Author: Sara Abo Madalala

This was a really fun and nostalgic challenge for me as I had to turn my childhood time wasting game into a new box of ideas for my making tasks, each time I get a new task, I will write it on a piece of paper, and put it in this task, in order for me to see how much I have progressed since this task.

It was really fun to play DIY arts and crafts when you lack most of the material, but I let creativity take the wheel and guide me through how to turn the surface of my game and its distinct shape, into a box for my future ideas.

As I will have all my ideas in this box, I will be able to “Travel through my ideas” and in some way i would still be time traveling, for some reason, my goal for this exercise was to keep something of the game from the previous assignment and just build up on. It without fully modifying the existence of the first, which is where the concept of traveling through time came from.

As someone that isnt really familiar with the art of music as much as the other arts, it was interesting to hear what art means from a musician’s perspective, despite me not being able to feel his feelings and understand truly and deeply his art process. I found the idea of capturing scents and turning them in a way into sounds and songs, very interesting to me and would like to look up or learn a bit more on how that actually happens and how does it work. Overall, new experience.

One thing that struck me that I really agree with in this comedy Ted Talk, is two things, first, Kermit explaining how creativity is inherent to all of us, and is not only a things artists have and others dont, he explains how days to day activities, how the economy and other important factors of human (and non human) life has been heavily fueled by creativity, which is fully true. The second thing that he said that struck me was the term “ridiculous optimism” which is what i feel whenever I want to create something, wether it be a dance video, finish an assignment or even take on a project. Other than the skillsets needed to acquire a certain goal, I truly believe creativity is key to all of it because if you listen to this creativity it tells u about innovative/more fun ways for you to achieve this goal and u believe that u will succeed and find a way make your thoughts come to life. Overall, as funny as Kermit is, with his jokes, i agree with everything he says about creativity and the creative process one has to go through in order to achieve something creatively, i especially agree with the “ridiculous optimism” term he used as i believe it is really essential to acknowledge it and allow it to drive you further into your creative process. 

When I was in elementary school, I didn’t care about school at all, all I cared about is making the time in class pass so that recess would feel to me like it was sooner, because of that, I would play a bunch of different games w my classmates that sat around me in class, one of them would be a game nostalgic to all of us in my school : the time traveller, so I decided to share the game with you guys and hopefully show you have to time travel from the comfort of your classes without making the professor realize you left!