Work of Art

Just now in class Mr Ky showed us an amazing episode of Work of Art. I honestly never heard of it but will definitely watch the rest when i get back to Shah Alam since the internet is much faster there.

It was really inspiring seeing how they work in such a short time and produce very very beautiful art. ive never even come close to what theyve done in just 2 days and no way i could even think of something like their work.

Mr Ky's argument was spot-on. i have to admit im nothing much on the creative side and i know really little about art. im spoiled by the products available to us and depends too much on technology. really have to work things out or else like technology, i too will become obsolete

seeing Abdi's sculpture gave me an idea about doing an installation about gaming. gaming epidemic. it would be a work about gaming addiction and also, part of myself. i am very sick. i play games on daily basis and its a disaster. not getting enough sleep. miss out on classes. people. lots of good things in life.

maybe it could be something like this. there's a brain ( of course not a real brain ) inside the monitor but the inside will be dark. i mean like really dark. pitch black. but when a person sits in front of the pc, lights on and you can see the brain shining in a very dark and evil glow with the line "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" ( it's a very popular meme in gaming forums due to fail english translation ) giving the idea that you are being mind-controlled by the computer. another thing that must be implement in this product is the feeling of not being able to escape, to run away from it. gaming addiction is veryyyy dangerous. seriously. i know firsthand. not gonna tell my story here but it once ruined my life. so i was thinking maybe the cables, or maybe the mouse like comes to life and get tangled up on the user and tie them up to the point that there is no turning back. but how the hell can i make that happen bahahaha. so i was thinking maybe like in those spy movies where the chair has somekind of mechanical wrist lock. but i dont know if i can get my hand on those kind of stuffs. unless i work for the fbi >.<

but for better or worse, video games made us gamers who we are today. and it wont be fair just to show the bad side of it, right?

Misguided Direction // New Again

my proposed objective was to collect information from Malaysians and find similarities among them. but I know now that it wont work like that. in achieving true peace we need to value, accept and respect our differences. not just look for similarities and have groupies like high school students ( also happens in MMU haha )

so my new objective is to just act as a medium to talk and listen. whatever it is. whether its part of the MCA's appeal to rid of Malay Supremacy policy, or 'I wish I was born in another country', whatever. it's all good ( as long as they arent in the lines of 'Malay babi hidup pemalas sembah dinding 5 kali sehari' )

i know it might or might not bring unity among us, but at least we know Malaysians true 'voice'. and I think that is more important. hearing the voice of the people.

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the Plan

im gonna proceed with the blocks idea, each playing videos of Malaysians. every time the app loads, it will randomly picks videos from the database. for each person, there will be 1 idle/face video ( 5 seconds ) and another 5 seconds ( or maybe 10 sec ) showing their 'voice' to the camera ( of the same person ).

the setup will be like this :

either unifi ( basically standardized ) or random. random will obviously be harder to code but more appealing to the audience i suppose. maybe 3 'random' block setups. unifi will either be 4 x 2 or 5 x 2, depends on the size that the projector is capable of i guess.

so right now there are two options for navigating.

(a) Motion Detection

When the app is in idle mode, like stated above the video will keep playing videos close-up to the subject's face. When a person move in front of a block ( motion detection via webcam ), the corresponding video will play the 2nd video of that subject, showing his/her 'voice'.

This would pretty cool if I could code it to for example, when subject is in front of block B1/B2, subject A1/A2 will look to the right and C/D blocks will face to the left. giving an interaction between them and the user. but im not sure if everyone ( people that i encounter ) will gladly do this part cus i dont think that may will wanna participate if it's too much work for them

(b) iPod / iPad + iDisplay

There's this wonderful app on iDevices called iDisplay. basically it acts as an external display to your computer ( Windows / Mac ) and has touch capability straight away from the iDevice. so I can use this as an alternative navigation for the users. just click a video on the iPad and the 2nd video of the subject will play. it also supports virtual keyboard input, zoom-in zoom-out, etc.

Here's a video test of the iDisplay with my old flash assignment :

iDisplay Video Test from Faiz Yunus on Vimeo.

Or I could combine both navigation. Motion detection for displaying 'voices' and iPad for changing subjects. Still in consideration

Another thing is whether to have video submissions on the spot. I will need to make another setup, like a white small room with webcam or something for people to record videos and automatically include their videos in the installation database. but that will probably just be an add-on, not my focus for now.

Adding comments might be a plausible feature too. People can give comments to each 'voice' and maybe rate them. Adds more interaction with users

Malaysians by Steven V-L Lee

this book has been getting good reviews on really presenting Malaysians. its by Steven V-L Lee, a Malaysian-based photographer. still havent got the book ( or the money for it xD ) but will definitely look into it. his book might inspire a lil bit on how to design my fyp. he has another book called Outside Looking in Kuala Lumpur but that one is specifically the view of life in Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysians, book cover

Racism, a rife plague

as i dig deeper in this whole racial discrimination in Malaysia, its becoming more clear that its pretty much impossible to really dissolve racism off the face of Malaysia. because yea occasionally you get the 'budak budak mentah' posting racial comments on fb, or video ejek2 on youtubes, but these guys are fine. okay theyre not fine but at least they are somewhat 'treatable'

the big problem here is racism that implicates from the system. the system that grants different races to be treated differently. the system that is called Ketuanan Melayu ( or Malay Supremacy - or something like that >.< ). it is defined as 'institutional racism', "any kind of racism occurring specifically within institutions such as public government" ( wikipedia )

Malay Supremacy goes wayyyy back to the old days. even before Malaysia gained independence. when Singapore was part of Malaysia for the short 2 years period, they made a movement on how the people need to stand up and fight against this policy. which then triggered the incident of 13th May. a bloody mess i must say. then the government in-effort to somehow 'counter' this tragedy, established new special rights to the Malays in the Constitution of Malaysia ( specifically Article 153 ) and also the Rukun Negara. i guess im in no position to say if it was the right or wrong since I'm a Malay myself and I am 'living' the special rights.

so, racism in Malaysia is in general, bigger than other countries' because it comes from hate or dissatisfaction towards the governing system. i read an article written by a Chinese. he expressed how he love his country so much, that there is no other place he even consider going or calling home other than Malaysia. but his dad had to went abroad just to pursue his studies ( back then there werent that many universities accepting non-Malays i suppose ) because his intentions were rejected in his own country. the author described that he was born in Chinese. there's really nothing he can do about it and like it or not, they have to abide to the system.

in conclusion, i really dont know how im gonna pull this off. i mean sending a powerful statement that can really change someone. how he feels. but i know for sure there is no way i can really clear everyone of the racism plague. they are pointing fingers at the government, the system. what am i to do about it? ive learned that to live in a multiculturalism country means you have to acknowledge, accept, value and respect other culture be it ethics, religions, whatever. a good read is a paper written by Maher Abu-Munshar entitled Islamicjerusalem : A Model for Multiculturalism. i have to admit i havent read the whole thing but i did read bits of it. Islamicjerusalem is basically a term founded in early 1996, and scholars are using it to discuss on how Muslims and Christians were able to live in peace back in Jerusalem, unlike how things are today.

“ Their ( Muslims ) understanding of non-Muslims’ rights and recognition of the two communities’ needs engendered a flourishing multicultural society that provided an atmosphere for peaceful co-existence. Multiculturalism, a vital and crucial element of a society, can become a convenient and indispensable mechanism for fostering diversity among different cultures and religions. This approach tends to perpetuate, rather than challenge, views about the differences of other religions. The Muslims’ inclusive vision for Islamicjerusalem, which involved recognizing others, fostering diversity and pluralism, implementing Islamic tolerance and mutual respect, led to peaceful co-existence ”

- Maher Abu-Munshar

Crit 02 : Idea Development

ive been looking for a video Mr Ky showed us about an installation, where it captures people's faces then switch face parts with other people but I can't seem to find it :S that is a possible way of showing how difference races/colors can mix right? taking pictures of our body parts then switching it around with others and the pieces fits. it does projects the message of "We are like pieces of aaaaa hugeee 99999999-piece puzzle. Everyone fits. Everyone completes one another" zzz haha. cant find a good reference but kinda like this :



okay for example that setup can be different blocks/displays placed in a formation. every block display a different person's body part. every block is different person. they varies. maybe i can put additional blocks where it displays our surrounding, our everyday life environment. train station maybe. busy streets. or everyone's getaway, a perfect holiday. beaches. okay maybe some might prefer to spend their holidays in front of their pc doing wtv they like doing and calling it a perfect getaway. anyway, all the videos playing on the blocks will finally come to an end and become parts of a huge video as a whole. u know maybe a picture of Malaysia's flag, one malaysia logo or something. okay lame. but you get the point right? meaning everyone fits into the puzzle. we all play a role in this world. no discrimination, no hate. justttt loveee bebeeehhh zzzzzzzzz

of course the video is actual one whole video from the start. only composed to make it look like its made of different displays. this technique was done really well at the installation in Petrosains during the intro and outro part. and this is projection mapping, well not a very high level one. but still something really new to me. im terrible at video editing.

conteng conteng!



i think the iPod idea is really a no no now. cus the idea was the create an app where people who uses the app can share their opinion, videos, images on racism/1Malaysia through Bluetooth or Internet. but when I think about it, its nothing more than a sharing tool. Which is lame.

The message and topic is still on 'Racism'. So it's either :
(i) Making an installation where people hold their 'message' on "What is racism?", "1Malaysia is...", or "The Change We Need". When they move in front of the webcam, motion detection will start recording for maybe 10 seconds. Auto-composition will be made on the other screen. Maybe 3 webcams ( refer to lousy sketches ), 1 harddisk with massive space for recording, projection for display, and a computer of course.

(ii) The idea mentioned above. Blocks. Maybe I could make it capture images/videos of people standing in front of the installation without them being aware of it by placing a webcam behind the display like the one done in this video. And this one.

(iii) The old-proposed idea. The buzz-mood-ish thing.

Im gonna look more into creating (i) and (ii).

Crit 02 : Reaching Out

i stumbled a few installation i found, the last post started to look too long to put everything in it.

Listening Post by Mark Hansem and Ben Rubin

actually this one ive found during my New Media class research. its done back in 2001 where it collects text pieces from all over the cyberspace. here's the official description made on the installation :

Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens.
Listening Post cycles through a series of six movements, each a different arrangement of visual, aural, and musical elements, each with it's own data processing logic.
Dissociating the communication from its conventional on-screen presence, Listening Post is a visual and sonic response to the content, magnitude, and immediacy of virtual communication.

More info: http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningpost.html

this is where the original idea i proposed came from. also from buzz-mood. trying to collect what everyone thinks, feels, wants and creating a unity from that. but seeing how there's really no limitation or parameters on what a person can write/input, it's hard to keep the app in control as it may need administration/observation all the time. filtering what's right and what's not. and that sucks.



We Are The Citizen

okay honestly this one doesn't look so great. it uses AR to project words that are unity-related and community-related. yea the idea is brilliant. just that it doesn't look interesting i dont think it attracted that many people. and the whole point here is to reach out to the community. still it's a good reference as it also plays with words. which i think might need a little bit more visual in it.

A visual allegory for existence in Singapore, this installation thematically revolves around air conditioning, a physical condition noted for it's importance in Singapore's great economic development through the conditioning of ambient temperature. 'We the citizens' is about us, Singaporeans and endeavors to confront the audience with issues of our comfort and meanings of unity under the comfort of government. "We the citizens" utilises Mixed Reality Technology

Crit 02 : "Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated”

my idea of creating unity among races in Malaysia was to create an installation that would show people that they have similarities despite our differences. but with my original proposed method, Mr Ky made a comment that it might result in a backfire; the installation might display more differences rather than reaching its true goal. and i agree with him completely here.

so i looked around a bit for stuffs that are mainly labeled unity or change, community, stuffs like that.

before anything, here's a song called Be The Change by Kat Edmonson. Not really my kinda song but the feedback is good. i guess how they made people write on boxes cutout about the change they're looking for worked well. kinda reminds me of our 'Why MMU?' ( copycat! plagiarism! zzz ) video a couple years back for Media Production class haha.



might be pretty cool if i could make an installation where people write what they think about racism and stand in front of the camera for like maybe 10 seconds. then the app will keep sorting the videos out in random order and make like a montage with random songs about unity and change playing in the background. maybe put like 3 cameras or 4. then every time a user uses the installation, it will pick a camera randomly so that we can get a different point of view for each person. maybe project a different background too. just might take this idea into consideration.

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i found this app for the iPod, called Be the Change: Daily Challenge and Acts of Change Calendar by HearPlanet. it's a nice app where everyday it challenges you to do something. it's really up to you whether you gonna take the challenge or not. that's the whole message is about, Be The Change. here's a few screenies :




it doesnt implement any out of this world feature. but it does have a nice-simple design which almost all of iOS apps use so everyone can get comfortable in a minute. although this app doesnt directly aims towards racism or unity, the approach is applicable and inspiring. its doing pretty well in reaching a mass number of people.

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
—Steve Jobs, 2003

and this app definitely works, thanks to its design and approach. its proof that i dont have to go and try to impress people with an installation full of visual, or visual audio processing projection, or an app on the iPad and stuffs. i probably should just stick to the idea above. its simple. and kinda original i guess. okay not really. whatever

read more about Be The Change app here. responses it's getting are good

brief description :

“Every day you’ll receive a new inspirational message from one of the world’s most respected thinkers and communicators. With each message comes a Daily Challenge to go along with the day’s theme. Not only that, but you can log your Acts of Change so you can track your positive actions, and share them with friends and family on Facebook and through email.”

Crit 02 : Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

Well further look into the iOS SDK proved that Apple are made of greedy bastards very good with marketing strategies. Turns out you can only get the iOS SDK to develop apps on IPods by using, thats right Mac. it's Mac only. meaning you cant develop iOS apps on Windows. unfortunately, Ive been a Windows since forever and I have no idea where I can get my hands on a Mac ( or the money to buy one ). For developers who wants their apps to be available to others, they need to register to Apple and sign up for $99 i think. Well I guess thats pretty fair since you are getting an audience through their product. But still, for people who wants to develop apps solely for the purpose of education? Apps can only be used on jailbroken Apple devices unless you pay them and put it up for download on the AppStore.

Not many people are very capable in Objective C and it's the core language to create iOS apps. And yea not everyone owns a Mac.


So there a few ways to write apps in Windows :

Method 5 - Toolchains:
There are several toolchains available (like winChain) that actually lets you write and build iPhone applications on windows.

Method 4 - Use other Languages instead of Objective-C

(i) Code in Java: For Java developers, there is a workaround: XMLVM.

(ii)Code in C/C++ - DragonFireSDK:

Say no to Objective C, say no to forced-Mac and yes to C/C++, Windows. This founds the base for DragonFireSDK that uses Microsoft Visual C++ to develop, test iPhone apps.

Apps, Games created with DragonFireSDK can be completely written and debugged in Windows and are also fully compliant for distribution and sales at the Apple iPhone App Store.

Method 3. Hackintosh: This is one of the effective ways of doing it: Install Mac on PC and then run the Native iPhone SDK.

Method 2: Cross compilation of Adobe apps: You can write your apps in Flash Actionscript 2, ActionScript 3 or Adobe AIR, Flex and then cross compile it to ARM binary that is executable on iPhone. This can be done installing Project Sprouts for which sample Flex applications source is available here.

Here is a video on how this is done:

Method 1. Flash CS 5: This is in fact the most effective and easiest way to make it to App store doing all the “legal stuff”.

Flash CS 5 introduces new Feature that let’s you develop iPhone native applications just like you develop Adobe AIR apps. Recently, Adobe announced support for Multitouch, Accelerometer, GPS support in Flash 10.1 for phones. CS5 adds new APIs that lets developers leverage these modern Phone features and hence develop application not just for iPhone but for all Phones that support Flash.

taken from here. click to read further detail

Final note :
Although the article was posted on December 2009, the last method; using Flash CS5 seems very promising since I have used Flash CS5 a few times. Will look more into this

Crit 02 : Change in Platform

I've been thinking about the approach on reaching out to the audience. No great ideas worth mentioning so far. I kinda agree with Mr Khong when he said my initial approach was a little old school or outdated.

Lately I've been playing around with the Ipad. It's pretty cool I have to say. But other then a larger display, its pretty much the same thing as an Iphone 3G. Still fun though. Especially with the kids. My nieces and nephews enjoy drawing and popping bubbles all the time on that thing. It seemed like a viable platform for my project. So I did research on Ipad apps.

I'm still not quite sure how the final product is gonna be. But for now, I will be experimenting with Ipod apps. Since I started studying in MMU, every applications I programmed was on Flash. Nothing else. So I thought I just might challenge myself and try to create an Ipod application.

Of course, to test code an app and actually test it out, I need the real thing to play with. So I sold my psp ( T~T ) to buy an Ipod Touch. Just got it yesterday so still pretty new to it. Got a few apps and a lot of apps really shows amazing stuffs you can do with the Ipod when connected to a PC. You pretty much have total control over it. Okay that's a lie. But it is still pretty cool. For me at least. Tested a few sharing applications, like AirSharing PRO. Worked well. Might look on how it works and coded which surely will be useful.

The applications are mostly coded in C. Obviously everyone knows Ipod doesn't support Flash. Which sucks cause I can't play Facebook games on it xD still seeing how a massive amount of awesome applications are available for the Ipod, I bet you can do all kind of things with C. The most common program used to code an Ipod app is X-Code.

Here's a short tutorial for noobs like me :

Design Research Proposal

Went for my SRI consultation today. Mr Khong read my fyp proposal and told me I should change the tablet input part to speech recognition. Personally, I think it's a hard task to make an application that can capture speech and convert it to text accurately. And i think Mr Ky agrees on this. But I will look into it for a bit

My proposed research title was 'Capability of new media to function as a medium to deliver a message to audience'. I thought if I study about the tools and technology it could really help in making an effective installation.

Mr Khong decided it was best if I do a research on the effects of racism in Malaysia and its implications. His reasoning was that if I am planning to unite races among Malaysian, I need to know the races in Malaysia first and what causes racism. Not just the majority ( Malay, Indian, Chinese ) I must include races that are minor in numbers in my research because they are still part of the races in this country. They are what makes Malaysia a multinational country. He suggested I should proceed with defining racism afterwards, then continue with interviews concerning racism effects and what are certain people/groups efforts in voicing out their stand against racism.

Final note, he suggested to do a research entitled "Studying the effects of racism and its implications in a multinational country such as Malaysia" and proposal submission is next week.

Proposal 3 : Color the World

Title
Color the World

Background
Every one of us plays a role in this world. Our actions, our identity determines how the future will be shaped. We are like a huge community that keeps contributing and changing the world, for better or worse. It's not just the government, researchers, or designers that are capable of making an impact, a change to people's lives, or perception. How many times do you think your life may had an effect on others'?

Problem Identification
The message 'We are the future' needs to be screamed as loud as possible. People are unaware of the fact that everything we do will determine the future and create a world like how it is today. We need to connect people. Wake them up and let them know that our relation between each other is stronger than we thought. That everything we do will affect each other, good or bad, a lot or by the tiniest amount.

Aim & Objective
- To connect people, unite them, build a sense of community
- To make them realize that all of us, our decisions our actions will affect everyone's life and the world
- To 'capture' people and 'paint' the world with their colors

Motivation
A lot of people are lost in this world. By lost, I mean in a lot of ways. Not knowing what they're supposed to do. Lost in a virtual online gaming world. Lost in a social network like Facebook. Lost in thinking that they are alone in this world. They are so lost that they don't see that although it is true we roll along when the world spins, at the same time the world changes as we live our daily lives. My motivation is to wake everybody up ( including myself ) and bringing all of us together to realize our huge part in this world.

Ideation and Concept
The audience will have to stand in front of the webcam. When motion is detected, the application will start to countdown and take a picture. From the captured image, three colors will be picked ( brightest, mid, lowest ). These colors will then be used to compose and color a random image representing the world ( tree, beach, mountains, etc ). The final result will be shown on an extended display ( a projection screen ). When the application is idle ( no motion detected/no user participating ), the projection screen will show a gallery of all the taken pictures with results.

Another approach is to make the installation real-time. The webcam will capture a livefeed, taking colors from the input and always changing/coloring images.

Target Audience
Those who are concern of themselves and/or the world ( Everyone )

References


Nike.ID.Studio ( Daito Manabe 2009 )

Design Approach
Actionscript 3.0 for programming bitmaps capture and image composition. Webcam for motion detection, also for image capturing. LCD Display and medium-size projection
- Visual : Random pictures of scenery, nature
- Audio : According to the image ( e.g : waves, seagulls for image of beaches )

Proposal 2 : MadShock

Title
MadShock

Background
We all know for a fact that everybody gets mad. That emotion of being out of control and feeling like you wanna punch everyone you come across is called 'anger'. Anger is triggered when we get hurt, or pissed off, when someone do or say something against our likings, when things don't go the way we planned, easier said a lot of things can tick us off. For me on my daily basis, heavy traffic does that but it's nothing good music can't overcome. Although how easily we become angered by certain things varies among each of us and how we express our anger are also different.

Problem Identification
Everybody hates getting scold at, or having someone being a jerk during one whole lecture for no reason. That's because anger can hurt the people around us. The issue here is not many of these 'hot-tempered people' are aware of this fact. Pain and problems are part of our daily life, we need to live with it and solve our problems.

Aim & Objective
- To give an image how anger can hurt other people ( literally )
- To make hot-headed people repent and change for the better ( sounds funny but might be possible )
- To study how different people react to pain ( facts I found online proved that some people actually enjoy pain -_- most of the stories are found are sex-related so I won't link here >.< )

Motivation
I used to get mad easily before ( my girlfriend being my favorite victim >.< ) and I bet we all have met someone in our who always go insane over the smallest things ( for me it was my brother - one time, he used to punch us; his little brothers when we suck at a video game but he got married and is a better person now xD ). So yeah, I pretty much knows how it feels to be the jerk and the one being 'jerked' at xD I'm sure we all do. When you changed to be more matured and better, you realized some things you did back then are so stupid and pointless ( fun nonetheless haha ). So I'm hoping to move and open some eyes of those who are just so blind by their pure sheer irritating madness, hurting people around them day by day.

Ideation and Concept
There will be two platforms, one for the touch sensing and the other for transmitting electric shock ( pain ). This installation functions as a display of how our anger can hurt other people. When a person punches ( provide touch ) the touch sensor ( covered with fabric ), electric shock will be sent to the person on the other end. How high the voltage depends on how high the pressure received on the touch sensor.

Target Audience
Hot-tempered people and friends ( everyone but definitely not senior people, might get a heart attack through the shock >.< )

References


PainStation

proof that some people have fun with pain that someone decided to make a game using pain.
Oh and those people in Jackass. sick


Analog Fabric Joypad

in this instructable, the author used touch for a different purpose. still it detects pressure and surely its function can be directed to a different use.

Design Approach
Two platform programmed using Processing ( for touch sensing ) and Arduino ( for transmitting data + electric waves ).
- Might be visual, displays calmness screensaver-like image initially then change to chaotic when touch is detected
- Blue/green ( calm ), red ( mad )

Proposal 1 : One Voice

Title
One Voice

Background
Racism has been a huge issue around the world including Malaysia. With the creation of new media like social networks ( YouTube, Facebook ), new cases of race hate has been spreading like wildfire and exposed widely to the public.

Problem Identification
Each day through the usage of new media, more and more racial hate display are made, spawning new cases of racism at a high rate which led a number of Malaysian to believe that digital media is a form / medium that will only cause more damage to our multi-race community especially the Internet.

Aim & Objective
- To create unity among races through new media
- To accumulate comments/feedback from users on racism
- To evaluate users response when they are given the opportunity to make statements anonymously

Motivation
I've always being one to stand against racism. I know for a fact it's not possible to get rid of its existence completely. It's been around for ages. It's stupid ( not to mention stereotyping is damn annoying ) and I think we all need to play our part in solving this huge issue. I'm very glad that I have the chance to support this cause.

Ideation and Concept
Users will be asked to submit input on anything. What they want, what they like, what they believe in, their hopes and dreams, anything. They also have to submit their race. This will be captured by a tablet which will recognize and convert the user handwriting into text. A big screen next to the input machine will display submitted entries which are sorted by keywords/tags. Tags will be chosen randomly based on similar keywords found in the entries.

Target Audience
Everyone

References


Buzz-Mood


Facebook with 3D Processing


Design Approach
Mostly ActionScript 3.0 ( except for the handwriting text-recognition part, will probably need to integrate with a third-party software ). A tablet that supports this function. A medium-size projection as gallery display.
- Friendly, not too chaotic visuals
- Colors that whispers unity
- Cheerful but calm background music ( good example is Wii Sports Resort - Main Menu* )

Initial Proposal

I could recall a statement one of my lecturers ( can't remember who though ) made from my previous semester, the biggest difference between an artist and a designer is that an artist create their art to convey a message while designers create works that has specific functions ( usually to meet user requirements ). Well, I guess this mindset isn't always valid.

I've thought of 3 initial projects, which I thought would be very 'functional' to specific user group. I didn't think of the message behind these ideas. Of course to no surprise, all 3 proposal got rejected xD

It was only after hearing Mr Kok Yoong's response to my project direction that it hit me. Those ideas were boring as hell and soooooooooo lame. I totally agree with him when he said "I bet you will lose interest doing these projects halfway"

So I went back home, brainstormed for a few hours, played a couple rounds of Dota >.<, then back to the drawing board again and came out with 3 new ideas. Alhamdulillah I've got Mr Ky's and Madam Forest's approval :)

P/S : I dont know why it was even necessary to write a lame introduction -_-