Sand Drawing

Sand drawing. This is a very meaningful and touching sand drawing show which have been reported by news 1 month ago. I still want to post it.



Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

Mini bus in Mong kok

How many mini buses in Mong Kok ???

Alphonse Mucha

Today i know more about differnt design movement,due to different time,different culture,design can be classify into different catergories.Beside the style,the media maybe different too.

After listening to the intoduction,I quite like the designer Alphonse Mucha who have "art nouveau" style.

He was born in 1860 .In early years,he was a choirboy and musician.Later he started learning painting.He worked as drawing illustration for magazine in Paris.He also print poster,post card.

He combinded some decoration together with oil painting style of woman to create an fancy intergration!

Today i learnt more about cultural element of communication design.

It can be language,colour,experience,history and priority.

I would like to talk more about the usage of words in China.

5000years ago,our ancestors began to create letters.They craved letters on the baked turtle shell.

They observed natural things and changed them into simple symbols.In the follwing centuries, there were developement on those simple symbols. In different dynasty,letters kept becoming more complicate(eg,combine letter to create new words,in Qin dynasty words change from round to rigid)

Chinese traditional words is great.You can explain most of the letters by identify each small part in them.You can find the amzazing place of ancestor mind.

for example , tears , 淚:

right hand side represent water.
left hand side 戾 means painful screaming sound.

Therefore add together , means cry when very very sad.

The invention of Chinese writing brushes,paper futher extent the potential of chinese words.They represent both language and art.They always stay together with chinese painting .

Differetn style of word :

Word with painting :

Chinese is a country who likes natural.You can see from the development of word and painting,most are natural thing.The colour is plane and not sharpe.

However due to the chinese culture revolution ,some tadiontional words were being forced to change to simplier forms.

Some group same pronunciation words to one,some simplified the strokes.

The reason is that to reduce the number of illiteracy in China.To make thing simplier so that more people can learn.

However it ignore the meaning of each letter.The origin of some letter cannot be chased.I think there is a lost of history and culture!!!!

Now in China and some countries like Singapore,simplified chinese words are being used.However i think that there is a must for people to learn both traditional and simplified chinese letters!

psychology & communication

Just give a summarize of wt i learn today.

Psychology & communicaiton

eg. ppl use stars to imagine stories,due to wt they feel from linkage between stars

Therefore the image in different orientation and shape can let ppl feel different thing.

1) Gestalt

a) precepts

-emergence(as a whole thing)

-reification(get image using past experience)

-multistability(change angle see different thg)

-invariance(deformation)

b) law

-pragnant

-similarity(in sacle,shape)

-proximity

-symmetry

-continuity(seems like to be extented)

-closure

-common fate

c) application

-edge magnetism (eg.link 2 differnt colours,coloured edge come out due to human eye)

-symmetrical balance

-asymmetrical balance

-contrast(big small,light dark)

-XY&Z(3 line can creat spcial feeling)

-fifths

-pixels(small colour square make up a colour plane)

-convergence
-altitude

-overlap

-atmosphere

-knowledge

-shadow(shadow make 3D)

-orienta

-sequence

2) ecology psychology

a) size
b) colour

3) flow theory

a)the pooprtunity ofor flow

b) the subjective experience to flow

c) the alternatives to flow

In forum ,i can always see some interesitng pictures

I Read a book

I borrowed a book from library.
It is called " TOP 10 FOR MEN"

It is an interesting book,it shows over 250 issue about top ten in the world.
It talks about sports ,geography , science or some common phenomenon in our society.

For example :

Worst Floods

1 Huang He River , China (1931) 3700000 ppl killed
2 Huang he River , China (1887) 1500000 ppl killed
3 Holland(1530) 400000 ppl killed
4 Kaifong , China (1642) 300000 ppl killed
5 Henan,China (1939) >200000 ppl killed
.............
(um...it seems that china always be affected by flooding)

There is also interesting one

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT USED IN THE USA

1 honey
2 baby
3 sweetheart
4 dear
5 lover
6 darling
7 sugar
8 angel=pumpkin
10 beautiful=precious


MOST AND LEAST POPULAR BOY"S NAMES

1 jack
2 joshua
3 james
4 daniel
5 ethan
6 matthew
7 ben
8 thomas
9 oilver
10 cameron

Some other topics are :

-first expeditions to reach the North Pole overland

-top10 deadly creatures

-top 10 dog's names in UK

-top 10 slowest mammals

-top 10 mammls with the highest sperm count

-top 10 most obese countries

-top 10 countries where women marry the youngest

-top 10 most common first names of PLAYBOY Playmates

-FHM's 10 sexiest women

-top 10 largest armed forces( 1st is Chins,2nd is USA , 3rd is India !?)

-top 10 most populated countries (No need to think, China is the 1st one...)

-top 10 longst place names (1 st is : krung thep mahanakhon amon rattanakosin mahinthara ayuthaya mahadilok phop noppharat ratchathani burirom udomratchaiwet mahasathan amon piman awatan sathit sakkathattiya witsanukam prasit)

-top 10 albums of all time (1st is MJ's thriller)

-the 10 most stressful jobs on the UK (1st prison officer,2nd police ,3rd social worker)

-top 10 mobile phone using countries( 1st China,461058000 mobile subscribers)

...............................................................etc

New media form

Yesterday in DGC lesson,we learnt more about different form of media in terms of different dimensions which is :

Traditional media :

-discrete

-textual

-integrated

-temporal

New media(digital)

-interactive

-analogic

-connected
-virtual

They hv continously addition of dimensions component :

1)width+height+depth(3D) 2)sequence 3)synergy 4)time 5)control 6)intelligence 7)distance 8)presence

one must be note that the new media must be built on the traditonal one as a base,like a pyramid.

I think in the world of movie,the is a heat of "connected media" , which is distance dimensions.Before we have 2D movie,than we have 3D ,and know we are trying to hv 4D in cinema.Actually in the 2nd terminal of HK airport,there is a 4D cinema.

Here are some example

~Journey to the Center of the Earth

~Beowulf(bad film...)

~Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

~The polar express

~Bolt

However as some article said,most 3/4 D films foucus too much on technology rather than the content,they just want to attract people but not care on whole quality of films.

As i read newspaper,the up coming film"Avatar"

It use new technology : stereoscopic cameras(like using 2 camera filming at the same time) , the actors need to wear some equipment to capture their facial expression , also audience will be wearing a new 3D glasses .Hence audience won't fill dizzy when watching . The director emphazised that he both focus on technology and the content.Therefore i hope that this will be a great film .

But i think the greatest thing is that there is no need to wear glass when watching 3D films.This is inconvenient for ppl wearing glasses already. ^.^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1_JBMrrYw8&annotation_id=annotation_810366&feature=iv