Gift Exchange Event on Christmas Eve

Hi all, DML2 U3 are organizing a Gift Exchange Event on Christmas Eve. This is open to anyone I mean everyone who would like to participate. So no matter you are senior, junior, ah boy, ah girl, uncle, aunty... all are welcome.

The cost of the gift should be above RM10 and below RM15 (Errr.... I don't mind if you are willing to spend more on the gift XD )

Venue mah... Aaron suggest to be in front of the Christmas tree :-D

Time - After U3 and U4 presentation (around 12 noon)

*Also we are looking for generous sponsors, to gain some fund for the events.
Thank you very much.

Person to contact - Kim Yuan DL2 U3. But you can just leave a note/comment here if you are interested :-)

Project: Spread the Cheer - Who is the Santa Clause?

Something new everyday :-)

Project: Spread the Cheer! AGD2 you ROCK!

Thank you Elaine, Sara, Christine... sorry didn't manage to list down all the name, but AGD2 thank you for playing a part in making TARC a more interesting place :- D

Best wishes to you all :-)

Pretty sad where I didn't see much participation from DML and AML.... How lar like that...
However we have one heroine from the DML who actually gaining some "face" for the Multimedia, thank you very much Emiko for being the 1st one to spread the cheer :-D

Project: Spread the Cheer!

Hi all~ I see peoples actually taking picture happily in front of the tree so I think I did manage to spread some cheer huh! clap clap :-D

Project : Spread the Cheer! - FLASH MOB

Also was wondering if anyone interested in joining FLASH MOB! Well, don't worry, it have nothing to do with Adobe Flash or Action Script. Details about what Flash Mob is, please refer to Wikipedia- Flash Mob.

So the plan is we set a time on Christmas Eve, gathered (Wear Christmas hats/deer antlers) and Shout Out loud "Merry Christmas!" then go home... Or other suggestion is welcome :-)
I hope to get more than 50 people, if not then no point doing it lar...

So any one interested? Please registered yourself :-D

Project : Spread the Cheer!

Every morning for the pass 2 years, while I'm waiting for the Lab to open, I always stare at this tree and wanedt to do something to it (especially near Christmas). So this year, taadaa....

To boost up festive atmosphere, I decided to decorate the tree.

Thanks DML2 U3 for the help :-D

Well it still looks pretty empty right now, but now it will be your turn! Help us to SPREAD THE CHEER! Just contribute something and hang it on the tree (not necessary to buy from shop, it can be your own hand craft such as origami, something creative... ) , you can even put up your wish list on the tree. Finally take a picture, tag it and SHARE!

I have something on my mind

Christmas in near and I really want to boost up festive atmosphere in TARC.

Stay tune...

Interesting site to share.

Well, Christmas is near but there are lots of assignment to be hand up soon. To cheer you guys up a little bit, check out some of these sites below.

Elf yourself
As usual, Jip Jap done it again :- D

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/

Gap season greetings

Once again gap brings you their Musical Holiday Greetings.

http://www.cheerfactory.com/

Gift of Mixing, what gap did in Year 2008:




Wieden + Kennedy - Advent Calendar
An advent Calender counting down to Christmas, where they are going to do something "interesting" EVERYDAY to the neighborhood.

This is their neighborhood,...

They turn rubbish in to snow man,...

they turn a Post box into Santa,...

they turn traffic light into reindeer,...

Check it out now at: http://www.wkadventcalendar.com/

Wieden + Kennedy an advertising agency based in London. Below are the images of their studio.

Panoramio - Photo of Wieden Kennedy

Also not to miss,

Ikea soft toy aid

An annual Soft toys campaign to help fund UNICEF and Save The Children education projects all over the world.

http://www.ikea.com/softtoysaid/

VOB Nedir

A really cool site with very interesting presentation style :-)

http://www.vobnedir.org/

Enjoy yourself while I enjoy my dinner! :-)

"Cool" campus in town!

Well, no offense to TARC, but this college really "Designish"! :- D

My personal project :- )

tadikasuria.edu.my

Have just recently help my wife to build a website for her kindergarten. Still feels like lacking of something. Comments and feedback are welcome.Hopefully through the comments and feedback gathered, I can make the site better :-D

How Mac welcomes Window 7

Well, you've window 7 tvcs, now lets look at how apple responds to Windows.







Well, the OS war never ends.

Window 7 - "7 second demo"

7 seconds of tvc purely focus on window 7 new features. (without pinpointing competitors) Finally end with, "I'm a PC..." - you know what i mean :-D

"I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea"

Microsoft have launch a series of tvcs focusing on the Window 7 new features, telling the world that "Hey, we listen to your feedback :-) and as the result, window 7 is born". It is a very smart approach as Window Vista seems to be an OS that have plenty of complaints.

The All New Wacom Bambo - Now with Multi-touch Input

Wacom have inject new feature in to the new generation of Bamboo Fun - "Multi-touch".



Wacom now also offer variety of Bamboo series which are more affordable-

Bamboo touch : with only the "multi-touch" touch pad function without the "pen" feature.

Bamboo pen : with only the pen feature without the "multi-touch" feature.

More info: http://www.wacom.com.my/bamboo/bamboofun/

Tips for Multimedia Authoring resit students

To All Resit Students (actually only 8 if I'm not mistaken),
The questions are from the first 4 chapter which is

1. What is Multimedia


2. Multimedia Production


3. Multimedia element- text


4. Multimedia element- graphic

Please pay attention to the topic below:
Chapter 1
1.1 Multimedia Overview - inclusive of : What is Multimedia (as general),
Linear and Non-Linear, Where and Why multimedia being use.
1.3 What is Multimedia Authoring


Chapter 2
2.2 Multimedia Production timeline - overview and both Design Phase and Development Phase in details

Chapter 2+Chapter 3 (text)
2.1 Multimedia Development Team
3.1.2.3 Choosing text and fonts


Chapter 3 (graphic)
3.1.1.1 Functions of Graphics
3.1.1.5 Graphics file formats


80% of the question is similar to the last year paper so...
please do not fail!


Notes can be obtain from yahoo groups :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MultimediaAuthoring/files/Lecture%20Notes/
errr... but have to log-in using yahoo account.

Dancing Smoke

Created by Esteban Diácono to the music of Olafur Arnalds' Ljósið using Adobe After Effects.

Official teaser trailer for Disney's Alice in Wonderland

Enjoy :-)



Check out the Alice in Wonderland galery and concept art at
The Official Website

15Malaysia

15Malaysia is a short film project. It consists of 15 short films made by 15 Malaysian filmmakers. These films not only deal with socio-political issues in Malaysia, they also feature some of the best-known faces in the country, including actors, musicians and top political leaders. You may think of them as funky little films made by 15 Malaysian voices for the people of Malaysia.

One of my favourite, directed by Ho YuHang (the director of Rain Dogs 太陽雨) and starred by Namewee :-)
Potong Saga



Check out more at 15malaysia.com

Comic blogs 2

Sponsors by Nokia, a few popular Taiwanese comic bloggers: such as the all famous 洋蔥頭-"Onion",米滷蛋, 邦妮兔-"Foufou bunny",可樂兔, and my personal favourite 毛毛蟲-"hairy2" and forms a "rock" band with the name "No雞鴨" or "nokiarock". Check it out!



Find out more on the links below (they have their first song on the blogs :-D )
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/nokiarock&year=2009&month=7

hope u guys learned something from this presentation...

Pahit getir hidup dan pengorbanan
Terpaksa dihadapi demi kejayaan
Terdidik sejak mula tabah berusaha
Tanpa cuba melangkah tak kemana
Di mana kau berada
Pencapaian tak tiba dengan mudah

Kini "Standing In The Eyes Of The World"
Hanyalah selangkah dari nyata
Keazaman membara dijiwa
Menanti saat bebas merdeka
Tiba masa kau melangkah gagah
Bersemangat ke arah matlamat sedaya-upaya
Engkau terunggul
Wajar "Standing In The Eyes Of The World"

Harapan yang pernah terkulai layu
Kembali segar mekar bawah bayanganmu
Setiap manusia ingin berjaya
Namun tak semua miliki tuah
Engkau menghampirinya
Kesempatan telah pun tiba...

Kini "Standing In The Eyes Of The World"
Hanyalah selangkah dari nyata
Keazaman membara dijiwa
Menanti saat bebas merdeka
Tiba masa kau melangkah gagah
Bersemangat ke arah matlamat sedaya-upaya
Engkau terunggul
Wajar "Standing In The Eyes Of The World"

none-related at all

死了都要改

Comic Blog

Comic blog seems to be a trend these day and getting a lot of attention from the viewers. Especially the Emoticon (Emotion icon) created by them have been widely use on the Messenger. For example, I'm sure you all should know:

"Onion"



One very successful comic blog example is

"彎彎" (Wan Wan)
from Taiwan. Starting from a very simple blog, the author extended her fame to graphic novel, tvc and even tv shows.

年代新聞人物專訪特輯-部落格畫家彎彎





彎彎 in 康熙來了






台灣固網ADSL廣告



You can check out her blog on - Wan Wan's comic blog


Also another one of my favorite comic blog -

毛毛蟲 (hair2)

(I find that we have a lot of things in common, for example - we like to showcase our partner (擺我們的令一半上台).)

Click on the image or here to visit hair2's blog.

Of course not to miss out our local comic blog -

Miao & WafuPafu








You don't need to be an artist or designer to create comic blog. Check out

"The life & Time of Jason Phoon"

He is a PROGRAMMER, but the comic he create is hilarious! Although sometimes or most of the time the comic should be rated as 18sx.





So... let's start drawing! XD

The Last Airbender

The Last Airbender, is an upcoming 2010 fantasy film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan (one of my favorite director who wrote and directed The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable).

The film is adapt from of a famous animated TV series by Nickelodeon - "Avatar: The Last Airbender".The animation series heavily influenced by Asian art, mythology and various martial-arts fighting styles.

The story takes place in a fantasy world that human civilization is divided into four nations: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Air Nomads, and the Fire Nation. Each nation has the ability to control the element of their nation.



Only the "Avatar" possess the power of controlling the four elements and responsible for maintaining balance of the world.

Official site for the movie: The Last Airbender

Also spent some time to check out M. Night Shyamalan's official site. It is pretty interesting.

Aaron is selected for labDNA

Find out more on Aaron's blog white/Balanced :-D

H1N1 crash course

Confirmed cases of H1N1 lately is making everyone panic without the right reasons. I may not be a doctor to justify all these, but a close friend of mine who is a qualified pharmacist (please note that 'guai lou's pharmacy concept is 100% different from ours in Malaysia) clarified a few points.

1. The H1N1 now is not the so-called 'original virus' from pigs back in the 1920s. It is an infection circulating around human all these while, just like cough and normal flu around the air.

2. H1N1 is being categorized as a flu, just cause it is indeed just a flu. You know, those normal flu you get when your immune system is unable to fight back the normal flu?

3. As we know, we recover from the normal kinda flu once we get proper medication and recovers. Same goes to H1N1, human are contracted to it cause of the immune system. Once the immune system is boosted and recovered, eventually H1N1 will be gone as well from the system.

4. ONLY people who are immuno-compromised (lack of immunity in their body and unable to fight back contractions), like those with cancer and diabetic face risks in being killed by H1N1.

5. SO GOOD NEWS for normal people like you and me, as long our immune system exists in us (which is and always will be), we will be fine and not freaking die!

6. SOLUTION? H20 and Vitamin C. Lots of it! Take more fluids and 4gm Vitamin C per day. It will definitely boost up your immune system and prevent H1N1 from infecting your system even if someone with H1N1 sneezed directly into your face.

7. Masks don't work! Yes babe, H92 or H99 or whatever masks with canggih-manggih name for it, or how often you wear it even in sleep or kissing your girlfriends. ONLY surgical mask works. Yes, surgical masks. Can you find one?



C'mon guys. Please don't fear something you do not know. Just only because others are panicking, we just follow suit blindly for the heck of it. Typical human nature. I almost got annoyed by people who are just worrying everyday as if they are waiting for the flu to infect them.

If you're not infected by H1N1, live your life normally. If you're a positive H1N1 carrier, live life normally as well. What difference does it make? All you need is some medication and rest, just like when you get a common flu.

Michael Jackson Passed Away!

OMG, Michael Jackson has died! I overheard the news from through radio this morning. I don't know about you all, but I grew up listening to his song. And I remember I was thrilled the first time I watch his music video "Black and White". This is such a big shock as I heard he is preparing his London Comeback tour in this July...

The King of Pop, Michael Jackson RIP

Icon factory

Icon factory is one of the world leader in icon design. They offer thousands of high quality icon free for download. It will be a very good resources for you all as a reference icon design. Click here to visit.

Tim Burton's new film "Alice in Wonderland"

Walt Disney Pictures has released the first promotional photos for Tim Burton’s new film "Alice in Wonderland" which is due for release on 2010.



You can take a look at USA Today

Student survey

Aaron's recent blog article "a weird profession called students" makes me recall of a youtube video about student survey (comments/feedback/evaluation on lecturer) in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Hope this will bring laughter to everyone, enjoy!

Also Me and Aaron welcome your feedback on our lecture. But hopefully a constructive one XD

SoFake

Really cool transition effect on the Röyksopp Music Video- epal. It reminds me of a website - Sofake. Really cool and creative, yet the transition so smooth... errr at that time lar.(around year 2002~2003, makes me feel so old...sob ...) .



Check it Out! http://www.sofake.com/

Röyksopp

And so I got to know quite a number of fellas who got hooked to the song used in Deadline: post-it stop motion, including me.

It's by Röyksopp from their 1st album: Melody A.M. and is still a hit in live concerts today. Went searching for its original music video, and it's real hard to look for it and that it's a classic rare.

p/s: Do you think the style of the music video can become a potential Flash Web transition design?

Anyway, here it is:

stop motion: DEADLINE

3 MONTHS of planning...

4 DAYS of shooting...

6,000++ post-it notes...

...and you're still wondering why pre-production is always important in any forms of projects? =P

Practical Class DMLU1 on 18 June 2009

We Are Autobots!

Check this out boys and girls, turn yourself into Optimus Prime!!!
Go to tis link : http://www.weareautobots.com/
All you need is a webcam and install the plug-in provided.

Practical Class on 12 June 2009

DMLU2 in in the house!

Practical Class on 11 June 2009

Check out DMLU1 in action!

Special thanks to Mr. Aaron for sharing this wonderful Scrapbook.

Also you can check out some samples of scrapbook/sketchbook
by Wondermilk (formerly known as the clickproject)

Speak up! Boys and Girls!

Strictly Street 2009

If you loveeeeeeee... street culture, then you can't miss this coolest street event the year "Strictly street 2009". Created to encourage healthy street culture among the youngster, Strictly street is back with cool workshops and clinics. But the highlight of the event will definitely be the annual 3-on-3 Break Dance competition - "Floor combat 2009".

venue: Centre Atrium, e@Curve(formerly Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara)
date: 10th June (Friday)-14th June (Sunday)

Participation info for B-boys and B-girls: http://www.mypartners.net.my/floorcombat09.html

Urbanscapes - 24 Hour KL

I know I'm a little bit late showing this post here, but hey! Urbanscapes is now back with 24 Hour KL. As you may know, photography is always one of the most popular facets of Urbanscapes.

24 Hour KL is a collaborative project that invites photographers all over the city to snap shots of oft-unseen scenes around KL. Focused on highlighting the undiscovered and underexposed side of life in our city.

If you love photography and you wish to participate, you can grap the info from here -
http://sites.klue.com.my/24hourkl/

Or you just wish to take a peek on some of the unique scenes (or pretty picture) in KL, check out -
http://sites.klue.com.my/24hourkl/gallery.html

Namewee latest video

Namewee-黃明志 have recently updated his blog with his latest documentary trailer :
我要回家 i wanna go home.

Check it out!

JipJap & Chipster-Be a Chipster superstar!

Why send a plain old ecard when you can send a JibJab Sendables eCard instead? There's a JibJab Sendables eCard for any occasion. Whether it's a Birthday, New Born Baby, Anniversary or just for fun. Instead of a simple static ecard, JibJab Sendables eCard enabled you to send an ecard with a short video featured by you and your friends. Check it out!

Try it out at http://sendables.jibjab.com/

And as for our Malaysian version of Jipjap, check out chipster.com.my for the "Be a Chipster Superstar" Contest.

You might be featured on TV (TV3) and also walk away with prizes like MacBook Air, ipod touch and ipod nano. All you need to do is buy a pack of chipster, get the code inside, upload you and your friends picture to be the actor(s) of the movie provided and finally beg your friend to vote for you. Submission end June 8th 2009, so hurry hurry hurry!

Check out the example which I grab from the gallery:

*The website is crafted by Immerse (where I work) and the video is done by Fly studio (where partially of the video(s) were done by TARC Multimedia students while they were the intern there).