Final Shophouse

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Guess I shall talk a bit more about my Shophouse...hope it's not too late.

(After checking BlackBoard)

Oh..it's not...1 more day....hurhur~My artist...Fernando Botero.

Currently in his early hundreds he is around his late 80s.


He is a painter and ex-sculptor....now he doesn't do sculptures anymore...pretty understandable...I did sculpturing in secondary school once...it was a real pain in the butt...but this is not about me...so I shall go back to Botero.
An example of one of his painting....


First thing that really grabbed my attention about his works is that....the human figures are all very fat...like F A T !

Now I just looks like I am discriminating fat people...but I am not...

Well...exaggerated is a better word unless he was painting a bunch of Americans who have MacDonalds as their staple diet.



Next thing was the organic shapes that they have...their roundness.


And than was the mocking of logic...The bird...actually the concept of mockery of logic is mainly because of this bird...because this bird having such a big body will probably not be able to fly anymore...and that bird is obviously not a flightless bird.

You can actually see that sculpture by the Singapore River....I have seen others during my secondary school days....pretty interesting.

My shophouse Interior.....

So for my shophouse...the 3 concepts were implemented...and the video shall do all the talking...





Well the video isn't technically speaking but you get it....

My creation on Monday...

It's 5 to 6 paper glued together


It's a bus-stop...well...according to me it is....to you it could be an Art Museum or a Shopping Center....whatever you like....it could even be just papers....Oooooo~~~

How it works as a bus-stop?...Go ask SMRT how a bus stop works...that's how this will work.
It's really just random sticking here and there...if there's a area that can be glued together...it's glued together....and most importantly...it has to look 3-Dimensional.

Ready For Submission....Not Ready For Critique.

Shophouse

Lots of things to do within the next few weeks.....

Had consultation with Elaine a few days back and idea was rejected because no link to the mood box at all whatsoever....

Went home and tried to think...really really think....was sitting at my "workplace" thinking of how to translate it into the shophouse.....had a designer block....that was terrible.

So tried to do something but was really pathetic.....


Consulted Kelly on Wednesday....because he was the lecturer I went to for the past few weeks for consultation so he should be able to help me think of ideas...and he did.

My shophouse....half done....or 1/3.....

Shophouse

Misplaced my Camera's memory card so I am only able to upload pictures I took with my phone... fret not about the quality because it's a good camera phone... not going to go into details about the phone because that would be free advertisement for the phone.

So I did my redo my moodbox twice.... which means I have a total of three to hand up and the last one I did was good enough not be remade.....

Anyway below are pictures of my progression towards creating the shophouse which I am facing problems.

My "Workplace"... the Sofa....along with a PSP for me to play when I get really really stress and have the sudden urge to start procrastinating.... a penknife and scissor for me to cut the pieces of materials... and my wrist in the not so distant future if I were to be asked to make a bigger shophouse.

Interior of my Moodbox.... First Level.

Since I am concentrating on organic shapes a.k.a circular shapes....I decided it'd be quite nice to make a circular riser rather than a boring rectangular one. The floor is a little reflective as I thought it looks nicer and also a bit of personal touch.... since I am designing it... might as well infuse what I like in as well.... and I like reflective things...

First Level testing....

Did a human figure as I wanted to make sure the sizes are proper.Not so sure if I want to implement a bridge into the design because it takes up quite a lot of space.

Mood Box

Mood Box was shown to Kelly today.Need to integrate everything together rather than bits and pieces.

Have been bombarded with a lot of work recently....actually it's not a lot of projects...but more of like few projects that requires a lot of work.


Done with drawing the shophouse in AutoCAD already...which is great.

Now I am left with the Machine project which I am having a lot of problems because I can't ask Thomas Edison for tips.

Thought of some ideas but they were rejected because they have been invented before..


So my group tried doing a device that can amplify sound for the ears....the only thing we could think of was to stick the sound amplifier on a pair of spectacles....I mean we cannot place it on a shoulder mount because it's ridiculous and pointless...I mean if someone were to invent something they will make it as compact as possible...that's why handphones are getting smaller and smaller nowadays...you don't see someone still carrying a big ugly black brick around as their phones anymore....with the exception of beggars.

The idea was rejected because of the glasses.....


So another idea was this playboy bunny ding dong look a like....that was really ridiculous looking... it's a mock up...thus it is so hideous...and cheap looking.

The idea was to have enhance sense of taste...which is hard because the tongue is already quite good...I don't think it can be enhance any further....it might probably go wacko and explode and than you won't be able to taste anything anymore...so the concept isn't exactly enhancing taste..but more of utilizing it to it's fullest potential....

We wanted to make the person blind...thus the playboy bunny ears...to block out sight...and the water bag was to clear the tongue before letting it taste something new.

That wasn't a good idea because the thing that the tongue is going to touch is the walls...and that isn't really clean....if someone outside were to use the device..(for reasons which I cannot think of)...and they have some disease...than if other people were to use the device (again for reasons I cannot fathom)...they will probably lick the same wall and end up getting sick and the whole World will come to an age of disease...and our invention will be the like the beginning of apocalypse..Okay...that's a bit far fetched...but you get it.



Anyway..my group has got a new concept now and we hope that it will work out.

Since this is a Design Studio blog...I doubt I will be talking about my TOD project.

p/s.No pics because I destroyed the piece of playboy bunny thrash.