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A quick trip to Melbourne last week made me realised that memories maybe are hard to lose completly, but they can fade out in a short period of time. I barely remember how does nice coffee taste; how does driving feel with sky window wide opened; how enjoyable it is to do paper crafts; how good it is to have friends around. Time is powerful, so does the commercial world.

I really like my work place and all the lovely workmates. However,
I realised that I will be pathetic if I just let myself fall into this commercial world and do nothing. I need to find my way out, do something without thinking, no business involved, and turely just
for me!

I always have a thing to red; not necessarily wearing red but using red and collecting red objects. This is a snap of the station which
I get off to work every morning. I guess this is a good reminder of going to the commercial world and not forgetting who I am ;)

case closed

I finally got the boxes done...yay! I was working on this gift box packaging for Chinese New Year and there were issues of people, communications, box structures...which made me alter or actually redo the boxes again and again. It did drive me crazy a little bit especially when they killed my lovely 'tiger' box. Well, that is not uni assignment anymore, it is reality. Hopefully the boxes can go straight to printer and print out finely. No more changes please!

Back to the photo here, I was back to my home town, Fujian, to visit my grandmother and attend a wedding few weeks ago. When I was shooting the house, like a happy tourist, my aunt showed me this beautiful wardrobe from my great grandmother.

Chinese New Year

Fai Chun

These are the real Fai Chun for Chinese New Year. I was lucky enough to find them in Stanely, because it's quite rare to see hand written Fai Chun nowadays. The four-words blessings in each Fai Chun were written as one compound, and they are still legible and well balanced. Chinese penmanship is AMAZING.

Since a friend of mine stopped by Hong Kong for a few days, I had a chance to be a tourist in Hong Kong. I love to be a tourist. When you are a tourist, you are always curious with everything around you. You have the motivations to observe, to think, to compare and always want to know why, and these are hard to keep up in a familiar environment. I want to be a tourist everyday.

2009

New Year 09

Fai chun, a piece of red paper with written greetings, which people usually put on the front doors in Chinese New Year. It's not Chinese New Year yet, but I still felt like to make one. It's a modern fai chun on the door of fridge.


This is the last thing of 2008 and the first thing of 2009 I did.
Paper cut, something I love.


Wish you can do something you love, too.

COUNT DOWN >>17 DAYS

I kept saying how good the photos with sunlight were, and forgot to post those with flashes last week. I was so unexperienced, and took me ages to got the shoot done. I definitely need more practice...

Optic Nerve Exhibition Invitation Card
/Studio set up with proper lighting and camera
/Canon 5D (f/2.8 70 mm) + 3 flashes


Optic Nerve Exhibition Invitation Card (interior)
/Random snap shot with tungstenlight
/Canon IXUS 40 (f/2.8 5.8mm) + lamp


Ping Paper Cut
/Home set up shoot with Sabi's camera
/Nikon D70 (f/2.8 macro) + natural light


Ping Paper Cut II
/Random snap shot with tungstenlight
/Canon IXUS 40 (f/2.8 5.8mm) + lamp

17 days to go......

Exhibitions Day

I can’t believe that I went to 4 exhibitions today. After the super nice Yum Cha (I ate a lot, seriously alooooot , after that I felt abit sick), we went straight to Middle Park for the Southern Cross Packaging Exhibition.
The result was released last week and I didn't win >_<. I was quite confident of my Davy Jones box and expected that I might get something, but I didn’t. I was abit upset and diffident last week. I was even questioning myself if I can survive in the industry after graduation. Well, after going to the exhibition, my confidence was back! Of course there were some excellent works. Some of the winning works were definitely worth to win, but some just… Sorry, I couldn’t get the ideas behind through the 4 pages rational or the unpolished mock ups. I am not being cocky or what, but Gene was right, my Davy Jones was the best of the table. I felt big relief after seeing the exhibition, because I am actually not worse than the winners.
After that, we went to the Narrows for a photography exhibition. I love the way they present the Polaroid photos. Each of them was framed in a large format Polaroid film container. Such a clever idea, use what they had.
We met Warren at the gallery and he told me that there is an interesting paper craft exhibition at kick gallery, Northcote. The word ‘paper’ urged me want to go there so bad. So after going to Ian Potter for the contemporary art exhibition, I head off to the kick gallery, which actually I’ve never been to there and had no idea how to get there. I only know there is a train station call ‘ Northcote’, so at least I can go there by train. Surprisingly, I didn’t get lost at all. I was just following my feelings, turned right if I felt like to (just like random walking) and I made it. The exhibition t was called ‘…while you were sleeping’. It’s a nice name. I totally agreed, while normal people were sleeping, we were creating our (fabulous) works. Paper craft wasn’t the main part of the exhibition, there were also some lovely illustrations, paintings, sculptures and hand crafts. They were so dedicated and sweet.
Here was the day of exhibitions….

Okay back to photography, finally I finished up the film which has been in my camera for almost 6 months, and here are some highlights

Red










I think many people know, I have a thing to red.


Green

Guess what they are? They are the chopped off part from pok choy. Pretty food scrap, to be continued...

Good friends