Round 2 - start -

National Day is coming soon, and all those familiar decorations are popping up everywhere. But out of all of them that I've seen so far, this one in my neighbourhood caught my attention. They're apparently done by a bunch of students (but from where exactly, I don't know) and features a bunch of those things called Minions. From the Despicable Me movies which seem to be really popular recently.

I don't like them myself, but it's still amusing to see them in a National Day banner actually being displayed to the public. It's near a bus stop so it's hard to miss.

Lines

Devil Survivor 2 The Animation Vol.1 cover art.

Traumatized by 2D Fundamentals, so now line patterns are reminding me of 2D Fundamentals and its associated pain.

Creative Concepts

 2 pictures of something that's supposedly a Chingay float. There's Chingay festival in Singapore and there are street floats and stuff. This was a group work done in Creative Concepts module in Republic Polytechnic. I was a part of the group that did this, but I forgot the whole process(but if I remember correctly, the grass was one of the things I did) and why we made it look like this in the first place. I still find it looking really amusing though.

This work is not intended to offend anything or anyone.

Pictures from Japan trips

During the first visit to Japan, I took many pictures. The number of pictures taken decreased during each subsequent trip, but I've always enjoyed looking around and seeing how the buildings and things were like. This picture is outside a fast food place called First Kitchen. This place is somewhere in Shinjuku, and not far from the hotel we stayed. I find it interesting because of that huge clock (and if I remember correctly, besides being aethetically interesting, it's functional and tells the time too). The building is situated in front of a crossing leading to Shinjuku station, so it's even more convenient.

 These buildings are from Akihabara, which is famous for all of its anime and electronics. It's probably the only place one would see all these anime-related banners everywhere. It reminds me of that Tim Brown video, about security and familiarity. These banners would look out of place in Singapore and people won't be as comfortable seeing them. Also, the banner that I like the most is that big one with a huge skinless face(a titan). It's an advertisement on an anime called "Attack On Titan" so it's really clever of them making it big and high up on the building resembling the actual titans.

And this is a photo of a "truck" and a monster that resembles an ice cream. This was from a themed cafe(in Akihabara too) featuring an anime called Devil Survivor 2. They were screening the first episode repeatedly, and in the actual episode, one of the characters used a truck to crash into the monster(which really looked like an ice cream in the show). When this dish was served, the person who served it even lit some of the syrup up with a little fire. I'm always amazed at the creations from these kinds of cafes. They're really creative and fun.



First post + TED video homework thing

Hi.

First random picture is a horribly cropped photo of the "Self introduction exercise" I did in class. It was actually the first time I'm doing such a thing, and I have to admit it was quite fun. Probably because I was filling it out with nonsense. They're actually true things, more or less.

Anyway, this blog is for the Creative Thinking module.

Following this, I will write things of the Tim Brown video in bullet point form while I actually play the video simultaneously. Everything else is after the cut~