January 30th, 2007
Real World CSS Zen For Your Site
It certainly does take a while to adapt from the conventional web design skills toward a more stand complaint ones. But since then, i’ve felt it help me a lot in the better way, and of course, for compability on other devices and platform. You will really feel the pain of browsing a site that breaks the standard on a mobile device, eg. handheld console or mobile phone. But you’ll be glad also if you ever stumbled on any standard compliant site, which they load, fast. On the other hand, i’ve spotted one useful article talking about building a css mockup inside photoshop the faster way.
Paper Prototyping
ThinkVitaman has been one of my favourite blog ever since i’ve came across them few months ago. And this time around, they had on great article on paper prototyping, just to keep you ponder how much paper can be useful in any webdesign process.
January 29th, 2007
BY RIZAL JOHAN
Not many singer-songwriters can emulate openly-emotive statements like Meor’s voice of heartbreak.
What life holds for you is anybody’s guess but for Perak-born folk singer-songwriter Meor Yusof Aziddin, music is his life force and inspiration. Having actively written music and produced ragged recordings since the late 1980s, this soft-spoken artiste is a true pioneer and is regarded as one of the country’s best Malay singer-songwriters. His music, often wedged between intense and openly-emotive statements, has found a keen new audience in his young fan base.
At last year’s KL Sing Song festival at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, Meor received rapturous response. This, despite his being out of the live circuit for over a year.
An unfortunate incident in late 2005 proved to be a life-changing experience for Meor, who was then busking regularly at Central Market in KL. He was rounded up by the police on suspicion of drug use and although the results came out negative, Meor had to spend four days in the lock-up.
| Singer-songwriter Meor is targeting the mainstream audience with his fifth album, Yang Terlintas Di Fikiran. |
“I graduated from the ‘university of life’ when that happened,” recalled Meor, 39, in a recent interview. “After that, my family and I moved to Ipoh and I’ve been working in an engineering firm for a little over a year now.”
Busking didn’t seem like a good idea with the authorities clamping down on street musicians without a valid reason. Meor’s love affair with music might have suffered a bit after his relocation to Ipoh, but that didn’t stop a bunch of singer-songwriter friends in the Klang Valley from getting him back in the groove. The KL Sing Song fest appearance was his biggest show to date and he was also featured in the Voices From Next Door compilation.
According to Azmyl Yunor, a fellow singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Troubadours Enterprise, it was important for the live scene to continue having a voice as distinctive as Meor’s.
“It would have been a tragedy if Meor had given up his music. Something had to be done. A few of us (singer-songwriters) got in touch with him and asked if he was interested in recording a new album,” said Azmyl.
With the help of Troubadours Enterprise and recording support from Purple Sound Productions, Meor set aside time to nail down some new tracks.
His new album, Yang Terlintas Di Fikiran, his fifth independently-produced album, is a collection of songs penned over the last 10 years. This is the follow up to 2004’s Aku Dan Bulan.
“Yes, I moved to another city after being thrown in jail but to me, it’s just something that happens in life. I’m not complaining about it,” said Meor, who still comes down to KL and busks whenever he gets the chance.
“I’m still busking but not as much as I used to. I think busking is very important. It’s something practical in life. You get to know your environment and the people around better when you’re a busker.”
The new album was produced by his friend, musician Ariff Akhir (of The Sofa Sessions fame). Ariff decided to make a recording of the Meor’s music after setting up his own post-production company, Purple Sounds.
“When I started it in the middle of last year, I had no intention of recording an album because what I have is not a studio. But I decided to record Meor’s album and make it the flagship product for Purple Sounds,” said Ariff.
As reported earlier, Meor took just two hours last July to record the basic tracks for the album – retaining his usual no-nonsense approach to keep his music spontaneous. It was Ariff’s job to fill in the other musical parts – but Meor’s raw compositions can be clearly identified on this CD.
“I’m targeting the mainstream audience with this album.
“It’s for people who like to think. That is why the album is called Yang Terlintas Di Fikiran (loosely translated as ‘what crosses the mind’),” said Meor.
Meor’s Yang Terlintas Di Fikiran is priced at RM25 and can be obtained through www.pestajiwa.net or www.purple-sound.com
(source: http://www.star-ecentral.com
thanks Trobadours!
Post-Visit Report : Massive Territory
January 24th, 2007
Map : How to reach Malaysia Tourism Centre
The BigBrosWorkshop’s first ever Massive Territory conference was held succesfully one 13th of January 2007, from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. It was such as a suprise to have world class designer to come as one in our country since after the Hearsay conference few years back. Here, we would like to share with you the post visit report of the conference.
January 24th, 2007
Curious Artist
An interesting design journal updated daily.
Designers Footwear
Are you in? Designer’s alike are required to take a photo of them wearing their footwear, creatively. For participation details, you could head on to their site for more information. via newstoday
There’s still one week for sifoo’s XLIMIT #08 submission with the theme “Alam Sekitar”. Read on for more details. The Sundance Festival is here. TWO FACED is out.
January 24th, 2007
Toward Design Literacy
If you’ve ever doubt your design understanding and literacy, pingmag has came up with one very good article on how you can gradually cope with it. That goes so true with the undergraduate and college students that found themselves lost even after they graduated, and probably only know the meaning of design after working the industry for, say 3 years.
Second Hand Smoke
Very clever.
Amazing Hand Painting Art
I’m just speechless when you find that how much things can be done with just the hand.
P-mail
What’s more human when you can receive a mail in real life than e-mail nowadays? Nothing beats that I guess. They have a flickr gallery also. via boingboing. Mail to your friend today!
January 19th, 2007
Unity Tree
Unity Tree is a campaign site by HP PurchaseEdge. What amazed me is the extensive usage of FLV videos that integrated inside the website seamlessly after such a long time since I saw one from MGM Grand. Treo also has a slick site up their sleeve. Inquiringmind Magazine covers a nice interview with Acapulco Gold.
Forget the film, watch the titles
It’s amazing to see how sometimese a good sequence title that comes in would affect how is your first impression on a movie later on, submarinechannel is kind enough to start a list of collections from various different movies. Looks pretty exciting to me. I’m in awe of Danny Yount’s work and got stunned from how he started his career from the interview at ComputerArts.
January 19th, 2007
NTMY
Nice To Meet You™ is (yet another) platform for creative people and companies around the world that urges its members to get in touch with others and have an outlet for their creativity. In other words, this is a space to promote yourself and your work - but even better - to get in touch with other registered users.
more info on the official site. a great collaborative work from cpluv and fnf.
January 19th, 2007
Offf 2007
Held annually since 2001, OFFF has been an annual post-digital creation culture event, big as you can see masters of the digital culture will be gathering there. Coming up from the massive territory conference last Saturday, we will do a brief coverage and summary of the event itself.