Creative Spark

This weeks topic 'the creative spark' made me interested in a couple of the talks so I am not blogging generally about one talk as much as I am blogging about the differences of the many talks that available for blogging about. Some of the talks we were assigned to watch throughout the semester (such as Theo Jansen creates a new creature and Jonathan Harris tells the stories of the web) and which both of those were very interesting to me. Other talks I watched, such as Jeff Skolls makes movies that make changes and Kenichi Ebina's magic moves. The many different TED talks that were available for the topic of 'creative spark' got me interested in the many different ways that people are creative. Some people think of creativity as a completely different aspect than another person. For some people, creativity is creating new things, such as creatures that walk and talk, some think it is being creative personally by dancing, singing, or such, and others think creativity is making crafts and doing handy things. So the question that this TED talk got me pondering was, what is creativity to me? I think creativity is all in what a person makes it. To Kenichi Ebina, it is his creative dance moves. To Theo Jansen, its his walking creature. To Eddi Reader, its singing. To me, my creativity is my house. It is the one thing that I take take to create, to change, to make look its best. During holidays, I create scenes to make it look interesting. My creativity is all about making people say 'that looks nice'. Everyone has a creative spark, but no one's creativity is quite like the rest. Creativity is what makes a person who they are...be creative with everything and always keep people wondering what sparks you!

Building Webpages

My experience within this class is the only time I have really had to put together a webpage. I guess you could consider MySpace a little like a webpage, but thats pretty simple, just putting stuff on a page if you want it, otherwise leaving it plain jane. So I really don't guess I know much about building a webpage from scratch or anything of the sort. I really enjoyed blogging this semester and thought that the TED talks brought a lot of talks out of the people that otherwise would have just written the usual, 'it has been a good week, got my homework done...and the such'. By blogging about given topics, it has made our blog logs much more interesting and I think that the talks are about more than just normal things and it keeps the students on the edge. I am not a webpage designer by far, but I think it will be interesting to be able to create and design things and what not. I'm looking forward to looking at everyone else's webpages also!