Through the light

Through the light
I see hope

I am all ready to leap





Taken at unknown empty carpark in KL | 2008

Not just a university calendar

Amusing design by Jörg Block. I wish I can see such innovation being accepted by our local education arena soon. Well, you know, this takes time, very long time to happen.

Excerpt From Adobe Design Achievement Awards:

The illustrations were created for the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences research calendar. Each month illustrates a different project to demonstrate the variety of the university’s research activities for the general public. I used striking, funny, or droll images to inspire spontaneous interest in the featured research subjects. I intended the images to stimulate viewer curiosity about the concrete research activities referenced on the back of each calendar page and hope the viewer reads the detailed information there. The illustration subjects include marketing bio food, logistics systems, anesthesia technology, joining technology, bio diesel, and packaging.

Reviving the reefs

According to research, it takes decades to a century for damaged reefs to heal or re-grow. However, with the advanced technology we have, we might be able to shorten the time required to have the ocean filled with colourful reefs again.

EcoReef is a hybrid of technology and organic life. They look articifial on land but manage to attract the growth of wide varieties of baby corals and fish habitats than expected. To make this happen, the local activists use coral transplant technique to tie loose corals to the "antlers" of EcoReefs and let the nature does its wonder.

I hope Redang Island, Perhentian Island and others will adopt this initiative from our neighbouring country, Indonesia, soon. We have beautiful tropical islands in Malaysia but we do not have responsible civilians to protect them. It's about time.

Read PerceptiveTravel for more details.

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BW

For the love of black and white photographs, here's something non-related to black and white but somewhat related to it as well.

The posted video was created by Julien Vallée for a division of Bleublancrouge Montreal’s design/ad agency ; Black and White.

I came across a lot of fancy and really creative ads in a few ads-collectors' blogs. I might look into sharing them soon. Ahhh...laziness...

Hang it !

I imagine having my boss stuck on the wall with this.
Neat!

GET OVER IT

I'm sure you have your utmost regrets that you wish you can turn back time and correct them. The truth is, we all can't do that and have to get over it anyway. If you can't, share your sorrow with GET OVER IT, and get consoled by the public sympathy.

GET OVER IT shares similar concept with the secret postcard project. Everyone gets to expose their most shameful secret or regret with anonymity assured.

I hope you'll feel better after this. So, just share it.

Then.


GET OVER IT

Define success

Maybe it is when you're so famous that you have a character created after you, virtually owning a radio station in a very popular game?

Tell Karl Lagerfeld about it. Karl. Karl Lagerfeld. He is in Grand Theft Auto IV limited edition pack.... with his own radio station.

I don't see it do you?

P/S: Even H&M is in SecondLife. What's next?

50 simple tips for healthy lifestyle

I've been google-reading some blogs about self-improvements and that sorts. Here's something very useful and just simple enough for anyone that reads it to really do it.

Screw all the diet pills, healthy replacement meals, or re-engineered food, best health improvement comes from tweaking your bad habits into healthier lifestyle. In fact, to achieve that, you don't have to spend 100k to get a plastic surgery as you might not even feel healthier after all the arduous process. All you need to do is reading 50 tips by DumbLittleMan. The post in DumbLittleMan's blog actually elaborates further on 4W+1H - Why What Who When Where How. I'm not sure about the "Where" but it's worth a read.

You life changes from today.


What can you do in 10 minutes or less?

More than you think. In a brief 10 minute window you can release tension, prevent future frustrations, get your blood flowing, etc. In fact, here are 50 things you can do. With time out as an excuse, what are you going to begin doing differently tomorrow? I don't care what it is, the point is, just do something!

Here are some ideas. If you have other thoughts, leave them in the comments!

1. Brush your teeth


2. Do 15 sit-ups


3. Read the health news headlines of the day


4. Straighten your posture


5. Eat an apple


6. Stand up and stretch


7. Send a friendly email to a friend


8. Resist the impulse purchase of a candy bar


9. Post an inspirational quote on Twitter


10. Do 10 lunges


11. Drink a glass of water


12. Smile


13. Put a package of oatmeal in your pocket or purse for a healthy breakfast or snack


14. Throw a bottle of water in there as well


15. Plug your cell phone into the charger


16. Pay a bill online


17. Ask to have your salad dressing on the side


18. Start a dollar jar to be added to once per day


19. Open a window


20. Say thank you to someone who deserves it


21. Take a deep breath


22. Put on your seat belt


23. Wake up 10 minutes earlier


24. Post a comment on a blog


25. Turn off the lights when you’re the last one out


26. Put on your make-up (this usually pertains to the ladies, but hey, whatever makes you happy)


27. Share a healthy recipe


28. Give your mother a call


29. Wash your hands


30. Put on hand lotion


31. Check your blood pressure


32. Jog in place for 9 minutes


33. Throw away that pen that doesn’t work


34. Take a canvas tote bag to the grocery store


35. Ask a friend to join you for a healthy dinner


36. Put down the remote control and get up to change the TV channel


37. Hug your kids


38. Replace your next cup of coffee with a cup of tea


39. Lay out your clothes for the next day


40. Put your car keys in the same place everyday


41. Take a 10 minute break


42. Suck on a breath mint


43. Add a little pepper to your salad


44. Load the dishwasher


45. Play FreeRice for 5 minutes


46. Take a quick walk


47. Prepare your coffee maker the night before


48. Skip your late evening grocery store run


49. While watching TV, do 5 push-ups during the commercial


50. Read this list over again and count how many things pertain to you

Changing pavements

France's Eurovia is developing a thermosensitive road varnish that changes colour to indicate freezing and dangerous conditions. Colour changing boxes - hmm, I think I've seen this somewhere in before on a geeky t-shirt - Hypercolor.

As the temperature changes to subzero or other way round, the road could turn to any other indicative color as pre-designed. Several roadways in France are currently being used for durability and usability tests. I look forward to more lively roads in near future. When i say "lively", it could be vividly blinking colours "lively".

Men and their fantasies

Maid cafe is here. I mean in California, USA. This creation is inspired by Japanese role playing game or "cosplay" a.k.a costume play. In Maid cafe, the customers will be served as "masters" by the waitresses dressed up in maid uniforms. Customers are always superior wherever they are but with this settings, I'm sure the gratification achieved is twice as high.

Enjoy.

Aqua Leung

I always think Marvel comic is all there is for superhero-themed comics or all there is for western comics. Yes, I'm talking about handsome men with husky and muscular bodies, wearing tight leather pants. I'm pleased to see something different. Well, maybe only now is when I take notice on the minority players.

Here's a new comic with Asian character bearing same name with its title "Aqua Leong", I suppose, and it just reminds me of the infamous Wong Yuk Long's Oriental Heroes comic which turned Dragon Tiger Gate movie. This comic Aqua Leung, is created by Mark Andrew Smith and Paul Maybury. Yes, Mat Salleh! I'm keen to see how this will turn out, if any media attention is stirred as expected.

Joe Keating of Image described it this way: "In a nutshell - the royal family of Atlantis is slaughtered, with their murderer taking up the throne. What he doesn't know is their young prince survived and is battling across the ocean to get his revenge."

Browse for preview pages here.