Introduction to Creative Thinking; by
Royce Barber. Copyright 2006-07 Barber Publishing House.
This book is in concept stages, thus
being quite screwed up, especially grammatically and structurally.
Clips of various articles I've written are contained here, in
hope that I'll organize them soon. This book is a philosophical
and theoretical idea sheet for expanding creativity, widening
your lifestyle horizons, and a number of unorganized topics.
One tutorial of this book is about learning to multitask and
translate information, for increasing your life productivity.
Additionally contained within these pages are methods for “Speed
Drawing”, speed-anything actually; that I submitted for
a Deviantart.com art submission. Enjoy, if you can make any sense
of this pre-production concept draft! I hope to write all of
this in a simple style with easy visual and text explanations,
eventually expanding into virtual reality as technology evolves.
I hope to appeal to all IQ levels, if possible.
View the most recent version of this
book at a dedicated area on my website: http://zumiez.googlepages.com/howto%3Bintroductiontocreativethinking.
For Deviantart.com users, feel free to
+Fav. Content here will fluctuate as I research and post various
techniques related to life-improvement.
First topic to address… Learning.
Everyone learns uniquely. You may want to learn a bit about your
own personality and learning style before getting too worked
up about expanding your mind. There are various great personality
tests out there, to help you define excellent ways to learn and
grow. Find out about yourself, and then pinpoint what you know
and what you don't. Explore what works for you in memorization
and information retention and real-life application. You need
to be able to remember things; it's as simple as that. As I write
this, my memory and attention span isn't good enough to sit down
and write a few chapters. This makes my writing fragmented and
sloppy. As I improve, this text will improve, and you may not
notice discrepancies in writing quality. If my writing sucks,
please do let me know. Now to circumnavigate back to learning…
I'll later post personality charts, but also you may want to
consider your learning options, like in stock trading, there
are always plenty of options. For example, you may be an audio
learner, or visual, or by interaction, etc. For audio learners,
please download a free speaking program for your computer called
“ReadPlease2003”, which can read this document to you,
pending on your motivation to try new things with your computer.
For text learners, stop off at borders bookstore and browse through
some speed-reading guides. Take a buddy and check out the Dilbert
comics while you're there. Keep your life moving, keep it fun,
and obtain wisdom at all opportunities.
Topics covered in this book apply to
every aspect of live and existence. No matter what your hobbies
and profession, being creative (while also down to earth) is
something we can all expand on. A focus of this book is to be
a poetic philosophical adventure into various ways of exploring
your talents, environment, and expanding your mental horizons;
to enhance your reality and that of your circle of influence.
This book (with a whole lot of blessings) will be an enlightening,
entertaining, clear, informative, inspirational, and well spoken
piece of literature that will improve the quality of human life.
Yeah I dream big. Perhaps schools will use this book in Creative
Writing classes, pending on my attention to organization and
follow-through. If I get off the sofa and publish this book,
none of my readers have any excuses to put off self improvement.
Reason being, I'm an anxious depressed quasi-author of numerous
unpublished gadget articles. If I make this hurdle to publishing
the book; I'm going to be far less lenient on you the reader
to do something of equal or greater value to yourself and the
world.
Some of the numerous topics and or possible
chapters I hope to cover in this book…
Forward: This is a neat book, covering
a huge variety of topics.
Chapter: Introduction to Fast Creative Thinking: What, why, how,
when, where.
Chapter: Biblical Lessons are Great Sources of Wisdom.
Chapter: Visionaries of Various Industries
Chapter: Obtaining Leadership Skills.
Chapter: Achievements of Great Minds throughout History.
Chapter: Parables, Quotes, metaphors, analogies, Enigmatic statements.
Chapter: Healthy Mental Exercises.
Chapter: Scientific Mind Studies and Surveys.
Chapter: Philosophy and Theories on Creativity.
Chapter: Diversity of Computer Science.
Chapter: Creativity of Various Cultures and Artists.
Chapter: Observing Strong Points of one environment and applying
them to another environment.
Chapter: Recognizing common shapes, patterns, and textures in
nature and in man-made products, and remixing the ideas into
new discoveries.
Chapter: Set up a healthy environment: Locating roll models,
defining hobbies, goals, inspiration, contacts, realizing your
gifts and talents.
Chapter: Organizing Complex Philosophical and Mathematical Ideas
into Simple Clear Explanations for the Public.
Chapter: Importance of Words such as Balance, Speed, Clarity,
Organization, Imagery. Applying words of wisdom to everyday tasks.
Chapter: Well Tuned Vocabulary for Expressing Ideas to diverse
Audiences of all Intellects.
Chapter: Information Interaction, the Ultimate Operating System.
Chapter: Review of Above Chapters and How to apply them to achieve
Fast Creative Thinking.
Chapter: Interactive Bonus Material: Free CD-Rom filled with
mental exercises, puzzles, optical illusions, experiments, great
speeches, relaxing music, and
Chapter: Internet Links and Resources for Creativity, Philosophy,
and Inventive ways of Exercising the Mind.
Last Pages: Index Directory.
* If you have the chance to take a series
of art classes, do so. It will enhance your look at creativity.
* If you have the patience to follow tutorials in books and online,
do that too.
* Talk to various artists; find out how they get inspired. Find
out what organization systems they use. You can even go as far
as to find out what kind of hiring process companies use to select
employees, and the features they look for in employees can be
your personal set of goals applied to expanding your creative
process.
Previous names I've considered for this
book…
Speed Drawing.
Easy Guide to Speed Drawing.
Quickly Master any Art or Life Technique.
Zume Life Technique.
Generating Creative Content.
Object Translation Technique.
Technique: How to Be Creative.
How to Be Creative.
Observing One Environment To Improve Another.
Guide to The Philosophy of Productive Speed Drawing.
Formula for Creativity.
Speed Philosophy.
Some areas of focus while I write this
book…
~ Introduction to Speed Philosophy, Reasons to use Fast Philosophical
Theories to improve your life.
~ Generating Creative Content by Relating Common Objects to One
Another.
~ Experimental Step by Step Tutorial for Discovering the Skills
you already have. Developing Mind Maps and Utilizing Your Memory.
~ Endurance is Why Failure is Healthy, Recommended Procedures
to Keep Your Mind Flowing and Drawings Healthy.
~ Putting together an InformationBinder and MyDocuments folder,
to allow rapid access of vital data.
Learning To Speed Draw. (Or…) Learning
To Speed-Think by Growing Your Understanding of Reality and Elimination
of Complexities…
You want to speed draw; it's a unique experience for everyone.
For some it's spiritual, and it's a scientific process, it takes
training and skills, yet its fun and enjoyable. The point of
all of this is to be incredibly Fast and Productive and eventually
producing top quality art. There are no strict guidelines, the
details of this process are yours to create, discover, and tune.
This tutorial explains Speed Drawing as a philosophy for life.
Speed Drawing has multiple levels, factors, and ever-growing
theories behind it. Speed Drawing is an extension of your personal
talent, productivity, style, and passion for expanding your mind.
The depth you take out of this tutorial is completely up to you,
I hope to get you to look at art in new ways, and understand
that everything is art. All you have to do is adapt the art of
existence, into your daily life. This tutorial, and all the information
contained within, has been created by Zume without any research,
so feel free to add comments and write things down as you follow
along, so I can expand this tutorial to reach more people. If
you practice this tutorial, you'll one day be able to quickly
absorb any form of art and reproduce it in a matter of minutes.
Gradually, you will read about helpful techniques and skills
that may inspire you, such as Generating Creative Content.
* You know how dictionary authors have
to write clearly and in short paragraphs about each word? That
is a wonderful way to look at productivity.
Zume's quick guide to speed drawing.
this is one of many ways to absorb talent of other artists without
ever stealing their work. Your work should never look anything
like theirs. Your work will be done efficiently and according
to a poetic flowing technique of drawing. Then applying drawing
to other areas of life. Study this manual before doing anything,
and be quick about it!
do the best you can in the time you have,
repeat the guide until you master the technique. Completion can
only be achieved through relaxed speed drawing, displaying emotion
into the sketches. a form of meditation. Only pen aloud, no erasing.
Once comfortable, get creative with the guide and rearrange the
steps into complex versions. Take medical and safety conditions
and ergonomics into account, the healthier you are, the faster
you can do basic functions.
1. Draw 4 basic 2d shapes. Circle, square,
triangle, octagon. Only take 2 seconds.
2. Try to make the 4 shapes 3d, only take 4 seconds.
3. Slowly increase complexity, its expected that you're horrible
at first, its the main learning experience to accept complete
failure, this is a good thing. The more you fail the more endurance
you learn. Just don't overdo it. Eventually you'll never fail
unless you find more ways to challenge yourself and keep your
mind exercised.
4. Draw the whole alphabet and numbers in 2d any way you want,
then 3d, then start working with different forms of textures,
shades, glare, lighting, distance, horizon, and perspective.
With the 3d alphabet and 3d shapes mastered,
you can start drawing simple robots and cities made of blocks
then rounded blocks. Eventually add on detail and emotion and
technique tweaks to your works.
If you have ability to concentrate, work
on using internet tutorials.
If you cannot concentrate, multitasking is healthy to keep your
mind moving.
A moving artistic/scientific/mathematic
mind will help enhance body training and thus improve your art.
Vitamins are half the process, along with as much water as possible.
This all contributes to a healthy artist. Clarity of the mind
and soul.
Object Translation: translating ideas
and objects into different scenarios for living/drawing. One
of the most useful techniques for a creative mind! Pay attention
here! Use sensory data in multiple ways. such as things you see
and hear and what goes on in your mind, all enhance each other
to bring you into the environment you live in. use this in your
drawing. For example, a tree root looks like lightning which
looks like rain drops on a car windshield and looks like cracks
in glass. All the same basic pattern! Even windows uses a tree
folder system when you enable folder view. That's just one of
the billions of patterns out there. Recognize these patterns,
use them as a template for understanding the world and ways the
human mind and nature works. Learn to use this to your advantage,
such as with making music. Dark or solid objects you see could
represent low tones, bright objects high tones. Complex objects
mean lots of notes, repeated objects mean random or fluctuating
notes depending on anything you see or interact with. Translating
all your senses into everything you do, enhancing the productivity
of your living, and learning to live a relaxed yet productive
life. Making your habits work for you. More example of object
translation is when authors write a novel, the text can flow
like a river with vivid imagery. Using imagery when writing or
drawing is vital.
Back to the basics, the important thing
when learning to draw is to examine shapes, tutorials, ways others
do things and improve on their methods, and making your own technique
that others will one day improve on. You are helping to make
the art scene more professional and beautiful.
Some things to consider when drawing
anything:
-list of shapes.
-2d shapes.
-3d shapes.
-shapes and objects at different angles.
-different textures and lighting on the objects.
-how reflective is the object you're drawing, how shiny is it,
how heavy is it, what are its physical properties, how does it
react to the environment around it.
-objects through lenses and distortions.
-how would you improve the object if you designed it.
-how can you improve your drawing techniques.
-always try new techniques, no matter how messy they appear at
first.
-always learn new things!!!
-does the object your drawing look different in another culture
or country?
-draw the object under different lights and settings.
-randomize an object to draw, open a dictionary, force yourself
to try.
For drawing people, you can download
the Curious Labs "Poser" program to pose the people
and make it much easier to draw them with expressions and different
types of clothing.
Ideas for a productive and healthy lifestyle.
Always use bulleted lists which minimize
word usage, canceling wordy sentences. Use clear points, fully
defined to eliminate explanatory redundancy. You know how the
dictionary is written; use that to your advantage.
Keep readers attention, using gimmicks
like sock puppets if necessary.
Simple terms to explain complex ideas.
Appeal to intelligent and simple readers, not confusing them.
Find an organizational method that works
for you, while being flexible to recognize and implement new
and ever-changing organization methods.
Don't be obsessive about organization
to the point of detracting from your overall life creed. Don't
sweat the details.
Develop and stick to a life creed, and
a financial creed. A short paragraph will do nicely.
Multipurpose thinking.
Condition yourself for success. Run from
negativity, have positive role models and mentors. Place yourself
in a healthy environment for personal growth.
Widen your inventive and cultural horizons,
but don't spread yourself so thin you can't see progress.
Dependable, consistent personality and
morals. Humility at all times. Do what you say you will, on time.
Have a functional and healthy circle
of influence. Everyone around you is influenced by you, and vice-versa.
Have people who care for you and wish you to succeed. Find a
Church accountability group that works for you.
Keep a digital calendar of all major
dates and events in your life. Post this as an online blog (web
log) if you wish. Poster-size wall calendar if you can't do digital,
something you can really write on. Some simply carry around dated
sticky notes and toss them in a drawer at the end of the day,
which is a mess but it's functional. The less paper the better,
really. As such, you may wish to do your banking and taxes online.
Free-write every so often, to examine
and unclog partial ideas that accumulate in your mind. Here again,
blogs work well, if you don't name names. When finding a great
idea, mind map it, on paper or digitally with a free computer
program called FreeMind.
Speak clearly, with articulate and level
headed questions. Only say something as fact if you truly know
it.
Design a clean environment around you,
free of clutter and confusion.
Breathe deeply
Memory improvement, speed reading, vocabulary,
can boldly enhance your existence.
Use vacation time wisely and to the fullest.
Don't sleep it away.
When doing something you aren't fully
capable of, simply collaborate with someone who is. Don't have
pride.
Stop by borders bookstore, read the latest
mini-books of inspirational quotes and life sayings. Stay to
read Dilbert if you have a friend around.
Smile at EVERY chance you get.
An old list of “rules” to program
an intelligent operating system by. Who knows, I may update this
soon.
This section may be called “The
Constitution of the United Philosophies of Zume”. It'll
focus on guidelines for going about daily life, rules to follow,
and basic logic to help one through the day. It'll be based on
the idea of the original Christian-based Constitution of the
United States. It'll cover Biblical commandments, advice people
give me, and useful information I collect while I surf the web
or talk to friends. It'll have a OperatingSystem section where
I'll list guidelines for writing software, and hopefully people
will realize this is a multi-purpose section that they can apply
to any aspect of life and not just software. The issue is people
are cant read my mind, so I'll have to be very clear on the exact
purpose every sentence is written. Communication is an issue,
even with English being the language of science, I need to find
a way to talk in short sentences and get my point across exactly
as I want to. Perhaps I'll study the way the dictionary is written,
or even contact the publisher of popular dictionaries and propose
to write a guideline book of ethical procedures for a productive
life. My pay will simply be to have them educate me in the ways
of clear communication. I shall even go as far as to say that
with enough leadership skills I could one day write my own version
of the English language that could rapidly spread across America,
and thus: A new programming language will be born, based on organic
fluid English rather than code. The computer will read a short
description of what a program should do, and the computer will
compare it to successful programs of the past, and a new program
will be generated and recorded in English so that every time
it is opened it's continually redesigning itself to what the
user expects and likes. The computer will easily be able to tell
the skill level of users, and continually adjust to serve the
general programming community. All open source of course. By
reading this entry you see how one idea modifies into another,
that is good insight into the structure of the human brain, and
should be studied and applied to A.I. programs, and not just
silly Chat Bots. Google contains some of the smartest people
of our time, who would be able to design an incredible A.I. system
capable of understanding vocal or written English language and
creating a user interface based on what the human defines. The
A.I. could suggest default layouts, but it's only limited by
the creativity of the collective users on the internet. The internet
can one day be controlled by weather as described in my little
idea about “WeatherOS” running off of water crystals
in the air and displaying a rainbow interface. Nifty but fruity,
eh? Sometimes thinking outside the box isn't enough, you have
to throw the box overboard into the ocean and anyone attached
to the box will be in for quite a shock. Water and electricity
don't mix, mind you. You see I don't like having to explain information,
even jokes, as lame they may be. Some of you are quite adapt
to reading between the lines, while others assume everything
and realize nothing. Well anyway, the following is a little concept
image of an operating system I threw together this morning. Note
the sloppy photoshopping and mixed up text: it's early in the
morning I tell you.
The description of the image as follows:
My Concept image of an operating system idea that I'm working
on, among other ideas at the same time. This is my solution for
those who dislike the interface on Windows and Macintosh and
Linux and soon GoogleOS based on Linux. My OS has no name yet,
possibly MOSS or ZIOS or ZumeOS. How about ClarityOS or MindOS.
MINA: Motivation Information Navigation Assistant.
So far this concept is a messy mix of
photoshopped screenshots, but in time you'll notice improvements.
I'm trying to drop conventional ways of thinking about an “OS”
and starting from scratch…But it's a complex process. Complex
is what I'm good at.
The screen in is split up into four areas:
1: "Storage Bins.” Think the file tree of Windows Explorer
without the folder area; with giant interactive popup bubbles
showing your folder contents. Serves as your startmenu, startbar,
taskmanager, control panel, and file storage and KeywordedGroup
search. Has an area to drop files for the world to view, such
as your website or home videos. Auto-Identifies ways to help
you, such as asking to rename mass files and setting timed scripts.
2: "Business Workshop." One-Stop Solution for all your
Business Needs. A mix of Microsoft Office, CAD, database and
server apps, remote desktop, visual basic, accounting, video
meeting, shopping list, calculator, address book, calendar, etc.
3: "Entertainment." Hybrid of SonyPlayStation Games
with WindowsMediaPlayer, TIVO Satilite TV, and all those fun
internet games like NeoPets but graphically immaculate.
4: "Research Library." Your personal detective. The
feeling of a real library, with free encyclopedia such as wikiepedia,
phonebook, maps, quotes, dictionary, rhymes, translator, books,
magazines, RSS & Newspapers, Podcasts, Tutorials, How-To's,
Recipes, Manuals, The Bible, etc.
Each area can be thought of as an OS
in itself. The screenshot does not do it justice. You can zoom
in or out of any part of the OS, you never have to 'scroll',
you can move the borders to allow more space for an are like
Entertainment, you can fill the whole screen with one or more
areas, you can work quickly and smoothly without ever needing
to install more programs. I'm still thinking about how all this
will come together, but I'm a determined perfectionist so stay
tuned. BTW all my inventions, philosophies, theories, are dedicated
to Jesus. This submission may be a rough draft, but expect great
things in the near future!
The final interface for my operating
system will take more A.I. than the human race will ever have,
so I'm not even bothering to draw it at this stage. It will take
place underwater, with bubbles representing types of data manipulated
by your biofeedback. No hardware will be necessary, as crystals
in the atmosphere will transmit light in the form of lazer data
to create screens out of rainbows. It's a WeatherOS that I've
not heard of anyone even think of, so I might as well push ahead
and be the first!
I'm currently developing a set of rules,
or a guideline constitution of sorts, to define how an operating
system should perform. Standards are set higher than possible,
as to define goals for any hackers willing to take on the programming
of my operating system (which is open source of course). Quick
rough draft of operating system expectations and rights:
1. The operating system shall be equally complex and simple at
the same time, in a way that it has unlimited features that can
all be accessed immediately with no effort.
2. The operating system shall be equally functional and beautiful
at the same time, displaying custom content in a refreshing and
inspirational manor.
3. The operating system shall be completely secure from virus
attacks, understand all normal speech, fully automated to detect
and predict the users habits, careful with private information,
and only ask the user questions when the answer will equate to
a high degree of increased productivity.
4. The operating system shall be perfectly coded in easy-to-place
blocks of complex multi-purpose formulas, with a perfect stability
record.
5. The operating system shall know when a new is accessing it,
and lock down all personal files and private data.
6. The operating system shall detect all hardware, from the past
to present, with complete accuracy and an intuitive custom interface
for each hardware device. From scientific equipment to video
glasses to errored gadgets.
7. The operating system shall have no advertisements, and discourage
the use of unproductive or illmoral monetary transactions.
8. The operating system, if wirelessly connected to biofeedback
sensors, shall alert the user to take breaks and be aware of
mental, physical, and spiritual health.
9. The operating system shall not wirelessly hack into other
operating systems without permission of both operating system
owners, unless granted by law.
10. Law shall not wirelessly hack into operating systems without
alerting the operating system owner, unless the owner is out
of reach.
Somehow I need to integrate all data
in this entry into my "Content Translation" theory
on my website. So much work! BTW I feel as though my writing
is careless, immature, and oblivious to existing data theories;
due to my low level of education. I am severely limited by the
same human abilities that allow me to function, while I'm feeling
self-conscious about the world reading my material. I feel the
world is to dark and bleak to feed the level of creativity that
I strive to achieve, thus I need to look to higher planes of
existence than the world around me. That, is a big task. Perhaps
I should rename this entry to “My sad attempt to make a
new world, without remembering the fact that my mission in life
is simply to spread the good news of God”. Perhaps my low-intellect
theories will eventually lead to a PHD then lead to a breakthrough
in Christian leadership techniques? I can only pray that my efforts
are blessed and dedicated to a loving eternal cause. In other
words, screw worldly data interaction, I dont care about technology
as much as it seems, I simply want to spread peace. Perhaps "Operating
System" theories are my way to control the world into doing
what I want, and if that's so, I'm not as wise as I should be
at this stage in my life. Yet, I know that my intentions are
pure, so should I just not doubt my abilities?
Utilizing a fantasy world to sort your
thoughts: Imaginative Universe, Complete With Planets.
A new technique I'm working on called
“Mental Universe Theory: Environment Design”. Its main
purpose is to develop storylines and movie plots, while expanding
memory and even photographic memory. The key point in The Mental
Universe is to be able to create unique characters that can be
used in story lines or for personal entertainment or storytelling.
Further uses would be mentally imaging various environments,
being able to quickly and entertainingly redesign an object or
home or invention or business plan.
The following is a simple technique used
for exercising one's creativity. (And great for making story
environments.) It's called a Mental SolarSystem. For lack of
a better explanation, this SolarSystem lives inside your imagination.
It's a personal art project. Stories and art images can be developed
in the SolarSystem, on any one of the planets you imagine. Each
planet is an ongoing artwork. Have you ever heard of a Mind Map,
this is a similar idea. The Mental SolarSystem contains planets
with themes, each theme being a personal art project. I use the
Mental SolarSystem idea (along with my theory of "Generating
Creative Content"), to produce stories and even inventions.
Each planet has a unique theme, such as jungle or undersea. I
plan to one day make a computer game of my personal Mental SolarSystem,
but you may use the Mental SolarSystem theory to help you develop
art works and sometimes just for something to think about. The
process is this: Think of a planet, what theme would it have,
what type of people, what kind of villages, what textures and
smells and sights and sounds? Ok now you thought out the basics
of the planet, you can now draw it or write about it. The goal
is to create an entire ever-expanding universe of solar systems,
to see how much creative content you can possibly make. You can
focus the project on just one planet, or a village or city, or
even a new plant species if thats what youre interested in. I
hope I explained this well. So far, this is my rough draft of
my Mental SolarSystem, it's very simple until I have more time:
Example Planets For Character Placement…
Tropical Jungle Planet
Frozen Wastelands Planet
Volcano Brimstone Fire Planet
Machinery Factory Invention Planet: my inventions and future
speculations are created here.
Social Gathering ThemePark Party Planet
Dessert Rock Formation Planet
Atlantis Undersea Reef Planet
Asian Culture Planet
Japanese Gardens Planet
Space Stations Area
Nature Reserve Planet
Worm Hole into Infinity: My Philosophy Ideas are created here.
Comets
Electricity Lightning Planet (Vibration of the electricity makes
sound waves that sound like whales singing.)
Diverse Climate Planet - aka Modified Earth: My latest story
takes place here.
Elegant Mansion and Castle Planet: my home design ideas are stored
here for when I can afford to build a large home.
Diamond and Glass Formations Planet
Water-Vapor Cloud Planet
Ancient Garden Ruins Planet (Ruins of Great Marble and Granite
Castles. Grass, Flowers, Rolling Meadows).
Experimental Environment Planet (where climate and garden designs
are tested out).
::::::: Popular Transportation in Royce's
Universe :::::::
*SoapBubbleShip (Disposable Transportation, is Electronically
Shielded).
*SphereShip (For intergalactic travel, nano enhanced metalic
shell shields from reality distortion).
*RingShip (origionally designed to transport soap bubbles, but
the technology caused illegal reality distortion. reality destortion
is an effect that breaks the laws of physics and speeds up the
human brain at an alarming and frightening rate).
*NanoSkinSuit (Invisable Thin layer of nano-spiders on your skin,
allows you to fly. Similar technology as SoapBubbleShip, but
not disposable).
*Illegal Reality Distortion Treansportation (Using a RingShip
with SoapBubbleShip in a worm hole. Your destiation is usually
temporarly altered and thus annoying people. Too much travel
this way is dangerous and can freeze you in time so you'll awake
to an unknown future.)
::::::: Popular Power Sources in Royce's
Universe :::::::
*Earths Core Magma.
*Solar Panels.
*Compressed Metalic Springs for Energy Storage.
::::::: Popular Internet Interface Gadgets
in Royce's Universe :::::::
*Sight Enhancing Internet Sunglasses (Glasses that display a
computer screen and tell you about your surroundings. Also is
a full computer and cell phone with camera).
* Billions of Flying Nano-spiders floating in the air, join together
to create a holographic internet interface, or just a screen
image. For use when you forget to wear your InternetSunglasses.
::::::: Names for Characters in My Universe
:::::::
Mia, Mina, Mei, Mai, Joh, Avy, Ivy, Eve, Voa, Moa, Noa, Bisha,
Ria.
::::::: Popular Construction Materials
in Royce's Universe :::::::
*Inflatible Housing (rubber-like walls & furnature inflated
with highly compressed air. used to make houses that look and
feel like a house made of traditional materials such as wood
and metal. house can then deflate to fit in a shoe box.)
*Nano-Spiders Linked together to form a variable-strength shell.
Some of the planets have little villages
that come and go over time; some of those villages are inhabited
by versions of people I know in real life. I try to dream about
these places, but I've never dreamt much. Some say dreams are
helpful to the creative process too.
Reminders to be a healthy Christian leader.
Are you happy? Are you a leader? Are
you learning and growing? Are you recognized as humble and loving
and wise? Are you spiritually alive? Do you depart a room better
than when you arrived? Do you know what your roll is in existence,
do you think through who you are to others?
Do you have a solid mission statement?
Do you carefully think through the framework, the context, the
outline of your mission statement?
Do you have an organizing tool to push
you up against your goals? Do you plan by the entire week as
a whole, instead of hopelessly-detailed daily chaos? Do you have
a disciplined mental calendar and giant wall calendar? Do you
practice saying Yes to encouraging morality and No to destructive
thoughts?
Have you decided what levels of influence
you have on others and what influence others have on you? Do
you train your level of who you let into your personal life;
do you take a little extra time to get involved in those around
you? Do you invest time into your loved ones to can ensure a
quality environment for all?
Do you overcome the quicksand of worldly
temptations by surrounding yourself by good deeds and silent
prayers and meditations on remembering Jesus?
Do you compensate to help a neighbor
to open a door, while helping them to grow without letting yourself
be walked on?
Do you ask what you can do to help others,
to deliver the necessary corrections where they need it? Do you
serve? Do you ask people to consider multiple scenarios to confirm
others power to make decisions, by saying “you might consider
this and this” other than telling people what to do? Are
you open, loving, always growing in your environment, do you
have creative and learning opportunity?
Do you build your creative, communicative
relationships? Do you sharpen your mental skills, your physical
health, your spiritual communication with brothers and sisters
in Christ? Do you live a balanced, emotionally deep, trusting
and trustworthy lifestyle?
Do you put first things first? Do you
seek first to understand, then to be understood? Do you observe
the situation before offering a hand?
Do you analyze the situation to want
the opinion of others, for a win-win performance agreement, to
remove the pride creatively explore solutions?
Are you aware of your complete environment?
Have you explored the programs you're living out every day? Do
you look at situations in multiple layers, all in a constructive
way that your conscience and unconscious mind can work together
at? Do you manage your resources and talents well? Do you expand
and exercise your abilities while not spreading you interests
too thin to focus on them all at once? Does your life have a
mission, do you have people to serve. Do you know what it took
to create this country, the constitution created directly by
Biblical information; do you know the leadership and focus it
takes to build a nation? Do you start every day in deep prayer
with your creator? Do you put fourth a leap of faith in God to
direct your life, a faith more intense than that you have in
your human friends, a faith that says God is in charge and he
knows what's best for you. Do people look at you as someone who
has a deep caring moral foundation of good character and leadership?
Are you healthy spiritually, physically, and mentally? Do you
think in advance instead of only when you have to?
Are you continually sharpening the saw?
Do you allow yourself a few hours in the early morning to read
God's word and get your soul in focus?
Do you get long-lasting energy from God,
instead of quick-fix energy of the corrupt world?
Do you examine the eco system of how
each layer of your life functions? Do you allow room for human
failure?
Have you heard the quote from the French
philosopher who said, “We are not human beings having a
spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human
experience.”
Do you spend time with your loved ones,
do you keep in touch with those who are dear to you, do you tell
them you care, do you put your feelings into actions to empower
others with the good news of God?
Do you start with moderation, being patient
while creative, being focused while observant, obeying the rules
while being open to forgiveness.
Look to the word of God for truth, for
law, morality.
Build a relationship with Christ.
Pray about what God wants for you.
Keep on the straight and narrow.
Tide, donate in faith to God.
Meditate in remembrance of life of Jesus.
Spread the good news that Jesus died for you.
Love others as you want to be loved.
Serve God and your neighbor.
Surrender your life to Jesus as Lord and savior.
Go through the 10 commandments with others, ask them to confess,
help them to be born again.
Speak the truth in love, God will change people
Operating System Article: Ideas for a
new OS.
This is yet another creativity motivation
process, for an interactive operating system of the future. Work
is a good thing. Working needlessly if you don't like it is a
bad thing. The very idea of work in today's world is considered
a stressful thing, but that's just a lie of the world. Art is
work, but it doesn't feel like the negative cube-farm toil that
the world puts on the word “work”. Hobbies are one
of the most intensive works you can do, but you like it, now
what if you would actually get something highly productive out
of your hobby, other than amusement? What if you could expand
your hobbies to have five times the meaning to you and even be
appealing to those around you? What if the quality of the world
depended on how much you love your hobbies? There is an idea
for a new science. This article talks about using “work”
as an art that you enjoy doing, eliminating stress from work,
eliminating the lie that work is a bad thing. Anything can be
an art. I found a list of computer terms at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terms
and decided to make it into a contrast poem of Technology and
Nature. Integrating a natural feel into the computer experience,
for both the user and the programmer, using ideas from nature
to make your computing experience more soothing. Phase one will
be to collect as many friendly tech-lingo as possible. Phase
two will be to collect nature lingo. Phase three will be to assemble
an outline or storyboard for the poem to follow, and then not
put much work into following it, creating a free-write the tech/nature
poem and remix it a few times; using visual “imagery”
inspiration from my DeviantArt favorites list (700 something
images in there). Another possible source of personal inspiration
will be Japanese music videos on Winamp's video library. The
end result will be a huge quasi-understandable mess of a poem.
The poem will help science and art to integrate, eventually being
the same thing, using natural shapes and textures to inspire
the scientists. It's the start of a larger project for understanding
how humanity can better integrate nature into a modern home on
a micro/macro level. This is a study on using “nature”
as a tool to expand the culture and technology of a productive
human city. To simplify things for the reader, I'll just call
this project a poem. Eventually this experiment in creativity
growth through scientific poetry will create a new form of science.
A hopeful outcome of all of this would be making work into art:
A Virtual Reality community, generated by the computer when the
individual user gives a spoken description of any enjoyable environment.
Integrating work into the generated 3D environment, thus increasing
productivity by turning work into play. Not an entirely new concept,
but by making work more philosophical and inspirational will
get people more involved in their work by making it into more
of a hobby than work. Basically eliminating work altogether through
the use of translating science into poetry. Finding what inspires
people and using that as a way to help them contribute to society.
Some people will not align with the art process (such as today's
sloppy public schools) thus having little to contribute to art,
so they should be given equal access and rights to those who
do have something to contribute, and continually work towards
becoming productive. Supportive communities work. Eliminating
not only stressful "office work" from existence, but
also removing international unemployment, by virtually making
everyone an artist. Everyone reviewing and reinventing all aspects
of society, and sorted by computers. In a way, harvesting mental
CPU to form a supercomputer of contributing artists. This won't
be limited to old terms such as “network”, new words
and terms must be realized to define a matured internet consisting
of each user in VR sculpting and re-sculpting the future of technology
and wisdom through artistic inspiration. Anyone stressing out
due to any “problems” and saying this science-to-art
project is not possible, will quickly be told to silence their
destructive perspective..? Much like any level of math, any “problem”
is just figuring out how to understand the question, and it's
far from “impossible” with a flexible virtual environment.
I hope to soon re-write this entry again in a more Christian
design, focusing more on Biblical wisdom rather than man's wisdom.
Christians can use a laptop just as much as anyone, and an advanced
Christian operating system for Churches to share databases is
a much needed area of technology. Now I'll talk about a possible
method for constructing virtual environments: 3D Lego's. Lego's
are an easy way for everyday computer users to build complex
3D environments. I need to sign a deal with Lego Corporation
to help me design a virtual community, for millions of users
to easily combine efforts to design fun environments. LegoOS,
where users will collaborate on invention projects that will
contribute to real-world construction projects. Collaborative
community efforts are possible, such as in the development of
Linux software and how Wikipedia turned out to be such a huge
information resource for the internet. It's more about the artistic
designing and dreaming than it is about the technical coding,
although any effort I work toward will have nothing less than
top hackers ready to take on any challenge. All I need is to
combine more of my creative thinking projects into a structured
book, to help solidify my various ideas into actions. The point
is, I think I'm onto something big. A much higher scale project
than GoogleEarth or WindowsVista. Lego's + SecondLife ( http://teen.secondlife.com/
) + GoogleEarth + Winamp + Voice Chat Bots and Automated Scripts
+ Microoft Office Templates + NeoBook + VisualBasic + XBox360/PS3/PSP
+ Tivo + The Sims + LiveJournal + Wikipedia + StumbleUpon Firefox
Plugin + Video Chat + Quicktime Panorama + Apple OSX + Real life
city construction. Now simplify the whole thing into one inspirational
operating environment for people of all ages and abilities. The
following is my current list of tech terms to use for version1
of the poem. Let me know how you feel about this project.
This book will be continually updated
and modified as time permits. - Royce