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Since I haven’t posted pictures for such a long time, and there have been so many interesting happenings in this week alone, I decided to do a super picspam today. Say yay. School reopened in a hurry, I guess no one was really prepared for this block to start partly because everyone’s so busy with their portfolios and interviews.

On Monday we had our first lesson for textiles manip class (the elective offered by Apparel Design) it was my first time stepping into the Print Shop in a long time.

Over the week we busied ourselves with handling pieces of cloths and essentially tie-dying. They’ve a huge dye bar with 4 basic colours (red, yellow, blue and black) and so by mixing, you get even more colours. There are various techniques for tie-dye, but the most common is to use rubber bands to create patterns and flow. First we determine the type of design, do the prep, collect colours from the dye bar with cups and then begin experiment. The cloth can be dipped into the colour, or we use a syringe to inject the pigment into certain parts, then they are left there and dried. We repeat the process on those of which results are not satisfactory; the colours are faded, many areas are left un-dyed etc.

What you’ll end up with is this.. and from my first batch of tie-dyes, I like this one best because it turned out unexpectedly nice.

Before we move on to batik and screen printing, Veronica wanted us to dye a t-shirt yesterday as part of the last tie-dye assignment:

I’ll post it up when I have the completed tshirt.

P4 is such a Pain in the neck. Concepts are reallly a Pain in the neck. P4 is open topic, similar to Final Year Proj, which means we source for and create our own information, formulate the brief, determine the scope of work to cover, and now it’s no longer a website that’s strictly required; we can choose from installation, video or print, as long as it encompasses the key element of Interactivity. The best thing is that we gotta go for consultation 4 times a week?! Crap……..!

On Weds and Thurs we split into 2 groups, took turns to go on a class outing to Discovery Centre and National Museum to view the interactive installations. A CLASS OUTING! It’s something I miss very much from sec school (other than PE). Luckily, we’re back here safe, instead of ending up in an obsolete island, having explosive collars around our necks and weapons to battl…. oops I digressed. I swapped over with Jac, my group was led by Yong while the other was led by Tommy.

Our tickets to Discovery Centre were subsidised. Child ticket!!

At the canteen, there were two vending machines like the ones we have in school. I got a pleasant surprise when I found this! It’s a candy from my childhood where you squeeze the tube and create mini ‘ice’cream cones. (what’s with the name… =_=”) Tastes kinda crappy actually, I have no idea… it’s like eating glucose paste. And I didn’t even bother opening the pack of biscuit cones lol.

We went there on a guided tour.. “Walk in pairs, kids!” Already, there were many things you can interact with physically on the wall and boards. Interaction doesn’t mean it has to be elaborate, something simple also counts.

Here, Syafrin and Qinghui were testing out the blue ‘screen’ background for us. Notice there’s a webcam installed in front of the speaker while he’s reading. The computer then erases the background and replaces it with a video clip. When Qinghui sat there, her whole shirt disappeared, replaced by the video background. Go figure. / Our lecturer Yong explained to us the concept of the touch screen on the ground which senses shadows blocking the projection (from the top) and hence triggers reactions. The projection on the wall was another similar application. / At another section, Esther tested the blue screen for us. We noticed there was an area where the webcam captured, basically a rectangle, and when she crossed the boundaries, it was visible on the screen.

This is another one of the interactive projections where participants circle it and take part in a quiz, with buttons at the side to choose the answers. / In a huge dome like structure, there was a large number of touch screen monitors/kiosks which allow participants to play the game at a certain time. It’s most probably meant for students and groups like us touring the place.

Doesn’t this look just TOO FAMILIAR……. where’s Shinji? :D

Actually in the middle of nowhere, they took us on a tour on the bus around the entire SAFTI site. WJ told me he trained there at OCS before! So cool, the place was really neat and serene. Too bad we went at the wrong time, no hunks to drool at for Momokz. LOLs. After one round, we were back at the centre again. If you’re there, visit Little George the android, talk to him and try to piss him (or the person behind) off like Sean (well mostly) did.

Singapore National Museum showcases a lot more artsy installations, basically in a more mature style because of a difference in the target audience. It’s suppose to be an intuitive tour; we were each handed a device and headphones and according to indications on the ground, if we pressed the number(s), information relevant to the area we were viewing would be played back. Thus you could explore the exhibition individually and skip/go through information that you don’t want/want to hear. There was a 360-degree projection and the audience sits in a circle to view it.

The architecture at National Museum is awesome! Among the exhibits and installations at the site, these are some that might be of interest to you: a magnetic wall with random objects such as spoon, helmets, funnels and bowls you could rearrange (you really don’t want to know what the classmates did); meet David (LOL G and H, fanclub!), a very taaaallll sculpture standing at the main entrance and he’s covered in pink textured cloth if you look close enough; a lightbulb at one of the galleries upstairs.. within the lightbulb, you can see a mini live projection of two feet stamping with complementing sound effects (it took quite some time but we couldn’t figure how it was projected INSIDE the bulb); and lastly…

…a live size replica of the metal pins thing which you put your hand or face through and it forms the shape. Hey presto! The Incredible Hulk! The Iron Man! So cool right!

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Got some more work to do for both textiles class and P4. The utmost important one is to secure a CONCEPT! Argh! On Monday, the team will resume CDI, do packaging for our motifs and tie-dyes, more consultations for P4.. yada yada. In short, it’s another long stressful week ahead. But no matter what, I’m doing my L fanart for this weekend, watching my TV and meeting dear leng loi Claudyne for lunch tomorrow. Omg I spent 4 hours on this post!

WJ, hope you won’t feel so lousy anymore =) Think of Baileys!
Have a nice weekend everyone!