[12.07.10] Call: BBird

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[27.06.10] Pao’s first group exhibition

hello there hello hello there hello hello there there

泡(pào) & the balloon

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[31.05.10] hey Ronald.

for more, see:
http://bit.ly/91mPAh
http://bit.ly/dfvwQJ

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[22.05.10] smaller type here.
ok, I have recategorised my stuff here. threw away lots of old stuff which aren’t important anymore and doesn’t represent me. not quite sure about the ‘fun’ category – most of the stuff in there don’t fit into the ‘design’ category (which means they are rather CSM-ish) 
well anyway, decided that this blog will be the only place I put all my 1. graphic design, 2. CSM-ish work (winks again) & 3. blog occasionally. the tumblr blog is gone. it doesn’t work properly anyway and it’s terrible to have to maintain so many blogs. that said, it’s still a template I’m using here, not my own self-designed website, but, to be honest, I’m more concerned about the pao website (winks again). THAT I did everything from scratch (BIG SMILE)
also added some links to the header pages. I guess that’s all. oh, I have to renew my domain and it’s two ways this time– with uk2 and with wordpress for the linking  =_=
have been spending time in the product design workshop for the past week. shan’t reveal anything yet! all I can say is that it is hard work (and reveals your age… YOUNG!!) (double winks) the past 5 weeks has been very very eventful, in all aspects. both good and bad, but well, if you see it the right way, all’s good. I will like to think so.

AND! a few exciting things coming up! but that’s after term. of course, it has to do with pao!  (BIG WINK)

Here’s an exclusive image of a modified pao (I modelled it at the spur of the moment). don’t know what to do with it yet.

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[13.05.10]

isn’t he cute! (via friendswithyou)

latest sculpt. not done yet though…

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[26.04.10] Mascots!

another blog which I’m updating frequently as part of a project I’m doing in college

Ron English’s ‘McChina’

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[18.04.10] A small drawing collection now on

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[08.04.10] my small corner & some cute things

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[16.03.10] Things I’ve been looking at recently…

I bought this – Wooden Deathbot figure designed by Gama-Go, ~6″ tall (photos courtesy of @doc18)

on my desktop – Yoshitomo Nara’s ‘too young to die’. yeah I agree. will everyone stop smoking?!?! I like this painting.

Ugly dolls’ tin toy trucksss!! gah, I want them all. love those witty lines on the trucks. 

as mentioned before – Eat kelp!!! (it’s right at the top of the table) I’ve been eating kale + extra lean minced beef since Monday. ha ha

Jimmy liao’s illustrations

gonna do something with this (I hope) – Ya ting’s Vespa PX150

I think it’s kinda nice to do a post every week summarising things(in images) I’ve been looking at for the past week or so. and maybe some thoughts to add. okay let’s see if I can keep to this schedule.  :p

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[08.03.10] woo hoo. It’s march.

泡(pao) says All’s good! yes let’s hope all’s good. oh did I mention my brief obsession with dices? It happened yesterday, which was a Sunday, which is a day you let your guard down and relax, which was what I did when I bought three dices at a game shop, and which also made me spend 23 freaking pounds on ‘AWESOME 3D ALICE IN WONDERLAND’ which was an absolute disappointment. the acting really sucks, and of course, what kind of story is that??? I think all movies are gonna have to be 3D from now on, cause if it isn’t, it looks really really ordinary, which is bad unless you don’t bother about box office ratings or your profits (call them Art films). still, the images aren’t popping out of the screen and freaking me out. how come??? it’s like there’s still a limit to which 3D can be 3D and there’s a screen dividing us. the only 3D 3D which zoomed right in front of my face was the Cadbury ad which screened before Avatar. ha ha that was fantastic! (not avatar) AND, I srsly think the stories are very much compromised in 3D movies, I have to complain. it’s so impt! no good stories so far. not watching any 3D for some time now…zzzzzz…

I like BIG RED DICES.

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[23.02.10] A happy man.

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[20.02.10]

’01235′ screen print 泡(pao) poster!!!!

selling this 5-color screen print poster at 23 pounds(including packaging & international postage)

please visit www.paoismyname.net for more details

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[16.02.10]  working on refining this…

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[31.01.10] I like this man.

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a read-aloud cricket concrete poetry book

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[30.01.10] New toy to custom! Angel baby Qee from toy2R (ITS GOTS WINGSSS!!)

thanks to hk hk who bought it from Megabox in HK, the biggest toy2R store in HK!

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[26.01.10] some type work in progress. I realised I really like excited type.

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[16.01.10] working on this a lot lately///

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[08.01.10]

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[31/12/09] to end 2009 on a high oh yeahhh

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[30/12/09] meet my new friends 

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[28/12/09] I need one of this.

‘Life counter’ design by Ippei Matsumoto, 2001

This prototype let you choose how many years you would like to live and start the counter. once activated, it counts down the selected time span at four
different rates: the number of years, days, hours, or seconds to go are shown on different faces. Depending on which face you choose to display, you may feel
very relaxed as the years stretch out ahead or begin to panic as you see your life speed away before your eyes. The counter is designed to be visually unassuming fitting into the slightly retro-futuristic style of the moment.

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[25/12/09] Sorry, it’s not a X’mas munny.

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[19/12/09]

Finally met mrclement at the Sunday Upmarket at brick lane today. We met online a few weeks ago and his mysterious identity kept me curious. (ha ha) Pictured is his Petit Astrolapin Black Team-A available only on his website. You can also find his other works on his site. oh, and you’ll be seeing me around wearing red lapin badges I bought today. 

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[18/12/09]

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[14/12/09]

back from Belgium & France~

after first few undercoats

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[6/12/09] > working on my first munny<

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[3/12/09] *NEW WORK*

^ please click

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[2/12/09] It’s december. 30 more days to 2010. It’s that fewww days. What do you have yet to accomplish in 2009?

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[21/11/09] Just received details of my poster sale at Selfridges (London) in summer. Sold 36 out of 55 posters(digital & letterpress) & I am now selling the remaining ones here at 10 pounds each including postage. Each A3 poster is neatly packed in a transparent tube. Here are the remaining copies of my posters for purchase:

1 copy(letterpress)

1 copy(digital)

5 copies(digital)

5 copies(digital)

1 copy(digital)

each set in neon green & neon orange (32 X 69cm) @ 15 pounds(color displayed here is not exact)

to order a copy, please send an email to play@5din5.net

you can see the rest of the posters here

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[21/11/09] Two of my graphic designer friends Jesvin & Alvin have custom-made figures for sale here. Each figure sells at 10 pounds including postage. 10 customs each.

To order a figure, please send an email to play@5din5.net

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[20/11/09]

…and reading Murakami’s ‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’, amongst many other books (awaiting patiently for me to pick them up)

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[Friday the thirteenth] my first screenprints

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[07/11/09] I am meddling with Tumblr. for a change. my latest work just up on din.tumblr.com (you can see Realfake ‘LIVE’ here with javascript)

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[03/11/09] I’m doing a Processing module. to design a clock. 3 more days to submission and I’m still waddling. Honestly, are designers expected to be super beings(a.k.a. mathematics genius) ??

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[18/10/09] Today: one of my worst days. isn’t it intriguing that there can be one fine day when everything that you do just doesn’t go as planned? I wonder if there’s some mystical force from above manipulating the other forces of nature such that these skewed situations I’m put into seem so natural.

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[09/10/09] An exhausting first week at college. my mind houses a tornado now, I can sense. I don’t think this line is suitable to be in bold. weekends are for personal time, which also means working at the brief personally, alone, away from the chaos of weekdays. AND I can’t believe a certain group of many people have voted in favor of a strike. srsly… my first game on sunday at Norbury. *nerves*

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[06/10/09] I’m sucked back into the world of Murakami, whether voluntarily or not (I guess so since I bought the book), it’s kinda nice. currently reading ‘Dance dance dance’, with a storyline somewhat related to that of ‘A wild sheep’s chase’. It’s gonna be a busy term, I can predict. watched ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ as recommended by a film friend. then going on to Harold and Maude. I sense the latter is gonna be better. District 9 is awesome. and so touching.

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[26/09/09] Fantastic Anish Kapoor show at the Royal Academy. my favorites –

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[24/09/09] Chanced upon Rivington Place while visiting YCN today. a silent film by Chen Chieh-jen was on, about a garment factory in Taiwan. it was absorbing and intriguing, plus the accidental fact that there was a pleasant tinkling sound from the air-con vent in the room, which made it, should I say, a 4D environment. saw NS Harsha’s Nations at floor level, which consisted of flags of the nations under the United Nations on sewing machines.

see www.rivingtonplace.org for more

Also went to Tent at the Truman Brewery. I am not a fan of product design, which was basically what this fair was about. got away with only a photo of a nice white bench I like. stopped by Sort at Newburgh Quarter to check out some letterpress stuff. unfortunately the workshop is fully booked and I’m amongst the 6 people on the waiting list. I guess… no chance. :l

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[21/09/09] Not impressed with LDF so far… maybe I’ve not been going to the right places. ha ha. Have been to: V&A, Polish design, Kemistry Gallery, South bank and Trafalgar Square. Could not find: North Terrace, 1-5 Exhibition Road, Shigeru Ban’s cardboard piece. srsly, The Guide is not helping. Approximity is disappointing. Signs on-site are not working. to the east and Baron’s Court will be my last few stops.

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[18/09/09] Stormed through Yoshitomo Nara, Gary Baseman and Takashi Murakami’s books in the library today. This book, ‘in the deepest puddle’ by Nara, struck me most… and gave me thoughts to hold.

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[12/09/09] Watched Mary and Max at the BFI. a claymation. it wasn’t superb. the storyline was thin, and 98% of the time there was this huge male voice narrating lines, which I found really disturbing. less narration makes a better story. a visual story. isn’t it? like Jacques Tati’s. from now onwards I’ll be subconsciously comparing every movie I watch to his films. ha ha. Visual stories have no barriers.