before collapse

Can't believe I actually came out of some decent ideas within a day. I was 2 weeks behind. Last night I was bugging Joey with brief and vision but actual production for the 3 masterplans was in studio today. Finally got them done for the crit.

So I'm going with the educational one. And Micmacs OST is soooo cool.

New Family Members!

Roses from yesterday. Gift for myself being one year older officially. 

And this lovely little thing.

Care for the Earth

indoor day 2

was trying to be creative in cooking...

haven't tried the final product... hope it's not too bad.

day stuck indoors

Spent a few hours playing around with acetone - trying to transfer newsprint onto some other media. Found that only black ink goes - or should I try turpentine? Then I thought of Micmacs( directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet), the music is wicked! http://www.sonyclassics.com/micmacs/ Now it's non-stop playing in my ear!


Recently I realized I've got some kinda weird Pavlovian, and my reaction actually makes me look like I've got Parkinson's! 


But anyway...I'm looking for something that can actually blow my mind... I refused to be amazed since I was very little and now I find the world stifling. 


Human beings are absolutely slow learners.  

Recent Survey Work

I made this film with my colleagues as part of our site survey. I really enjoyed doing this time-lapse thingie. And I thought the first bit is sorta panorama of the site ?? 

And it was a shame that music wasn't loud enough on the presentation day. 

Was put into understudy today. And sang a note wrong. I really hope to get the right part for The Creation next year. And for some reasons Vivaldi's Four Seasons made me sad in an undesirable way today. 

And I really need to catch up the dissertation...

How cute!

Having a violin student is a good push - since I stopped having lessons at 12 years old - because nightmare started, well that's another story - I generally stopped practising. 


Recently done a bit of practise for the survey presentation, but that's barely the reason I started playing the violin again.  I almost forgot about how amazing it is drowning into your very own world musically. I even enjoy playing the scales. Need to feed myself with some Bach, oh, I so need some Bach. 


And also, after a week resting, I picked up Fauré again. Thinking about the coming concert in Dec, which is the day before I go to Roedean School for Christmas, I want to make people think their money well-spent. 


I really hope I can get to see Hugh the Drover tomorrow. Cadogan Hall looks stunning in the picture, though small. 


What sorta future career will I be creating? 




And some nice photos - A designer did these while his/her baby's sleeping!

Find me!

I went everywhere with my lovely kaleidoscope. Sitting on the bus, watching the street I have walked for 16 years through it is a whole new experience. 


Can you spot my face in one of the images? 

18/10/2010

Was helping a friend with her project - exploring the relationship between heaven and earth - I really doubt how far she could go as she believes that we derived from monkeys. Well, anyway, we carried around some large perspex around (I refused to carry her mirror as it's ridiculously heavy) in London to take pix of some churches - St. Paul Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral. I was also responsible to take pictures of the process - people looking at her weird and stuff...

outside of St. Paul Cathedral

She's done some stunning shots. Then she tried to build a huge kaleidoscope and she wanted to break my kaleidoscope in order to prove her theory right... Now she's busy designing a food vendor so that she could sell some candy floss and homemade toffee fruit. I'll be helping on site again, eating this time. 

2nd Shoot

Yesterday weather was not bad but wasn’t sunny as weather forecast. Got some amazing shots with Valentino – happened to catch some nice shots of fireworks by Southbank – don’t know what it was for though.

Met Andy on site doing interviews for Genius loci. He’s got some exciting information – few storeys up in the County Hall and a few blocks around are all social housing for locals, very cheap price.

Group work really has made me learn how to appreciate other’s work even though sometimes I don’t agree with them. Now Monday and Friday are my favourite days! Doing some work does make me feel good.

Looking for a percussionist for the performance – doesn’t even have to be an amateur one – just thought it’d be nice to have some beats. I’ve started playing the violin again – some Irish music this time. Haha.

Here we go... London eye again!

1st day shooting

Absolutely Freezing out there. Didn't go for the protest as I don't think that'd have much to do with me. Anyway, I think this is unexpectedly cool.

I was doing breathing exercises while doing the shoot. Got another concert coming woohoo~ Can't believe things all come so fast!

oname 1

Recently...

Haven't painted, or drawed, or done anything for dissertation.

First the telephone line was cut off then electricity during the weekend - No internet or light in the house.

What I've really been doing...

Reading the bible

Getting my lungs ready for the coming concert.

Stand by Southbank and let wind blow over me.

Seems like I do anything for art.

HELP- plant ident

 

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quick update here...

It's Acer saccharinum!!!!

Like a bloody tourist

In University of York

University of York

Museum Garden

The Shambles

My lovely lovely tour guide

Seriously lack of oxygen to brain from long coach journey. Desperately in need of that bursary so that I can travel by train next time. Tomorrow.

Sketch Design - A Composition Exercise

Unfortunately there's no concept. I tried to fit one in so that the sequence would be more meaningful. Hopefully it won't be too weird.


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Seeing its a shared space, I shall be more honest with the whole process. I didn't come out of the idea immediately. I also tried the 'filling the grid' thingie at the beginning.  Dreadful, isn't it?

I can't bear myself presenting some 'ok' work so I forced myself jumping out of the box. Anyhow it's not a difficult thing for a fruitcake to do at all, hahaha.
So,
cropped the woman, enlarged the Agra image, created some interruption in between, me well-contented!! But wait... how can I fit the 3rd in?? The jellyfish idea( the blue one on bottom left in previous image) is good on its own but no way to fit in this composition... I wish I had thought of a theme right from the start! Shall I give up the jellyfish one? If I want the ultimate effect, I'll have to drop it. Then I didn't touch this picture for another 2 days.

Sunday: after spending most of my day worshipping the almighty God, I told myself that I need to finish this work otherwise phantom of procrastination would follow me for another year. Praying for inspiration... eventually came out of the idea of a chess board. It looked pretty alright. Now there're officially 3 different ways of exploring human scale!!! Though I was really worried if it fit the brief saying about '3 individual images', didn't know if the 'hard to please' tutor would like my blending design.

And yeah, in order to avoid unnecessary controversy, I dropped that meaningless intervention on the top image.


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Actually I had a really great idea, I could have extended the floor from the top image all the way down, in order to create a new dimention- a joining upright wall, making the rock climbing a frontal view which would create sorta illusion on perspectives. The reason I didn't do it is that I didn't figure out what went wrong with my tablet pen!!!! It was a shame that I've had it for like a year now but never really used it. It'd become a bonus in my future work, definitely.

sketch design 2

I'm still working hard at this time. Oops, 5am already??

Anyway, on Monday we made some quick models from cartridge paper(A1 divided into 4)，5min each.

Planar & Texture

Sequential, Volumes & Pierced (But I forgot to pierce it)

Soft, Hard, Connection & Planar

Interconnecting & Spatial, I chose this one to explore further in sketch design, as it's simple and cleverly done. And I love these photos as well.

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I'll upload the sketch design after Monday pin-up. Me well-excited~~