What do you do if your exams are coming, and when you’ve spent the past few days on the world wide web? The answer is obvious: make a photoshop collage about a female figure I have almost nil knowledge about.
Did these a while back because Jezamine was going to Japan for a Judo competition. Kicking asses needs some encouragement and humour! Especially for the long flight on the plane.
Credits go to :http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
I did this quite some time ago for classmate Wesley who was going to Australia for his shooting competition. If you look carefully, you can see I had photoshopped his head over someone else’s in the middle. (I’m sorry if it’s rude)
ILP 2011
Blurb: An attempt to understand the attractive forces of the World Wide Web turns into a homage to social networking sites and internet memes. Being mildly entertained by this virtual platform, we make comprises in real life experiences. This is to say, the amount of time spent submerged in irreality is directly proportional to the banality of reality.
I think what I really was thinking is that we all would be happier people if technology wasn’t so advanced, and if we don’t keep seeking for advancement.
The dreamers is set in France, and revolves around three characters: Matthew, an American studying French, Isabelle and Theo. Matthew finds himself captivated by Isabelle and Theo who are Siamese twins, and who share a connection so deep that they seem other wordly.
As someone had stated before, the movie is a poetic piece which a viewer should not be viewing with the intent to completely understand and analyze every detail. There is a beautiful relationship between Isabelle and Theo, which outsiders would label as wrong. But as we start to understand how those two characters operate, we begin to see how ethereal they are in this world, and start to fill with resent and disdain at what our reality currently is.
‘The Dreamers’ is really such a perfect title for the film. The three characters operate in an entirely different world, like that of a dream, which they awake from at certain times. (When they run out of money to buy food, when they realise how the revolution has progressed after being cooped up in their house all day, when a brick from the crowd breaks their window). Perhaps the characters fascination and obsessions with film reflects their desire to escape into another reality, a dream-like reality, where there are no problems, and everything can be just fun and play. They are unshy about any issues, using masturbation and intercourse as forfeits when someone is unable to name the title of a film. It is as if there are no boundaries between them, and there are no such things as consequences, like a dream you can choose to wake from anytime.
There are several points throughout the movie, which I thought would completely decide whether the film is brilliant/garbage. I was completely put off when Isabelle attempted to gas the three of them together to death. Luckily the film didn’t choose to end on that note. It was like that moment is where it is decided whether the characters should remain in the dream forever, or to have to face reality. With so much philosophical talking and inputs on politics given throughout the film, it would be awful to let all that go to waste, and simply just end with no real effect on the world. When the three join in the revolution, Matthew tries to persuade Theo against violence, as he believed that violence is not the key to problems. I was left confused as to why Theo decided to join in. Maybe it was due to Matthew’s talking to him about him not bearing any real impact on the world.
In any case, I would describe the film as an encounter between three characters, where they meet and leave with a scar to mark that encounter. Definitely on the re-watch list.
Two of the best music videos I’ve watched so far:
I think that music videos are not essentially crucial for every type of music, but for kinds of music that have an ambiance, a style, a feeling to it, visuals really help in adding to the experience of the viewer. But for some videos, where singers just lip-synch to their songs and have some background dancers swagging around behind them, they don’t add any value to the music, perhaps only monetary and commercial value. There are people who are good at dancing and people who are good at singing. Take a stand and pick one to be exceptionally good at!
Music videos are the best thing ever next to movies. Even movies have music videos in them, you could say movies are extremely long music videos with a long lead up to a scene where the music can just bleed into the atmosphere.
Oh, and live performances are a different thing altogether.
At a beach in Australia, a father was lovingly coaching his son to take off his trunks. The boy was crying at first but started laughing after his dad said this.
Figure of Tiny Toadstool, some very fashionable Japanese woman. I like her outfit, and stuck bits of paper on her coat and skirt.
There is something innocently luring about a pretty girl struggling for help. i thought. this guy on tumblr, narcoisis, frequently posts pics of skinny girls with bruises, cuts, minor injuries.
Our family rented a car to drive from Melbourne to some city. The GPS was screwed and my mom screwed up reading the map. We had a choice of spending another four hours in the car to reach our destination or spending another two hours in the car to go back where we started after we found out we were heading the wrong way. We picked the latter. Dissapointed at the outcome of the day, I ate mah nuts and raisins silently in the back of the car.
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I think I was a more contentful and creative person back then. After google became my best friend, my brain capacity has shrunk and the gears of this machines have started rusting. This ‘self’ contained in this body has morphed. Currently not in a good way as I see it.
Using mirrors to create an illusion of layers and layers of space. i heard small hotel rooms place mirrors to help prevent claustrophobia. does placing two mirrors cause agoraphobia?
Title to express nothing essentially
I thought of building a space, filled with my memories which I can showcase in the form of videos and physical objects. I would like to have a room, and fill it with cupboards, or perhaps just everyday items, but I will hide in these everyday items, monitors which will display videos. People will have to climb everywhere and pry at unthinkable places to discover everthing I have hidden. I may place some in absurd places so people will have to get into awkward positions to view the video. There has to be some sacrifice of sorts, some sort of devotion to be offered to me before I let them dwelve into my most personal and well-kept thoughts. I am after all only willing to share with those willing to receive.
I have wanted to explore the theme of family. Of how my relationship with my mother and father and brother and grandparents are. Of how my mother’s relationship with her mother and father, and my father’s with his mother and father. But actually I am not so much interested in the males, I am more interested in the female parts of a family unit. Perhaps because I am a female myself. I was thinking about interviewing my family members, asking them personal questions, which I would cringe to hear come out of my mouth, and which would make the interviewee cringe in awkwardness. The room would be filled with awkwardness and a well avoided tension which I want to create now. My family has always been very tension free. I am a believer of avoidance of conflicts, live and let live is my motto in life. But in art, I will try to live in conflict, and live in what I want to avoid. I will perhaps make a work which is so personal I would feel embarrassed if anyone sees it.
That is of now. 12:13 PM 17 November 2011