CSS motif and theme assignment

Oh I have to say I don’t have time to do this assignment, thus I don’t feel satisfied with the result yet.

However it’s the first time I’m trying to do some coding (which m so bad at T..T ) together with cutting the layout, and I did everything on time , which to me, is an honour thing ^^ .

Didn’t sleep much recent days,,,,,,, Oh I should go get some sleep or else will become a peevish girl.

This is the web XD link

We are required to design a web page for CSS zen garden with a theme and motif developed by ourselves.  My chosen theme is nature, and I try to make the web as simple as I can because only have a day to finish everything… (actually the lecturer gave us plenty of time, but I was lazy and T..T..) Have to take responsible from that..

Some drafts along the way

Linh Linh 2008

Daisy hand painting

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..Daisy and the morning..

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Water color painting

Linhlinh 2008

[website] yearbookyourself.com

Give it a try =))

I was supported to do my assignment, but after my friend gave me this website… Can’t stop laughing and played with it the whole night =))

Some examples of me and my friend =))

Te^~u ( the guy who discovered the site =)) Thanks to him I got great fun )

me =))

Visit http://yearbookyourself.com/ for more options =))

Have fun ~

Blackboard for mobile

Exercise in Design for interactive media 3 class.

I just trying to make this site ’s content fit into the screen of Nokia N82.

RMIT BlackBoard mobile project

XD Just an experiment~

link

( save the file instead of clicking the photo since file size is really big T..T )

P.S : Day by day I just realized that technology is so dangerous.. I’m totally stuck with it (

Really slow in using hi tech stuffs….

[photos] lovely..

My most recent inspiration..

Linh Linh 08

P.S : words of the day : Aine and Thao  XD

A moment

Yesterday I by chance went into a cafe’ and saw this kid.

He is just so cute I can’t resist XD

Even though this photo is a little bit tremble, just love the moment!

By the way, his name is Nguyen Nam Nguyen

Such a cutie brighten up my day~

Thuy Linh Nov 08

[continue] Yoshitomo Nara

An article from this link

Yoshitomo Nara

by Kara Besher

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The artwork of Yoshitomo Nara is deceptively simple. Peopled with entities that call to mind toddlers or infant animals with their balloon heads, persimmon pit-eyes, and pinprick noses, each work is a peek into a world that seems eerily familiar.

A long-term resident of Cologne, Nara is being met with increasing international attention, having already exhibited in Milwaukee, L.A., Cologne and Seoul, with New York scheduled for later this year. Tomio Koyama, the artist’s Tokyo dealer, says that a major Nara sculpture was recently purchased by an American collector, and is earmarked for long-term loan to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

With a couple of books both in their second run, a limited edition wristwatch and a clothing line that incorporates motifs from his artwork, Nara is well on his way to developing a cult following in Japan.

Two concurrent exhibitions–one at the Ginza Art Space, the other at Tomio Koyama Gallery–show Nara’s bizarre storybook musings through drawings, paintings, fiberglass sculptures and a series of never-before-shown assemblages.

In the drawings, kiddies are engaging in innocuous solo activities: holding a flag, playing in a box, sitting on a potty, holding a book, standing in a puddle. But sometimes they are brandishing sharp little implements–knives and saws. Nara captures these scenes in a moment of stillness.

The children look up at the viewer with what seems to be a air of wariness. Or is it complicity? Do those heavy eyelids indicate post- or pre-nappy time, or do they embody a jaded cynicism, incongruent with the insouciance of childhood? Each work is an emotional trigger which has different effects on different viewers.

Sometimes, the artist says, he receives zealous messages from fans. One even slipped a note into his pocket. I know exactly what you are saying, the note said, I understand. “Maybe they understand more about the work than me,“ he says modestly.

What is it about this art that elicits such a strong response? It doesn’t seem very complicated. The style is intentionally flat, with blunt, uniformly thick lines. This, combined with a lack of modeling, texture or strong coloration, seems to force attention to the subject matter. Yet there isn’t much of that. Narrative content? Not much of that either. Expressiveness? Not really.

Nara’s artwork “clicks“ because we sense that beneath the sparse execution is a direct portal to a personal, almost intuitive vision.

“I only draw what I know from experience,“ Nara says. Since they embody specific memories, or impressions, the works take on a marshmallowy snapshot quality. Like illustrations from a deranged children’s textbook (“S is for Switchblade…“) they are narratives, but with no temporal start or finish. As such, the works have an almost totemic completeness.

Stylistically, an artist can do two very brave things in their careers: a Picasso-like switching between unrecognizable styles, or a Morandi-like pursuit of the same relentless vision (the challenge here is to maintain a pitch of intensity across a long line of similar works). It could be said that Nara falls into the second category.

The artist says he has no choice in the matter; he is compelled to do these images: “Even if I try to draw something different, it always comes out this way.“

His hand moves reflexively over the canvas, and the image emerges almost of itself. This has inspired some to call what Nara does a form of “automatism.“ Despite the implied mediumistic overtones, the artist sees this impulse as ultimately coming from himself.

One characteristic painting is “Slash with a Saw/Nokogiri.“ In it, a pig-tailed girl stands impassively within the picture surface. The lack of reference suggests a groundless solitude that might make for a certain vulnerability, if not for what the girl is holding: a jagged-edged saw.

But this is no tree-house builder. The title, combined with the girl’s ambiguous expression, contributes to an almost palpable feeling of dread. What, or who, is she going to slash with that saw?

Nara doesn’t feel these weapons are instruments of aggression. “Look at them, they are so small, like toys. Do you think they could fight with those?“ he counters. “I don’t think so. Rather, I kind of see the children among other, bigger, bad people all around them, who are holding bigger knives….“

Indeed, most of the figures in the paintings are looking up from a low vantage point, peering out into a world that is both threatening and mesmerizing. On second glance, is this a power discrepancy between the strong and the weak, and if so, could we be the aggressors?

To take sweet images from childhood, even as children could draw them, and infuse them with so much sharp-edged adult apprehension is not an easy thing to achieve, but Nara does. The utter disproportion between subject matter and mood creates a disturbing effect. The combination, though, is oddly satisfying.

Ours is a world where watching Teletubbies is the come-down of choice for experienced ecstasy ravers, where Pee-wee Herman is caught frotting himself in a movie theater, where heavy-headed Minnie Mouses are regularly molested at Disneyland. We have made a sport out of perverting our childhood icons. The betrayal implied in Nara’s work resonates, because it expresses a universally shared loss of innocence.

The enigmatic, abbreviated quality of Nara’s style may be an invitation for you to take your best subtextural potshot. But take care. In doing so, you risk revealing a lot about yourself, more than might be comfortable. Nara’s artworks are sticky-sweet booby traps, Rorschach tests for a post-modern innocence quotient. They are candy-cane puzzles begging to be deciphered, only to reveal the cavities inside our own grown-up hearts.

Yoshitomo Nara

My inspiration

Yoshitomo Nara
Nice to See You Again
Acrylic on canvas, 1996
71 x 59 inches

Yoshitomo Nara
One Ear And…
Acrylic on canvas, 1998
12 x 12 inches

Yoshitomo Nara
Not Now
Pastel, acrylic, and colored pencil on paper, 2003
53 x 47 inches
YN 306

Yoshitomo Nara
Well
Oil on canvas, 1999
47.25 x 43.33 inches
YN 174

Yoshitomo Nara
Girl in Box
Pastel, acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 2003
53 x 47 inches
YN 309

Yoshitomo Nara
White Kitty
Acrylic on canvas, 1998
30 x 30 inches

Yoshitomo Nara
Attention
Pastel, acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 2003
58 x 53 inches
YN 304

Yoshitomo Nara
Sprout the Ambassador
Acrylic on canvas, 2001
82 x 78 inches
YN 6

Yoshitomo Nara
U-ki-yo-e, 1999
Oil on book pages
16 5/8 x 13 inches

Yoshitomo Nara
Silent Violence, 2003
Acrylic color pencil on envelope
12.9 x 9.1 inches (32.7 x 23 cm)

Yoshitomo Nara
Just Living in a 2D World, 1999
Oil on canvas
57 x 70 3/4 inches

“Too Young to Die,” 2001

Female back illustration

I call this illustration “A smile”

One of a plenty I’ve been doing this month.

But I like this especially a lot.

Hope you enjoy it.

Thuy Linh 2008

holga digital photos

Oh it’s been a month since I last posted something..

The holiday was so awesome I spent most of my time enjoy it . “Enjoy” here I mean fully relaxing, just sleep, play and eat =)).. Anyway I miss my home already ( Back to holiday again plz T..T

From now on since It’s 3rd week in a new semester already, I decided to start taking my study seriously.

Oh no sorry I was joking! Just can’t ( Such a lazy one I am T..T

Anyway suddenly today I feel interested in Holga camera XD But I’m broke now because of the new Canon EOS 450 (T..T) , I can’t ask my dad anymore money (T..T) Even A Holga cam really cheap it will cost right? and thinkin’ about the films and other accessories.. :-ss (Just by the way, talking about the EOS =)), I even haven’t taken a real photo with it yet, maybe keep it later ) , when I’m ready to learn how to use DSLR cam – I guess it will take me long time then.. >.<! )

Back in today topic, here are the photos I have just retouched minute ago, I hope they look like Holga lomo ones  ..

I myself think them being a little bit too dark.

I don’t know why my instinct keep making the colors like that :-ss

Anyway, here they are XD

Enjoy and have a nice day guys ~

Linh Linh 2008