[photos] Birds..
May 29, 2009
From Long
Hanoi, a rainy day
Can’t resist this cutie little one XD~
Nguyen and whiteness
May 4, 2009
‘Nguyen’ ^^ – such a lovely name~
My close friend, classmate, teammate, and somehow my rival in Design ^^
We form the best design team ever (my opinion only) 
)
Though we aim for different destinations, I always find inspiration to improve myself from Nguyen.
I used to think a lot about the “white color” stuff. In brief to explain my wonders, I really like how people use white in their works, and “White” doesn’t seem like a color but a solution. White designs often bring human a sense of cleanliness, simple, and yet vague. We tend to perceive white as a color but actually it’s not, it may be light ( when black is dark ), maybe blank space, and much more beyond those by how we want to perceive white and how the author puts white in different contexts. So what really is “white” ? The question sure need much time and knowledge to got a satisfactory answer. However, putting aside all the wonders, by chance today I again saw her web design for web programming class last semester and suddenly the issue about “white” popped up in my head^^. Here is Nguyen’s work , a White web layout. Simple, clean, but yet lovely looking and my opinion, impressive. These are all my personal thoughts, enjoy it by yourself ^^.
First page screenshot
By the way, Recently her volunteer project “toiyeumoitruong” (I love the environment) has just out. Please support it, it’s an environment non profit organization in Vietnam
Click here for the English website of toiyeumoitruong
Last but not least, a small work I made for Nguyen @ her project, since she had only 1 night to do finish all the gift wall paper, I helped her a bit ) This , if you might notice, is a illustration I did a while a go, I just took it out and decorated in toiyeumoitruong style ) Enjoy~
2 different sizes
Enjoy your day~
Linh 2009
Andy Warhol
January 31, 2009
I always enjoy Pop Art and especially Andy Warhol and his art works.
But what I’m thinking now is that, if Warhol himself actually lives in current time, he will definitely be sued for copyrighted law. After all, the photographs he uses for his montages ain’t free, and they ain’t taken by himself either ^^.
Andy Warhol’s famous Marilyn
Never mind what I’m saying, this is just a random thought blablabla…
***I’m in holiday now, enjoying my semester break and lunar new year festival. All the best for you guys :*
Linh 2009
[photos] Cheese cakes
January 14, 2009
Omg~~ Who don’t love these huh XD
Totally in love :X I want these cakesssss!
New York cheese cakes :”>:”>
One of the reasons why I always wanna go to NYC
Talking about the photos, I think it’s never been easy to take such delicious looking shots like this.
And ’bout me, I am sinking in Content design project final assignment, and tomorrow is the deadline anyway..
Good luck to me.
Yum Yum~
Collection of lovely Japanese/Korean emoticons
January 11, 2009
Expressing emotions:
(^_^) = smile
(^o^) = laughing out loud
d(^_^)b = thumbs up (not ears)
(T_T) = sad (it’s a crying face)
(-.-)Zzz = sleeping
(Z.Z) = sleepy person
\(^_^)/ = cheers, hurrah
(*^^*) = shyness
(-_-); = sweating (as in ashamed)
(^_^);; = sorry! my mistake
(?_?) = nonsense, i don’t know
(^_~) = wink
(o.O) = surprise
v(^_^)v = victory
(>^_^)> = hugging
(>^_^)> <(^_^<) = hugging each other (^o^)
Animals:
>))))’> = a fish
>))))’><’((((< = kissing fish (^o^)
<’)++++< = a fish bone
Vm~ = a fox
() () = a rabbit
(^.^)
(^(oo)^) = a pig
(‘v’)
(( )) = a bird
-”-”-
()()() ()()()
(-(-(-.-)-)-) = rabbit gang
= = = = :} = a snake
Things:
@}-;–`– = a rose
>(/////)< = a candy
=]::::::> = a sword
—E = a fork
Basic examples
^_^ or ^.^ smiley
~_~ or ~.~ content
`_^ or `.^ or ¡¢_^ wink
>_< or >.< angry
^o^ excited
\\^o^/ very excited (raising hands into the air)
*_* or *.* starry eyed (amazed)
-_- or -.- annoyed (trying to hide annoyance)
;_; or ;.; crying
T_T or T.T flowing tears
o_O or O_o or O.o or o.O surprise
O_O or O.O big surprise
@_@ or @.@ confused
Complex examples
=^.^= blushing, or a cat face (mischevious)
<<@_@>> drunk with vertigo
…~*.*~… girl with braids
~~~~>_<~~~~ weeping horribly
^_^; or ^.^; small sweatdrop (embarrassed)
^_^U or ^.^U huge sweat drop (anime-like)
^_^a scratching head=^.^= blushing, or a cat face (mischievous)
~~~~>_<~~~~ weeping horribly
^_^; small sweatdrop (embarrassed)
/*^_^*\ or /¡Æ^_^¡Æ\ Sailor Moon
<(^_^)>,(>^_^)>, often repeated to indicate dancing.
\(^o^)/ translated as “Wa–i!” or “Wow!” (very excited) – historically was “banzai!” The ‘\’ & ‘/’ are arms in this case.
Credit:
and this link
High dynamic range imaging
January 10, 2009
Long, my friend, has just introduced me to this “new” ( to me 
) type of images – HDR – High Dynamic range photo.
He had made some examples which look so good I have to put them here for inspiration ^^
The noise in images is because of 1. his point and shoot cam 2. his no previous experience in using Photoshop editing this kind of photo ( this is also his first attempt trying to make HDR images ^^;;)
Basically, as he tells me, to make these images, you have to take photos of the same view plenty times (in these cases, 13 times for each final photo^^ ) in different levels of brightness. After collecting all the raw photos you open Photoshop software and merge all of them together in one and here come the results. ^^ I think the process is quite complicated and take time but really interesting, I will try to do this myself sometimes ^^
Congrat Long ^o^!
View from Nhat Anh Apartment in Sky Garden
School canteen
School
Breadou Emoticon
January 8, 2009
I has just bought this cutie bun:
It’s just so cute and smells so good I can’t resist. I should have ordered more :”> Next time I wanna have complete collection ^^
The thing is that: this is not a real bun, but you just can not tell the difference :X And plus it’s Eco-friendly, lovely looking and smelling good :”> I just can’t can’t can’t help myself holding it the whole day after purchase XD ..
The brand named Breadou, they produce Eco-friendly-bread-looking-alike-toys with difference flavor and appearance :”> I heard that the technology producing them is developed under NASA ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) Memory Foam but I’m not sure is it true ^^;;
There are many type of breads in Breadou collection.
My bun is put under the breadou emoticon type.
There are totally 6 type of breadou emoticons :
- Happy Coffee Cream
- Honey Bit
- Nottie Nutti
- Vanilla Dream
- Hot n Spicy
- Berry Sweetie
Ain’t them so cute??? XD XD XD XD
Some more photos of different types of bread by breadou
Examples of how to use the “breads” ^^
More information can be found at
[poster] I have AIDS, please hug me (1987)
January 4, 2009
This poster almost made me cry today..
An inspiration.
I have AIDS, please hug me (1987)
- Description:
- One of the most recognized HIV/AIDS posters ever produced, this image of a child with outstretched arms accompanied by the message, “I have AIDS, please hug me, I can’t make you sick,” has become a worldwide icon in the fight against HIV/AIDS discrimination. Inspired by the experience of Ryan White, a 13-year old hemophiliac with AIDS who was barred from school in 1985 and became a symbol of the intolerance that is inflicted on AIDS victims, this reproduction of a child’s drawing has a disarming quality that works closely with the textual message. This poster reflected the changed tone of the media coverage of AIDS following Ryan White’s courageous battle, which helped shift focus from ignorance and discrimination to acceptance and newfound knowledge of the fatal disease. Designed to evoke compassion, the simple yet powerful message in the poster has subsequently inspired a variety of spin-offs used by international AIDS awareness and education programs.
- Creator:
- Center for Attitudinal Healing
- Source:
- Original Repository: The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection.
- This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).
- URL: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
- IHM Order Number: A028344
- Publisher:
- Center for Attitudinal Healing
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of the Center for Attitudinal Healing.
Credit: this link
[website] yearbookyourself.com
November 26, 2008
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 ~
[continue] Yoshitomo Nara
November 17, 2008
An article from this link
Yoshitomo Nara
by Kara Besher
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.
