On Creativity.
I was reading something which stemmed from a link on Ben's blog about autism that was trying to measure a 'Creativity Quota'. Because creativity is hardly something that can really be measured quantitatively; they had a few little tests they did. One of which was to give the subject an object and the subject had to come up with as many uses. So I give this to you. Start listing the uses of a piece of paper. Although they must be different uses. For instance drawing and sketching are using the paper in the same way.
Now, in other news. Myself, Ben and Scotty stayed up until 6am this morning drinking copious ammounts for a tuesday. I was playing the stupid vb games I made years ago and came accross an alpha version of my who's line game I was making. Ironically enough, despite the scoring system the points didnt matter since a bug just msgboxed us with a '0' then didnt score. After playing that for quite a while, making up very wrong songs, myself and ben progressed onto downloading a heap of rap beats and having rap battles... It was quite possibly the weirdest idea i've ever had.
Now, in other news. Myself, Ben and Scotty stayed up until 6am this morning drinking copious ammounts for a tuesday. I was playing the stupid vb games I made years ago and came accross an alpha version of my who's line game I was making. Ironically enough, despite the scoring system the points didnt matter since a bug just msgboxed us with a '0' then didnt score. After playing that for quite a while, making up very wrong songs, myself and ben progressed onto downloading a heap of rap beats and having rap battles... It was quite possibly the weirdest idea i've ever had.
posted by Steve at 4:21 PM
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(Assuming a regular white A4 piece of paper)
zillions of forms of drawing
zillions of forms of writing
origami
scrunching into balls for throwing (basketball shooting etc.)
geosphere construction (and other such things, bridges etc.)
wrist cutting, and other such cutting
displaying art (ie on a fridge)
Making snowflakes (and other such folding/cutting things, like those strings of people and chains of paper rings)
demonstrating abstract mathematical concepts (ie mobius ring to klein bottle, all calculations I include as a form of writing)
physics experiments (gravity, air resistance, two slit experiment etc)
Sails,pinwheels etc
deforestation
cheap ugly wallpaper
mumification
makeshift toilet paper, nose tissue
Eating
making puzzles and tangrams
lampshades
scooping up dirt
makeshift petrol funnels(and other funnels for such things as chemistry experiments)
...
ok this can just goes on and on, and I can't sit here doing this all day.
Hrm, I was thinking, if we reduce possible uses back to a sort of... 'generalised metatask' then we'll end up with a fairly short and probably quite finite list. Works for everything else just the same of course.
Let's see, we've got...
- Communication
- Construction
- Consumption
- Artistic
- Exprimentation
- Destruction
Anything that doesn't fit in to those?
ok... well I was looking looking for something in between both answers. Though bens is kinda what I wanted. Like things you wouldnt normally use a piece of paper for. Just grouping all possible uses for any item isnt really being creative.
Paper is indeed quite useful. Except i personally wouldnt like to use it as cheap ugly wallpaper :P
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