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CREATIVITY NOTE: All creativity requires Bisociative Thinking or Double Vision. by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen. Arthur Koestler: The Act of Creation. Mark Mayfield. Mary Ann Rishel. Mark Runco & Steven Pritzer. Red and Green’s Creative Christmas Dinner.
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CREATIVITYNOTE: All creativity requires Bisociative Thinking or Double Vision. by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen
Red and Green’s Creative Christmas Dinner Creative Christmas Dinner: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=niegc7QcilM
Four undocumented Mexican students from Carl Hayden Community High School… …used creativity to defeat major research universities to receive 1st place in a robotics competition. Their robot had to successfully perform five different tasks. The competition was in a swimming pool at the University of California at Long Beach. The students at M.I.T. received 2nd place in this same competition.
Carrot Clarinet: http://www.youtube.com/embed/BISrGwN-yH4
Creative Honda Ad: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Dxy4n0UT82o?rel=0
TYPE I: ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY AH! ___________________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DESCRIPTIONS Abstract Expressionism Cubism Dada Expressionism Impressionism (Puntalism) Realism Surrealism
EXAMPLES Camille Saint Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals” Ferde Grofé’s “On the Trail” from “Grand Canyon Suite” Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” Salvador Dali’s art Pablo Picasso’s art Gertrude Stein’s writing Jackson Pollock’s art
TYPE II: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AH HA! _______________ \________ _______________/
DESCRIPTIONS Bisociative Click Epiphany Eureka Cry “Das aha erlebnis”
EXAMPLES 1 Discovering the Relationships Between: Tides The Moon Lodestones North Pole Amber Magnets
EXAMPLES 2 And Inventing: Electricity, Electromagnetic Engines Etc.
TYPE III: COMIC INSPIRATION HA HA! ____________ !*_____________ ____________i*
DESCRIPTIONS Incongruous Incompatible Ironic Ludicrous Paradoxical Ridiculous Satiric
EXAMPLES Anachronisms in Science Fiction Othello with the hiccups Chess player who gives his opponent a double martini Fulton’s Folly (Steamboat)
SOME FINAL THOUGHTS CONTRAST: Convergent thinking with Divergent thinking. FINAL QUOTE: “When everyone is thinking the same, then noone is thinking.” Child’s Play: An example of divergent thinking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvw469GJ4y0
References • O’Quin, K., and P. Derks. “Humor and Creativity: A Review of the Empirical Literature.” in M. Runco (Ed.) Creativity Research Handbook, Volume 1. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1997, pp. 223-252. • O’Quin, K., and P. Derks. “Humor.” in M. A. Runco and S. R. Pritzker (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Creativity, Volume 1 a-h San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999, pp. 845-853. • O’Quin, K., and P. Derks. “Humor.” in M. A. Runco and S. R. Pritzker (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Creativity 2nd Edition, Volume 1, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2011, pp. 628-635. • Rishel, Mary Ann. Writing Humor: Creativity and the Comic Mind. Wayne State University Press, 2002.