Thursday, 12 July 2012
binding my IDJ
This will be my last post on Creative Thinking, sadly to say. Um... I didn't think I would learn a lot on this course because I'm stupid... but I did! I actually learned ways to creatively think of creative solutions (how to blog) to the given creative problems (the given IDJ topics). Whenever Mr. C gives us a topic to blog about, I'm always like..... Oh my goodness how am I going to blog that?! To be honest, the first time I blogged for Creative Thinking, I had no idea what to write and how and the only website I went to was Wikipedia. And I thought I had to state the facts that I got from there.
But then he said something in one of our lectures about some of our blogs being super boring and uncreative and I felt like he was talking about me... Hahahaha so I went to improve my stuff and I think it turned out okay. Hopefully...........
I learned a lot. So thank you, Mr. C
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Wednesday, 11 July 2012
my crazy ideas
So there was this one assignment where we had to make up stuff in Communication Theory for Miss Jinchi and I just wanted to share them with you, Mr. C!
We had to pick a topic out of all our Communication Theory lectures and I picked illustration, and under that, cartoons! So I had to do background research on cartoons and talk about how it's contributed to society and stuff, and the fun part was that we have to think of crazy ideas for the future and my crazy idea for the future was that you don't need screens to watch animated cartoons anymore! So I invented these:
It may look like ordinary cereal but no! Once you start pouring your milk into the bowl of Cartoon Crisps, cartoons will appear and jump out of the bowl and start entertaining you on whatever table you are eating on in the kitchen!
Another idea was that we could change the way we look by drinking this drink called Nescartoon. There are risks though because you don't get to choose what you look like as a cartoon, however you may choose your hair color according to the flavors they come in.
If someone really wants to become a cartoon but doesn't want to risk looking like a monster, he/she should take the other option -- cartoon surgery, which will be available at almost every hospital in the world by 2040. So.. wait for it!
The last idea was a spray that you spray on any surface, and cartoons would just appear.
These ideas wouldn't have been produced in my brain if I weren't taking Creative Thinking, honestly. Because before this, I would overthink and I would overthink inside the box. Which is super lame. But now I'm super cool and I would like to thank you, Mr. C!
Oh and here's proof that I really made these... I mean... on Illustrator. Heheheh. It was fun!
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video assignment
So I've been trying to figure out what to do for my video assignment for a while and I was torn between two ideas; one would be about my ADHD and it would've been funny instead of serious and the other one was um... about my little brother. Basically I wanted to do a documentary. I've been overthinking about how I should do it and I really didn't know how to start.. I did film myself in one um... situation though but it's not very good.
Then I put on my creative thinking mode on and was browsing through my laptop and my 2 external hard-drives, I found a lot of videos recorded from like, 4 different cameras and I haven't done anything with them, I thought... why not make use of them now? And so I watched a lot of them and I discovered how much I like to record my little brother. Hahahhahah.
I really didn't think I could pull it off though because um, the videos are not exactly tailored to make a real documentary so I thought I'd be pretty screwed.... but I said to myself, you'll never know until you try! So I just went with it... and I saw someone post this on Facebook and it inspired me.
I uploaded it on YouTube lastnight and when I woke up today and watched it.... it's a huge fail. See for yourself.
I don't know what happened, but as you can see from the screenshots, I had a lot. I was aiming for 4 minutes, but I ended up having a total of 9 minutes, so please don't die of boredom!
Anyway, I'm re-exporting the file now and it's gonna take about an hour, hopefully less. And then I'll upload it... again. Hope that's okay! Sorry if you're already reading and I still haven't done it.
Here's a screenshot of the video and proof that it is 9 minutes long.
If all my video-uploading fails... I'll just come to class and hand it in to you in my pendrive or something.
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Monday, 9 July 2012
illustration
[ i did not illustrate this, and i thought you should know ]
I've learned that eyes shouldn't have to look like real eyes and heads shouldn't have to look similar to real heads, and necks can look like they can't even support the head.
[ i did not illustrate this, and i thought you should know ]
I've learned that it's okay not to have outlines on drawings and it looks pretty good that way.
[ i did not illustrate this, and i thought you should know ]
I've learned that hair textures would look more interesting if you break them up into smaller lines rather than long flowing lines from top to bottom. It sort of looks like cross-hatching, I guess.
[ i did not illustrate this, and i thought you should know ]
I've learned that it's okay to write stuff on your drawings, and I've learned that you can use multiple techniques on one artwork. I felt so stupid when I found out all of this. Haha but it's cool. At least I know now. I could use watercolor and oil pastels and Artliners on the same piece of artwork and it would look awesome.
[ i did not illustrate this, and i thought you should know ]
Anything can be made into art if placed properly on a page, and given appropriate negative space! Well... at least I think so.
[ i did not illustrate this, and i thought you should know ]
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the mind
I'm not sure what would be suitable for a title but whatever. It's a free post so I'll just puke my thoughts out, ok? Ok.
This is pretty interesting. I used to watch this show a lot when I was back at home and had nothing to do after I did my foundation in Cambridge. It's called Obsessed. Before I discovered this show, I had a stereotypical idea of what a person with OCD would be like... but when I started watching this show, I was like..... completely mind-blown as to all the different things people would be OCD about. I mean, it's not just being clean and having hand-sanitizer and yada yada yada.
This is serious stuff. And I could relate to some of them and I'm there thinking.. Oh my god, do I have a problem? Heheh heheh. Maybe I do, maybe I don't. We'll never know... because I don't think I can afford a psychiatrist. Bahahaha.
Anyway, seriously though, doesn't it make you think though? (Oh wow I said though twice in the same sentence) How do we know we're normal? And how do we know that the girl in the video isn't normal? What if that's normal and we're not? Thank you, society, for constantly having to label everything...... Heheheh ok no but uhh. I don't think I'm normal. I have a very very short attention-span and you have probably noticed because of the way I blog. Um, so what I'm saying is... I probably have ADD/ADHD. I have almost all the symptoms:
- Fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork
- Has difficulty keeping attention during tasks or play
- Does not seem to listen when spoken to directly
- Does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace
- Has difficulty organizing tasks and activities
- Avoids or dislikes tasks that require sustained mental effort (such as schoolwork)
- Often loses toys, assignments, pencils, books, or tools needed for tasks or activities
- Is easily distracted
- Is often forgetful in daily activities
Yeah, it's like there's meant to be a picture of me next to all of that. Seriously.... Let's try it...
- Fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork
- Has difficulty keeping attention during tasks or play
- Does not seem to listen when spoken to directly
- Does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace
- Has difficulty organizing tasks and activities
- Avoids or dislikes tasks that require sustained mental effort (such as schoolwork)
- Often loses toys, assignments, pencils, books, or tools needed for tasks or activities
- Is easily distracted
- Is often forgetful in daily activities
Yeah....they work pretty well together, it's like it's meant to be. That's a picture of me like 3 years ago when I looked decent and stuff. Bwahahhahaa the schoolgirl days. Those days are long gone. I got kicked out of that prestigious school though because I failed my Biology, which was a subject I thought I loved but I... was wrong. They kicked out quite a few students and it was the first time they did it because they had so many applicants for the next year and had to let go of some of us. It was a sad time... But whatever, if it wasn't for this incident, I wouldn't have gone to the UK for a year to do my foundation. So thank you, international school that must not be named, for 'letting go' of me.
Oops. Distracted again. Um anyway. I have ADHD. I never realized it until probably last year or the year before that when people started pointing out how I'm so easily distracted.
Ok, so two days ago, I was watching this movie called um... No Strings Attached, I think? The one with Ashton Kutcher in it. And there was this scene where there was a familiar song playing, and I was dying trying to figure out what song it was and so I paused the movie, I googled the lyrics and I found the song and it was Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry and I started googling the chords and I started singing... And after that I watched some other peoples' covers of the song on YouTube, and then for some reason I end up on Facebook. And I'm like... what am I doing...... And then I go back to the movie. Hahahhaha it's so stupid. It may sound normal (does it?) but it happens a lot everyday when I'm doing different things.
I had to get that story out before I forgot to blog about it.
Anyway, I was never sure why I'm like.... the person I am today. I never really finish what I do. I mean, I always start out very concentrated and like, fully determined being all over-achiever and stuff and then halfway I'm like mehh, I can't do this, who would do this? and I just do whatever's left with almost only 2% of the determination I had to begin with. I thought it was just laziness.
Another thing is I almost never remember what I did earlier on and I don't like to think about how much work needs to be done because I have to organize it in my head and it drives me crazy but eventually I do it, I write them all down and paste them on my wall. And I always overdo it because in my head, I need to do 29303801801 things when actually there's only 4 things to do, but I would never see it that way. Things are not simple to me. I really don't know why. That's probably why I didn't know how to make just 3 scenes for my Alice In Wonderland story.
I know I began with an OCD video and suddenly started talking about ADD.... but I... don't know haha. But I would like to talk about my cleanliness/organize-ey OCD. I am so OCD that everything is always messy. That is because I always want to be so organized that I get so unorganized. I don't know how to explain it. It's like. I wanna be so organized but I tend to give up and just be unorganized because my idea of being organized is too crazy and just impossible to do so I just abandon the plan and end up making a mess and cleaning it a few days later.
Also, my OCD tends to kick in a week before I.... uh... surf the crimson wave, as in... that time of the month... the red flag. Yeah you get it. Haha not sure why but it's pretty interesting. And it runs in my family. A lot of my cousins do it, apparently.
I am also a hoarder! Wow, I'm starting to think that this post is kind of about me. Don't you?
I don't like to throw things away. Well... except for food and you know stuff that decay. But like, water bottles and boxes... I would keep them and it kind of freaks me out sometimes cos I'm like I.need.to.keep.this but at the same time I'm like why the heck do I even want to keep a stupid water bottle?! And then I end up keeping it..... I really don't know why. I keep a lot of things and it's always because of this one thought....
"I might need this one day"
And the stupid thing is that I know I have this problem, but I can't kick it out of my system. Maybe because I secretly like being a hoarder? Ugh, I'm a psycho.
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Sunday, 8 July 2012
fiction vs. truth
Fiction is better than reality. Just like lies are better than the truth. Heheheheh heheh just kidding. Or maybe not. Meheheheh. But that doesn't mean you should lie, okay! You should always tell the truth. Heheh heheh.
Okay so fiction vs. reality. As usual, I don't know how to start or how to blog about this but um... Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author.
I, myself, am an author of this lame old story of Alice. For one of our assignments we were supposed to illustrate a fairytale/fable/legend in 3 scenes but instead, I went ahead and wrote my own version of Alice In Wonderland because I thought it was going to be cool and interesting (which I was very wrong about because I almost killed myself heheheheh) and I guess when I was writing the story, I included a lot of myself in the story. I mean... when I was writing the story, I imagined myself as Alice... or Alice, in my story, was/is me. Um... mind the typos and horrible grammar and stuff because it was the 2nd draft, I think. I changed it a bit when I was 'illustrating' the stuff on Photoshop and Illustrator.
Oh and these are the pages. It's just a little screen shot from my Finder.
Anyway, you don't have to read it though because like I said, it's pretty lame. But my point is, in that story, I am Alice and I made up all those characters but they were inspired by people like Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Cat In The Hat, Sid Vicious, Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain, Slash, Eddie (Iron Maiden) and Alice Cooper because I love them. And I'll never get to meet them because... well.. it's too crazy. Plus 2 of them are dead and 3 of them aren't even real people. But I have made it possible for me to meet them, in my fictitious tale!
Which proves the fact that fiction is way better than reality! Haha ok whatever but I think fiction is cool because it allows people to express their imagination and thanks to all the technology (and non-techy stuff) available, we're able to share these fictitious stories and stuff on a lot of different mediums like on blogs, on pages like Facebook and Twitter, via text messages, on Skype, on YouTube, or go oldschool like publish books or just written down on journals, songs, poetry, paintings, blah blah blah.... the possibilities are endless!
I, myself, am an author of this lame old story of Alice. For one of our assignments we were supposed to illustrate a fairytale/fable/legend in 3 scenes but instead, I went ahead and wrote my own version of Alice In Wonderland because I thought it was going to be cool and interesting (which I was very wrong about because I almost killed myself heheheheh) and I guess when I was writing the story, I included a lot of myself in the story. I mean... when I was writing the story, I imagined myself as Alice... or Alice, in my story, was/is me. Um... mind the typos and horrible grammar and stuff because it was the 2nd draft, I think. I changed it a bit when I was 'illustrating' the stuff on Photoshop and Illustrator.
Alice was different from other girls. She didn’t like flowers or prom, and a lot of things. She didn’t like a lot of people, too so she pretty much ignores everyone. What Alice does like though, was heavy metal and songs like Pennyroyal Tea. One day, her friend Donna texted telling her to come to a party. Typically, there was no chance in hell that she would go to a party but somehow she agreed to go.
Dying of boredom, she just sat at the bar while everyone was being stupid all drunk and shit. 2 hours passed and she was thinking of leaving, but some guy with spiky hair managed to catch her attention. She attentively watched his every move. She kind of melted, her uterus skipped a beat and stuff.. until……She saw him with another girl. .....BAUJGDJHKAS….. Hahah
As if there wasn’t enough hatred in her already, this had to happen… She knew she shouldn’t have gone to the party / regret… or whatever…
So she decided to drink her feelings away because she didn’t like feelings..Little did she know, her drink was spiked.
She felt weird and couldn’t control herself… but once she could, she was in a different place.
Trees were creeping down from above and the sky was the ground. But she noticed that every kilometre she walked, the place would change. The next place she went, she saw a bird of some sort who looked like a pirate from a familiar movie.. She tried to talk to him and ask what was going on but it was like he couldn't even hear her. But then she saw a spider with pink hair and she liked spiders. So she followed it. Suddenly she it disappeared and she was in a place where there were wires everywhere, she found two fat kids in red with white stripes. They started talking to her. She told them she saw an interesting looking spider. But then they told her spiders could rape you. She laughed “Spiders aren’t rapists you dumbasses. Spiders are cool."
She kept walking and she found a lizard with a human head. He was singing “You’re eighteen and you don’t know what you want” and stuff like that and she just listened to him cos she kind of liked his music. The spider passed by and she tried to ask him where he’s going and he said
“Can’t talk, I’m late. The bitch is gonna kill me”
“Wait!"
She got to a place where there were 392830820 signs it was insane. She didn’t know where to go. Suddenly a strange cat appeared singing with his peanut guitar. He annoyingly sang out everything he said but he had a really sexy voice. Kind of like the dude from Nirvana. He told her to catch the crazy train. So she went. She met two freaks who kept singing about birth control pills and they had a lot of beer. One dude kept singing and drinking and he had a bad case of the hiccups. The other dude just played kickass riffs to go with his singing. After finishing their “performance”, they tried to rape her.
But she managed to run away to a very dark place where there was literally nothing. Nothing but a piece of toast. She sat down and cried. The cat appeared again asking her why she was crying.
“This place is stupid. I wanna go home.”
“You can’t go home now. You haven’t met the bitch… she’d love to meet you. She’s real badass. “ he sang.
He tore out of the black nothingness… they both stepped in and were suddenly in a bathtub where she saw a girl who looked normal… (only head showing so yeah..) and they started stalking. They got along really well… Then she saw the spider…
“Oh darling, this is my new friend Alice… go get her some pizza she looks hungry” She noticed how handsome the spider was, as crazy as it sounds… @ a gig and some umbrella shaped thing was on stage singing. Who’s singing? She said. Apparently she was too loud and the whole gig stopped and the bitch got angry. The concert ended and she wanted Alice killed..
Choked with chains, that's how the bitch wanted her to die. She ran as fast as she could and suddenly she reached a door but it was locked. She saw herself (the normal one) asleep, she needed to wake her up… Then she died. Haha haha ha ha…
Oh and these are the pages. It's just a little screen shot from my Finder.
Anyway, you don't have to read it though because like I said, it's pretty lame. But my point is, in that story, I am Alice and I made up all those characters but they were inspired by people like Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Cat In The Hat, Sid Vicious, Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain, Slash, Eddie (Iron Maiden) and Alice Cooper because I love them. And I'll never get to meet them because... well.. it's too crazy. Plus 2 of them are dead and 3 of them aren't even real people. But I have made it possible for me to meet them, in my fictitious tale!
Which proves the fact that fiction is way better than reality! Haha ok whatever but I think fiction is cool because it allows people to express their imagination and thanks to all the technology (and non-techy stuff) available, we're able to share these fictitious stories and stuff on a lot of different mediums like on blogs, on pages like Facebook and Twitter, via text messages, on Skype, on YouTube, or go oldschool like publish books or just written down on journals, songs, poetry, paintings, blah blah blah.... the possibilities are endless!
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d r e a m s
I am a big dreamer. I am not talking about dreams that you dream while you're asleep though, I am talking about dreams that I dream when I'm wide awake.
I remember watching Jem and The Holograms as a kid and I guess that influenced me a lot because I really really wanna become a rockstar but uhh I'm not doing anything about that am I? Hahahahahah. I have, however, performed a lot...... on this videogame called Guitar Hero and Rockband.. Bahahahahha hey, they count! I had audiences and everything. A girl can dream. I would occasionally sing out loud on my guitar back at home like it was a concert but only in front of my little brother who thinks I'm a loser.
But if we were to talk about dreams that we dream when we're asleep... I can think of one interesting dream though. It's a dream that I used to keep getting when I was younger. Even before I was a pre-teen. I used to have this dream of me driving my mom's old Proton and we were at my dad's parents' house, I don't know why but me and my brother were in the car and I think at first nobody was driving, and the car moved by itself out of the compound and on to the road, we would be driving but I'd be too scared to drive so me and my brother would stay behind and the roads were straight anyway so... but then I see curves on the road so I take over and start to steer. Obviously, I was too little to reach the pedals and stuff but it moved by itself so I didn't have to worry about that. I don't remember what happens in between but we would be driving up to this place called Telisai back at home and then we reach a dead end and then I wake up. Which is disturbing because the car wouldn't stop so we must've died or something.... I don't know. It creeps me out though now that I remember about it. I used to have that dream a lot, but I never knew why. And I have no idea why I'm talking about it right now, but I guess it's relevant because... it was a dream!
Ok I think I'll stop for now because I don't wanna have nightmares tonight but I will give you 2 video links to the videos I will watch tomorrow when I wake up from my (hopefully) sweet dreams tonight. Oh I watched the first one:
But I haven't watched this one because the music creeped me out, but I'll be watching this tomorrow and go on about dreams.
[added] So I watched the BBC one and I got bored halfway, but it was really interesting at the beginning where one of them said dreams remain a huge mystery because scientist still can't find a way to find out what people dream of, with machines and stuff, but they can (only) tell when they're dreaming or not.. might have been impressive back then, but now it's just like... come on, man, find a way to project people's dreams with a machine!
When that's possible, we could probably find out more interesting things about people, because if we knew what people dream about, we would get to know a lot about them, and we wouldn't have to worry if they're lying or not, because the machine would be projecting exactly what people are dreaming! Dreams could help us understand more about people.
I also (kind of) paid attention to the part where someone said something like um.. dreams have a purpose, and that is to prepare you for the future, or something. And I think that's pretty interesting because this morning I woke up from a dream where I was at the airport with my luggage and stuff and I was panicking because I didn't have my passport! What a nightmare! I immediately woke up to check if my passport was still under my pillow, and it was. Haha weird. Thanks to that dream, I won't forget my passport when I go home (which is soon!). Yeah hopefully I don't forget. Oh my goodness. [/added]
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012
my appendage
So... to be honest, I really don't know what to do for this post. I tried mapping out "my world" but I couldn't figure out where I was going to go with it. I didn't go far. I did.. so little. Seriously. Whatever amount of sketches you think I've done... Take that... multiplied by zero point seven.
See what I mean?
Aaaaaaaa. I tried actually mapping but it's so simple and ugly and I didn't finish it so I'm not going to share it. So I've turned to my appendage and yes.... yes. I thought of something lame and uncool - wait, isn't that the same thing? anyway - here it is... get ready to yawn.
So um... x + y = xy
Super lame. But wouldn't that be cool? Okay fine maybe not. But it would definitely look cool. Walking in the streets of KL with a BoomBagBox playing some Bob Marley out loud like it's nobody's business. You'd have music everywhere you go and you wouldn't have to turn it off to save battery because it's.. um... solar powered! Wait, does that mean it would only work during the day? Uh... I don't know. Heheh heheh heh. Shows you how much I know about science.
Here's another lame one. But hey it came from my head and that counts! This is a plate that has a compartment under it for phones so people can read text messages and facebook and tweet while they're eating. But then I thought... How the hell are people supposed to use the phone though? They can't touch the screen. Unless there's a special kind of.. thin glass kind of thing so you could touch on the plate to control your phone (assuming you have a touchscreen phone, that is.... oh and since you'd have to touch your plate... uhh I guess it wouldn't be a good idea for very hygienic and OCD people haha and err normal people)
So... basically I have failed to blog an awesome entry for this topic! SIGH.....
Over and out.
Lynz
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012
eccentricity
everyone was wearing fingerless gloves
( YES, WATCH THIS VIDEO BEFORE READING THIS ENTRY :D )
I watched this video and I think it's pretty cool what he said about how everything we do today that's normal was probably weird a long time when nobody was doing it, and then someone who was.. "eccentric" at the time in his society/culture comes up with the idea of doing something and does it, and it might have seemed very weird at the time... but then everyone starts accepting it and doing the same thing as it becomes normalized or.. socially accepted. Oh yeah, not the video up there though. Haha it's this one:
I guess to put it in layman's terms, a person who is eccentric is just a person who is different and unique. Doesn't "fit in" because he or she doesn't want to or simply does not care. I mean, I'm not neccesarily accurate but hey my blog wasn't set up to give people accurate information... it's just where I voice out my thoughts about something right? Right.
Eccentricity. It particularly makes me think of hipsters. If you look up hipsters on Urban Dictionary you would find hateful definitions by people
- Such people are the true "cool cats" of the world. They're those "in the know", ahead of the norm. They're not of the mainstream. They be eternal beatniks! (And certainly not hippies). Yes, they're people who are-- or at least consider themselves to be-- "hip", as in "hip to the jive". Older hip hipsters will of course always look down on latter-day versions, those (younger) folks who think themselves to be hipsters simply because, for instance, they're able to exhibit a little facial peach-fuzz and have a taste for some generic pop music that they've deemed to be, umm, "non-corporate". Hah!
- People who think they are original and unique for having "innovative" opinions, when really the only opinion they have is the opposite of whatever is considered "mainstream" at the time. these people think they are above everyone else for being so "different," and thinking they are the shit for not conforming to society when really their whole life revolves around being different JUST to be different so people think they are cool. Being a hipster basically means THINKING that you can fool people into thinking that you have it all figured out by using reverse-psychology, when really you want to be accepted just as much as anyone else...Hipsters just try harder.
That's not all true. First of all, I don't think it was necessary in the first place to label them hipsters. I mean, everyone is different. Not everyone listens to the same music and is interested in the same thing. I mean sure there could be some of them who are just doing it to be all cool and shit because maybe they think they have dry personalities, and yeah, they do try too hard. So hard it really is pathetic. But there are really different people out there and I like people like that. It's nice to see something/someone who's going in a different direction.
Everyone is so busy going in the same direction, trying to impress each other, like who has the new top from Zara or Mango or TopShop.. Who's seen Justin Bieber's latest music video and stuff like that... But not everyone's fascinated by all that; everyone's different and I guess true "hipsters" don't really give a crap if they're left out in terms of fashion or music that's popular at the time. They just care about what they like and what makes them feel good. Doesn't matter if it's new or old or whatever. Whatever they do, it's for themselves. It's not about "I hope he/she likes what I wear today." or like "I hope people look at me and think I'm cool because of the stuff I'm wearing the stuff I bought from TopShop yesterday!" It's just like... they wear what they want to wear because they feel comfortable in it or because they like it or because they like the pattern or texture or color, or I don't know. Whatever reason it is, it's not for other people but for themselves. Wow, look at me, I speak like I'm representing them. Haha but yeah.
Secondly, them being labelled as "different" doesn't mean it's a bad thing, right? Right! If you're different, at least you're not invisible to society, at least you're unique, and even if people start talking about you, it doesn't mean they all talk shit about you. In fact, a lot of people would be inspired, some would even be secretly inspired deep down inside but denies it on the surface
because they're too scared to be different and be judged by their peers.
I think Daria is a pretty good example of someone who is... different. But I think there are like 2948202039 eccentric people in this world. But then again my definition of eccentric is like so biased.
It's funny though, in this series everyone else is supposed to normal and she's different, but if you pay attention you're like, wait a minute! She's the normal one! Can't you relate though? I mean come on, don't tell me you've never felt like everyone else is like.. crazy and you're the only sane one and you're just secretly judging everyone? Oh, is it just me?
Let's go back to what I said in my first paragraph. Don't you think it's true though? Everything that used to be strange or socially abnormal eventually becomes socially normal or socially accepted, or whatever. I mean look at the clothes they sell at TopShop, Forever21 and Cotton On nowadays, they're so... hipster. So everyones trying to be hipsters now? I even see similar stuff at Mango and Dorothy Perkins, and like old people shops... And mom's shop at Dorothy Perkins! So moms wear hipster clothes now too!
So my point is... I don't really know. But I basically impregnated my entry with a whole lot of crap that came out of my brain. I'm sorry if I'm boring you but here comes the interesting bits!
I believe that only eccentric people can be truly good musicians. Seriously. Because they stand for what they believe and stuff like that and YouTube and creativity has made it possible to become famous without having too much money. God bless the founder of YouTube.
So anyway, have you ever heard of Buckethead? He is amazing. UH-MAZE-ING.
So anyway, have you ever heard of Buckethead? He is amazing. UH-MAZE-ING.
This first video doesn't show how an insanely amazing guitarist he is but this is here simply because I just wanted to highlight his "eccentricity" and you can watch it until you see what I mean or something.
This one's just to show how awesome he really is live:
This is what his album music really sounds like. Oh and some advice, don't judge by the first 30 seconds because I am not just making you listen to some typical metal stuff okay! Listen beyond 30 seconds and you'll see what I mean about his... different-ness.
Lastly, this one you'd probably know if you used to play Guitar Hero... Like when it first came out, I think Jordan was in it? I'm not so sure. It might be the 2nd one? I forget.
I repeat... AMAZING! I think I die every time I listen to his songs and then come back to life. I can't imagine being at a Buckethead concert. I think I would die... but like not come back to life. It's okay. If I die at his concert, at least he'd be all like "Oh I heard about this girl dying at my concert... It's such a shame. I got my people to send her family some of my guitars and a bunch of flowers. Rest in peace.." Hahahhaa okay the fact that I even thought of that is... kinda creepy but anyway!
Sorry if I bored you there. Moving on!
Sorry if I bored you there. Moving on!
I think I know about 10 people who I consider to be eccentric. Let's talk about this one guy I'm very very close with. He's really different (yeah, what a way to start..). First of all, he doesn't like school. Sound familiar? Yeah who likes school, right? Haha. But anyway he hated school ever since he was in kindergarden and his parents had a really hard time forcing him to go to school everyday. You'd think it's a minor problem but then it shit gets serious... He kept moving schools and getting held back but sometimes skip a year stuff like that. On some days it wasn't such a hard time getting him to go to school but on other days it's just extremely impossible, you would not believe the things his parents had to go through in the mornings to get him to go to school. And they both have to go to work after sending him.
One day his dad got really really REALLY pissed at him and forced him to go to school. No mercy. So this guy gets really angry and starts crying and raging but he can't argue with his extremely angry father so he just sucks it all up, bottles up his emotions and just goes to school. A few hours later his parents got a call from his teacher telling them that he had a seizure and they didn't know what to do so his parents rushed to the school and took him to the hospital. They found out he was epileptic.
From that day onwards his parents didn't want to force him to do things he didn't want to anymore because he gets angry so easily and with his epilepsy, it would stress him out which usually leads to a seizure. His parents were always terrified by all the times they've seen him seize and so no more forcing would be thrown in his direction.
So now he just does everything he wants to and he doesn't have to do what his parents tell him. Sometimes he doesn't even shower for a week, he would eat whatever he wants to whenever he wants to, his parents would buy him almost anything he asks for (thankfully, the stuff he wants aren't that ridiculous). He's learned to do a lot of things for a person who doesn't go to school. Obviously the stuff you don't learn in school. He learned to make music on FL Studio, he learned to use Photoshop, some programme called something something Cinema 4D? He can play the guitar, the drums, the keyboard/piano, he's a crazy gamer, too. Okay I'm making him sound pretty normal.
But I don't know. I think he's really different especially because of the lack of exposure to socialization or something. He's very anti-social. He doesn't really talk to anyone except for like a little group of friends from the last school he went to. Probably because he doesn't like it when people ask him why he doesn't go to school. People look down on him and I think that's their loss. I think he has a very high IQ because I notice how he can learn stuff so quickly and independently. It's like when I finally figure out how to play some guitar riff which usually takes about 42083 years (hahahahahahaha) he only takes 5 minutes to master it. And I'm the one who taught him how to play. It's so unfair. I'm like level 2 and he's like already on level 100. But that could be because I'm a girl and I'm kind of stupid... or just slow..... but I think I may be stupid.
So anyway. Eccentric people are awesome! Eccentricity should always be looked at positively. People who fail to see the good qualities in eccentricity should die. Heheheheh heheh.
Here are two eccentric people that I love so dearly and my favorite quotes.
One day his dad got really really REALLY pissed at him and forced him to go to school. No mercy. So this guy gets really angry and starts crying and raging but he can't argue with his extremely angry father so he just sucks it all up, bottles up his emotions and just goes to school. A few hours later his parents got a call from his teacher telling them that he had a seizure and they didn't know what to do so his parents rushed to the school and took him to the hospital. They found out he was epileptic.
From that day onwards his parents didn't want to force him to do things he didn't want to anymore because he gets angry so easily and with his epilepsy, it would stress him out which usually leads to a seizure. His parents were always terrified by all the times they've seen him seize and so no more forcing would be thrown in his direction.
So now he just does everything he wants to and he doesn't have to do what his parents tell him. Sometimes he doesn't even shower for a week, he would eat whatever he wants to whenever he wants to, his parents would buy him almost anything he asks for (thankfully, the stuff he wants aren't that ridiculous). He's learned to do a lot of things for a person who doesn't go to school. Obviously the stuff you don't learn in school. He learned to make music on FL Studio, he learned to use Photoshop, some programme called something something Cinema 4D? He can play the guitar, the drums, the keyboard/piano, he's a crazy gamer, too. Okay I'm making him sound pretty normal.
But I don't know. I think he's really different especially because of the lack of exposure to socialization or something. He's very anti-social. He doesn't really talk to anyone except for like a little group of friends from the last school he went to. Probably because he doesn't like it when people ask him why he doesn't go to school. People look down on him and I think that's their loss. I think he has a very high IQ because I notice how he can learn stuff so quickly and independently. It's like when I finally figure out how to play some guitar riff which usually takes about 42083 years (hahahahahahaha) he only takes 5 minutes to master it. And I'm the one who taught him how to play. It's so unfair. I'm like level 2 and he's like already on level 100. But that could be because I'm a girl and I'm kind of stupid... or just slow..... but I think I may be stupid.
So anyway. Eccentric people are awesome! Eccentricity should always be looked at positively. People who fail to see the good qualities in eccentricity should die. Heheheheh heheh.
Here are two eccentric people that I love so dearly and my favorite quotes.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
"With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?"
"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense."
"Anger is weakness, patience is strength."
KURT COBAIN
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."
"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings."
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
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Sunday, 27 May 2012
wings and things
If I could have wings, they would be made of bananas and other cool things.
Hahaha wow I just rhymed. I should be a rapper. K maybe not. But wouldn't that look cool? I don't know how it would function though since bananas are so heavy. I made this during the first week of our course when we had nothing to do; when we were assignment-free. Ah, those were the good old days. I mean..... boring.. those days were pretty boring... Heheh heheh. Total snoozefest.
Anyway...
Ew the colors look horrible because I accidentally saved it in CMYK. Learned my lesson there. Well, even if they were in the right colors, this piece would look horrible anyway.. Um so these are the things I thought about therefore those are the things I'll be "concentrating" on when I'm blogging. Supposedly...
Anyway when I process the word wings, I thought... wouldn't it be cool if wings could be made out of anything? Even like.. Bananas. Or pizza. Or pears. Then you'd have... a pear of wings. Ha ha ha ha hahahahhahahhhahahaha.
At one point I wondered why pegasus has wings. And then it progressed into why do animals even have wings? Why do they have to fly?
I think wings represent freedom because they enable you to fly and therefore you can escape any situation with it. Well.. not completely.
Wow, this is such a bad entry. I really don't know what to say. Uhh let me distract you with my randomagical powers!
Ooooooooooooooh are you distracted? Are you distracted yet?
Meh. Fail. Um so... I guess wings are cool though. But you know what's cooler?
Chicken wings.
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Saturday, 26 May 2012
the forgotten ones
This is just a short post on what I left out on the stuff I've already blogged about.
Basically they're just pictures. I don't know why I'm blogging them but I think since I took the time to "make" them, why not.... (Even if they suck)
I was sketching out some stuff last night and I realized I've brainstormed about aesthetics VS. the machine earlier and it looked so much better than what I blogged! I mean, the ideas. So... I don't know. I was thinking of doing "take three" but I have a lot of other stuff to blog about so maybe I'll put that on hold. But I'll show you the stuff I forgot to upload because they were on my phone.
This was my not so brainstormey brainstorm on creativity, but I managed to blog a lot on it because I absolutely love talking about it.
And here's a part of my costume idea development. I haven't figured out how to sow yet so I'm pretty much screwed..... I'll just wing it tonight and find a 'creative' way to sow. Hahahahahsgdjkhds
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