.

Now we can see it's possible to make the last line connect to the other two line,the only thing we need to do is lengthen these 3 lines.

To solve problem faster,you need to find the key,not just anymore try some methods and wish to be lucky.So the key is to break the rules,to reverse your mind.If you wanna rearrangle less,means you are not gonna rearrangle most of them.So as we all known,the most are in the center,so lets try not to move the balls in the center,and use them to form a triangle which is upside-down.

Now it's plain to see,just move the three balls into the blank space.

For this question,

Logical Answer:

Since there's a child inside,we can't use anything which can hurt the child,so no stones,no anything heavy and sharp.So let's think what is light and soft but able to take the water away?--Spongia!

Unusual Answer:

Maybe we can change the gravity?

Usual Answer：
Fix it for him

Unusual Answer:
Buy him a deaf-aid and ask him again.

Usual Answer:
Maybe there's some strong perfume on the painting.

Unusual Answer:
Maybe it has been influenced by us,and wanna be an art student.

Analogical Thinking 1

It's a very hard thing to express the emotions without face.

I chose cup,alarm and candle to be my characters.

Angry

You can see the hot water is gonna be splashed out,

that's how a cup vent.

It is too angry to show the correct time.

Even the pointer has become fizzy. 

The flame shows how angry it is.

Painful

Look at how broken it is!

It lost all the important parts.

 Its head has been cut off,

but the core can still transfer the feeling.

Dying

It's melting,

it's life is numbered like an hourglass.

The liquid inside is flowing out slowly,

if a cup can't save the hot passion in it's chest,

its life becomes pointless.

It huddled its body up,

and waiting alone for death.

Happy

Look how excited it is!

Riding its coaster like a monocycle.

It keeps jumping highier and highier,

like a kid who just got a gift.

It's jumping also,and tossing its tiny little flame.

Sleepy

It's nothing special,

but don't you think a cup with hot tea makes people feel peaceful?

It plain to see since every part is drooping.

It lost its spirits.

The Journey 4

I attended our school's photography workshop with my best friend,Reema.

Since I'm a semi-pro photographer,the beginning was really boring for me.Because it's too basic.The only thing to keep me awake was the mistakes made by the teacher.He couldn't distinguish mirrorless camera from DSLR.

I don't understand why so many people cannot identify mirrorless camera,even some people still think that DSLR means professional,and all the rest kind of camera are amateurish.It's easy to explain what the difference between mirrorless camera and DSLR is.

DSLR means Digital Single Lens Reflex.The only difference is mirrorless camera has no mirror to reflect the view from the lens.So DSLR uses an Optical View Finder,you can see the view directly from the lens.But mirroless camera uses an Electronic View Finder,means the light enters your lens and reaches the sensor,and the sensor turns it into a live image and show it to you by the tiny screen inside the view finder.For me,I think EVF is better,because it's easy to use,what you have seen is what you'll get.And of course a camera with less units will be smaller and more lighter.So I can tell you that mirrorless camera is the future.But for nowadays,DSLR still works very good.Because a very big problem is mirrorless camera focuses very slow and not so accurate as DSLR now.People still need about 3-5 years to improve this new technological product.So it's hard to say which type is better now.For sport shooting,of course you have to use DSLR to catch the moments.But for street photography,DSLR seems not very suitable.Imagine there's a strangler aiming you by a huge dark camera.But one thing is confirmed,both of them can be professional,it depends on how creative the person behind the camera is.

The most interesting part was self pratice.Of course I was the photographer,and my best friend,Reema acted as a model.I've shot lots of low key photography for myself before.So my experiences made it very easy for me.

I set the shutter speed to 1/250,that was the maximium speed in that studio,because the flashes in that studio had no high-speed sync.I used manual-focus,because in such a dark place,auto-focus couldn't work.I had no tripod with me at that moment,so I thought I couldn't focus very accurately.To make my photo sharper,I used a very small aperture,F/8.And I asked Reema stay away from the background so that the background won't be lit up.I tested for a few shots.

This is the last test shot,as you can see the camera and flash setting was perfect.So I ask Reema to turn a little bit,and I got this final shot.

I'm so grateful to get this photo.A perfect model is so important.

Then we tried high key.High key is really hard,and I've tried a few times before,but there's no any usable result.

I got this simple plan in my mind.And I think it's a good plan.But finally I didn't find the right setting to satisfy effect.So I gave up...

Then Reema gave me a very interesting idea.Motion,means I use high shutter speed and flash to freeze the time.So Reema kept whipping her hair,and I waited for a good time and pressed the shutter.Then we got this amazing shot.

As a design lover and also a photographer,I always use photoshop.So I thought maybe I could use photoshop to get the effect which I wanted but didn't make it.
Finally I succeed.She looks like an angel.