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Screen Dance: Motion Control

This is remarkable stuff.



"Screen dance is an artistic genre where choreography and film combine together. Stylish and innovative, it crosses the boundaries of artist film and video, avant-garde film, experimental film and contemporary dance, to an exhilarating degree. In some films there is less focus on a traditional dancing body and more on the movement of the camera and the relationship between film and choreography. However, theatrical influences are often evident in the stylishness of the films’ design, costume, set, location and character."

House Life

Remy was trained as a scriptwriter before architect, did u know that?

Birdette in your tea (not the sketch)

This origami tea-bag extends into a bird after soaking in water for some time. They can basically make any animal out of this idea. Which animal would you like? A lemming? ;)

serious mousing from now on

i'm very appreciative to have had people take the time to listen to all my past work this week. I think i had a good chat with all 3 firms (all slightly different but all enjoyable) and so things did turn out well after all :)

my mum just ironed for me 2 shirts that i don't need and even my family has gone to sleep early so as to wake me up tmr .

thank u too doowupy guppy/ewettes, for always picking up my calls, even when i only have something small to say!

All-time favourite

snow cat

i got my very own! Going to be playing with it later in the noon! (wish i could hug a real one though :()

My deal-sealers for today

1. having Lilian as thesis tutor
2. being excited about studio discussions
3. doing curatorial work as part of thesis research
4. when the reading list is everything you would read for leisure
5. dreaming of living in ny
6. knowing that you made the right decision afterall

today has been such a fantastic day - marking the first of many more to come. shiok la. :)

A dress for your chair

Defining Success

Success tends to defy a simple definition. It can mean the ability to achieve what you desire to achieve. It can mean making things work out for the best in spite of the opposition. It can mean to do well doing most things, do well at everything, or do the right things well.

Ross Perot once said that success is being the best at whatever you do. Andrew Carnegie believed the definition of success is not how much you get, but how much you give away. Marva Collins says that success doesn't come to you...you go to it. Benjamin Disraeli notes that the secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Our humanity often defines success in terms of power, prestige, acquisition, achievements, wealth, or security on many levels including financial, physical or emotional. Success is often measured by money - how much or how little. However, money can build bombs, and it can build schools. It can buy a house, but it cannot make a home. It can purchase a bed, but it cannot guarantee rest. Thus, success defined only in tangible terms goes wanting; while Jesus says lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth.

God's ways are not our ways. God looks beyond external distinctions and uniqueness, and goes straight to the heart. If we commit our ways to the Lord, trusting Him every step of the way, God will bring it to past. If we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, the things we are looking for will be added unto us, after all God gives us (according to the writer in Deuteronomy) the ability to create wealth.

Peter Gomes writes in The Good Life that success is not surmounting tribulation of all times; it is the capacity to better cope with tribulation as its strategies increase in proportion to our strength. He says the secret lies not in depending upon our strength, but on the strength of God.

Joseph was in such a position. Sibling rivalry interrupted family life. He was sold into slavery and made a life for himself in Potipher's house. He was falsely accused of sexual advancement toward Potipher's wife and sent to Pharaoh's prison. The jailer put all the prisoners under Joseph's oversight. All matters are under his influence, and the Lord caused everything he did to succeed.

There was no accumulation of a massive amount of wealth. There were no mansions, Bentleys, swimming pools, stock options or slush funds. Yet, the Lord was with Joseph. Success then was not what you get for yourself, notes Gomes. Success appears to be blooming where you are planted, as the lily of the fields. Success demands a complex definition - one that goes beyond the tangible to the intangible and beyond the secular to the sacred.

I don't really know what's going to happen for thesis this time round. Maybe I will do well, maybe I won't. But this is the least of my interests, though they are very important in one's academic pursuit. What I really want is to attain true success that the world can't take away. Before David became king, he shut the mouths of lions in the wilderness as a young shepherd boy. But if he never entered the 'wilderness' days of lack and weakness, there would not be any chance of meeting lions. Someone told me recently that God brings us into the wilderness so that He can date us - to show us how He can provide for us, protect us, shelter us and of course, to win us totally over as a lover before bringing us into our promised land. Quite often, such journeys require that we meet a couple of savage beasts along the way so that we can learn to fight and get ourselves a backbone made of steel. When we are trained this way, no giants will be able to defeat us. We will be able to defeat our Goliath with strength and courage that grew unknowingly during the wilderness times. David killed Goliath with one smooth stone: the very thing that was supposed to kill him became the reason for his coronation.

It takes a lot of integrity not to give up even when it's often the easier way out; to really stick with our convictions even when no one is looking. This is the time when we prove to the world and more importantly to ourselves that we actually believe in what we say we believe in.

This thesis has been and still is (for the next 8 months!) my best adventure yet. Super exciting times ahead.

:)

Belly investigations and Culture Mouse

I shall try out this place tomorrow when I swing by the National Library for some research-time. Do you want to join me? I have also decided to buy myself a (very late!) MJ shirt from Bugis Market- just to fulfill my fan desires. Part of tomorrow's excursion also includes shopping at MUJI, hee. I'm going to rat about the museums on Friday evening because I wanna see that Anterwpish exhibition, plus its gonna be free. I've packed my sleeves with all these culture tidbits because I realised that I have been, erm, culturally starved lately. Not a good way to live if I want to work for them or them in the future...

An architect's picnic

http://www.mi-ri.com/miri/project/madrix/index.html