Creative Thinking Poem

So one of the classes  all the first years have to take is Creative Thinking. Half with Charles Hall and the half with Mark Fenske. I am in the half thats taking Creative Thinking with Mark Fenske. 

Creative Thinking challenges us to do things is unique and creative ways.  Last week's assignment was to write a poem that used the words bulk, plenty and forest at least once and of course we had to do it in a creative and clever way. Which means NOT to do a poem that says and does the same thing every other poem that has ever been written is trying to do. At least thats what I took it to mean. So with that in mind I came up with this poem:

This is not a poem

by Alexander Ridore

ATTENTION

This is a test

These words are conducting a test of your mind

This is only a test.

Bubblegum, butterfly wings

a bulk of poop

and many other things.

This is a test of your mind

The inner workings of you mind

come together to figure words out

Had this been an actual poem

The call to attention you just heard

would have been followed by

deep thoughts

carefully chosen words

well structured sentences

and plenty of emotion.

Poems do that type of thing.

But why should those words get all the fun?

These words are full of meaning

these words make you think

these words create intrigue.

Poems aren’t the only set of words that can put your mind to the test.

But this isn’t a poem,

this is a test.

Oh, and a forest, the good poems always have a forest.

This concludes this test. 

Brandcenteraurean Rank: 1st Level Creative Technologist

Its been a long time but I'm back on the blogger. Heck I totally forgot I had one. 

When I was here last I was posting my progress and my thoughts of my physical computing course at Syracuse University. Now I am a man in the prestigious VCU Brandcenter (BC) masters program. I am 1 of 11 members of the brand new Creative Technology track at the BC. People are always saying how fortunate we are to be a part of this new track because out of the 5 program tracks that the BC offers the best opportunities but I think we are all still trying to figure out what a Creative Technologist is even 2 and a half months into the semester. Though we have a better idea of what we're suppose to be now, back in August none of the CTs really had any clue what a CT is suppose to be.

According to the BC website a Creative Technologist "works as leaders and members of expanded creative teams in agencies and production companies, as interactive designer, creative directors, producers, as directors of interactive media, as members of account teams, as entrepreneurs, as digital and interactive generalists, and in new creative technology positions emerging in forward-thinking agencies." Thats a lot of things. I think thats why we're still having difficulty figuring out what we are because we can be labeled as many things. I guess its a good though. 

Last week we actually met two guys from Wieden + Kennedy, Marcelino and Adam, who are at W + K doing what we're doing at Brandcenter. Adam's title at W+K is actually a Creative Technologist. And apparently he does all the things all the things that the official BC description of a CT says. The more information I get about what a CT is suppose to be the more fall in love with being one......