was helping sunnyone out with photographic references for her painting major project. came across these uploaded pictures.  

The highs and lows in a day

Artist Talk: Guy Sherwin and Lynn loo on Film

Schitick: G's glasses

Devoir: Maestro Drypoint Step Print

Scratched for 5 hours straight and i guess i was too ambitious because i had wanted to finish it in 2 hours and couldn't finish it anyway.

Had to rush to print it for Monday so Bobby could check and approve it. Here are the steps i took for a step print(lazy to write subtitles.).

And this little Wanita was working beside me.

Ferret Out: cool google in da vinci style and.. erm...

was trying to search for typographic portraits of leonardo da vinci but i found this instead.  

http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/images/2007/04/21/da_vinci_4.jpg

as well as gross stuff... 

i didnt know what this all was about when i saw the first image, i thought it was a good cartoon of spiderman in blue coloured pencil drawing but erm... when i read the title and saw the rest ... i was utterly disgusted.


back to work. i've got my image ready and all i need to do now is figure out how the text is gonna fit, then photocopy it and transfer it to my drypoint plate i juz got. lalala.
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1808

Ferret Out & Schtick: Quando Quando Quando

I've been listening to this song for a really long time. I'm fond of it and have always wondered what it means but never made an effort to check it up. Today this song played again on my itunes and yenyi asked and i finally checked.

Quando = When?

Which means the whole song is about ... WHen ? WHEN? WHEN?!

Quando, Quando, Quando

by Michael Buble featuring Nelly Furtado

Tell me when will you be mine

Tell me quando quando quando

We can share a love devine

Please don’t make me wait again

When will you say yes to me

Tell me quando quando quando

You mean happiness to me

Oh my lover tell me when

Every moments a day

Every day seems a lifetime

Let me show you the way

To a joy beyond compare

I can’t wait a moment more

Tell me quando quando quando

Say its me that you adore

And then darling tell me when

Every moments a day

Every day seems a lifetime

Let me show you the way

To a joy beyond compare

I can’t wait a moment more

Tell me quando quando quando

Say its me that you adore

And then darling tell me when

Whoa lover tell me when

Oh darling tell me when

Oh come on tell me when

Yea tell me when

Devoir: Morse Code done but unedited (and i dun care)

finally done with crappy script.  view it here.  i am too sick and tired to edit it.  so please dun mind any grammatical vocabular wadever errors.  i mean, you can't mind anything coz its my art blog, rite...

1. CUPS

2.Freeze and we come in INTRO

3.Tetrad - retrieve and enhance

4.end off with "that was how it started out "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCENE 1 : CUPS !  (1-2 min)

 

 

 

(WE NEED PROPS HERE :

HERE WE NEED CUPS AND STRING ATTACHED OK?!

 

 

Here I am trying to illustrate with the cups how this primitive method of communication is very ineffective, therefore there needs to be a better way.  This way of presenting will give a flow , leading the audience to the tetrad - retrieve and enhance: about what’s before the invention of the phonograph.)

 

 

 

The Weasley  twins were trying to communicate from one room to another.  This was how they did it.

 

Twin 1: Hello hello? Can you hear me?

 

Twin 2: (Twin 2 cant hear clearly) WwwwHat? Hello? Can you repeat that again?

Twin1: Hello Hello?  HEEELLLLOOO?

 

Twin 2: (finally able to hear his twin brother) Oh HELLO!

Twin 1: finally(heave sigh of relief)
            so have you got the stinkbombs ready?  Professor Umbridge is gonna walk by

this corridor anytime soon.  I can see her approaching through the

Maudaurer’s map!

 

Twin 2: WwwwHAT? Professor Umbridge is taking a nap??!

 

Twin 1: YOU ARE TAKING A NAP! YOU HAVEN’T GOT THE

STINKBOMBS!!!

 

Twin 2: WwwwHAT?! I AM NOT TAKING A NAP!  You told me Professor

Umbridge is taking a nap!  Didn’t you?

 

Twin 1: I never ever said that I told you I spotted her heading our way via

the…….BLIMEYYYY!

 

(PROFESSOR UMBRIDGE APPROACHES AND SIEZES THE TWINS BY THEIR CUFFS…LOOKING VERY ANGRY)

 

Twin 1 and Twin 2: THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY TO COMMUNICATE!!!!

 

 

 

 

----------------------FREEZE------------------

INTRO by _______ (30seconds)

 

Good Morning everyone.  I am ______ and here is _______ and we are the narrators of this presentation by CD4E group? .

 

 

Like that of the demonstration of communication between the twins, the british inventor, William Sturgeon exhibited a device in 1825 testting communication over long distances and in 1830, an american, Joseph henry executed its potential by the same way.  Instead of string, a mile of wire was used to send an electronic current to activate an electromagnet which caused a bell to strike. With this, the electric telegraph was born with Samuel F.B.Morse as its inventor..

 

From the slide you are able to see an illustration of the magnetized magnet in operation (SHOULD WE PLACE A SLIDE WITH THE PIC BELOW ON IT???OR LEAVE IT OUT ALSO CAN???)

 

 

With that demonstration, it proved  that signals could be transmitted by wire.

 

This progessed to the invention of Morse Code. 

Morse Code is a method for transmitting telegraph wherBY information by pulses of current used to deflect an electromagnet, moved a marker to produce standardized sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a given message on a strip of paper. 

 

 

---------DEMO OF MORSE CODE ------------(1 min)

 

(people should stand by as narrator reads

person 1: one holding “DAH”

person 2: one holding “DIT”

person 3: one holding “DI”

person 4: the one pretending to be the person speaking the morse code)

 

 

 

NARRATOR: Morse code is often spoken or written with "dah" for dashes, "dit" for dots located at the end of a character, and "di" for dots located at the beginning or internally within the character. Thus, the following Morse code sequence:

M  O   R   S   E (space)  C    O   D   E

-- --- ·-· ··· · (space)  -·-· --- -·· ·

is verbally:

 

PERSON 4: Dah-dah dah-dah-dah di-dah-dit di-di-dit dit, Dah-di-dah-dit dah-dah-dah dah-di-dit dit.
 (DON’T SAY SO FAST IF NOT THE DAH DIT AND DI CANNOT CATCH UP!!! )

 

 

(NEED TO PREPARE PROPS FOR THIS:
PRINT EACH MORSE CODE SYMBOL ON A4 SO THAT IT IS VISIBLE TO AUDIENCE AS THE ACTOR SAYS DAH-DAH-DAH-DI-DAH-DIT DIT…… YOU GET WAD I MEAN?

 

Person 1,2 and 3 will stand in a straight line facing audience, holding “DAH” DIT” “DI” in their hands over their chests. 

As Person 4 says “DAH”, Person 1 will hold it up and put it down again and as he moves on to say “DI” Person 3 will get ready to raise it… and so on and so forth….

 

GET WAD I MEAN ANOT !!!!  u all think good idea?! FEEDBACK AND CHANGES CAN BE MADE ONE OKAY OKAY OKAY!!!  )

 

 

Narrator : (30 seconds )

 

Modifications wer emade to the device from

1.moving a marker to produce written codes on a strip of paper to …

2.embossing the paper copy with dots and dashes which were translated later by an operator.

3. in the United States the operation developed into sending by key and receiving by ear. A trained Morse operator could transmit 40 to 50 words per minute which progressed to …

4. Automatic transmission, introduced in 1914, handled more than twice that number

 

5. Teleprinter machines came into use about 1925 which  enabled a single wire to carry 72 transmissions at the same time (36 in each direction).

6.Two years later Western Union introduced the automatic facsimile device which enables subscribers to the teleprinter service to dial each other directly.

 

 

 

Narrator : (1 min )  ( THIS PART ABIT DRY ANY SUGGESTIONS OR IS IT OKAY )

Until 1877, all rapid long-distance communication depended upon the telegraph. That year, a rival technology developed -the telephone.

 

being able to "talk with electricity" far outweighed anything that simply increasing the capability of a dot-and-dash system could imply.

 

The fall of telegraph resulted in its limit to receiving and sending one message at a time which was far too slow. Hence, it lead to Alexander Graham Bell's success with the telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to “ENHANCE!” the telegraph. The telephone was able to transmit multiple messages over the same wire at the same time, and not only that, it was able to transmit speech electrically!

 

To enhance communication, another brilliant guy Edison, wondered if he was able to record a telephone message.

 

He began experimenting with the diaphragm of a telephone receiver by attaching a needle to it. He reasoned that the needle could prick paper tape to record a message. His experiments led him to try a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder, which, to his great surprise, played back the short message he recorded, "Mary had a little lamb."

 

And this lead to the invention of the phonograph.

 

 

 

----------PROCEED TO ELLE’s -----------

 

(notes to miss tai tai for writing scenes 2 and 3)

 

“The phonograph was developed as a result of Thomas Edison's work on two other inventions, the telegraph as mentioned earlier on by _________ 

”

 

 

 

Edison gave a sketch of the machine to his mechanic, John Kruesi, to build, which Kruesi supposedly did within 30 hours. Edison immediately tested the machine by speaking the nursery rhyme into the mouthpiece, "Mary had a little lamb." To his amazement, the machine played his words back to him.

 

 

Edison offered the following possible future uses for the phonograph in North American Review in June 1878:

 

 

 

Letter writing and all kinds of dictation without the aid of a stenographer.

Phonographic books, which will speak to blind people without effort on their part.

The teaching of elocution.

Reproduction of music.

The "Family Record"--a registry of sayings, reminiscences, etc., by members of

Elle says: (2:29:50 PM)

ok, the reverse. if there is a cut in electrical supply, then phonograph would be of no use

a family in their own voices, and of the last words of dying persons.

Music-boxes and toys.

Clocks that should announce in articulate speech the time for going home, going to meals, etc.

The preservation of languages by exact reproduction of the manner of pronouncing.

Educational purposes; such as preserving the explanantions made by a teacher, so that the pupil can refer to them at any moment, an

auxiliary in the transmission of permanent and invaluable records, instead of being the recipient of momentary and fleeting communication.

 

 

 

As a novelty, the machine was an instant success, but was difficult to operate except by experts, and the tin foil would last for only a few playings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ferret Out: phonography resources (2)

http://www.jimmeruk.com/ask-science-gimp/do-cups-and-string-work-as-a-telephone.html
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelegraph.htm
http://www.recording-history.org/HTML/phono_technology1.php
http://americanhistory.si.edu/edison/ed_001.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blntelegraph.htm -- this one's good
http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htm#Inventors -- this one's good too

Schtick: break from morse code

miss tumour is collecting mini art pieces from people who frequent the studio.  i finally made an effort to contribute while taking a break off fucked up drafting of presentation script

Powdering the face in the book

"green eyes are the product of 

 moderate amts of melanin. 

Only 1-2% of the world's pop 

has green eyes- They are the 

least common eye colour. I am

 'Hurry Ankehian Wallay' " 

Masking Tape, Coloured Pencils,

Sketch Pen, Korn, Hair, Powder

.  

Although i know i am gaining alot of info from my research esp interesting stuff like the invention of the morse code, i don;t like the idea that the other 12 members apart from me and miss tai-tai are juz sitting back and doing their own work whilst me and her do massive research and planning of scripts, organization of tasks and jobs n all.  guys are just plain losers. i know i sound shallow now but what the heck.  the guys are not stepping up except for tiger.  

vociferate: 75c

i've got 75c exactly in my pockets now. no more, no less.

thank you master for the grass jelly- yes i have to depend on barter trade these days. an apple for a drink exchange.

thank you master for the leftovers of ur birthday present- and i even have to scavenge on her watermelon.

thank you miss cheongsam for the love letters- depending on ppl's unwanted new year goodies for snacks

thank you wanyi- we are all so poor we have to get cheap cup noodles and a mesh tin to cook dinner ($0.275 ea cup) and for grass jelly and for i dunno dunno dunno alot of things la thankew ... erm... CHICK PEAS! OH YA!

thank you yenyi- for the two bottles of apple and blueberry tea and pineapple cake and i dunno wad more( i think i should drink more water than these ex drinks)for camera when i was too broke to buy one more after it got stolen... for.. for ... appleS!

thank you aduh- for the times when my food was too bland for my taste buds, you gave me(or rather i helped myself) with the ketchup and chilli and curry sauces u collected after every meal at mac.

thank you miss tumour- for letting me snack on almost half of your cereals

thank you miss nicegirl- for also letting me snack on ur goodies

thank you for exhibition openings- you fuel my stomach even when i am not hungry, with murukus and free drinks

thank you for found food left on the table- a sponge pandan cake i found after teaching today.

thank you kids- for offering me food when i asked to share with everyone in class ( conflakes la, waffles la, those sotong-fish slices in packets la, for hello panda empty box and packaging... )

thanks to the learning centre i teach at- you have a fridge that i frequently scavenge on delicious over toasted bread coated with cinnamon and sugar

and i refuse to thank mr blur for stuffs


and thank you to anyone else whom i never ever thanked.

Vociferate: beating fatigue

i find that the past weeks have been rather queer as i have never felt this exhausted before. My eyes, they have been tearing and feeling sore to the air around me, making them dry at times, then affecting my head, causing it to grow heavy. I have been sleeping, rather well, and better than when i was in foundation year. However i have no idea why the drain is affecting me so much.

i look forward to school, but not with zest anymore. I arrive, feeling all tired. I sleep everywhere- yes everywhere, anywhere possible. On trains, busses, even short 5 minute rides are unbearable and i'd over sleep missing my stop. with my sleeping bag i place it in the critic space of studioland, equipped with a stolen cushion i place it next to the cupboard we also stole and lay the bag and sleep there, and the latest spot's having my body under the unwanted table where i place my belongings and with that same cushion i lay there and soundly sleep.

sleep. what is wrong with me. i used to be able to resist that sin. i used to be able to stay up no matter how tired i am to do work, carry a smile on my face even though i've only slept for an hour during the night. i used to be able to do my routine skipping excercises, push ups and sit ups before bed but not anymore. i cant find the energy. where's the energy? what is wrong now?

i need to beat fatigue.

Devoir: Mood Board Presentation

This was how presentation was done in class. It's rather disappointing, right?

Da Vinci Mood Board

Mixed media Collage on

Coffee-stained Cartridge 

Paper -Printed Images, 

Photocopied Images, 

Fabric, Tissue, Frottage,

Copic, Korn, Pencil,

Found Objects, Thread, 

Cardboard, Transfers

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