Saturday, September 29, 2007
Wine 0.9.46 Released
What's new in this release: - A variety of fixes to improve Photoshop CS2 support. - More complete support for device installation in setupapi. - New Bidi text implementation that doesn't depend on libicu. - The usual assortment of Direct3D improvements. - Beginning of I/O completion ports support. - Lots of bug fixes.31 Eyes Photoshopped
Cool collection of eye images. Interesting subject isn't it? Credit goes to oskaline and her gallery is hereFriday, September 28, 2007
geeky ol me..
nice sounds tho..hehehe..Introducing...~WoW drumroll soundclip
Press Play on Tape..
PC v MAC
It conveys the message, with a good idea and a well executed
direction. It's so basic and simple to be understood from
laymens to tech geeks around..
simple and profound..
and then I found this...
hehehe..
Thursday, September 27, 2007
motivational posters...not
here's one of the posters..hehe..
in the meantime..does anybody find this image disturbing? ~shudder
message + ideas = ?
Can somebody tell me what's the message in this ad?
Or what does a watery see through dress got to do
with anything?
doodles-W.I.P.
for a web comic that never saw the light of day...sigh..
sort of drawing from real life back when I was a writer
in Cyberjaya..really had the fire to draw back then..
a passion that is kept in check now sadly, in pursuit of
greater things in the mad world of advertising..
hehehe..an art director who is all evil..based on an Art Dir
who then became a close friend and mentor..
yup, thats a representation of 'me' and 'aie'..eyeing some curvy
weapons of mass distraction..hehehe
a rough sketch of the main characters..oh, such vanity..
then, here's also a VERY old campus days 3D renderings of
mine..damn, 3D modelling and animation is also another thing
long lost forgotten in the dusty recesses of my mind..should
start on that again as well..
not forgetting the joy of illustrator and photoshop....
so many things to do...so little time...
Fighting the good fight.
~sigh..brain is working at half speed..tired..barely have my eyes open..
its just the third class in this module and yet, I already feel like slogging my half asleep ass through typing this..with work to contend to in the day and then zipping off after work at night going for idea generation course while catching a quick break fast in between…suddenly it hit me; that taking this class in the fasting month wasn’t such a good idea.. Or is it actually a blessing disguised behind this cloaked ambitions? Testing my endurance? Well, not the triathlon type endurance really, but testing my endurance in fighting the mental blocks and frustrations coming from having to churn out ideas/copy/direction for ads, finely picking out the good ones, just for the sake of selling the MESSAGE that Ovaltine ‘relaxes you’..
Theres 5 of us in the class. And Janet (my trainer) said that, for this module, we’ll be crapping hundreds of ideas before we can come upon a tiny gem of a single great idea. And the challenge would be, to continue challenging myself. To continuously try to break that wall that is holding me back.
What wall?
This reminds me of an article I read and the accompanying video of a Randy Pausch’s ‘Last Lecture’. ‘Last Lecture’ is a series of events, whereby the academic bodies of
“Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.”
See the complete video list here (1-10 in total), and be amazed to understand that it comes from a guy who expects to die from cancer in a couple of weeks. And see not HOW he delivered the lectures, but rather on WHY he delivered a hopeful last lecture on his life's lessons to the world.
Why this sudden remark about this amazing man? Well, in his ‘Last Lecture’ there was one thing that he said that really struck me deep down. Really made me re-think about how I approach my dreams and how I should achieve it. And it’ll remain in my mind (I hope forever).
He said;
“The walls are there to for a reason. They walls are not there to keep us out. The walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.”
I almost blurred my vision there for a second.
Nothing struck to me as being as truthful and as real as those few lines of words. Made me wonder about the times when we thought that we should really be giving up, perhaps we should actually be thinking whether we really want it badly enough. To step up and climb that wall that inhibits us from our own greatness. To not be fearful of ourselves, but rather to embrace our potentials to do great things. Only if we want it hard enough to break that wall.
What is ‘IT’?
‘IT’ differs from people to people. It could be riches beyond words. Or a great career. Big house. Houses. Big car. Cars. Owning a company. Travel the world. Help the poor. World peace. But whatever IT is, start by saying to yourself that, whatever that you dream for you and your well being, put a good fight for it..towards that greater purpose in life.
~sigh
Forgive me for such mutterings.. Gotta go now, on to the preparation of my artworks for presentation tonight. No time for berjimba (slacking)..Maybe later, I’ll post the sketches of my ideas for advertising Ovaltine.
In the meantime, fight the good fight people..
Monday, September 24, 2007
Where do ideas come from?
from nurin to maurinho, the trials of Ramadhan to the tribulations at work..but then, decided to write something about closer to mind.. After all, we are in the business of CREATIVITY.
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Where do ideas come from? In actual truth, I’ve been having questioning thoughts about this for quite a while. The never ending gestation of questions from why some ideas work and others fail. These thoughts on ‘how can I produce great ideas’ usually ends with even more questions, sleepless nights and indigestion. Do ideas drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No.
The way I see it, IDEAS comes from the NEED to solve PROBLEMS.
Just think about it for a minute. Have you ever needed ideas/solutions for the nearest/easiest/most exciting/least tiring/more beneficial/less awkward way to solve the problems Life had flung in your way? I’m pretty sure you would. In the CREATIVE (sic) line of work such as ours, we are required, no, expected to come up with ideas day in and day out. Hence the eternal pursuit to sell more with less/to work less for more/to convey more with less or just the bugging need to just do it the correct way.
So here’s pretty much my take on where ideas come from. Ideas are basically solutions to the so called problems we encounter daily in our lives. Ideas can come from pretty much anywhere, anyone including, friends, work, failure, fear, frustration, siblings, friends or a complete stranger. From magazines, newspapers, blogs, journals, letters, pictures and videos to other mundane things such as brochures, newsletters and such.
Marketeers watches the market trends, technogeeks scour the world wide web, artists roam the galleries or the world, writers read, cooks eat, mechanics fix, so on and so forth. All the things we do, adds up to our general consciousness about how things run in this world. So, for CREATIVES, where to get ideas for that eluding problem solution of yours? Do everything. Read, watch, hear, taste, feel, argue, digest or basically absorb anything and everything that you encounter or ever wanted to know.
After breathing in all this infos, the next logical step would be for you connect the knowledge you’ve acquired. What comes to mind is a blurb of something I read a while back. He said (the writer) “Creativity comes from the ability to connect ideas that are derived from experiences and knowledge.” So, after learning all that there is to know about your subject matter, try to connect the knowledge to form solutions for the predetermined problem. (Refer Para3.)
So, if you ask me where IDEAS come from, well, I would say that they come from a place only the diligent & disciplined are willing to pursue with the desire to solve and work out solutions for challenges in life or career.