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I took this simply because I wanted a good shot of the sky. They say UK is all rainy and wet, but when we went there thankfully we managed to see this kind of skies most of the time. I love the way the sky looks so surreal and majestic, while the people are just going around with their daily lives, oblivious to the world above them. It’s like two different universes cut up and stuck together to form an image.
The design of the glass ceiling is incredible. I saw something similar to this in another musuem in China, but it was only for a small part of the ceiling. It is only when the glass spans across the room, then visitors truly stop. look up. and appreciate the sky above.
*music fades in*
~Dancing in the sunlight~!
~Everybodys feeling warm and bright it’s …
…such a fine and natural sight~!
Everybodys dancing in the sun~light~~ *music fades out*
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Aww… aren’t they the sweetest thing you have every seen? This is a really cool present. While they might seem like normally cute little figurines - halt and not be fooled! These two figurines are actually salt and pepper shakers (everyone gasp in awe please) which I most definitely did not make.. (as I sadly lack the skill and the creativity). And I say it’s a really cool present because my ma was the one who received it.. at a wedding!
It’s definitely different from the expected chocolates or mini candle gifts that the bride and bridegroom would give out to their guests. There’s also a very lame but cute pun… that they (the couple) add flavour to each other’s lives..
Well I’ve never really thought much about designing (stuff like chairs and tables and figurines) but this little thing is just so innovative. !! it’s just really cute The theme that the entire design is centred on is appealing and different, which makes it jump out at the viewer. The figurines are also very simple; very simple lines and forms, (they just look like little blobs of dough) and they look good whether together (dancing) or separate. Sometimes certain desgins require both compenents in order to look complete, but for this thing I feel that they look just fine even as an individual blob.
Owing to the curved lines and the way the head is tilted to one side, the little things also suggest movement. I’ve seen another one that has the same idea as this but the figures are standing upright and stiff, and somehow it’s not that appealing. Maybe it’s because when movement is suggested the buyer can almost imagine that the blob-thing is alive ! (.. and we’d start playing with it and making it do weird scenes under bridges of feet) so on some level we interact with the blob (albeit childishly) and therfore adds a certain personal touch. And to make this tiny thing even more impressive, it’s got a function, so it would make me think twice about not buying it because then i’d have a proper excuse to purchase it instead of the usual ’but it would look so pretty on my shelf!’
It’s pretty amazing how such a tiny design (it can’t be taller than my finger) requires so much thought put into it to get to that level of success. It almost makes me want to dabble a bit into designing cute things… but sadly I fear I lack creativity.. (I confess to only being able to copy things)
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Even though I didn’t make this.. I’m still putting it under 2D.
Hey. My photography skills are quite good no? I mean, do you know how long it took to wait for the sun to shine through the window again? And when I was just about to take the shot, how annoying it was when the sun played hide and seek with them clouds? ^^
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Alexandre Dumas PèreJust celebrated mid-autumn festival! Amidst the mooncake, pomelos and yet-to-be-full-size moon my dear cousins took it upon themselves to set as much things afire as possible.
<- i was playing around with the camera functions to get good pictures at night without using flash.. Quite pleased with whatever I fiddled around it as I like the contrast. However for this picture the original one was so dark that their faces couldn’t be seen.. so I lightened it with photoshop.
I quite like the theme the pictures are centered around, children + light = future of the world? (sings: I believe that children are our future….) it’s quite a cliched theme, but it’s something that’s still holds true to this day and I just love my cousins (or just children in general), so these photos are currently taking up some new, special space/department/compartment in my heart. ♥♥♥
I’m even thinking of painting this for uob next year. (and maybe i’ll fare better this time ^^) It would definitely stand a better chance because I would really really love what I’d be painting. For my previous entry, I was excited every time I painted a new fish or even a just completed its fins, or the scales. So for my next try, I feel elated just thinking about it. (although that would mean I’d feel even more disappointed if something goes wrong. T T)
ZY has just told me that it reminds her of the Potato Eaters, or Rembrandt’s coloud scheme. *blushes furiously*
…….. well not that my cousins are destitute or anything.
what I especially like as well is the action of my cousins lighting the candles up. There are many advertisements promoting children rights, and they’ve all got children holding up candles. In many such pictures, the children look at you hollowly, eyes wide, silently pleading for help. the children look helpless, simply because they are helpless. But in contrast I’ve realised that my immature ones show children building their own light, their own path, embrace their own rich rich culture. It’s the total opposite; instead of needing help, here, independent, individual, children can help themselves.
wow.
It’s strange really, I didn’t take the photo with all this in my head. I merely wanted to catch my cousins in such a great light, and in the later two photos I had not much control of how it turned out as they smiled freely on their own. It’s like, a picture has a thousand words (once again cliched, I know) and I think I just found my first 300.
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And maybe I’ll put a pretty lil’ slogan: Thanks adults, but we can take it from here.
And i’m not kidding around about the burning.. at one point marc was setting leaves and twigs on fire. He was very sweet, because mine extinguished (thanks to my clumsy brother who dropped it even before I could properly hold it) so he tried to relight it – by burning a variety of things. It got to the stage where I imparted some sec 4 chem notes to him, e.g. Marc, burning plastic releases poisonous gas into the atmosphere, it could kill you… like how the spider you were talking about releases poison into its victim and kills the poor man.
We even brought a waterbottle along when we went out to the park with the lanterns. ^^ (Callista’s brilliant idea, and thank goodness for her sharp mind… because we ended up using it)
These pictures were down for an upcoming project called PEEK. I tried to get them to be as realistic as possible because of their purpose; these pictures will be put in a guide to help young readers identify the different animals.
orangutan:
squirrel:
Singapura cat:
cicada:
tembusu tree:
birds nest fern:
feller-buncher:
termite:
I’m not quite satisfied with the last 3 pictures. The mousedeer because its angle looks awkward and stunted, even though that is how it really looked like in the photos, the feller-buncher purely because it was one of the last pictures and I kinda ran out of steam.. and the termite because it’s really out of proportion (the head is too big I think) Furthermore the colour is not quite right, it shouldn’t be so orange, and it was not as delicate as compared to the previous insect (the cicada). The cicada was the first one I did so I put in a lot of effort and detail, which the termite lacks..
I also don’t have a wide range of colour pencils. In fact most of my pictures use a lot of purple because that is one of my best colours.. not that a cat will actually be purple, but just using grey-grey would be very plain. I sure hope no pre-schooler will start running around Singapore looking for a purple cat.
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garden gnome meets billabong! :
Check out his hoodie!
This is practically what we did for the bulk of last year. The green thing that he’s holding is an ipod… without the ear piece. If I’ve got time I do want to stick in some thick white wire and glue it to his ears but that’s way down by ‘things to do list’.
Do you see our lil’ metallic zipper? Courtesy of ZY (and T&T and JY) ! I like that our group put in a lot of detail, like the front of the trousers, the shoe laces, etc. Pity it’s cracked. Can’t quite remember it was like that since we took it out of the kiln or during ‘shipping’ to the art exhibition.
Mr oops-I’ve-forgotten-his-name-gnome was featured in A Green Dot! A Green Dot is an educational art exhibit held as part of the celebration for NY’s 90th anniversary. So our gnome was given a small corner that he shared with other fellow urban gnomes!
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It’s definitely 3-D but I’m sticking it under 2-D anyway, for our painting skills and uhh.. my excellent photography skills.
