Holiday Inn hyper reality

I feel that this is a version of hyper reality as it suggests to the consumer that the hotel will offer you a 'holiday'. A holiday to many people should be unique, but the reality of these hotels is that they are generic in their make up. But because of what it is labelled as you return no matter of experience, just like the McDonalds burger.

Quotes on creativity

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/03/15-famous-quotes-on-creativity/

this web page shows the quotes on creativity that I find inspiring.

Postmodernism - What I've learnt so far...

Paradox - Two contradicting states i.e an immovable object against an unstoppable force.

depth and depthlessness.



Bricolage - can take anything from anywhere and make it new.

3 approaches... - historical..... stylistic...... theoretical.

POSTMODERNISM IS A REACTION TO MODERNISM

to understand postmodernism we need first to understand modernism...

Modernism

experimenting with represenatations of reality

early part of the 20th century

value judgements... e.g high culture = good / low culture = bad.

modernism made everything clean, simple and neutral...

postmodernism went against all of these to the extreme...

Postmodernism texts embody specticism towards the ideas and ideals of the modern era, especially the ideas of progress, objectively, reason.

3 main theorists

- Lyotard

- Baudrillard

- Jameson

Hyper reality

The image of how something should look, against the reality.

McDonalds is an example of this.

Jacques Derrida - Life is copied from the fiction, not what actually is real.

LEVI STRAUSS

how things are created......

addition                  

delition                 

substraction

transformation

Questions on creativity

What do you understand by ‘creativity’ and to what extent have you been creative?

To me creativity is to build something original with little reference to a current piece, I feel that I have used this to some degree in my work.

- How have you tried to facilitate and encourage your own creativity?
In all possible areas I have tried to construct ideas that are original, such as in my use of the infinate triangle.
- Did you experience limits/blocks on your own creativity?
Yes due to constraints on budget and equipment some of my ideas were not possible.
- How easy/difficult was it to be creative while still working to the brief?
This was something I found challenging to conform with.- Did working within conventions stifle your creativity?
To a degree yes.
- To what extent did you need to work with others and ‘bounce ideas’ off other people to be truly creative?
This was something I needed to do, especially with my work partner and teachers as well as peers.
How much of your creativity was about trying to picture things in your mind’s eye?
This was the base of much of my creativity.
- How much of your creativity was about trial and error?#
In terms of draft to final work yes.
- To what extent was a lack of confidence an issue in terms of your creativity?
I did not have this constraint.
- To what extent was a lack of technical competence/confidence an obstacle to your creativity?
This created a barrier in my work I felt.

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