A small talk from Shaw Hong.

This talk held for 2 weeks but I miss the first talk

because of some personal reasons.

After listening to the talk,

I kinda feel disappointing on not able to go for the first talk.

Sad face. =(

I felt that the talk was kind of interesting.

The talk was about modernism and modernity but focused on under 

a topic which is stereotyping. 

I kind have a strong memory on him talking about 

american design Nike shoe with Obama face on it and they were okay with it.

But let's think in another way,

if we were to put our country prime minister's face on a shoe.

I think a lot of the people here will have different opinion with it.

Most of the people think that shoe is something dirty which you step on the floor everything.

Do you think the prime minister will let us step on his face everyday?

It's kind of subjective question.

To the west, they think that they are supporting him by wearing it everyday.

But Asian, mostly do not think that.

Another example of shoes and cloths.

Chanel handbag with the flag on it.

Even converse that the flag design on it. ^^

England national flag is kinda use as a fashion trend nowadays.

They been printed on cloths, pants, shoes, bads and etc.

People kinda love it and buy these design

although they are not from that country.

This is Switzerland flag on Nike shoe.

We can clearly see that Asian do not put their national flag as design.

To them, it must be place in a respectful place.

I have a question in my head now.

If your country citizens, 

all wearing other country design of stuff.

Will it look like they are supporting other country but yours?

LOL

This question just kinda POP UP in my head.

But in my opnion,

by placing our flag as design does not mean that we do not respect it

but to show how we love our country that much

until we wear them every single day.

Thank you to Shaw Hong

for sharing all these.

I took it and learn it and I like it. 

XD

Post Modernism

Hmmm~~

I first thought that it will be very similar with modernism.

But it was wrong.

In Wiki, it define that postmodernism is a philosophical movement away from

the viewpoint of modernism.

So What Is It Actually?

Hmmmmm~~~

She so cute right? ^^

Okay. Lets get back to the topic.

Erm.

Postmodernism. >.<

During the lecture of this title, 

I found out that postmodernism comes the feeling of uncertainty.

There is no certain rules for it.  

For modernism, people feel that its weird to look at but they still feel that

it's okay to look at.

But for postmodernism, people will think that it's look like a rubbish

or maybe

WTF was that?

People intend to critic it or discuss about it because of the uncomfortable.

Not much people can except the fact of post modernism.

For example, tattoos and body art.

At first, tattoos were kind of a cool thing for me.

It looks nice on one part of the body.

See!

It looks pretty in a way.

But somehow people wanted to try new stuff 

and they start to have body art which is similar with tattoos,

but it can be wash out.

Body art on the whole ENTIRE BODY!!!!

OMG.

Later on, they got to another level.

The design of it start to look 3D.

Finally, people start to tattoo on their whole body.

OMG!!

And IT"S GONNA BE PERMANENT like FOREVER on the body!!!

I know that a small part of tattoo is very very pain.

But

THE WHOLE BODY?

I can't even think of it.

To me, this is too much for it.

I feel scary whenever i see one with my own eyes.

But I believe that maybe 20 or 30 years, 

it will somehow be a normal thing happening around.

So, yeah.

Postmodernism is something which cannot be accepted by most of the people.

So if you want to go on to the future,

start adapting it.

" Okie Dokie"

As for me too. XD

Modernism

What is modernism all about?

At first, i was thinking about traditional vs modernism.

In my opinion, modernism is the opposite of traditional.

On the research that i did, i found out that there does not have a fix date for this.

It was written that it starts after the world war 2 which is during the 19 century.

In my point of view, modernism is something which is far far away from realism.

Modernism is showing something which let people think 

and find out what is it all about.

This is one of the example of modernism in art.

This is an oil painting name as 'The Gate' by Hans Hofmann, 1959-60.

A lot of people think that it was a unique piece and a masterpiece for them.

But to me, i think that it just colors on canvas.

What so unique about it?

Then later on, 

I found out that modernism is a way how you

express your feeling.

We can do thing in a much more creative way 

by not only doing standard stuff.

Modernism slowly changes the fix idea of things.

By using the old idea and transform the same thing into another type of interpretation. 

Kuala Lumpur during the world war 2.

Kuala Lumpur 2011.

This is another type of my understanding.

The first image show the picture of Kuala Lumpur during the world war 2 

and the second picture show the picture show the picture 

of Kuala Lumpur in the 21st century.

We can see a lot of changes in the city.

This show that the country is getting modern and modern.

This is what i understand from it.XD

Realism

Realism. >.<

I  understand it as thing which is getting to real but is actually not real at all.

Confuse?

I'm somehow confuse on what am i writing. 

Let me explain it in another way.

Games are very popular among teens these days. 

I do not really play games much but i can see changes to realism in it.

The first game i played when i was still young was mario. 

This is an image to show how the original mario game use to be

when i played during primary school.

But recently I saw mario game has become a 3D game and it totally change it a lot.

This picture show the most recent mario game. 

It somehow transform into a much more human looking.

We can see the highlight of cloths, hand, feature and etc clearly.

We can even see him 360 degree which we can't do that during last time.

To me, i do not like the changes because it makes me feel scary. 

The update of lost the feeling of how the original game should be.

This kinda disappoint me a lot.

This is also a game which having character look like a real human,

move like one too.

It also has the ability of how human live.

In my opinion, this somehow merging to realism because the fact of it

starts to look real like a actual human.

This is from a game name Final Fantasy5.

This is one of the game and the only game that I played that make me feel it so real.

The fact of how the person look like.

The tone of the body and all.

It make her look so real and the movement too.

I'm not a game player and I know there are much more game that look very real.

In my opinion, I feel that it is too scary because

it look like the game world can link it to our world.

People might get to addicted and could not differenciate which site is she/he be.

GAME SHOULD ALWAYS LOOK LIKE ONE.

(By Ashley Hang :D)

McLuhan

I was really a rough time understanding HIM!

"McLuhan"

I was like who the hell was him and why is him related to media.

So i did some research on youtube and google it.

Then, i only understand why.

He came out of the sentence:

"Medium was the message".

It gave me a rough idea on what is it all about.

In his thoughts, he thinks that no matter what form of medium that you using,

it could be one of the message. 

For example, couple use clothes to send the message to be others that they are in LOVE

or

In A RELATIONSHIP.

The designer break the word soul mate into two shirt so when the couple stands together,

the word combines and make sense.

Cool right? XD

This is another one which the couple needs to stand beside to show the connection

between both shirt which is a shoe lace which tied together as one.

<3333

Another example that i can think of was a song name Pray sang by Justin bieber.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9tJW9MDs2M&ob=av2e)

This song is all about praying for the poor, for the unfortunate people, disable people and etc. 

The lyrics are all positive and sending message to a lot of people that we should help those 

people because some of them cant even effort to have a proper meal.

Every time i listen to this song, 

it will touch my heart so much because I'm leaving in a family

which provides me love, school, food and all but sometime i will feel not enough.

But this song wakes me up every time.

I think from McLuhan point of view, i can say that his trying to say that message comes from anywhere.

It does not mean that radio, TV and internet only can share message,

but medium that is all around us.

Thanks to him. I get to understand more. <333

Intertextuality

What do i know about Intertextuality?

Hmmm....

Remix/ Cut and paste/ Combining different idea in one.

This is an image which is showing hip hop and ballet performing together.

(http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/organizations/14392)

Most of the people thought that ballet and hip hop dance cannot combine together.

WHO SAID THAT?

Nowadays, people usually combine stuff together as one.

That is no such thing as impossible.

This is to see how the person combine stuff.

By remixing or combining, there will be new elements coming out.

For example, Love the Way You Lie by Rihanna feat Eminem.

The original version of the song:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U&ob=av2e)

The remix version of the song:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ysBr9Wg5pg)

There are two version of this song.

This is because when the original song was release, 

it was a big hit around the world.

This song has earned him 6 awards and 17 other nominations around the world,

with the nominations of Grammy Awards, Billboard Music Awards,

MuchMusic Video Awards and others.

Because it was too popular around the world so they came out

with another version of the same song and 

it also has become the HIT SONG for that period.

Heehee. XD

That is how i understand the word Intertextuality.

By showing the creativeness on remixing but keeping the originality of the thing.

Structuralism

On our fourth lesson, we learn about structuralism. I always heard all these term during my History of Art class but i never knew that this term is actually relevant to media.

As we normally know, structuralism came from the word "structure".  The meaning of that is how we categories or build up our ideas. The ideas or stuff construct or structure very naturally. Structuralism can also be categories as linguistic, narratology and anthropology. We can structure our ideas by using diagrams, table, frames or in any way that we feel comfortable on and which can be differentiate.

In structuralism, there is a binary opposition of categorize which brings out the center part of both different categories.  Binary opposition put the words into categories then find the center part which relates to both of the categories. This is very interesting to me. This help me to understand how some of the ideas in the movie came from. For example, vampire categories in the middle of human and animal or alive and dead. I use illustrator to draw a diagram to let me understand further.

I also understand that post-structuralism also known as deconstruction. Deconstruction actually wants to show no different between both sides. They also categories it as 2 part but the center part, they try to think futher which is not only the equal side of both part.

Semiotics

Last week, I've learn about the term semiotics. This is a word which i always heard from my previous history class lecture during my foundation. When ever we tell him about our point of view of a painting, he will always says that " It is so SEMIOTIC". That is how this word got stuck in my head. 

My definition of semiotic is about the interpretation of a symbol, sign etc. This is showing the way how you explain in your own. Different people have their own way of explaining. One symbol or sign can brings out different messages to different people. If you explain in a way which is different with others, others will said that it's very semiotics to explain that way. 

http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/semiotics.htm

This is one of the link which has an article about how semiotics relates to media. This is a very useful link which gave me a lot of theories or answer to my question.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), semiotics concerns with 

1) “the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of symptoms” and 

2) “the science of communication studied through the interpretation of sign and symbols as they operate in various fields, esp. language.” 

Semiotics relates to media by having communication from sign and symbols from our design. We sent our message through media as a designer. This is how semiotics come in media. 

The basic concept of semiotic is the structure of a sign. In semiotics, sign has two categories which is signifier and signified. A signifier without signified has no meaning, and the signified changes with person and context. The relationship between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.  

(http://changingminds.org/explanations/critical_theory/concepts/signifier_signified.htm) 

This is what i have coop during the class last week. ^^

About Shanon and Weaver on communication

Is so hard for me to post anything the whole week because of the internet is slow in my area.

Last week, Daniel which is my lecture was teaching us about the process model of communication from Shanon and Weaver. There's a diagram which Daniel had thought us about was interesting to me. I found some of the image which is somehow related to each other. 

http://plato.stanford.eduentriesinformation-semantic

http://www.populationmedia.org/what/theoretical-framework/

http://groupd3.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/the-shannon-and-weaver-model/

3 of this diagrams look different but actually have a very similar meaning. Every communication starts from the information source/info source to the transmitter to the channel or signal and then to the receiver to the destination that the message or information that they want to send. Around this system, theres noise around it. The communication technology until now still using the same method because this is the basic fundamental that a communication media have.  

The meaning of the noise to me is the disturbs-ion around the signal which somehow blog the signal all the way through the destination. I also learn about redundancy which is redundant information and entropy which is entropic information. I still working on the cybernetics and will post some interesting source next time. Is 3 and a half hour lecture, i'm trying hard to be alert.