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In the age of communication and technology, creative multimedia is the medium of intercommunication between organizations and of course, various individual importances. The multi itself means multi, which in this case, we have the sight, hearing and vocal conveyed messages as mediums. Photography, motion graphics, 3D modeling and animation, typographies, and graphics design are combined together to produce the ultimate medium of conveying the message.

Let us brief ourselves with 3D modeling and animation components in the media. It’s a major breakthrough in media science as we can create something that is real and most definitely, surreal, by just observing and applying our human capability of being creative. It’s not genius; it’s called perspiration with enough practice and training. 3D models are created and then rendered, which in this case the modeling and the rendering is divided into two processes. With enough resources and analytical precedent studies, a good model could be produced. These modeling works are done by 3D modelers, working together as a group or individually to produce models for gaming purposes, movies or even animations.

The next viable process that has to be done is to render the model, which, can take a lot of time to finish. This time-abducting process can be done on a single very powerful super computers or render farms (lots and lots of processing computers). There are mental-ray renderers, basic scan-line renderers, and the most popular, V-ray.

V-ray is easily explained as a rendering engine that is used as an extension for certain 3D computer graphics software. It was developed by Vladimir Kyzalov and Peter Mitev of the Chaos group, a production studio that was established in 1997, and based in Sofia, Bulgaria. This useful computer graphics extension makes use of advanced techniques available, for example, global illumination algorithms such as path tracing, photon maps, irradiance maps, and a directly computed global illumination. The wide usage of these techniques makes it preferable rather than other conventional renderers which are provided as a standard renderer with 3D software.

By using these techniques also the models or scene can appear more photo-realistic, as the actual lighting maps and effects are more realistically processed and emulated. V-ray is widely used globally in developments of film productions and multi-million dollar game productions. V-ray also is extensively used and helped architecture in making it realistic and emissive.

The V-Ray plugin is compatible with packages such as Sketchup, Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino, Maxon Cinema 4D, Blender and Softimage XSI, and is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. VRay.info was the first help-site dedicated to the V-Ray community, going online in spring 2002, shortly after the first release of V-Ray. They publish news, tutorials, reviews, interviews and links related to the V-Ray renderer, and also showcase work created by V-Ray users around the world. In cooperation with CGArchitect.com the VRay.info Shop is one of the newest initiatives put together to help the community with all of their visualization needs. Featuring literally hundreds of different products and provide industry leading support.

V-Ray introduced rendering with global illumination with unmatched speed and ease of set up. This fomented its implementation by many large-scale productions, including big-screen movies like The Last Samurai, and Final Destination II, computer games Onimusha 3 and music videos of Nine Inch Nails and many others. In addition to being an excellent animation renderer, V-Ray has also become practically the standard solution for photorealistic architectural visualization. Its streamlined architecture, specifically designed to handle effects like area shadows, glossy reflections etc., combined with very efficient global illumination solutions and ease of setup, have left it practically without competition in this area.

One aspect that has set V-Ray apart is the communication between its users and developers. The result is a software that is well adapted to the need of its users. The official V-Ray forum is a great place to find answers to any questions related to V-Ray, ask for comments, or simply share an opinion.

Built on the foundation of the already existing rendering engine, the brand new 1.5 version of V-Ray introduces many new features. Among these are accurate daylight simulation through the new V-Ray sun light and sky environment, physical camera that allows users to take virtual photographs and set up parameters like in a photographic camera, extended support for render elements, new materials and shaders, as well as an SDK that allows to extend or replace practically all aspects of the rendering engine.

Beyond this prospective progression, we can only hope that V-ray or any other rendering engine will take another step further in enhancing computer graphics films and motion graphics. This technology has done so much in helping us produce more creative products and it will soon be one of the greatest achievements mankind ever made in the computer generated graphics history.

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Juxtaposition : Exercise

In class, we had an exercise on juxtaposition. Mr Razi showed some slides about a guy running away from the path he used to go because he's cheating on his wife and now the other guy is waiting for him at the station he used to take.

It was a sad story, but I'm a man, I will not shed a tear.

oh.. oh god.

*cry*

...

..

anyway we were supposed to make a signboard to scare people away from this toxic waste dump place.

We're supposed to look at cats for inspiration. And I have just the thing to scare.

One of the most notable scary trait on a cat is their eyes.

They're big, they glow, they expand and contract like, like, like cat's pupils.

When they look at you, its as if they're putting a curse on you for 4 generations, "You've seen into my eyes, you won't be happy for the next 4 generations. For the lulz." and when they meow it sounds like the very sound from hell itself.

But however I will only use the eyes as an example.

So based upon the eyes, I have made this image

"BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU"

OH GOD. OH GOOD GOD LOOK AT THOSE EYES.

SCARES THE BEJABBERS OUT OF ME.

I SHOULDN'T ENTER THIS PLACE OR ELSE BIG BROTHER WILL KILL ME.

ok im going to puke.

Juxtapositions | Metaphors

i've been dancing around the topic of juxtaposition and metaphor for some time now and some of the notable examples i can give are rarely from pictures or the like. Instead, I prefer to quote from rhymes, as in rap rhyme.

Not kindergarten rhymes if you were wondering.

Juxtaposition:

• the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
• a side-by-side position
  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side, often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or differences; An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together; Two or more contrasting sounds, registers, styles etc. ...
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/juxtaposition

• an act of comparing two things, especially in a way that suggests connection between them or to distinguish them
  www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Clerks

Simile:

• gure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• A simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the words "like" or "as". ...
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile

• A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/simile

• Simile is a comparison of two dissimilar objects that uses the words like or as. See, for example, Karen Connelly's description of herself in "Touch the Dragon": "As the country pulls out from under me, I overturn like a glass of water on a yanked tablecloth, I spill. ...
  www.pearsoned.ca/text/flachmann4/gloss_iframe.html

• a figure that explicitly expresses the comparison, often signaled by "like" or "as"
  www.indiana.edu/~bestsell/glossary.html

• A comparison, usually using "like" or "as", of two essentially dissimilar things, as in "coffee as cold as ice" or "He sounded like a broken record." The title of Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" contains a simile. (Compare with Metaphor.)
  www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/glossary/glossary_s.htm

source: google define

So, lets look at juxtaposition first.

The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?

Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.

Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.

This was from Tupac, and it was written some time around 89'-91' right when his name is growing in his hometown Harlem - where a lot of other rappers from.

Now if we see closely, clearly, a rose cannot grow out from concrete.

And yet, it did. And what Tupac was trying to achieve from this is not to show about that rose, but to show him. Its the reaction of people when he talk about the place where he grew from.

"You grow up there? Daaymmnn."

Harlem if you don't know it is a very harsh place to live in back in the days. That place is really ghetto, people get killed for drugs and gangs. If you're not in a gang, you'll die unprotected. But if you are in a gang, you'll probably get shot too.

So, lol.

Anyway, though this was one of the few first pieces that he produced for the masses, it was so finely written that we can feel the emotion he's portraying.

When people saw a rose growing from concrete, people won't go "Damn look at the rose, its so beautiful and thorny and all. I want to pluck it for my girlfriend."
No, people will go "Daamn that rose grew out from a CONCRETE! I mean, when else can you see that? Thats just impossible man!"

He's truly a rose that grew from concrete

RIP Man

Another thing to look at is simile.

"I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve."

- Big Boi on "Atliens," Atliens

"Me without a mic is like a beat without a snare...

I'm sweet like licorice, dangerous like syphilis."

- Lauryn Hill on "How Many Mics," The Score

"I come fresh like your breath after you brush,

wack Mc's like that orange soda get crushed."

- Fatlip on "Pharcyde," Labcabincalifornia

"Throwing out the wicked like God did the devil,

funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me,

we're in like that, you're dead like Presley."

- Q-Tip on "Steve Biko," Midnight Marauders

"My rhymes are like shot clocks,

interstate cops

and blood clots,

my point is your flow gets stopped."

- Talib Kweli on "Hater Players," Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Blackstar

source:http://www.flocabulary.com/hiphopmetaphors.html

These people are geniuses in hip hop and they are nothing like today's rappers. People like 50 Cent, Chingy, Caprice and all the lot, they're destroying rap music.

But we'll save that for another time.

We can see the rhyme structure fits nicely and we get to 'see' what the writer is trying to convey. Its so awesome to read something and feel the emotion and mind of the writer.

"Dead like Presley."
Come on, how dead can you be?

lol

Mortar and Pestle

At the start of the class I was very interested to hear what Mr Razi wanted to talk about mortars. I didn't care about pestles because I didn't know what pestles are.

But then my fascination and interest was shattered when he brought forth a pair of mortar and pestle-

yes, they were lesung batu

LESUNG

BATU

i thought he was going to talk about mortars. As in, you know, mortars *pew pew pew* *shiuu, BOOMM* mortars. The canons.

Oh well, LOL.

We were given papers, A3 size for making a creative mindmap to think of the usage for the mortar and pestle.

:: Imagine we're in 201010, and we are archeologists. Then we stumbled upon the mortar and pestle. Think of a way it was used it 2010.

this is a badly drawn picture of a pair of mortar and pestle

and this is a real picture of them

I know they look so different, but honestly I've tried my best to draw it. I'm so proud of my drawing and it looks very nice.

**********************

After hours of brainstorming, I finally thought of a way to use the mortar and pestle other than knocking someone's head or mashing belacan.

"In 2010, people use mortars and pestles as a symbol of their purity. Each born male will have their own mortars, and each born woman will have their own pestles. Then in marriage, they will combine the mortar and pestle as a symbol of their marriage, and as a symbol of pestle going into mortar's hole to create something delicious just like belacan except belacan is edible and the pestle entering mortar is not edible. But its up to your view whether its edible or not, I won't judge, and I know some people are cannibals so they can eat anything. But I don't think they'll eat the mortar and pestle."

I was wearing an 'I Love Sydney' shirt in the class that day and it was embarrassing when i was called I Love Sydney when I have never even been there. Then I thought another use for the mortar and pestle...

But still I was proud that I thought of a great usage for the mortar and pestle in just a few minutes and I can smell the jealousy in the air and my classmates' faces turning green of envy.

I shall not let them savor the tasty taste of compliment so I pretended that I do not notice them.

I must watch my back from time to time because one might hire an assassin cum ninja cum pirate to attempt to assassinate me. Its true, one of them almost killed me in my sleep.

Anyway after a few days my friend told me that there is a tradition like that in India or somewhere like there. I cant differentiate between them all, they look the same, just like white people see all asians as the same.

She told me that Indians do give each other mortars and pestles upon marriage, and I don't feel like my idea is unique anymore.

:(

Image of Public Figure

For this week, we're supposed to work in pairs and find a public figure - notably a creative one, and publish it in our blogs.

Before we go any further, lets see what does it mean by 'public figure'

• name: a well-known or notable person; "they studied all the great names in the history of France"; "she is an important figure in modern music"
  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• Public figure is a legal term applied in the context of defamation actions (libel and slander) as well as invasion of privacy. ...
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure

• a famous person whose life is the subject of public interest
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/public_figure

• Any celebrity or well-known figure who endorses a franchise or whose name or image appears in the franchise name or symbol.
  www.frandocs.com/Franchise%20Glossary.htm

• refers to any person who receives frequent media attention, or is well-known in a particular area. Public figures who make claims of libel must prove 'actual malice' to succeed in such a case.
  medialibel.org/libel/definition.html

source: google define

For me, the public figure I choose to publish is none other than our favorite rapper Soulja Boy Tell 'Em

To me, he is a very capable and creative man. One of his most famous example of creativity is on his sunglasses, or in the hip hop slang "shades shizz yo".

He uses something like a hard embossed paint to write his name on the 'shades shizz yo'. Though, I do not know whether it affects his vision or not, and the fact that he wears that all the time including in zero lighting clubs and out at night.

His songs are nothing to be challenged. Incomparable. One of his best songs yet is dated back to 2006 called Whats Hannennen' (the real spelling for this is unknown because I can't detect his pronunciation, but he's really creative like that)

Too bad, it has no video clips so a lot of his fans ,or as they say it in hip hop slang 'homies' and 'peeps', made their own videos for the song. It seems that his creativity itself bleeds into the veins of his fans.

Here is a sample of the video:

theres even a video made from South Park (which is to me another thing worthy of the name 'public figure' but then its a series not a person so too bad LOL)

However embedding is disabled by request. It must be because the uploader refuses from letting it be plagiarized by other people. Here's the link instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spmdX1Wquag

All in all, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em is my favorite singer and rapper because he has a very great voice. He is also a very creative man.

When I grow up, I wanna be just like him.

Creativity|Novelty & Innovation|Invention

Before all, here are the definitions for the respective terms.

CREATIVITY; Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight

NOVELTY; Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fuelled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight

INNOVATION; Innovation is a new way of doing something or "new stuff that is made useful". It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.

INVENTION; An invention is a new composition, device, or process. An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived in which case it may be a radical breakthrough.

Source: google definition

I've done a bit of a lurking of my own, and one of my favorite sites to see interesting things is theawesomer.com.

They have tons of awesome stuffs in there (theawesomer, duh T_T ) and some of my favorite things in there are;

| INNOVATION |

CRKT Eat’N Tool
Just the concept of a portable screwdriver wrench opener multi-tool that’s also a spork has us grinning from ear-to-ear. And now, you can actually buy one, thanks to the guys at CRKT.
More info log on here CRKT.
Source: theawesomer.com

| NOVELTY |

AM02 & AM03 Air Multipliers
Dyson’s new Air Multiplier fans are more powerful than the desktop variants. The AM02 sucks in air at 9 gal/sec and amplifies it 16 times, while the AM03 amplifies the same amount of air 18 times.
They're available for purchase here.
source: theawesomer.

| CREATIVITY |

New: Star Wars x Ecko

Available for preorder: Marc Ecko’s Star Wars-themed collaboration continues with new hoodies, bubble jackets and track jackets; top picks: X-Wing Pilot and Storm Trooper.
Source: theawesomer

Okay okay, I won't be a fanboy. I'll pick up another website for the invention example.

| INVENTION |

It's the all new Nubrella!
Those who have gotten tired of conventional umbrellas can try out Nubrella, a hands-free bubble umbrella. Its inventor is Alan Kaufman who recently appeared in ABC network's Shark's Tank show. He talked at length about the reasons he developed nubrella for. The inventor of nubrella admitted that the plight of the New Yorkers in using conventional umbrella prompted him to come up with an easier alternative.
More info can be fetched here.

Of Mice and Men

People often think that if you don't live your life, you're not free. If you don't fight for your freedom, then you're not a free man. If you choose to live as how you have been living and refuse to move with the world in their pace, then you're not free.

Who are they to judge what free and freedom means.

To have a definite idea and context of being free itself is a confinement. If you have a specific idea of what freedom is, the you're the one who is not free. If you feel that other people are not free when they are not following your footsteps and your ways, then you're the one who is not free.

There is an old story I remembered about freedom, it was a conversation between a city man and a village folk.

The village folk was sitting playing chess with his friends and smoking cigar while managing his small fish stall, and the city man came with suits and ties.

"You have a very strategic place to make a bigger fishing place. You can build a pond there, a bigger fish market here, and another boat or two maybe. I can help you realize that."
"But what for? I'm happy the way I am now."
"But don't you want more money? You can ensure a good life with some money in the bank."
"Okay, so tell me what is your plan."
"Well for starters, you can renovate this god-forsaken stall to a bigger market, and make more money."
"Okay, then?"
"Get another boat, and some more crew members to manage it."
"Okay, after that?"
"You can build a pond there to breed some more fish for your market. You can sell catfish n tons of other kinds."
"Gee, that sounds like hard work. I won't have time for other stuff."
"Well that's the price you have to pay for financial freedom."
"But I want some time for myself and my friends."
"Don't worry pops, you can work your way up to the top in a few short years."
"And then...?"
"..What do you mean 'And then' pops?"
"I mean, after I'm successful?"
"Well, you can retire off, and settle down somewhere calm and play chess with your friends and smoke cigars."

"Hehe. Silly city boy, what do you think I'm doing now?"

You won't be free until you are ready to accept other people's view of freedom.

Oh if only life isn't so relative..

Lesson 1: Defining Creativity

I used to sit and ponder about things, well actually I still do. I don't know why every time I say it, it comes out as if I had stopped doing that.And actually, coincidentally one of the things I had pondered about was creativity. Not just the words, but the whole context of creativity.

And I always thought of how it was confined in a definition or maybe a context, of some sort.

Well for starters, creativity and creative are two different things. Creativity is in the mind of the person, while creative is the action he or she does, ie:

His creativity is adorable, me makes creative drawings and creations.

You get what I mean right?

Also, I love to ponder how people are creative since the dawn of time. Like the moment when the first spark of light illuminated the caves of prehistoric men.

How do they even know how to create fire in the first place?

That... is sure as hell creative.

Imagine assembling an engine with no experience while blindfolded.

creative picture

This is the picture i have chosen for the creative picture. I took it because it is very freaky and creepy of him to make this. What's even in his mind? LOL

Overall it is a very nice effect, something he had managed to make.

What has been seen cannot be unseen. LOL