WEEK TEN 24TH DECEMBER 2012

What is happening in the world around 

Agency 1.0

How's media influences the people?

1. Trend of getting news by internet is increasing.
2. Percentages of mobile phone users go online to socialize is exceeding the percentages of traditional desktop users.
3. Trend of socializing on social networking site is increasing, people nowadays prefer to socialize on social networking site rather than face to face meeting.
4. Television ratings decline as the world chooses online video.

INTERESTING REPORT I CAME ACROSS

The Future Growth of the Internet, in One Chart (and One Graph)

This morning Cisco released its annual Visual Networking Index, the report that tracks Internet traffic patterns from around the world. The document-meets-data-trove forecasts, among other things, broadband usage for two and three and four years from now. 

Below are Cisco's projections for Internet traffic over the next four years. One key milestone it encompasses: Cisco is predicting that global IP traffic will surpass 1.3 zettabytes in size by 2016. That's huge in every sense: A zettabyte is equal to a trillion gigabytes, or a sextillion bytes. Which is in turn equal to many, many bytes. (And 1.3 zettabytes is a per year stat: In terms of monthly traffic, citizens of the world of 2016 can expect traffic of 109.5 exabytes a month.)

Also notable is Cisco's projection that global IP traffic will increase threefold over the next five years. (That's after an eightfold increase over the past five years alone.) Particularly in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, traffic growth will explode. And that, of course, will have social and economic and geopolitical ramifications -- some of which we can forecast, and others of which we can't yet imagine.

But the biggest story here, as it increasingly will be, is mobile. Mobile traffic will rise steadily and explosively over the next four years, Cisco projects. While the compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for fixed Internet and managed IP hover at 28 percent and 21 percent, respectively ... Cisco expects that the CAGR for mobile data will be a whopping 78 percent by 2016. The Internet, increasingly, will be portable.

A few caveats, however. Last year's VNI report put mobile at a 92 percent CAGR by 2015 -- so the new projected growth rates are conservative by comparison. And mobile's story is one of relative growth rather than absolute penetration: Mobile, of course, won't have overtaken its counterpart connections by 2016 -- far from it. Mobile is the blue line in the graph above; for all its growth, its penetration is still tiny compared to non-mobile Internet access. The trend lines past 2016 hint at mobile overtaking managed IP; for now, though -- and for the next four years -- it will likely remain the scrappy upstart of Internet connectivity.

REFRENCES: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/the-future-growth-of-the-internet-in-one-chart-and-one-graph/257811/

WEEK NINE 18 DEC 2012

Dadaism? 
It is an art of movement.

It involved visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestoes, art theory, theatre, graphic design and anti war arts.

Examples:

Hannah Hoch - Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the First Epoch of the Weimar Beer-Belly Culture, 1919.

The piece on the right by Hannah Hoch epitomizes the Dada attitude towards war: That it is chaos. That the world has gone mad. That war itself is craziness incarnate destroying humanity.

Refrence: http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/dada/arthistory_dada.html

Francis Picabia - The Dada Movement

The dada artists claimed, their movement was a noisy alarm that woke modern art from its slumber, then this drawing reveals how the alarm was sounded. His diagram of the wiring of a dada alarm clock historically plots the current of modern art, beginning with the 19th-century French portrait painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and continuing through to 391, Picabia’s own dada magazine.

WEEK EIGHT

For our exercise,our title is ''How to make a person stop smoking in 6 months?''

Situation/problem-How to make a person stop smoking in 6 months?

Random worlds-Traffic Light

How to quit smoking?

I never smoke before in my life but I do know one thing. To quit smoking must come from your deepest desire so that you will be committed to do so. Most people said quitting smoking is tough because we are tempted and it is because we are used to it. As for me, if you really want to live healthy as long and you have the reasons to quit, temptation is just a small bump on the way to live a long and happy life. 

ASSOCIATION

SIGN: Use a disturbing pictures at the box of the cigarette. 

METAL: Cigarette made from metal substances so the smokers will be allergic each time they smoke. 

COLOR: Use yellow and red color to show warning to the smokers.

WEEK SEVEN

JUXTAPOSITION EXERCISE IN CLASS

LOVE+ CHILI =

Before you I never understand 

What is the meaning of love

The love that you shower for me everyday was a wonderful feeling

You're like a chili that spice up my life with your hot love

You're love makes me feel safe and protected

You're love makes me feel supported

I can even do anything and everything for you

My dear hot stuff boyfriend.

WEEK SIX

MORTAR AND PESTLE INVENTION

Mr.Radzi Bedu exercise in class.

The mind map that I do in my class:

3 IDEAS OF MY INVENTION IS GAME, MUSIC AND FASHION USING TONY BUZAN'S CONCEPT OF MIND MAP.

WEEK FIVE

MIND MAPS

1. Logical mind map-is directly connected to stereotypes and comprises of solely stereotype words.
2.  Associated Mind Map-Using an associated mind map we are able to generate random words and also show the links between words that seemingly have no connection.
3. Logical Mind Maps & Stereotypes-Before beginning a Logical mind map we have to understand what a Stereotype is; below is the definition of the word.

TONY BUZAN'S MIND MAPS

WHO IS TONY BUZAN?

Tony Buzan is the inventor of the now world-renowned Mind Map, and is well-known as an educational consultant, speaker and prolific author. His invention of Mind Mapping in the late 1960s was born out of frustration with traditional note taking revision techniques. He has since developed the Mind Map technique through books, TV appearances and his work as a highly-regarded speaker. Through iMindMap, Tony and Chris have finally established a synthesis between interactive, intelligent software and the creative freedom of a sketched Mind Map.

WHAT IS THE USE OF MIND MAPS?

• Organize yourself
• Easier to brainstorm yourself sometimes can be a practice for the brain
• Structuring information
• Planning
• Studying 
• Memorization
• Note Taking
• Good to Present Our Ideas
• Problem Solving

How to Draw a Mind Map

• Start in the middle of a blank page, writing or drawing the idea you intend to develop. I would suggest that you use the page in landscape orientation.
• Develop the related subtopics around this central topic, connecting each of them to the center with a line.
• Repeat the same process for the subtopics, generating lower-level subtopics as you see fit, connecting each of those to the corresponding subtopic.

• Use colors, drawings and symbols
• Keep it short and simple
• Use different text and wordings

REFRENCES: http://litemind.com/what-is-mind-mapping/

WEEK FOUR PART TWO

This week my next topic would be the process of invention and innovation

What do you think about invention? 

Better yet what is invention?

 The definition behind the word?

Invention involves the discovery of new processes, ideas or tools.  Invention is prioritary, meaning that only a new or previously unknown discovery can be considered an invention, as opposed to the development of an already existing one.  Patenting an invention requires priority, meaning that no one else must have come up with the same (or similar) idea at any previous time.  Patenting involves an exhaustive scrutiny of an idea’s novel qualities and an evaluation of its potential uses by experienced specialists from various fields.  The evaluation of a patent application often requires years before a final determination on award can be made.    

Meanwhile Innovation?

Innovation, on the other hand, involves the use or development of an invention for some useful purpose.  Innovations have often served as the point of departure for new inventions.  Innovation is typically less risky than invention, since it usually deals with known parameters, qualities or quantities.  Invention, on the other hand, often involves a leap unto the unknown, where trial and error, the unexpected or even chance can have a substantial influence on the outcome.  The high risk of invention can act as a deterrent to many organizations and individuals, particularly when rewards cannot be clearly anticipated.

Taken from: http://www.innovativecapacity.com/TechInvInno.htm

From reading this article from http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/tech/article/the-pc-is-dead-long-live-the-tablet/  I found that people buy latest technology that is more portable and easy to use. Tablets is so small that you can actually carry around with it to go for break, lunch and meetings. It's like having a small PC to use anywhere at anytime. By reading this article you can notice that how technology evolves. From small to big and from boring to something exciting. We use to have Phone Cords but now our society needs a wireless phone. Where you can carry around to call someone without having the annoying cords. So people invented the Handphone.

Phone Cords

Handphone

But this phone is too big to carry around. You can only use it to call and text someone. Therefore, people invented a phone with games, calender, calculator, alarms and different ringtones with it. Thus, this phone was created. The Nokia 3310.

Nokia 3310

Now? Society needed a phone to take pictures and access the internet so they can communicate with their friends through social network all the time and we call it a smartphone. Innovation is actually what during the old days have invented like phones, televisions, computers and etc. But as time passed, we tend to invent new things and add up more features to it for the benefits of our people.