Publicity Video for Singapore Blog Awards

I burnt my Sunday night shooting and editing this. Concept behind it is on the power of blogging to augment social changes as well as the main Singapore Blog Awards theme of ‘new age warfare’ using computer keyboards.

Help pass this video on!

BTW: If you know most of the words and terms in the video, you ought to be in the award too.

Registration/nomination of blogs have been extended till 8 June 2008.

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Through the Looking Glass

I like to take photos of mirror reflections. These can be referred to as “images of images”. They are especially handy when you need to take group photos with the photographer included in the image and when you are intrigued by mirror image distortions (as demonstrated below).

This picture was taken along the streets of Dan Shui (淡水) in Taipei. The mirror is convex-shaped, as are all corner mirrors and gives a good, wide-angle wide of the street behind us.

This second one was taken in a large departmental store near to the Taipei 101 building. The mirror is bent at some angles and result in some of our faces looking really weird

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Make your own Snowflake

This is fun!

Visit this website and make snowflake designs of your own. Here’s a “Alvinology Snowflake” I made:

Upon completion of your design, you can even save the file in EPS format in its vector form - how cool is that? This means it can be recycled and used in your other design works in hi-resolution!

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A million 相思豆

I like this picture taken at the Singapore Science Centre. They are trying to collect 1 million red saga seeds to showcase the beauty of the seeds with magnitude. You can donate your collection to them to aid them in their cause - more information is available HERE.

I always had this fascination with red saga seeds since I was a little boy. Perhaps it was because there were saga trees growing near my home and my primary school - hence there was easy access for me to build up a collection. The solid red colour glows like a burning flame, and they also have a very beatiful chinese name: 相思豆 (literally translated as “remembrance beans”).

Here’s the story behind the chinese name:

相传，古时有位男子出征，其妻朝夕倚于高山上的大树下祈望；因思念边塞的爱人，哭于树下。泪水流干后，流出来的是粒粒鲜红的血滴。血滴化为红豆，红豆生根 发芽，长成大树，结满了一树红豆，人们称之为相思豆。日复一日，春去秋来。大树的果实，伴着姑娘心中的思念，慢慢的变成了地球上最美的红色心型种子——相 思豆。

Roughly translated:

Long long ago, there was a man who had to go to war. His wife sat on top of a hill, under a tree and prayed for his safe return. Her tears seeped into the soil and were transformed into the red saga seeds. Hence the name “remembrance beans” as each seed were supposed to encompass the lady’s remembrance and longing for her husband’s safe return.

Yada… my bad translation makes it sound cheesy. Better to read the chinese version.

Anyway, I tweaked the colour of the saga seeds in photoshop just to see if there will be just as attractive if they were of a different hue:

What do you think?

I still prefer the original blood-red hue.

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Photoshopped Chipmunks

I created a template to dress up Alvin the Chipmunk in sweaters of different motifs. Here are some samples below. I am getting addicted to creating more and more variant chipmunks!

If you have a design you want imprinted on a chipmunk sweater, email me at alvinologist@gmail.com together with the message you want to include in the speech bubble. I will do it for nothing but your friendship - just like Don Corleone in Godfather (I just finished reading the classic book by Mario Puzo a few weeks ago).

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SAF Chipmunk

Photoshopped this for fun. Nice or not? Took me about 15 minutes to do this. The edges are a bit rough because I have to clean out Simon and Theodore.

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Crawling Worm

Cute or not?

Did this two frames animated GIF for fun:

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Blow

Picture taken somewhere in Tiong Bahru. Some minor editing done in Photoshop.

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Sometime, I feel like this… (Part 5)

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Trendy Photo Studio at Tiong Bahru

They self-proclaimed one ah - not I say one.

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