'its all about the story'
this is probably the most said quote from my first year and present year director at my course. after 3 years...and i think im slightly getting it now. 
recent documentary saw on the bbc, 'my kid could paint that' shows how important the story is. 4 years old Marla Olmstead, who's paintings sold for $300000 and more in 2004. people loved them because of all the imagination with in and behind the paintings, a 4 year old can do modern art painting pretty much as good as some of the modern art masters, which a lot of people think their works look like kid's painting anyway...
however after 60mins did a feature on marla, doubting her ability and the possibility of her father helping her, the fame fortune went right down due to the power of story telling.
....paintings still look the same tho, they never change, its just the story behind has changed. 60mins did the story of what a lot of people wanted or not wanted to hear based on a almost prefect story of marla. is it because of the time, wearing off the excitement of the original story, and marla was unable to produce more positive input into the storyline, there for the publics started this crave for more, no matter its positive or negative, they just wanted to hear more of it....and ended up digging out all the possibilities of the negative side...
something i learned from it...if u started a sroty, dont let other people finish your it for you....and put an end at where its right..dont be stingy, just stop when its at its best...
faltmates
this is what i used to do back home when i was a kid, just draw random stuffs when everyones watching television after dinner.
havnt done anything like this for a while...its actually much better than just watching telly!
table tennis
some classmates are doing a client project with nokia at the moment, and the brief is about playfulness. so some of them have decided to bring different playful objects into the studio, and the most popular one is table tennis. people seem to avoid using those table, even no one is playing. seem that the purpose of those two table have been changed, just like a real table tennis table its perfectly fine to work or eat at, but it just doesn't seem right...its not what its for.
camglass london
just visited this glass workshop near stratford. the guy there did different experiments with the fused fiber optic glass for our research. its amazing seeing how it was actually being heated up, twisted around and stuff.
what a legend!
I miss u...
since i left my skates back in hong kong...its been a very long time since i last put some wheels under my feet...i recently found my self in the same routine pretty much everyday for the last 3months...this mundane life is sort of slowly killing me...
am missing the simple excitement of jumping up and down, falling and getting hurt...
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