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Introduction      I had to laugh to myself for a minute about this week’s creative exercise. Have you ever read something and instantly thought to yourself “I am not really sure what the heck I just read, but I am going to go ahead and pull this off anyway”? I mean there are so many things one can come up with, but we decided on this guys… Well, this was one of those times.      Sticking to this newly found book that I picked up in my Digital Video and Audio Editing course, I came across this creative exercise in “CREATIVE BOOT CAMP-GENERATE IDEAS IN GREATER QUANTITY & QUALITY IN 30 DAYS” , written by Stefan Mumaw . The creative exercise is called “AFROMAN” . I am just sitting here looking at the title like “lol ok”!      To introduce the exercise, the author states “Most men’s cologne is designed to do one thing: smell nice to women”. He goes on to say that without cologne men smell less appealing, and a majority of the population is already aware of this. The problem h

Introduction      I have recently embarked on a brand-new journey. It kind of just fell into my lap, and I believe that if things are meant to be then they will happen naturally. This new-found journey involves photography, and I am excited, scared, nervous, and all of the above. I will be taking photographs that relate to specific reports/stories that will be given to me. It will be exhilarating for sure.      In saying this, I came across a creative exercise that involves taking pictures of a process. The exercise is called OBJECT/ACTION/EFFECT out of the book: “CREATIVE BOOT CAMP-GENERATE IDEAS IN GREATER QUANTITY & QUALITY IN 30 DAYS” , written by Stefan Mumaw . The time limit for this creative exercise is 15 minutes.      OBJECT/ACTION/EFFECT explains: “If you took the cap off a marker and then put that marker in your shirt pocket, it wouldn’t be long before an ink stain appeared on your shirt”. The marker is the object. The action I putting the marker in your shirt po

Introduction      This week is week 2 of Digital Video and Audio Editing, and I have decided to switch up the process a tad bit. It isn’t a major switch, but change, even the smallest detail is good for the soul.      I am taking a hiatus from CAFFEINE FOR THE CREATIVE MIND: 250 EXERCISES TO WAKE UP YOUR BRAIN , and I am going to be exploring another book. This book is named “CREATIVE BOOT CAMP-GENERATE IDEAS IN GREATER QUANTITY & QUALITY IN 30 DAYS” , and it is written by Stefan Mumaw who was also a coauthor of the CAFFEINE series. I have chosen the creative exercise “DANGERBALL” .      I imagine that your wheels are spinning trying to figure out what this exercise is about. Obviously, it has something to do with a ball. Well, most activities that include a ball are organized sports. Unfortunately, but sometimes fortunately there are rules. Rules are put in place so that the sport flows, and people don’t get hurt or hurt somebody.      DANGERBALL wants you to remove a

Introduction      In our society, it is assumed that “adults do everything better than kids”, but in some scenarios, this statement can indeed be proven otherwise. Children have vivid imaginations, and they do not have feelings, emotions, and fear holding them back from putting their little minds to work. There are many things that children can do better. Do adults have more experience with certain areas? Sure, but children are inevitably better at some just because they are still exactly that, children. Who are we to underestimate their talent, intelligence, and imagination? None of us are perfect, and there is always something to learn. There is also always something that adults can learn from children.      To start my Digital Video and Audio Editing course off from a nice little break, I have chosen my creative exercise from the book, Caffeine For The Creative Mind: 250 Exercises To Wake Up Your Brain written by Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield .      The name of the crea