Firstly, there was the hours we laboured through the night. It is definitely more fun to do work with company. Then on Wednesday we decide to give ourselves a pat on the back and went for steamboat at Yuen's. Quite fun hanging out with all of them and soon to find that some of my classmates are very funny. Some are funny like me(almost) and they are others who are "The Office" funny.
However on that same night, disaster strucked. It was around 10pm when we were sitting around and then we saw this deck of cards. Naturally there is only one thing to do, CDD. But CDD wasn't really fun because there was nothing involved. No money, no risk, no punishment, until we had the splendid idea of having using pushups as bets. Minimum 5 pushups, maximum 50 pushups. With our new found currency, we decided to switched to blackjack instead. And the rest as they say, was history.
90 pushups isn't funny. But, what was funny was how my friend tried to squirm away from doing 250 pushups. He only did 100, and owes another 110(after much sympathy and discount) which he negotiate to be "paid off" via installments. As for myself, the effects of 90pushups kicked in not so long after. My pectorialis major was stiff, my diaphragm area was stiff, my right quadriceps was stiff and I couldn't sit straight or bend my right arm without sounding like I was in labour.
However, that didn't stop me or any of us from our next agenda, LAN PARTY! Oh yea, 2 on 2 DotA. Because most of my friends are from outstation, they had rented rooms in the houses in the housing area opposite my college. Each one of them had a desktop , some laptops and some even both. So we just hooked up the wireless router and we were good to go. It wasn't exactly a very pro game but it was definitely fun. It's hard to describe this feeling but playing with friends on LAN somehow is just a whole different experience altogether and a good one at that.
The next two days were slightly more relaxing but we were only in denial that we have actually a big pile of work to do but again we had fun doing it together and the advantage of doing work together with them, which I discovered, was that we were able to give each other comments and help each other, such as setting up a spontaneous mini photoshoot studio in one of my friends bedroom for example. This leads me to the current project that I am working on and its due Monday.
The project is to create 4 portraits of ourselves, each with different requirements. The below are the works I came up with.
You've probably seen something like this before from me. I used the same technique but you could say that this probably the best piece I came up with using this technique. I went further and added the colour gradient, giving it a very beautiful sort of retro and that colour spectrum you see in those pictures of computer chips from like Intel.
This one is really cool. I did this with the help from a few of my friends. This was using the shutter speed manipulation technique. We turned my friend's room into a mini studio and we had this really cool lamp that we used as a "lightbox" and another one of my friend had to hold up a mounting board behind me for the black bg. It took us a few tries to lay down the technique but when we did, it was pretty cool and the effect was very cool as well. This one is a edited version of the original. It's only 1 photo and not 3 different ones layered on each other. Big thanks goes out to Albert, our class's inhouse pro photographer and the makeshift crew members of Yi Pin and Han Yang. Haha.
Oh yea one more highlight of my week was watching a dissection. We are about to start drawing fullbody figures already and our lecturer decided to show us this video to let us see how the muscles structure of a human looks like and work. The video was sort of like a documentary or educational dvd of some sort about human anatomy. So this professor dissected this dead person's real body in front of a live studio audience. It was quite vivid. He removed the body's skin in one whole piece and when he layed it out it look like a jacket. He then cut some muscles to show us the movement by pulling them manually. He even cracked open the brain, which was kinda like opening a durian. No seriously, the way he was hitting the chisel to crack open the brain was exactly how hard you hit when you want to open a durian/coconut. They even split open the spinal cord and took out the cord itself. One of the longest nerves extend from the brain until the tip of our big toe. But I think the best part of of all is that when they took a preserved brain and sliced it into like 6 cross-section-burger-patty-like pieces with different thickness to show us of the brain looks like. At the end of it I think the video did not achieve its purpose, but it was quite a cool video to watch about the human anatomy. Not for the faint hearted, srsly.
So yea it has been a productive week though there was quite alot of slacking in between. Anyway I have delayed long enough and should be getting back to my work now. I'm leave you all with this wallpaper I made like 15minutes in CG class haha. Quite cool, very retro, very my style. I might even make it into a print one day haha. Ciao.
P.S: Don't ask me what it means.
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