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kandinsky
Thursday, Aug 7, 2008 3:48AM / Members only
I remember I saw this from DESMA10.
It is still the best class I ever had in college (not only because I obtained an A easily). It was just inspiring. And it was just motivating to have my hands on color projects.
I don't know how to appreciate Kandinsky's style in particular. Indeed, this is very primordial designs when modernism was blossoming.
I started to wonder how was it like to create at that time? Did they just all of a sudden come en mass just within the turn of the century? How did other people feel at that time?
Went to Karen A. Smith's book presentation last week. Quite inspiring as I have been very uneducated about art and art history. Have got the books sitting in my office now so I better squeeze some time to chew on it... would defly make a good source of information for a noob like me. But it was great to have met Karen. She is a very gentle and nice woman. Year 1993, just right after my first visit to BJ. None of us could foresee how things would be like in a decade. To me, the impressions that I got was, it was far from that. But looking at it today we can all tell the booming of our mother nation is vast and intense. Compare to a long evolvement of European history, say from Industrial Revolution to the Wars and to Modernism; we saw the changes, perhaps from a scale of 0 then right to 100 within a decade. I hate to use this adjective, but my guess is people in general have sort of a "distorted" vision of seeing this world. Or at least the world around them. It is not even up to us to discuss whether they are ready for such changes, and there it goes; its already there. Yes, I always tend to look into the human side of each thing. I like psychology. I like to read between lines. I like to guess what do you mean by that. But I hate the quantative way of getting the answers. Numbers just don't seem to make sense to me (not that I am saying I am a total math retard, and in fact, I just been avoiding to admit that I am average, esp. given my multi-talents =p). So basically I guess we can tell bits of this and that via paintings and such. Artists make their statements. And artists are simply no more than laypersons.
Living in a place striving to survive within hundreds and thousands of hungry mobs wouldn't be much of an easy thing. Now, I really wanted to know: what exactly is going on?
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from manga to photos
Saturday, Aug 2, 2008 10:09PM / Members only
So, I have been writing about Wing Shya in the previous posts. Many of you might wonder, who is Wing Shya? And what's so good about Wing Shya? To me and to the many, art is a very subjective matter and, we perceive things in many different ways. I am not trying to persuade you that this is some masterpiece. But personally I think this is a well-done job. I like colors and entertainment.
This project, originally called Angel Mask, is a collaboration between the two artists whom I adore: Tatsuyuki Tanaka and Wing Shya. Tanaka was the key animator for the legendary anime, Akira. On the other hand, Wing, has been sort of a subconcious art mentor to me since I was a teenager (of course, I didn't know this artist back then; his works influenced me to a certain extent, however). All in all, this turns out to be quite a perfect match and, turning a manga into real pictures is just like filming EVA/Akira in Hollywood -- apart from the time taken -- I mean, Wing has put it into reality already. Whilst for the movies, I am looking forward to seeing them in the theatre... soon.
(Keep your fingers crossed... they don't exploit the "Hollywood" style taking away the taste of anime!)
The fruitful result of this project will be again showing in Hong Kong this coming September at OBG -- with much grandiosity -- called PREVATION. Here's a snap preview of the images vs. the manga story board... you like it, or not?
Photo courtesy of CATSUKA
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stroke
Thursday, Jul 31, 2008 12:58AM / Members only
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another bits to share
Tuesday, Jul 22, 2008 2:11AM / Members only
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winamp!
Tuesday, Jul 22, 2008 12:27AM / Members only
You see here, I have never been a mac fan. I like it sleek, I like it stable, but I don't like it asking me to pay so much while the hardware breaks down quite easily. I'd rather afford cheaper machines, abuse them until they die.
What a sadist I am.
I can't tolerate the retardation of iTunes anymore. I'm going back to my lovely winamp with the skin that I loved most. It feels great to "lighten up".
N.B. I didn't draw that, it's chix0r!
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