Creativity

Creativity is an ability, attitude and a progress. Depending on how you want to use it. It surprises me though. I though creativity was suppose to be the element you have to insert into an idea. I'm surprise that that we can use creativity around us everyday in our daily lives.

For me, creativity has the definition of having the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest through them from though into reality, in short, able to make what you dream of came true. Creativity is an element that we could imply in many things, mostly artworks.

However, today it's the first time I'm introduce to creativity not as what I though it is, but another thing. I'm really impress by Mr Yap Sau Bin's presentation and I really learn a lot of things today. Creativity has no limitation. My Yap is right, there are no such thing as un-creative people but only lazy people. After the lecture I went back and did some research on some artist and I found out that, they are only 10% gifted with artistic instinct and 90% of their work came with hardworkship and keenship.

Talking about creativity gain from hardwork, here is a friend of mine whom I would like to introduce.
Here is my roommate, coursemate, classmate and friend, Nick. Is his artwork really good? Yes, and it's not done in a day or two, he works hard for it. Sleepless night and the will to never give up let him overtake those who are more talented than he is.

Nick is very strict with himself and the best thing I like about him, is the will to never give up. Whenever a problem appears, he'll think of something to overcome it. The best example is the "table" he had now right inside his room. He is using a desktop computer which consumes alot of space. But our room lack of a table and to my surprise, it's not a problem at all to Nick. What he did was that he took the board of the bed and put it on top of boxes, shelves and things he could find to make the table's leg(the supporter to make it stand) and WALA! There you have a table and it solve the box problem in our room too!

Nick's computer cooler wasn't cold enough to keep the computer temperature low and what surprises me was that he could make another cooler fan to spin without assmbling it into the CPU itself but through the USB port! He powered it through a USB port!

His drawing skills are not very well however, he used tools smartly to draw like an expert. What technique he uses? Tracing paper! I've never though of using that before! His way of thinking is unique yet it works!

Here is a picture of him taking pictures and sharpening his photography skills.

What happens when we are out of paint and stuck in the drawing studio? Gaming!

Our first semester Design Class had an assignment which requires us to paint a wall and we work ourselves overnight for that assignment. Near morning, we ran out of paint and what we could think of is stay there and wait for the shop to open, but not Nick, if you give him a labtop and free time, it's gaming time for him no matter where he is.

In conclusion, creativity isn't something that we are born with but it's something we work hard for and something which we can use to see things differently.