*~aLiCe in Wonder~Land..=*

Yesterday, I was having such a hard time to remember all those little options specifically for printing images in DOC. There were many things to learn from Carlos. He is such a talented guy who is willing to tell us everything he knows about. I was mostly done my images when I brought them to him, he did not do much adjustment to them. Instead, he taught me technical things like adding borders to the image with different colours, or explaining how to resize images to print out. “You can not make mistake!” “The only person you can trust in the world is yourself”…such life lesson.=)

Today, class critics was very helpful. I saw a lot of others’ works, and I had so much engagement with their works. For my own pieces, I did not get the chance to speak for myself( which was a good thing coz I am really not good at talking about my own work..)there are few things that I might put them down here so that everything is clearer to everyone.=)…

People mentioned about the red dots on the image on the right…it was a photography mistake under the sun light. I could have taken it out on photoshop. However, I hesitated when I was about to do it. It seemed awkward at first, but somehow I could see it blended with the flowers at the back, and the coordination of them works pretty well: the color, the shape and the texture.

Secondly, I purposely left the wing of the airplane on the image on the left, just to remind people that this is JUST A PHOTOGRAPH. There’s nothing perfect in the real world, and I am not trying to make things real, I am trying to make people realize what they are looking at when they see my images. I know it would feel much NORMAL to make the whole sky with clouds above, but I want to pull people back a little bit by creating the awkward integration of the airplane and the bench, so that the audience would feel less REALISTIC…Hopefully I can remind people that these are just photos been photoshoped together..They are not supposed to appear together.

Thirdly, about the main concept of these images as part of my series…people really got much more than I actually integrated in there..I am a very emotional person..I tend to make things personal with a degree of emotional engagement…even when I look at an image, I would try to connect it with any kind of emotion that I have or I assume the artist has..it is that direction..However, I will leave the real concept later until my series is revealed..=)…..

Thank you everyone for today’s critics.. It helped a lot for my future creativity..=)

sorry about no updating at all…my Tommy (lagging laptop) is breaking down…(again?….&^%$#@….)…there’s no way for me to upload pictures…(not even DOWNLOAD pictures from my camera to my computer by the way…*sigh*)…

My project is mostly done..I’ve done several editing of images..however, i only like two of them..the other ones are not really my favorite…therefore, i only printed out two and it actually took me 2 hours to do it at the DOC..@@..I will keep trying more editing after the deadline…(i think i am kinda obsessed with the printing process after yesterday…really learned a lot from Carlos…^^…thanx!)

Thanx for my lovely young guy giving out time from his crazy busy schedule and had a little PICNIC ( without food) with me at the QE park during the weekend..the sunset was super amazing and we almost forgot about the time and got a parking ticket…= =….

It did not turn out to be what i wanted…..coz I had more than i expected..=)

here are some images we took..=)….just for preview…I am sorry about all these back-views of myself…..i usually don’t like myself to be in the pictures and even I do appear on them, my face would not be shown..=P..I don’t think “oh that’s xxx in the photo” is that exciting..although it is always a nice topic to chat with friends when flipping through ppl’s facebook..=]

final series would be up by wed night…

lately…*sigh*…don’t know how to say it…Michelle(my apartment) is attacked by some aliens…=(…
I don’t want to run away..but I did..
but i am going back to fight…
and i have to win…

by the way…in addition to Wall-E…“Batman: The Dark Knight” is a must-seen too!!!~2 hours of lining up in the theater on its opening night is not wasted..=)

I was watching Wall-E with DewDew tonight…..I got so scared at the beginning when the Earth actually becomes so desert and there is trash everywhere..no humans or living plants can be seen….Wall-E is the only one trying to clean the place by putting trash together and stack buildings out of it…He seems so Lonely by himself… and I cried when Wall-E is about to die just because he wants to save only one plant..and that plant saves the whole planet….

I trembled while I watched it…Would our world would become like this some day in the future? would one of us become alone on this land? We have so many chances to save this nature…but would we try our best to help?

well..Thank God! Wall-E is a Disney production…happy ending is a must..=)

I guess…nature is the inspiration of my project?…