Picture a day (Man Dancing With a Cane)

This shows a wire sculpture of a man dancing with a cane. It shows the front,side and top view of the sculpture. Man Dancing with a cane was inspired from performances on the streets. Other inspirations were a ring master of a circus, charlie chaplin and Modigliani's 1918 painting of a man with cane. The platform on which the man is dancing on represents his financial stability. It is imagined to be shrinking in size. The man would soon be unable to perform on stage . Furthermore this is a representation of a man "fighting" for his life by performing on stage, to stay in his career and to have an income.

under the surface Empathy Film

-You only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

-People face many difficulties which you may not know.

-Sometimes its unfair to judge them for some of their odd behaviors.

-Seek to understand to change the way you feel and think of others

-This would make you have a better understanding of the world.

-From then on you can change the lives of the mass through Art and Design

-Either through a message or a through an invention to improve people's lives.

-Can come in the form of cheering people, creating awareness in other's thinking or fighting for change in how authorities should operate

Force Connection exercise

Force Connection exercise

(Explanation of picture from Left to Right)

Picture 1 shows a force connection between the words passionate and candle. The candle wax is melting representing its passion. The candle wax is made into a heart shape to enhance the meaning.

The sad cup shows a blue cup with an ugly mourning expression. The expression has been taken from a human mourning.

Picture 2 shows a force connection between greedy and pencil. The pencil is describe to be greedy by the thickness of the lead. The thick lead increases its surface area when it comes into contact with the paper. It would form thick words when used.The 2 words hardworking and clock were quite challenging to work with. I thought about implementing 2 more clocks into the original to show that it is working 3 times harder than a normal minutes clock.The clock can monitor 24 hours 60mins and 60seconds.

Picture 3 shows a force connection between the works brave and plug. It shows a soldier which is commonly associated with the word brave. Thus the connection with a solider and a plug. The creative computer mouse was another challenging one i faced. I thought what could represent creativity. I thought that abstraction would be the best and thus an irregular shape of a computer mouse. However taking into consideration the hand resting on the mouse. It also has an abstract look of a mouse.

Happy Secret to Better Work video

-Positive Psychology
-Productivity
-Not removing the abnormal people from the graph as they maybe even more important than the people in the average curve.
-Understanding the exterior of a person's world is only 10% long term happiness The other 90% is not from the external world but from your brain.
-If we can change our happiness and success we can change the world
-The absence of disease is not health.
- We need to reverse the thinking of happiness and success to achieve health
- Most schools follow this notion of working harder, more successful and then happier
-But it's wrong. Every time the brain has a success, you just shift the goal post of success (e.g better grades, get even better )
-Success and happiness are at the opposite side of the spectrum.
-When your more positive you have more happiness . Productivity and Creativity increases.
-We need to reverse the formula of success and happiness in order to be more productive.
- What you can do to train your brain to be more productive : 3 gratitudes,journaling, exercising, meditation , random acts of kindness.
-Only then can we have ripples of positivity and create a real revolution of the way we think and function.

Force Connections (Nature and Man Made inventions)

Force Connections (Nature and Man Made inventions)

Some force connections I have made would be a multi purpose plug combining with a jellyfish. The jelly fish provides a natural source of electricity, so it becomes the power source. The tentacles of the jellyfish could possibly be the wires that help charge your devices such as a smart phone.

Another force connection would be a bottle and ice. The ice bottle becomes a container for the water. So its basically water over water, but in different states. This should only be used in cold climates so that the ice does not melt.

The third would be using the ink from an octopus to be used in a pen or a marker. It would not be as toxic as other ink.

Another idea would be having a skunk's fart combined with a grenade. As the smell is unbearable, it would be a good distraction tool in either rescue operations or war.

Another example would be a centipede rope. The claws can be used as a grappling hook when climbing mountains.

 The last example would be dried leaves to make paper. This idea would mean other additives like recycled paper also help bind them together.

Photographic treasure hunt of reflection of myself

Photographic treasure hunt of reflection of myself

This picture shows a bollard at a bus stop. This was taken after a rain. Art always goes against the conventional way of thinking. In the past people thought the earth was a flat plane.But by the early renaissance people like aristotle understood that the earth was spherical. No doubt in reality the earth is not flat but figuratively it could possibly be. One example would be the picture shown above. The bollard represent me as a person with an alternative personality as represented by the reflections seen in the water. It may also represent a retrospective.

Picture a day (Ultima Mudfox)

Picture a day (Ultima Mudfox)

I believe that this piece is interesting as it is unknown to most humans. Art exposes us to the new similar to that in the case of science, philosophy and technology. However this is a mixture, combining science and art together to present the new discovery (Mudfox). We may be influenced by the new, taking ideas and inspiration. The element of curiosity appears when one looks at something that is new. The mud fox was a creation of human irresponsibility towards nature. Technology has influenced and corrupted nature. Whatever the artist has shared figuratively is what's happening towards the animals in nature, its just that its not so futuristic. 

Picture a day ( Una Lumino Callidus Spiritus) Analogies

Picture a day ( Una Lumino Callidus Spiritus) Analogies

From Singapore Art Museum Odyssey exhibition

I think the artwork was well thought through as we Singaporeans who are city dwellers could be the cause of the flower's existence. (artist states that these species of flowers often attach themselves on surfaces of factory machinery rooms, basements of old buildings and other high human populated areas) The artwork has a futuristic sense of direction. The flowers may be a result of human's decision to live closely together . Ironically they too live together.This has a scientific approach in explaining the artwork. The analogy i would like to point out is that the flowers are like us ,humans. They communicate and live closely together for better survivability.

Picture a day (A Short History of Man and Animal) Analogies

Picture a day (A Short History of Man and Animal)

From the Singapore Art Museum Odyssey exhibition

I view this work as an outcome of the failure of saving the earth from global warming. I believe that the artist creates a double imagery of a whale's skeleton and human rowing a boat.This is a reminder to spare a thought in saving the earth through a guilty conscience approach.The artist provides a visual example to make it more realistic of the outcomes that may occur. An analogy I wish to point out is the whale's skeleton. The whale's skeleton similarity to death is an outcome of Man's irresponsibility in looking after the environment. Another would be the whale's spine looking like a group of men in a boat.

Amy Tan :Where does creativity hide?

-Childhood trauma
-Feeling and experiences, have to become the story
-Questions are part of the creative process.
-Death is a major plays a major part in forming creativity as limitations and questions that cannot be explained.
-Every experience is an inspiration (creativity)
-Creativity is used to explain the ambiguity in the world.

Motivational video (brainstorming wk3)

-Shows a plane which crashed, friend died. Main character survived, however with many injuries
-The speech includes "we" to include people watching the video
-Talks about imagination, helps us to see the future what is about to come.
-To see what you want to be in 10-20years time.
-Dont live in the present Live in the future.
-Second thing is to embrace faith, that one day will be that day you envision.
-Dont quit on the idea because no day will be your day.
-Fail forward.Learn to make mistake.
-But don't quit.
-Learn from each and every mistake.
-Never achieve that goal if you don't use imagination
-Fear is a product of the imagination
-Got to live in that dream.
-I want to see how far i can go
-You must be the first to believe, the world won't be the first to believe it always has been the second.
-Goes back to the man with severe injuries listening to the motivational speech on the television.
-He has to get up and walk(although he has a injured leg) not living in the present but of the future, of where he wants to be

10x2 mindmap (punk rock II)

On an intimate level the punk rockers may have been insecure with themselves.By creating a new identity, they would feel that no one can judge them, because there is less thought about the new trends.The hairstyles aren't the only fashion statement, their dress code resembles that of the young street kids. Always trying to be trendy wearing either the branded or the easily identifiable wears.

This is what we feel as a group

10x 2 routine week 5 (Punk Rock)

Punk Rock 

From this we see teenagers all four of them with spiky hairstyle, similar to that of a porcupine. Some of them have a mohawk haircut.Then we would wonder why on earth do they have that hairstyle? Don't you think its awful?

We have formed some ideas and have came up with the following. They may have wild hairstyle due  to their shouting while singing? It may be a sign of rebellion towards society. A new trend that started out? Something that didn't follow convention. We believe that this is one such example of breaking the rules in that period.