April 26th, 2007
VOICES #2 : Dreambox
Born out of passion, love and obsession. It’s always his dream to have a retail shop of his own that shares his love on Coca-Cola which better known as Coke. Being one of the largest Coke retail store in Malaysia, situated at Times Square, Kuala Lumpur. He has always hoped to meet other Coke fanatics of the product from the country. Here we would like to share with you how has the brand itself, changed the life of an individual and the people around him. Head on to VOICES to read.
What is VOICES?
VOICES is a public space for any passionate Malaysians that wanted to share their thoughts and dream with our readers. It is not a mandatory requirement of the individual or group to be designers or artists, however being passionate in their life and work is a must. This is a hope to inspire everyone and as well to share with our fellow reader friends from abroad. Mail to info@designenterprise.com if there’s a person in mind that you want us to interview or feature.
April 25th, 2007
A Lonely Sky
A promising movie to watch. And they are really kind to put the entire movie online.
The site synopsis reads,
A Lonely Sky is a short film written and directed by Nick Ryan.
In 1947, a test pilot who will risk his life to break the sound barrier, is forced to question his reasons and abilities by a strange yet familiar man.
High Quality (Quicktime) : A Lonely Sky
YouTube : A Lonely Sky
Update : If you still remember there is an award winning short film, The Silent City which produced by Ruairi Robinson, Nick helped him in the film as well.
April 25th, 2007
Salam,
Tinggal lagi SEMINGGU untuk anda menghantarkan sumbangan anda ke majalah XLimit #09
CEPAT! CEPAT!!
Tajuk/tema untuk isu #09 ialah :
“PROTES!”.
Serlahkan kreativiti dan karya anda.
Hantar karya kreativiti anda dalam bentuk Visual Imej (Digital, radisional) atau penulisan (sajak, puisi, artikel) atau dalam bentuk fotografi (snap! snap!) kepada kami untuk terbitan isu seterusnya. Apa-apa pun karya anda tak perlulah terikat sangat pada tajuk (tajuk syarat
jer hehhe)…
Tarikh tutup penyumbangan hasil kerja ialah pada [b]30 APRIL 2007[/b].
Berikut adalah saiz ukuran helaian majalah:-
Satu muka – [b]567 x 567[/b] pixels (20cm x 20cm)
Dua muka – [b]1134 x 567[/b] pixels (40cm x 20cm)
Semua imej mestilah menggunakan resolusi 72 dpi, RGB atau Grayscale.
Format fail yang boleh diterima adalah seperti berikut:
Imej: .jpg, .tif, .png, .gif, .pdf, .eps
Teks: .doc, .txt, .rtf
Semua hasil kerja mestilah dihantar ke alamat seperti di bawah:
visual imej hasil kerja dan fotografi : xlimit@sifoo.com
Penulisan dan Artikel: 307mags@gmail.com
Sila sertakan nama, nama samaran, laman web dan alamat email.
Untuk isu² sebelumnya sila lawati http://xlimit.sifoo.com
Maklumat lanjut : http://www.sifoo.com/forum
Serlahkan kreativiti dan karya anda.
Selamat berkarya!
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April 25th, 2007
Check out the third installment of Filmmakers Anonymous! We’ve got a varied selection of short films that’ll sure ruffle some feathers or hopefully enlighten others!
Kindly forward this to your friends if you’re in a good mood! =)
27 April 2007 Friday
8:30 PM
ANNEXE @ CENTRAL MARKET
Contact: filmaholic@gmail.com
Website: www.filmmakersanonymous.blogspot.com
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 80 MINUTES (discussion with filmmakers after)
All films have English subtitles. The screening is FREE. Central Market Annexe is located behind Central Market, near Pasar Seni Lrt station. For more info please contact Anonymous at 016-6531167.
ps. if you are an addict yourself, please feel free to bring dvd copy of your film to the screening and pass to Anonymous.
1. ‘The Symphony of Life
‘ by Wendy Lai 6 mins51 secs/color 16:9/ stereo/ 2007
Synopsis
Life is like a melody. It sound beautiful, but not everything in life is perfect. Sometimes we fall, sometimes we keep trying and sometimes, we enjoy it. No matter what, we must remember to persevere and never give up.
Director’s Statement:
Pioneer student filmmaker and trying to bring a simple message to the audience. Though it’s a simple film, hope the audience will realize that life is always full of up and downs and never give up in their life.
Director’s Profile
Occupation : Undergraduate
Email : szechin84@lycos.com
2. ‘Listen 2 What U C‘ by Khairil M Bahar 5 mins/ colour/ 2006
Synopsis
Music video of song by that name by the Malaysian Indie band Soft Touch.
Director’s Profile
also directed CIPLAK. Assisted by Tony Pietra
3. ‘I; Me‘ by Chan Siew Ling 6 minute 21 seconds/ color/ 2007
Synopsis :
According to the poem of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, this story portrays the dilemma of a person who is torn between two decisions. A pair of hands suspended in mid-air represents two choices in that person’s life: a well trodden road and a road less taken. Here, he will have interaction with the objects in his house. This is to show the interchange of an individual with the society. He will express his feeling and opinion about life to the objects as if they are ‘him’ and he as the ‘society’ looking down on him. As if in life, there are only black and white but somehow, some times something just happens to be unanswerable. Finally, he pushed the white clothes and black clothes aside and left the grey in the middle. You wanted to fit into the society or to take road that less taken and make a different?
Director’s statement
The objective of us making this short film is to indicate the society today is being label as a factory product. You will be rejected if you fail to fit into the society. And we have no choice here but to make a choice between to follow the road of most people or to follow our own path.
Director’s Profile
I am a mass communication student in USM, majoring in Film and Broadcasting. I love making film and would like to involve myself in this industry after I graduate. Ambitious and goal-orientated, with clear vision of future objectives, I am keen to begin my career in Film productions. Email vanling84@hotmail.com, sling_van110@yahoo.com
4. ‘Life is an Illusion‘ by Abel Cheah Sze Wei 8.59 minutes/color/ film
Synopsis
The story of the life of a man named James, who seems like an average person but as the title suggests, has in fact more than what meets the eye.
Director’s Profile
Abel is currently a student in HELP University College. He pretty much enjoys everything about movies and is generally tolerant to most genres. Among the things he loves are Swing music, themes on love, engaging conversations and interesting people. He also believes that in life, passion is oxygen. http://mrtestosterone.blogspot.com
5. VROOM² & BOOT² by Law Gwo Yunn 5:10 min /colour/ Silent / 2007
Synopsis
It was love at first sight for both Boot-Boot & Vroom-Vroom when they met one fine day. Alas, there was nothing they could do when their owners drove separate ways.
15 years later, a twist of fate brought them back to the same crossroads. This time Boot-Boot is not about to give up without a fight…… And guess who else came along for the ride?
Director’s statement
This is my 1st attempt in directing a short film. Since it was my 1st, I didn’t want anything too complicated, just something simple & fun. Basically it was a cute love story incorporating fantasy & reality. It was a low- almost -No- Budget, 2 day, 2 crew member shoot. (including myself) Hope you enjoy watching this as much I do while making it.
Director’s Profile
I majored in Industrial Design and got my degree in Swinburne University, Australia. However I’ve always been fascinated with the movie industry. Started off as producer in post production, now freelancing in Production designing/ Art directing in Tv & Film. Will continue to make more movies in the near future.
6. ‘She‘ By Idora Alhabshi 13mins/color/2006
Synopsis
An art house short film featuring the talents of Bernice Chauly. A story placing moments before bitter separation. It explores her intuitions, past experience and emotional turmoil before making her first step of courage.
Director’s Profile
I’m based in kl but im in melbourne studying fine arts: media arts and photography in RMIT. eeedowrah@yahoo.com
7. ‘28 hours later‘ by Ng Ken Kin 14min/ Color/ Sound/ 2005.
Synopsis
After a night of disco dancing, a man wakes up to find himself alone in the city.
Director’s statement
This is my first attempt making a comedy. I like ’28 days later’ and thought “hey, what if this happens in KL?”
Director’s Profile
Ken Kin is a self-taught filmmaker who has made a few shorts in his spare time nad spare money. ngkenkin@gmail.com
8. ‘Twelve 11‘ by Loh Yin San & Claudia Theophilus 20 mins/ color/2006
Synopsis
A tragedy of a magnitude never before seen in Malaysia had claimed tens of lives and shocked a nation. In unraveling the mystery surrounding the incident, Twelve 11 tries to show how the loss of life and property could have been avoided. More importantly, it strives to expose a legal loophole which begs urgent action. It also questions why history keeps repeating itself.
Director’s Profile
Claudia Theophilus is an investigative journalist with over 10 years experience. This is her first attempt at filmmaking. She is the researcher, interviewer, editor and co-director for this documentary project.
Loh Yin San is the executive producer and co-director. She was moved to undertake this project after learning of a survivor’s struggle for justice.
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Filmmakers Anonymous is a collective. An array of new and emerging films; compiled, not curated, from among like-minded people who are just addicted to making films – for whatever noble or twisted reasons. Curious to know more? Email us at filmaholic@gmail.com
April 23rd, 2007
Top 5 Most Annoying Banner On The Internet
A good read if you’re curious on how and why did those annoying banner ever come from?
Your World by Adidas
Another one of the few websites that is incorporating motion graphics with full Flash website. Might be a good source of inspiration. Sure reminds me 2 spots for Nike which one are done by Motion Theory for some basketball commercial.
Gwen Yip
An interesting journal on how one female from Hong Kong travelled to London for work, illustrated in comic style.
Blood Puddle Pillows
FromKeetra has this interesting idea to be used during April Fool, but I doubt if it is for work. Might scare the hell out of your boss. via digg.
Get In Writing has compiled some outstanding guerilla marketing from the web, mainly which I have seen from ibelieveinadv, but it is a worthy mention that few of it at the bottom of the page are ridiculously hilarious.
A Moment On Earth
Finally, a decent and very meaningful project that made full use of photo mosaic properly. A group of photographers around the world are to compile and take the pictures at the same date & time. This is what you will see.
35 Designers, 5 Questions
What is in their mind? You might ask that question often on the world’s best designer.
Digg is a community driven news site which the contents are reviewed, rated and submitted by the users for the users, and recently they had announced the release of their own DiggAPI.
April 19th, 2007
II Mobilefest 2007
Calling for proposals and ideas. Anyone that is into developing mobile technologies are encouraged to participate.
Project sending: 31st July 2007
Notification:
1st September 2007
The Rolex Awards
Calling for entries for anyone that has projects in mind that would contribute for the betterment of mankind. Apply now. For the serious minds only.
Deadline : 31st May 2007.
Interpretation of Beautiful Life
What’s your perception of Beautiful Life? Gwen Stefanie will be looking at your submission!
Deadline : 27th May 2007.
Are you going to attend the Bloggers Choice Award ceremony at Florida? via neatorama
April 19th, 2007
Untitled Show
A showcase of an untitled skateboard art.
Stacey Whaley Fractal Art
Who ever say computer graphics is not beautiful? via neatorama.
Crude Moleskin Popups
More can be found here.
Wants to cook some egg? Thanks SuWeii.
Ascentium
Quite a high profile company which also responsible for the Windows Vista’s CSS/XHTML based website.
April 19th, 2007
Giant TMNT Projection
Big props to the people that did this, it did certainly drew much more attention than any conventional billboard you can see from the road. via neatorama.
You Are Damned
Reminds me of Hellboy but, does it connected to any campaign?
Wet Paint Please Touch
If you’ve always wanted to lay a hand on graffiti art without even making a mess out of yourself and causing problems to the authorities, try this website.
And if you are also looking for some wacky program, Snap turns your webcam into a photobooth. via neatorama.
April 19th, 2007
GeeSee
If you remember back in the mIRC era where chatting in a random chatroom is a hit. You can do that now without even installaing any program except Flash Player on your browser.
SplashCast Media
Ever wondering if you could make your own TV Channel? Yes you could now, on the web.
Pepsi Nex Dance
Do you still remember the very famous Japanese Dancing Flash site that incorporated 3D? That made it into the limelight that even amazed Yugop? I’m a person that is always amazed by how one person improves and progress from the things they like to do. And they do best in it. Pepsi saw the potential in it and bought it immediately and transformed the web into a new dimension. Literally. This reminds me of a phrase that is long forgotten from where I heard or read it, that you must continously find ways to promote yourself on the web, get yourself known of what you do, give credit to yourself. If you’re good, people will acknowledge you.
That Was The Year – a tale of unrequited love
April 17th, 2007
A musical drama based on Beth Yahp’s text “In 1969”
That Was The Year presents a beautiful collage of sounds, imagery and storytelling of unconventional relationships and troubled times. Expect to be gripped by a performance of distinctive originality!
Venue:
PENTAS 2, Kuala Lumpur Peforming Arts Centre (KLPac), Sentul Park, Jalan Strachan, 51100 Kuala Lumpur
Dates:
8.30pm, May 3 – 5 (Thurs – Sat); May 8 – 12 (Tues – Sat).
3.00pm, May 6 & 13 (Sun)
Tickets:
Adults RM40, Students & Senior Citizens RM20.
Tickets available from KLPac Box Office (03 4047 9000) and The Actors Studio, Bangsar Shopping Centre (03 2094 9400). Thanks five arts centre.
Seeking Visual Artists Participation
April 13th, 2007
artists in residence : AIR
Think you have what it takes? AIR is a program inviting visual artist to participate under no discrimination and produce artworks reflecting their thought. With allowance and accomodation provided, the program session will last for 6 month. Looks promising. Just like what Fabrica are doing, but with an exception it’s not an agency. Thanks Vince for the news.
Deadline : 30th June 2007
Snapter
This is a neat program which I have lay hand on yet, that you can use your digital camera as your scanner. So no matter from which angle (acceptable logic angle of course), the software will fix your shot and make the picture you have taken almost like what a scanner can produce.
