Smoking Kills....

Smoking is a common habit of every other person we meet, I personally don't have anything against smokers but the habit of smoking itself.
 But we are not here to talk about what I like and dislike no we are not.
   A cleverer solution to stop smoking was supposed to be done by us creatively, using the juxtaposition(yes, again I know, but it's so interesting) but here we are given the random word association
    Drum-roll please.....
        It's a traffic light!!

We are supposed to come up with an idea to stop smoking by taking the characteristics of a traffic light.
   Amazing right?
      As usual my brain went numb.
         So I peeped into mainstream.
             And found....
           
           A commonly associated sign to no smoking:

                                                                 Source: qcenter.com


         
          Resolving to never do that again I start with the most prominent characteristics of  a traffic light

                1)Colour: it's perfect red is the colour people associate to stop... but then I remembered that people hate being told what to do, so the next colour was orange.
                    What if the cigarette was orange and red instead of  orange and white,colours have always had a way of psychologically affecting us. This combination would hurt nobody.
                     Also having a green highlight on the bottom of the box saying "smoking kills the environment"
                       attracting their attention, but giving a positive message instead.

               2) Metal: well this is kind of obvious for a signal, but to apply it to smoking was challenging. Never the less I managed to come up with something decent.
                     A metal frame above the cigarette box with the word's smoking kill's written on it.
                            Forcing the user to peel back the metal layer and read the words at the same time.

                                                          Source:wallpaperbackgrounds.com

               3)Sign- well a signal is a sign in all terms, but in relation to smoking dangerous signs showing damaged lungs or dead people would  be a step forward.

                                                           
                                                         Source:xiaotaiyang.deviantart.com
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   And  remember,
        Think out of the box

The Juxtaposition Again.(the poetic edition)

Well here we have the juxtaposition reintroduced, however this approach is different from the previous one, in order to clarify the content we were asked to make a poem with the words "mortar and pestle" used as a metaphor for man and women.

 Poems not being my thing made this quite challenging. However after racking my brains, I managed to get this:

                                                     MORTAL AND PESTLE

                                                        They say they were perfectly fine off without us,
                                                             They say they have had it bad all the time,
                                                                    She even told me a million ways,
                                                                        In which we were mean,        
                                                              But the one which stuck in my head was,
                                                                        The metaphor she did use,
                                                    Saying women were the mortars in a of the two(Genders),          
                                                            That men were the pestle pounding eternally,
                                                     In that brief moment I thought what a hypocrite she was,
                                                                                     But nay,
                                                                             I do not dare say it,
                                                                For fear of life flashing before my eyes,
                                                                   So I keep this plain truth Shroud,
                                                                   Doing the chores she assigned me,
                                                                         Trying not to be so loud,
                                                                      (Oh come on I'm not a poet)

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The Juxtaposition

This time in class I nearly fell asleep, because we were taken to auditorium with just the right amount of light and air-conditioning(the interesting topic was the only thing keeping me up), to study on a topic called the Juxtaposition(pretty weird name ,yeah I know..),quite interesting actually.It refers to the abstract placing of two objects together to create something completely different and new.

Insanely difficult definition?
 -problem?,don't worry.

     -I had no idea either.

      

                                                             Source:weknowmemes.com                              

 It is basically done to generate Ideas and make sure we achieve the result we want purposefully and not through fluke and also to avoid half assed work.Making sure we know the difference between a bad and good idea.

                                                                     Source: diylol.com

  Keep in mind we can use this technique anywhere even in photography,planning a photo before it is taken,and by this I don't mean running around with a DSLR and thinking of pictures on the go,it involves some real hardcore thinking and planning before the shooting actually begins.So that we are sure of what we do before we actually do.

                                                               Source:ps3.mmgn.com

 We were given this exercise to help understand what it really is.Feel free to try

it yourselves.

        First we were asked to choose three numbers between 00-99,where 00 and 99 were included,so I got these three:

          1)01

          2)19

          3)55

         

       Then we were told to jot this down:

               

               1)Flower              0)Head

               2)Lightning           1)Rain

               3)Ice                    2)Wood

               4)Light                 3)Tree

               5)Fire                  4)Spider      

               6)Duck                5)Root

               7)Dog                  6)Mountain

               8)Oil                    7)Wind

               9)Leave               8)Rock

               0)Fly                    9)Water

         Well it got obvious at this point, so he told us to take the number and word together,so I got this:

                1)Head Flower (0 being head and 1 being flower)

                2)Flower Water (1 being flower and 9 being water)

                3)Fire Root ( 5 being fire and 5 being root)

        Next we were told make a simple simple sentence on each of the objects,making sure that the sentence was constructed in the same order as the word,which at that point of time took us by surprise(so go easy on my sentences) :

   

     1)On the head of Ghiath,there is a flower.

     2)The flower has water in it.(yeah I know...)

     3)Fire is spreading all over that root(*heh heh*,Starting to wonder why I did not change these sentences.)

       We were then told to illustrate these on a piece of paper(again,don't judge me we only had five minutes)

    anyway here are mine:

          

                                                       Head Flower

                           

                                                      Flower Water

                     

                                                          Fire Root

        

 The important thing to remember in these pictures is that when we draw them we have to make sure that it is seen in the way it would be read.,for example when we look at the flower we should see it as flower water not water flower and so on..

  
 This interesting exercise shows us the way in which we can plan ahead of our work,think before we create something and not hope that luck would lead us all the time.

 This is only one of the many exercises we can do to help us apply the juxtaposition in real life.More coming soon..   

    Think Smart,
     Stay Sharp,
      Break boundaries,
     Because,
       Out Of The Box Thinking,
            That's how we think,