Blog Post 3 Creativity

In this week's Creative Blog I wanted to share an exercise I read about in a book from class called Caffeine for the Creative Mind by (Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield). The creative exercise was called Monsterblenderlicious and in this creative exercise I was tasked with another person to create a photo collage of three elements that combine to create a monster in the spirit of halloween. The rules are that we each have to mix a celebrity of your choice, the monster or scary halloween entity of your choice and the kitchen appliance of your choice to create the scariest celebsterpliance you can imagine. 

Thought’s

My first thoughts about this exercise was wow this is going to be an exciting exercise especially with the holidays around the corner. I wanted to start with one of the hardest things and the most awkward of the three and that was what appliance would I choose for this exercise. One of the scariest appliances has to be the blender. The idea of putting something solid in it, hitting the switch, and having it turn into a swirling vortex of chaos can be a bit unnerving. Plus, the loud noise and the potential for splattering can make it feel like a scene out of a horror movie!

Challenges

The many challenges I ran into was getting the college development in order. For example I would have an idea of what images or subjects I would want to use but did not find images that i could use off the internet. Well at least specific images i was looking for that is like for example certain body parts to create my monster. What did somewhat help after all was a tool that we learned to use earlier on in the week in photography class known as the cropping tool. With the cropping tool I was able to pinpoint a certain parent of an image I wanted to use to develop my monster and use it. For example if I wanted to use the head in conjunction with the shoulders of a celebrity I would be able to do it with a full body image off the web and just crop the certain area I want to use.  

Success

For my overall design I decided that the celebrity would have to be the face of the image because at the end of the day if I was to use a celerity torso for legs it would be really hard for me or even the viewer to determine who that person would even be so it just made more sense to make the celebrity the face for the project and for my body or torso of my creation I decided to use the blender idea because I believe that that in fact is one of the scariest appliances to use. I mean when I use it around my kitchen or even hear the sound of the blender go off it kind of startles me in some way and I take supper precaution while using the blender in my house. As for the legs I would have to go with werewolf legs because werewolf legs would likely be a terrifying combination of human and wolf feature muscular and powerful, with sharp claws instead of toenails. The fur might be thick and wild, giving them a rugged look. Imagine them sprinting through the woods, ready to leap and hunt. It’s a striking image, blending the grace of a wolf with the strength of a human!