Yeah! My graduation campaign website is up!
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Question.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Next, song review
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.
The original cast.
Sarah Brightman as Christine as MICHAEL CRAWFORD as the phantom. Yes, Michael Crawford, not Gerard Butler (who spoiled the movie version for me besides the fact that he has many girl fans. He doesn't believe in his character, I can tell.)
The whole thing's good,but prolly my favourite track is Masquerade. I dunno if it's just me, but I can visualise the whole choreography of this scene just from the music. Most probably it's due to Andrew Lloyd Webber's good composition skills and not my powers of visualisation (ahak)
Parts missing from the clip:
(Andre and Firmin, the Opera Directors)
Andre:M'sieur Firmin?(awed whisper)
Firmin:M'sieur Andre?
F:Dear Andre, what a splendid party!(congratulatory tone)
A:The prologue to a bright new year!
F:Quite a night, I'm impessed!
A:Well, one does one's best...
A/F:Here's to us!
F:I must say all the same that it's a shame that 'Phantom' fellow isn't here!
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OK, now play the Youtube clip and follow me...does this visualisation sound correct?
0:02: The Phantom is ironically already lurking in the crowd as the 'Red Dice'.
0:05 onwards: a crowd of celebrators, opera troupe conversation and Christine and Raoul's secret conversation about their marriage
2:45 :camera wanders thru the labyrinth of the opera house, the path that the Phantom took. Camera break out through a crowd of dancing revelers. Tilts up to bird's eye view of the celebration, and fireworks. Cuts to a crowd of paraders.
4:45 it is revealed that the Phantom is secretly overlooking the scene
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I also like the lyrics. The masquerade is like a metaphor for their human sins.
'Take your turn, take a ride on a merry-go-round in an inhuman race'
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Closeup on a pair that I want to make into earrings, if I can find those sterling silver hooks. Unfortunately my ears are sensitive to the standard hooks (or else I would currently be owning a few dozen of those made-in-Korea dangly stuff).
Some that look nice, eventhough by accident. The grapes got that gradual shading because of uneven heat during baking. The heart is crackled because the wet paint warped the dough, so it cracked when it dried.
Mini doughnuts! These were fun to make. Made using gesso primer and gold dust.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
This one is from Howl's Moving castle. Damn cool...the people who worked out how to build this stuff must be die-hard fans.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Looks like I won't be going to watch Gidon Kremer's performance tonight. Nevertheless I'm subconsciously counting down the time until his performance, damn MPO website for putting the countdown timer on their main page...makes me feel regretful for not going for the performance.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Ah, at last i found a site where i can watch The Cell.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
AAAAAAAAVuibhklnjmk;klokijhhcgvbjk;lvbhjnkl!!!!!!!
Gidon Kremer is coming to KL for a performance!! Siapa nak pergi with me?? Mari kita pergi!! The show's on Monday.
Only thing is it's too bad that he's not having another performance with only himself and the Kremerata Baltica. I know Igudesman and Joo are like famous as well, but all that humour distracts from Kremer's full potential, I would think. So should I go or not?? Dilemma...
Damn...so close but yet so far.
Anyways, here are 2 pieces performed by Kremer.
And one more from Being Gidon Kremer:
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Right...so now I'm a bit hooked on award winning animations that can be found on YouTube. It's all Yunzi's fault.
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This one is "My Love", which was nominated for an Academy Award last year. It's directed by Aleksandr Petrov, who previously won an Academy award for another of his works; "The old man and the sea". Check it out. His animations utilize a rare style of animation, which is acrylic paintings on glass, so his work looks very realistic and painterly. Seriously I think each frame of his animation can be considered a pretty kick-ass artwork by itself, but here he has to rub off and modify each painting to make things move. Look out for the dream-like transitions and the good acting (expression and body language). I like.
Here's like the shortest summary you've ever seen, courtesy of Wikipedia:
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women
Btw the Japanese poster not withstanding, it's actually an animation made by a Russian crew.
It's around 1/2 hour long. And here's part 1.
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Oh look...this is my 401st post
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OK, that's besides the point.
I thought of sharing this animation that I found out about in college. It's called La maison en petits cubes(The house of small cubes), which besides having a French title, is actually made by a Japanese team.I think it's pretty touching. It won the grand prize for short films at Annecy and an Academy Award for best short animation this year.
Here's the summary from Wikipedia:
As his town is flooded by water, an aged widower is forced to add additional levels onto his home with bricks (cubes) in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops his favorite smoking pipe into the lower submerged levels of his home, his search for the pipe eventually makes him relive scenes from his eventful life.
And here's part one.I think the entire animation is around 15 mins.
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Listen to this
Oh yeah, skip the first 30 seconds tho, nothing much happens. And the clip is a bit old school, but the song is wonderful.
It's Cancao do mar by Dulce Pontes. I learnt about this song because actually Sarah Brightman covered it as Harem. Then I heard this version on a dance show. Must be something about that sharp strong vocals, but I like it.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Which naturally leads to a list of banned books in Malaysia, which is even more funny. Seriously. I don't think the censorship board even reads what's in the books, they just go by title. Taken from here.
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I want to watch this movie. Pretty please? Only question is, will it be shown in Malaysia?(our selection of movies sucks) The release date is Christmas Day, according to Apple.com. Hearsay this was the movie that Heath Ledger was acting in when he died halfway. I think Johnny Depp took over issit?
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
I just watched Hugh's Chicken Run yesterday, which is a show about a guy who's trying to turn British people away from eating battery farmed chickens to eating free range ones for humanitarian reasons. Which makes me start thinking about all the other horrors that go on in farms and slaughter houses before we get some meat to eat.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
My whole arm
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
So, see you there!
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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Quiz of the day:
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
BTW for those who don't know, he's a character from Cats.Ironically eventhough the character is supposed to be a playboy, the real life dancer is supposed to be gay. Oh noes...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
My personal favourite. This guy somehow reminds me of Anthony Green from Diana Wynne Jones' book Black Maria...
And a more realistic style.
You can actually comission her to make a sculpture of yourself for $2000. But I like her stylised work more than her portraiture though.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
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Friday, September 18, 2009
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Time for a little showing off...
The lamproom, with walls. I'm wondering if I should scale it up a bit. On a side note, it has successfully looked wronger than my sketches. Those 2 obscene ball things are glass windows that are supposed to look like fish eyes.
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