BellaOnline Forums Beauty and Self Creativity Nominations for Creativity Awards 2006

Now that you've had a chance to think, here's a reminder of the Categories for the Creativity Awards:

o Most Creative Artwork
o Most Creative Literary work
o Most Creative Film or Television production
o Most Creative Music, Lyrics, or Soundtrack
o Most Creative Business idea
o Creative Scientific or Medical solutions/developments
o Most Creative Invention or Innovation

(if you think of something that requires a new category, let me know!)


... and a nomination to get the ball rolling...

In the category of Most Creative Literary work:

JK Rowling for "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone" - specifically for introducing the world of Hogwarts, Platform 9 & 3/4, and Bernie Bott's Every Flavour Beans.

(Yes, Rowling may be nominated again for any of the other Harry Potter books.)

How about...?

Dr Cameron Jones from the Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria, Australia, for Creative Scientific solutions and developments.

Dr Jones is a mathematical research scientist, microbiologist, and nightclub co-owner/DJ, who discovered in 2003 that growing penicillin on CDs dramatically altered the sound of the music on them. Since then, Dr Jones has developed a computer program to read images of substances baked into a CD-ROM surface using an ordinary CD-ROM drive, creating a relatively cheap and quick way of determining whether an unknown substance could be anthrax.

You can read more about the concepts here and here.

Most Creative Film - Okay, it depends on whether you are going to take just this year or going back a ways. For this year I'd say "Sin City" - the combinations of B/W and spot colorization, and that they actually made it look like the comic book it was titled after was very neat.

If you can go back further, I'd have to say "Toy Story" for being the first fully CG animated film - they really broke ground with that one.

Both good choices! Thanks Michelle!

For Most Creative Artwork - I love Magritte's surrealist art for the pure imagination and eccentricity, particularly The Empire of Lights, which is a night-time scene of a house under a bright daylight sky. See some of Magritte's well-known pieces here.

For Most Creative Medical Solution -

An intraocular retinal prosthetic implant is being developed by Dr Mark Humayun at the Doheny Eye Institute in California, with the aim of eventually replacing the damaged retinal cells of sufferers of retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration. The device is implanted in the retina and converts images into electrical pulses which can be picked up by the nerve cells in the eye, and translated by the brain. Humayun was inspired to think of the eye in terms of electrical circuitry and find ways to bypass blindness.��

Dr Humayun is a professor of ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine and associate director of research at the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California.

Read more about this research here.

I nominate [color:"blue"]"Blue Man Group"[/color] for most creative music.

If you have never seen their show, it is amazing, they have created instruments out of PVC piping, banging on pianos (not the keys - the entire piano), waving pieces of wire in the air.

In an interview I heard with these guys they said (paraquoting here) they would listen to an instrument, and then try to figure out how to make that sound, backwards engineering style.

It is very cool. <img src="/images/graemlins/music.gif" alt="" />

Sounds fascinating. I have seen clips of them on TV, but not a proper performance. Their website is here.

Actually, PVC piping makes a fantastic didgeridoo. It's great for learning on until you can go out and play the didges in the store to find the one you really want.

We got to see a Free-view of their "The Complex Rock Tour Live" concert. We loved it so much that we ordered the DVD and CD set, and have played both to death!

I'm a [color:"blue"]Blue Man[/color] junkie. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Thanks to Bella Harmony for this nomination from the Creative People game thread: