GRAFFITTI

Brief description:
Graffiti is a kind of public art in which the artist drawing images, icons and properly impressive font on such public surface like wall along the street. This term first came from an Italian word about the practice of posting message, news and announcement on wall in the part, when technology has not support even a fax machine.
My argument:
Graffiti should be considered as an art form. Talking about this, it is suggested to recall how it has been developed to the present. It is thought to be an antisocial behaviour of some individual or group in order to gain attention. Then, during the 20th century, graffiti again emerged in relation to "gangs" in Western... There are more and more stories about this issue, however, from my point of view, graffiti is an art form because it is one's or a group's expression drawn with real inspiration. There's no client, no specific purpose because it's all about feelings and the need of expressing something via drawing. So, it's art.
Yes, it has become very popular all over the world nowadays. However, people notice graffiti as a western style and it still stays as its origin. It can be well known but it can not be applied to other countries or used for representing other culture because the intertextuality is already stable when the audience looking at a graffiti work. I agree we can use it to draw on public place as an international style of wall decoration but it won't be able to represent any of our Vietnamese culture it could only be an imitation.

Reference:
http://www.answers.com/topic/graffiti
http://www.lifescapesmagazine.com/article.php?subaction=showfull&id=1160785512&archive=&start_from=&ucat=28
http://www.graffiti.org/

Doodle and Color

Once chatting with one of my friend, he chose the IM called "Doodle"...and i just "Wow", it's a painting interface in which you can draw whatever you want and Y!M will send every single line and curve you make to your friend immediately, moreover, you and your friend and paint at the same time. I love this one, you can find it the same with the painting tool in you computer.

And, yes, it raise some feeling and inspiration in me, then i've drown some image like you see above.^^

I like all types of color, there's no color is "not beautiful", the problem is that how you can make it presents its beauty! So, i love playing around with them, i like the contrast and colorful. Sometime, i recognise that, putting colors randomly does produce "something" nice. Maybe, that's the reason why, looking at the image painted by little children, i was shocked because of their choice of colors, innocent but really nice and impressive!

Updated Logo for my brother...

Content: Clean and Neat represent the credibility. Circle represents the guarantee in service with the letter "T" in the middle is the beginning letter of the owner's given name.

Color: Contrast between Red (hot) and Grey(Cold).

Shape and Typography are complamentary.

Contrast

If you're one of my friend, you should have known that i'm kind of "addicted" to editting my own photos. From the very first steps of cutting and arranging, now i have more and more experience to go much further. Yes, i can somehow make a picture cautch by an average mobile look like as if it's cautch by a well technical camera...It's all about photoshop. ^^

Recently, i start looking at the sense, taste and feel of each photo. Then, i find out, technical aspects can help develop the idea. For instance, these days, i especially like the idea of make all the photo in black and white or almost B&W, then put one bright color as a emphasis within the image. It does make contrast and make the photo more interesting.

How i did it:

-Image>Hue/Saturation>Brightness/Contrast/Color Balance

-Tool>Select>Brush>Blur>Burn

LOGO design (Part 1)

PLAN
Team Name : Wild Team
Company Name: Haragei

1. Daily Blogging to keep track of what's going on in the team work.

2. What to do:
+ Research relevant terms in the paper
+ Answering these question:
- What's the company?
- What're their characteristic?
- What do they sell?
- Who are their competitors?
+Brainstorm to come up with a Slogan
+Create a matrix table of relevant symbols (Nguyen & Dung)
- From the table, think of as many logos as possible (Group)
- Choose the best at last (Group meeting)
- Illustrate it! (Lam)

3. Presentation suggestion:
+Make real samples of Logo

4. Deadlines for each aim:
+Research complete ( Monday week 8)
+Meeting, define and solve problems (Monday week 8)
+Logo complete (Wednesday week 8)
+Practise for the presentation (Thursday week 8)

My music

This is a piece of music i've made recently with Garage Band software. I like its rythm though, it makes my heart beats much faster.
Audio: 256 Kbps, 44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo.
4/4 beats.

The instruments used here are almost guitars with a drum as a paln for the whole track.

Emotion and feel: well, i was thinking about a visual clip while making this, the time should be around noon... on an empty street ( messive with stuffs)...some guitar player holding their guitars under the rich sun...Some thing like that ^^. After all...it's hot!

An art work of Michael Dudok De Wit

An art work of Michael Dudok De Wit

FATHER and DAUGHTER

My opinion? The soundtrack says it all...

No subtitle, no words are said but the viewers are really given a story with real feelings as well as the emotions. At first, when i saw this one, i was almost crying. Don't ask me why but this piece of movie really does Something!

Good experiences seeing this though...

I like the music, ofcourse! The movements are so fine and smooth, the colors raise many senses in me. The feels of oldness, sadness, emptiness but they're all memorisable.

Running Time: 8 minutes 30 seconds

Year of Release: 2000

Production: Cloudrunner Ltd, UK, and CineTe Filmproductie bv, Holland

Techniques: Pencil, charcoal and software application

ANIMOScript, Design and Animation: Michael Dudok de Wit

Other Contributors: Normand Roger (Composer), Claire Jennings and Willem Thijssen (Producers), Arjan Wilschut (Main Co-Animator), Jean-Baptiste Roger (Sound), and Alistair Becket and Nic Gill (Technical Directors)

Awards include: Independent Film Award, Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2000; Grand Prize, Cinanima Animation Festival, 2000; Grand Prix Narrative Films, Holland Animation Film Festival, 2000; and Best International Animated Film, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, 2001

Source : http://www.awn.com/oscars01/animfather.php3