Zaman sekarang kenapa masih nak buat thesis pakai kertas? Hello, it’s 2010 already! I say we should go 100% paperless! Kata University Multimedia. Aku balik kampung pun pakcik makcik cakap, “Fuh, multimedia siot mesti semua pun atas talian!”

Teknologi dah ada. Kenapa masih tak mahu mendakap teknologi? Kasihan pokok-pokok menangis.

Oh lupa. Broadband di Malaysia sucks. Baik penetration mahupun bandwidth. P1 Wimax buat iklan annoying kelakar pun, I’m not buying because the reality is, there’s nothing to be proud about in here.

Sekarang sampailah masa untuk aku dan batch aku menghadap binatang FYP ni.

Untuk student MI, ada lebih kurang 10 kategori untuk kami ber-FYP. Boleh pulak ditakdirkan tahun ni kami jadi tikus putih. Wajib buat group work dua orang. Random! Nasib baik dapat partner yang bagus

Ada retailer, cosmetic & beauty, insurance, banking, beverages, macam-macam lagi la. Tapi last-last kami pilih untuk buat Alzheimer’s Awareness Campaign. Kekeke. Kalau ikutkan memang ramai buat penyakit. Tension je muka Mistakay.

Kenapa Alzheimer’s?

Tahukah anda, mengikut statistik, penyakit ini lebih ditakuti berbanding cancer atau penyakit kronik yang lain. Ya, kehilangan memori adalah lebih menyedihkan daripada membela sel-sel liar yang degil di dinding perut. At least kalau penyakit lain teruk macam mana pun, masih kenal muka anak bini. Tapi kalau memori dah padam? Sedih ok. Aku pernah tengok first hand.

Kepada mereka yang sudah mula ber-FYP, gattebayo! Let’s nail this yaw!

Apa nak jadi dengan aku ni.

Oh well. Mungkin Melayu sudah tidak lupa lagi.

Good luck kawan-kawan.

ps: Cekedis tengah tido. Jaga tengah malam nak berak miau miau. Nanti cerita. Kekeke.

Aku lebih rela duduk berjam-jam mengadap PC ber-threesome dengan 3dsMax, Photoshop dan Illustrator daripada duduk atas lantai mewarna, memotong papan model dan menghidu bermain gam. Sekali semester ni kena pulak ambil subjek Environmental Modelling. Buat exhibition booth, fizikal dan digital. Oh yang fizikal tu yang tak tahan tu.

Pasal assignment tu, aku group dengan Farul, kitorang buat exhibition booth untuk MARDI. Hah. Kenapa MARDI? Tak tahu lah mungkin sebab dia start dengan huruf M kot. Ok, that was random. Dalam planning fuhh bukan main lagi nak sculpt sebijik nenas gergasi tepek kat tengah-tengah. Sekali, tak reti nak guna paper clay (dengan tak cukup masa lagi) Last minute tukar nenas tu dengan “arca hijau-putih umpama pucuk buluh” yang obviously tak ada makna.

Tapi semuanya telah selamat di-submit, setelah bergelut tak tidur berseluar pendek berkaki ayam lepak di lantai memotong papan, menyembur-nyembur melekat-lekat. Oh tolonglah lepas ni tak ada lagi assignment macam ni. Kalau ada pun, biarlah aku in-charge bahagian digital sahaja. Ataupun tukang sumbang buah fikiran, atau tukang usha, apa-apalah.

Aku dah memang tahu, kalau buat assignment ini macam, hasilnya.. err memang kureng lah. Tapi macam manapun, bak kata Farul, hasil akhirnya sedaplah juga mata memandang. Hahaha. Walaupun dah terpotong jari. Haih. In the last minutes boleh jugak terpotong jari. Tukar-tukar mata pisau je, sappp! terus makan jari. Pedih gile kot. Nasib baik aku ada rapid tissue regeneration macam Claire Bear

Dah. Qada’ tidur dah selesai. Sekarang nak mandi. Lepas tu kita team deathmatch COD habis-habisann!!! Woahahaha. Oh, nak tengok Ip Man. Sapa-sapa, jom?

ps: tak boleh tunjuk the real scale model. nak tengok sila ke studio MI. haha.

Nothing interesting happened lately that I can write about. Well, there are, but I can’t put it here This is a real essay. If you can finish reading it, kudos to you

On one fine Saturday afternoon, my friends and I went to the National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur for the first time in our lives. We were there for our Media Aesthetics assignment – Subjective Analysis of Art; which objectives are for us to appreciate a visual experience of an exhibited works by artists, understanding their aesthetic values and to foster critical and analytical skills in appraising art. As we were walking around and scouting for hundreds of artwork to choose from, two gigantic drawings of elephants caught my eyes.

The elephant on the left was depicted from the side, while the other one was from the front view. The title for this piece is “Confrontation – Power” by the artist Ahmad Zuraimi Abdul Rahim. Upon coming closer, I realized that the left ‘elephant’ was not really drawn or painted. It is actually created by using a piece of metal that was torched and carved carefully to create the artistic lines and patterns that made the elephant. The details on this piece of metal is amazing. I cannot imagine how many hours the artist took to instill the realism of the elephant texture through a simple piece of metal. It come out so lively that from far it really looks like a real elephant (the color of the metal helps, too).

On the right is yet another elephant, but this one is painted using mixed materials on a piece of canvas. It is the same size as the metal one, but it was given a light wooden color instead of silver and black color of torched metal. This front-facing elephant shares the same detail work of art performed by the artist. Every lines, shapes etcetera were realistically and beautifully drawn and painted to portray the giant mammal. The brown color that the artist gave to this piece of art contributes to the ‘warm’ feeling to the painting, in contrast to the ‘cold’ feeling depicted by the metal elephant.

A glance at the huge ‘drawings’, one can immediately feel the supremacy of the largest mammal on earth. The scale of this piece of artwork is very large indeed – suitable with the subject matter – elephants. Imagine if the artist uses a 5×4″ canvas instead of the 12×10″; the superiority of the subject will visibly be ‘buried’ down. The proportion of the two elephants toward each other is in real ratio. The two are obviously intended to be depicted in the same situation – they are meeting head-on in a battlefield, fighting for power.

In terms of unity, the two elephants show a very strong sense of harmony – even though they are fashioned and portrayed in different materials and positions. For example, the metal elephant looks as if it is watching the right one and created the appearance of oneness. The pose of the drawn elephant is not directly towards the front; instead, it is slightly turning towards the left elephant. Together, they create a balance in this artwork. In terms of variety, the difference of materials and techniques effectively show their diversity. Although they are the same size, somehow they look like two very distinguished elephants because of these differences.

Throughout my further observation, I think that Ahmad Zuraimi Abdul Rahim emphasized on the subject matter’s strength or power. The title of the artwork itself – “Confrontation – Power” also supports this. Take a look at the composition of the piece; everything here means business. The two are ‘shot’ very tightly, over spilling the frames themselves to show the colossal influence that comes out from the elephants. It is very clear that the artist wanted the audience to focus directly on the size of the mammals – hence, its strength. There is no fancy or distracting background to keep the audiences focus from wandering off the subject matter itself.

As I study the artwork more and more, I sense the repetition and rhythm in the texture details of the elephants. The strokes used by the artist is almost similar for the whole piece. We can see the example of this on the trunk of the elephants. Notice how the same techniques and strokes are applied creating some sort of pattern that made the trunks’ texture. The same goes for the carvings and torching on the metal elephant. The repetition and rhythmic strokes also add on the harmony of the artwork as it blends the two different elephants into a unity.

About the story or the significance of this artwork, in my personal opinion it is about what the title says – confrontation of power. Two male elephants, like any other wild beasts fighting for power, needs, vicinity, and breeding opportunities. In a deeper sense, it may also illustrate the slice of human life where power is something that is sought after by everybody. The era we live today is the era where those who are in power will try to stay in control while those who seek it will do anything to be in power.

That’s about all that I can say about the remarkable piece of artwork by artist Ahmad Zuraimi Abdul Rahim. Standing unquestioningly in the gallery, generously leaving itself open to the audience to scrutinize and understand the aesthetic values and meaning behind it, “Confrontation-Power” surprisingly taught me a lot about art appreciation.

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This week, hell will break loose! The wrath of The Short Sem is coming! The inevitable doom is near and it’s not gonna be a pretty sight… for all of us. All my FCMers! My classmates, my groupmates. Let us all be written and remembered in history – as men and women who have stood on the edge of their swords! Let none of us fall and thus pay the defeat by repeating the Sem! It doesn’t matter if we fall tonight! What matter is we give em hell before we do! Chaaarrrggggggeeee!!!!

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Ok. Isnin CRIT session for MI. Dah kena present 70% dan aku baru terkial-kial dalam, em, 40%? Aaaaaa. Jumaat pulak kena submit physical model untuk Exhibition Booth (Environmental Media). And also artist impression, floor plan, elevation plan semua benda apekejadahnye itu.

Jadi, jangan banyak soal kalau-kalau nanti ekspresi muka aku bertukar jadi begini:

Sekian.

Torture List:

1. MI – Web, 3D booth, print ad, TVC storyboard & animatics
2. Copywriting – radio spot
3. MPD – filler

Sobss..

Media Innovation – Self Promotion Motion Graphics

Video Post Production – Movie Trailer

Can’t wait to watch the 29th Olympic Games Opening Ceremony tonight. The whole world is fixing their eyes on China this past few months. Just look at the Discovery and NatGeo Channel series of documentary on Beijing Olympic campaign. They’re just awesome and really make my eyes and mind wide open.

China became what they’ve become today simply because the people are hardworking - my mom.

The problem is that Tom won’t come to the mountain.

• Po: The mountain must come to Tom (the classic answer).
• Po: Use a video conference (an IT idea).
• Po: Use pidgeon post (an ornithology idea).
• Po: Use an intermediary.
• Po: Ask him what he wants in exchange for coming to the mountain (a deal).
• Po: See if he’ll accept a free timeshare slot in a holiday home (that just happens to be on the mountain).
• Po: Wait until he changes his mind (a taoist idea).
• Po: Cut your losses and tackle a different problem.
• Po: Coerce him.
• Po: Force him.
• Po: Ask Tom to go near the mountain if not to the mountain.
• Po: Lure, deceive or blackmail him.
• Po: “Make him an offer he can’t refuse”. Leave him no alternative.
• Po: Then let him go to it.
• Po: Was he asked (by the mountain) to?
• Po: Ask Jerry what to do?
• Po: The mountain has Spikes.
• Po: The road to the mountain is infested with dingos.
• Po: Perhaps he’s already there.
• Po: Tom is Plain.
• Po: Redefine ‘mountain’. (e.g., Make his geographical location the mountain.)
• Po: Redefine ‘Tom’. (e.g., He is the mountain.)
• Po: Redefine ‘Problem’.
• Po: Redefine ‘Won’t Come’.
• Po: Wait, watch then arouse Tom’s curiosity.
• Po: It is (not yet) the 6th day.
• Po: ‘They’ won’t let him to.
• Po: Why is it always Tom?
• Po: Tom drives away mountains.
• Po: Does Tom consider it a problem? Does the mountain?
• Po: Why is Tom’s lack of mountain-going a problem in the first place?
• Po: Are you Tom?
• Po: There’ll always be a Tom who does (and does not).
• Po: The problem is actually an Axiom (Alternative World).
• Po: The length of successive steps that Tom takes are such that he is always coming but never does actually come. E.g., L/2,L/4,L/8…, where L> or = the distance b/w Tom and the mountain.
• Po: Tom has Bipolar-Disorder (supposedly!) and wishes to join SOT more than virtually.
• Po: Problem will still persist even if we make efforts in changing won’t to will not.
• Po: Ask Tom why he won’t come to the mountain

Source: Wikipedia