Event-Japanese Art Festival

It was one of the rare days that I decided to drive to town and park at Sky City.

After filling our tummies up after a long day of classes, we decided to head home. Being lazy, we walked through Crowne Plaza and there was a lot of people standing around the lobby of the hotel. Being curious we noticed a pin board on the side of a flight of steps.

'Japanese Art Exhibition
26/03/2010 - 28/03/2010 '

My friend, Audrey, got all excited and exclaimed how her best friend told her about it and that we have to go! Up the steps we went to see what was on displayed.

'OMG Audrey! Look at this! Its going for 14k! The details are amazing!! WOW!'
'Oh wow! If only I can draw like that! I would be rich!!'

We were both facinated with the work presented; in a good way and not so good way.
There was a painting that was going for 14k as well. But all it looked like was a few different colors of paint on a piece of canvas. Thinking that it was an abstract, we stood in that spot for a few minutes before giving up trying to figure out why it costs so much.

Then there was a separate room where Freelance Animation School has work from their students presented.

Walking through the space, we were once again amazed at the highly detailed hand drawings and computer renderings that was exhibited. There was no difference in prices in the room compared to the previous Japanese ones.

The difference between Japanese works and works from Freelance Animation School, apart from the Japanese ones being hand generated and the ones by Freelance Animation School being mostly computer generated, the one from the Animation School seems to be more detailed than the ones from the Japanese side of the exhibition. Maybe its because its easier to be detailed on the computer?
That said, the few highly detailed hand generated ones from the Japanese exhibit was very impressive and very worth the price tag of 14k.

There was a lot of artwork already sold when we visited late on the first day of the opening. One animator's work was fully sold and they cost less than 5k a piece; and he/she had at least 6 works up on the exhibition board.

After seeing all that has and can be seen, we went around the exhibit once again. Audrey talked about how she wants to be able to decorate her house with art works like this one day and proceeded to point out all that she would buy, which will cost more than an arm and a leg of her new born.

Event-Wedding 10-04-10

What a day seeing both your friends get married is truly magnificent,no words could explain the joy for both of them a day they have been waiting for. Usually i would be helping out at weddings so this is the first i became a spectator and it felt good not being pressured to take photos or do this or do that and when you watch occasions like this, you just feel honored to be in it,well that's what it felt for me. The years have gone so fast and when your there you realise it's been 4 or 5 years since you helped them get together..just amazing!!!

When i congratulated my friend you can see in his eyes his happiness and joy, nothing could go wrong on this special day and it really didn't the sun was scorching hot,blue skies it felt like summer again! We where seated on our seat on the lovely garden waiting for the bride to come and she did come out it felt like your a paparazzi, clicking away at one of your closest friend and thinking a couple more steps and her life will change forever, all that was going through my head was this is what people talk about when they say one giant leap of faith.

The next part was the reception! party time! woo hoo! our friend/MC for the night drunk, as the dad of the bride gave one hell of a teary speech my friend the MC just had to make himself look fake by saying it brings a tear to my eye and then laughs afterwards. ha ha!Speeches! Wow how i hate speeches, the speech the best man done was great here's one of the things he said "Wife put your hand on the table, Husband put yours on top,Brother i want you to remember this moment and hold on to this moment, for this is the last time you will get the upper hand"it was too funny and also "Me and you fighting all the time saying who was the better man but guess what little brother i think we both know who was the best man is" two lines that i will always remember.

To sum this event all up. It was too great it made us feel that there are good things in life and there are things worth risking for and taking that giant leap of faith. Awesome Wedding!

Super idea!! haha

continuing my superhero idea i thought of heaps of characters that i liked but then realised i need to find a character that used gadgets, so batman was an obvious choice and same to iron man sort of and then when i couldn't think of other ones i picked other cartoon characters that use a wristband or some sort of device on the wrist, so i picked power rangers as the last character, 3 would be enough to show my interpretation of gadgets being used by superheroes.

Now thinking what my gadget wristband does is the hard bit, i started writing down what sort of things it would do i.e. play music, videos or pictures and what does each button do and will it change by itself or when u press one of the buttons. after thinking and doing more development i decided i will be playing their theme music. when u press the button batman's theme goes on and if u press the other button then another theme and maybe add video to show how they use some of their gadgets.

First week of Mid Sem-Break/Project

Before the break we got told that we had assignment to do while on the break. It had to be a garment that controls screen garment, basically a remote control that you can wear. First i brainstormed ideas on what garment to use and whats simple and can visible and stands out. Looking through my ideas Shirts,Pants,gloves shoes,bags etc. I found that using an Wristband is different from the rest, i mean most people would use shirts cause it's the easiest to see on someone and the it has a lot of places to put the keyboard circuit, but using an wristband is different and it stands out when someone is wearing it, because it's just their on your arm and nothing else is around it.

So using the Wristband idea my immediate idea was sports because they use when playing. I wasn't sure what sport to use for the idea so using my favourite sport i used basketball as my idea, it would basically show videos of players that use wristbands and armbands, basically anything to do with the arms. So using that idea i went straight into what key functions do what, just like a media player i decided there should be a button like stop, play, pause but then i remembered i don't need all that i can just do the programming for that when a button is pressed it automatically stops and plays the next one. So each letter i have represents each video or person it's going to play.

But looking over the idea it wasn't enough i knew it needed to be more creative and what's more creative than superheroes?Nothing! People draw them to do cool things and have their own powers, drawing itself is creative so i started thinking of ideas of how I'm gonna integrate the idea into the wristband and how it will show the connection between the two.it's getting late ill think of the new idea tomorrow.