Blame the weather for making me too lazy to do anything!
It was so grey and the cool air blowing in from my window was just not helping at all! I was supposed to do work but then I felt too uninterested in it that I just started doing something more interesting in my opinion: making a poster design to put up on my room wall.
Been wanting to do it for 2 months and finally got the time to. It's my first time collaborating technology into my artwork. Edited my rough drawing of the waves on paint software and put everything together there as well. Came out to be pretty nice :) I love curly lines (as stated all over my poster design)
First, I created a title for my personal blog using my artwork then I got inspired to do my poster design. Thanks to technology I didn't have to draw multiple waves, just one and with the magic of copy, paste and resize I got the waves in different sizes.
Learned typography in 2D lesson which came out to be very useful in designing this.
Very satisfied with my work, although, I must admit that it is still far from perfection. But hey, it's just for FUN right!
Think we know it all when we get straight As? Think again. Often we live in our own world, submerged in our own routines that we neglect many things, letting our lives flow along wherever the streams take us just like a leaf dropped on the surface of moving stream water. But can't we fill our billions empty brain cells with more interesting things? Yes! Totally! Looking deep into the oceans is one way! I am always amazed at how much we still don't know about the lives under the ocean. So many alien creatures roaming around waiting to be discovered. I'm so thankful to those brave and curious scientists who went all the way into the dark underwater world to find out about things (snorkeling is terrifying enough for me). I found out about these alien creatures in BBC Planet Earth DVD and I just love them! How their bodies are designed to adapt to the surrounding is mind blowing.
Vampire Squid
Photo courtesy by cr2chicago.weebly.com
This fish truly resembles a human vampire with those sharp teeth its got. A truly bizarre creature!
Angler Fish
Photo courtesy by rarelyknown.com
With that light producing antennae stuck on its head, it can lure its food, such an awesome way to eat! Just imagine yourself as being a small fish being attracted to a bright blinking light and before you know it, those sharp teeth are ready to chew you up, oopsy daisy!
Nautilus
Photo courtesy by hist.umn.edu
Somehow, this creature looks like a sculpture that can be put on top of a side table as a decoration to me. Although its body tucked neatly into an elegantly curved shell, it can still swim around the vast ocean with little movements needed. Awesome right?
Giant Isopod
Photo courtesy by teamliquid.net
Yes, it actually looks like a giant flea but living under the water! Scary as it looks, giant isopods actually carry out the most important job in the ocean: cleaning up carcasses on the seafloor. Quite useful to have many feet to quickly move about the seafloor.
Hatchetfish
Photo courtesy by harepolish.com
Photo courtesy by realmonstrosities.com
Those bubbly round eyes are not for aesthetic purpose, instead this fish captures as much light as it can receive through those comparatively big eyes. It is so dark down there!
PEANUT WORM
Photo courtesy by www.ocean.nationalgeographic.com
How about this? Looks like a part of intestines floating in the ocean. It's a sea worm!
TUBE WORM
Even in such an inhospitable place where light and oxygen is rare plus high pressure, these colourful worms live, TOUGH WORMS!
Since I first saw these creatures, I have never stopped "wow-ing" every time I look at them. They just amaze me so much with their mysterious secrets.
More to look at http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/photos/deep-sea-creatures/#/deep-sea02-spider-crab_18162_600x450.jpg
Here I am again, posting things that inspire me. Decided to go to the Art Science Museum this afternoon with Jess and Sufi. Our Language Arts teacher highly recommended us to go and take a look what's happening there and I must say the exhibitions were fantastic! Visited all three exhibitions: the Mummy, the Eames and the National Geographic. I found inspiring photos taken by the expert photographers in the National Geographic exhibition. Here are some. My phone camera is not that good and it affects the colour here :(
Being too excited looking at the photos, I forgot to look at the photographers' names. Anyway, these photos are my favourites among other photos. I found these pictures fascinating because I feel like I could totally put myself in the photographer's situation looking at what's happening right in front of his/her eyes at that current time. There is the heat from the sun, there is the splash of water, the smell, the wind, the sound of people yelling, I can experience them all just by seeing their photos. Just by looking, I got transferred to alien places seeing the unusual scenes, connecting with strangers from different worlds. Just amazing!
Talking about photography, I also got to create my own photogram! In one of the workshops, I could experience creating photos in a dark room. I created this collaboration of objects I have on top of a sheet of light sensitive paper. When the light was exposed, the area that was not covered by the objects got burned. So this is the result! :)
What comes to your mind? What's the first word that comes up in your mind when you see this picture?
Surely we all come up with various ideas to find meaning to something that is unknown to us.
But have we really look closely to what we actually see? Often I find myself not understanding what I see and I have no desire to look further into it if it's not interesting. I first saw these pictures in a church service today and really I had no idea what I was seeing. These are actually called "MUDPIE" yup MUDPIE but not the regular chocolatey, creamy, appetizing mudpie we eat to satisfy our sweet tooth cravings. The name actually describes itself. It is literally made of mud, salt and vegetable oil. Interestingly, they are made to actually be consumed. Yes, eaten by human beings I mean. This is the only way people in Haiti overcome their cravings for food. Starving to death yet having no resources, this is the only way they try to spare their lives. Children are fed these mudpies to satisfy their hunger pangs. Conceiving mothers consume it to fulfill their calcium needs during pregnancy. What do we see?
Are we aware of this? Have we really look at something properly? I feel really inspired when I listened to the story of Bill Wilson, a man who has actually seen all this with his very eyes, when he held a dying child on his own arms, crying uncontrollably due to starvation and being fed with dirt. But he did not stop there, he saw with his heart and did what his small heart cried out.
Our egocentric nature often gets in the way when looking at things. We only see superficially most of the time but I feel it is necessary to find meaning to it, let alone meaning, first we must have the desire to know something that is quite irrelevant/meaningless to us. To see is not to only put our eyes at work, but our heart in action too.
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
I found these postcards artwork when I shopped in IKEA last week and without too much thinking I grabbed them. I love this kind of artwork. The idea of combining animal and human being style is very unique plus on these artworks the animals are dressed quite fashionably, making it so much fun to be look at. The artist, Matt Dinniman, incorporated the western style of dressing up with other cultures style as well. For example the rabbit, it is dressed up with Egyptian Islamic red hat and wearing a butterfly bow. Another one is the bear that is wearing a mix style of gypsy and broadway dancer. The owl, however, reminds me of the Mad Hatter style from the book Alice in the Wonderland!
I find it quite smart that the artist also use the animal's physical feature to suit the garments it is wearing, for instance the seal's face that has wrinkles and mustache (a.k.a whiskers) is dressed up like an old British man back in the 19th century
Randomly took a picture of this bird that was standing on a rock at a drainage. Then I read about how difficult it was to freeze a moment 200 years back from now. It would take a long process to just capture one moment plus storing the pictures would probably take a lot more effort. Nowadays, we just do it with thumb effort, just press the button! I guess I take photography for granted, it's something so usual to just take pictures now but looking back I'm thankful that there were people who would take the troubles to actually develop cameras :)
Anyway, I edited the picture with negative effect. At first I didn't know what it negatives in photography meant. According to the all knowing Wikipedia, negative means an image in which the lightest part of a photography appear darkest and vice versa.
It's quite interesting!
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Picture 1 (Heartsease Flower)
From afar this flower can be easily mistaken as a butterfly!
Picture 2 (Gazania Tiger Stripe)
Picture 3
Looks like a painter just can't be bothered to finish his artwork?
When it comes to colours, it is necessary to observe from nature. What have more palette of colours than flowers? Deep purple, yellow, orange, red, white, this palette of colours on the flowers I found while taking a stroll in the Flower Dome gave me feelings of happiness, calmness yet energetic. I love the contrasting colours on some flowers (pic 1 &2) like deep purple and yellow, the colours really jumped out of the bushes of dark green attracting so much attention. Nature does provide a great example of gradation of colour. I noticed the perfect gradation of colour on one flower (pic 2), from dark to light purple and this gradation combined with white is just beautiful to see. Not only that, the "washed" colour on a red flower (pic 3) is really interesting, to me the flower looks like it's been bleached out.
Picture 4
The stripy purple and white flowers (Petunia) somehow reminds me of lollipop!
Picture 5
Just imagine these flowers without the white tip on each petal, I think it becomes less "cute"! :P
Looking closely to each type of flower, each has its own beautiful part whether it is the shape or the colour or just simple white tip at the end of each petal. There are so much to see on just a single flower because each part is so beautiful!
