For the photo essay, I decided to do a story with a twist at the end. I started off with misleading the viewers that the subject in the photo was doing drugs (picture 2) and was somewhat a nerve wreck.
The twist was that she was actually looking for baking powder (or any essential white powdered baking ingredient) because she was making a cake. And the cake flopped so she headed out to buy Sara Lee.
The feedback that I got was that I should substitute the Sara Lee picture with a picture of a baking WIP to link back to the white powder. And also perhaps include a failed baked cake. Will be re-shooting some of the photos, in better light too I hope, soon!
For Assignment 2's pictogram, I decided to do a community message of sorts by telling fellow NUS students not to kill themselves when they mug for exams.
The feedback that I got was that my abstraction process was not as consistent, seeing that I changed ideas/approach midway. Also, that I could consider an avalanche of books instead of a noose. Or if I continue with the noose idea, I could leave an opened book on the desk.
These were great ideas. Will definitely try them out for the revised version. 'til then, stay tuned! :)
Assignment 1 required us to draw a representation of ourselves while incorporating our names into the design. Here's take 1: my name in a book shelf with the books' spines spelling out my name.
Take 2 was more common, spelling out my name with musical notes..
Take 3 has the spots on a cow spelling out Eunice but they weren't too clear when I displayed them..
And here is take 4, a crossword puzzle to represent my love for words but it's not acceptable so I didn't proceed with the idea.
I finally settled on the bookshelf idea and at first I included a girl lying down by the side reading but Jing said that would take the spotlight away from the bookshelf.
This is just version 1, will continue working on it and post up the revised piece.
My recent inspirations come from my new found fervor for baking. And I came across this blog, Bakerella, that just, well, makes me happy. Look at her cake pops please. It's impossible not to feel your moods lifted with all the happy coloured yum yums.
Just look at that. Doesn't it make you happy? My attempts at that didn't turn out quite as picturesque but they were well, tasty, guilty, and gave us all happy tum tums.
Hello. My name is Eunice. And I'm an art retard. Lol. And since my mission to get a camera from my friend failed (and caused his desktop fan to drop on him. ouch), here it is, taken by my phone's camera.
Ok. This was class exercise A and we were asked to draw a machine that would enhance our creativity by a 100 times. This was mine and if someone could invent something like this I would be eternally grateful and hope to pass NM2208.
Basically, in my perfectly creativity challenged and slightly technophobic world, this device only requires me to scan my thumb to ultimately read the neurons passing through my brain and generate the contents from within.
The scan will then relay the information to the environmental friendly super computer which will proceed to decipher my thought process and generate, get this, a variety of enhanced and desired output.
So if today I want my assignment to have a old photo mood to it, then the super computer will do just that.
Of course, after choosing the final output, the printer will print the finished work, and may I just add, this printer will not run out of ink so that I will never be bothered with the mundane and messy job of refilling ink! Am I not brilliant! Lol.
Lastly, all these wonderful life saving machines will be solar powered <3 id="gwProxy" type="hidden">
Yes, I noticed the lack of colours despite the title of the blog too. Contradict much?
(I'm a HTML noob. Paiseh.)
But I do love colours. I love rainbows especially. And one of my favourite phrases is by Dolly Parton: “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
