Lesson 1&2

﹣站在另一個身份角度去描寫同一件事
《動物研究之行為學﹣麥嘜》
﹣如何可以在虚構作品中呈現真實的維度？
eg. 模擬一些語調（新聞用語／數据）去勾起你的回憶（ie. 所有你認識的文字／畫面）
《新聞小說新聞﹣黄怡》
﹣拿真實（新聞）故事為題創作小說，可以如何演譯？
﹣留意場景轉換變化
《誤認﹣謝傲霜》　
﹣利用故事世界跟現實處景中或在你想表達的訊息之間的共通點發揮創作
《快樂王子》x《美人魚﹣飲江》x《快樂王子（漫畫）﹣智海》
１城市人生活艱難
２犧牲自己的身體
３喜新惡舊

即字創作：
theme：不能控制的變化使本貌消失／遺失
幻想一個人因不進食，體重越來越輕；終於有一天，他的腳開紿碰不著地，他的朋友／家人要拖住他行走，像輕氣球一樣。最後，我們看見他的，只剩下那根幼幼的線

「城市書寫工作坊」17.2.2011 - 7.4.2011

為了迫自己吸收﹠創作故事特意參加了「字花」x HKBU的創作班，希望不要浪費光陰。
內容：


第一部份——媒體
導師：謝傲霜
日期：2月17日、2月24日
媒體是每一位城市人最為日常的經驗來源。不同的媒體的體裁（電影、漫畫）、形式（新聞報導、娛樂雜誌）可以如何豐富文學創作的再現手法、敘述角度？文學的技巧又如何介入到各種媒體中，賦予其深度？透過各種寫作練習，同學可以從中探討虛構與真實的論題。

第二部份——消費
導師：高俊傑
日期：3月3日、3月10日
現代城市可說是個大型商場，各種可供消費、替換，實用或者沒有實用價值的物品充斥了我們每日的生活。透過投入不同物品的視角，觀察並描述世界；或者透過與週遭物件的對話，同學將能書寫出一個又一個魔幻的城市故事。

第三部份——感官
導師：洪曉嫻
日期：3月17日、3月24日
身體上不同的感官本來可以是感知城市的方式。在各種影像、消費品泛濫的今天，視覺幾乎佔了壓倒性的主導地位，聽覺、嗅覺、觸覺、味覺等感官愈來愈遲鈍，透過練習、書寫其他感官，同學可以把握細節描寫的技巧，更立體地組合出我們的城市。

第四部份——社區
導師：鄭家駒
日期：3月31日、4月7日
城市生活中我們最常遭遇的大部份是陌生人，但同時在我們的居住空間，我們也會與陌生人產生關係，建立各種有形或無形的社群。社區是呈現不同人際關係，城市歷史的場所，也是故事得以出現、累積的憑藉。同學可以在這個部份嘗試創作地方誌、家族史等等的叙事形式。

Language of disease

Language of disease
Disease is an enemy that must be feared, fought, battled, and routed. 
The patient or the physician is a warrior, rather than a passive victim or bystander(旁觀者). 
The agents of communicable diseases are invaders;
non-communicable diseases constitute internal insurrection.


Metaphors describes the experience of illness as a journey: 
The person travels to or from a place of disease, and changes himself, discovers new information, or increases his experience along the way. 

29/12/2010

Got sick after a 3 days 2 nights busy wild camp in a very cold campsite with a group of teenagers.
See my first super starry night in HK during the camp, really amazing, can see the 北斗星，北斗七星，獵戶座...etc. Also first time to set up the tent, camp fire, night walk...etc.

When i got sick, i can strongly feel that some of my 5 senses become weaker.
ie. smell, taste.

Blink
what will happen if people don't know they have sense?
just like if they always being sick, but they don't realize they got sickness.
suddenly one day, when the sickness get cure, they can feel their senses again.
However, this idea smell like a bit overlap with "Matrix" :P


Blink
but sickness maybe a good direction, related to senses and also not many existing topic in comic.

15/12/2010

some comments from supervisors:

- try to add 5 sense (i.e in the room)
- why you want to add sense?
- see different culture of comic
  see the style in eg. learning / children / adult / political comics...
- think about the content and intention
- if you want to challenge one thing, you have to know what is it.
- organize the memory / what touch you the most.
- make brief structure < so that you can choose
- story can be ordinary but it should be something that touch you

Sour Mirror interactive video

The latest interactive video for Japanese band Sour reflects two big trends from this year: 

multiple pop-up windows and music videos that pull in the user's personal data

-see creative review-

Interactive Xmas card

Raster Animation Christmas Card from Beakus

moving the goggle will see the movement of the wolf & snow.

simple hand made animation in 2D surface other then flip-book.

quite good to apply to the comic strips.

Palm Top Theater (2010)

Palm top theatre

Another way of reading

Levi's Gears Billboard

Imaging an animation-like comic changing the border line in order to change the sequence of the the story.

Short talk with Mariko on 26/11/2010

I want to suggest ppl using their other senses in the process of "reading" a comic. (eg senses like sound/touch/smell/taste...) i think this idea may inspired by the 3D & 4D movie experience when i was in cinema.

my first suggesting approach is to print/draw some pages of the comic in another material eg plastic sheet/ lantern paper to create sound when people flip the page.

other is to spray some smell into the panel (maybe full of flower) 

third is placing the panel into different place to obtain the sound...

"Comic is normally an everyday element. As a book not especially expensive and it is a mass product.
If we take your idea it rather sounds like a unique item or an artists book."
"Even though you are making an artist book, the main problem is what's your story? what u r going to tell?"
"u may try turning it into the direction of wii or nintendo ds" (ask somebody who can work the program part with you) 


"Maybe you can make a 2D room installation and let the people create their own story there"
"eg. using the idea of silent butler > silent friends & family"
"where to put the comic?"


"I know it's always hard to start :) "

Inspiration images 1

what can we read is only the movement of the air, right?

music note on comic, feel like watching a MV!

imagine here are the 6 panels of a comic, maybe it's another way to read & taste & involve in the comic!

a good presentation to attract people's eye till the very end of the story.

Sound and Smell excises

Today I try to write down the sound and smell i sensed on my way from home to AVA. (it's around an hour journey)

	SMELL		SOUND
	汽油味 (cars) 垃圾 (wasted food/drinks) 大排檔煮食煙味 (cooking) 燒味﹣蜜汁叉燒味 (BBQ pork) 吸煙味 (cigarette) 男人汗味 (male sweat)  香油味﹣南亞裔人士 (balsam) 女人香水 (perfume) 冷氣味 (air condition) 吸煙味 (cigarette) 熟食味 (7-11) 停車場油味 (gasoline) 樹葉味 (green leaf)		紅綠燈聲 (traffic light) 五金舖的機器聲 (machine) 停車場倒車聲 (car moving) 紅綠燈聲 (traffic light) 八達通入閘聲 (octopus card) 電梯聲 (escalator)  MTR關車門／行車／擴播／開門聲 (MTR close door/run/announce/open door) 傾電話聲 (mobile) 電話鈴聲 (ringtone) 口袋／手裏的零錢聲 (coins) 翻報紙聲 (newspaper) 咳聲 (cough) 小朋友說話聲＞菲庸說話聲（包括鄉下話，廣東話，英文 etc.）(chatting) MTR指引盲人的「噠噠噠」聲 (guide for the blind) 八達通出閘聲 (octopus card) 不同的鞋聲（高跟，拖鞋 etc.）(people's steps) 滾輪聲 (luggage) 猫叫聲 (cat)

過程讓我想起「味分高下」這個遊戲節目，要用觸覺／嗅覺／味覺去猜食物，哈！

Reading in process 1

The ACME Novelty library ( 741.5973 Ac65  2008 no.19)
   Author: Chris Ware

very famous comic artist introduced by Justin in comic art lesson.

Ware has said of his own style:

"I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I "draw", which keeps me at a sensible distance from the story as well as being a visual analog to the way we remember and conceptualize the world."

"I figured out this way of working by learning from and looking at artists I admired and whom I thought came closest to getting at what seemed to me to be the "essence" of comics"

" I see the black outlines of cartoons as visual approximations of the way we remember general ideas, and I try to use naturalistic color underneath them to simultaneously suggest a perceptual experience, which I think is more or less the way we actually experience the world as adults"

"we don't really "see" anymore after a certain age, we spend our time naming and categorizing and identifying and figuring how everything all fits together."

Comic installation

It's time to organize the information i got for my HP development.
My very first idea is to apply comic elements into different art form.
Here's some exhibition design of Justin Wong which is very close to what I had imagined in my mind.