research // project one

Kickstarting this project proved to be a true hurdle for me as I had no idea where to begin. Furthermore, I was not proficient in any scientific aspects. I decided to push myself to find the meaning of every quantum concepts that were provided to us. As it was rather difficult for me trying to understand terms in its most technical terms, I realised that I could better comprehend them when they were represented by images or photos.

After contemplating on the quantum concepts, I was attracted to “antimatter” as well as “expanding universe, general relativity”.

However, knowing that I would be inclined to doing the concept of good & evil if I were to choose antimatter, I decided that I would push myself out of my boundaries and go ahead with the concept of expanding universe and general relativity.

Going through my process of trying to comprehend the technical aspect of these scientific terms through images, I decided that my way of approaching the logo would be representational and analogical or metaphorical, by using figure of speech, allegories, analogies or similes.

 

The meaning that I acquired after researching into the quantum concept of expanding universe and general relativity is that when you imagine a balloon with dots on it, being blown out. The bigger it grows, the further the distance between each dots. However, this theory was shot down by plenty of researchers as it confuses people into thinking that the universe has a centre or has a core.

Thus, when I thought of balloon expanding, I spread out my thoughts to keywords such as spring, stretch, cheese, rubber, bubblegum, squeezing, syringe, dilate.

 

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The style that I am approaching for this project would be either very heavy on the line arts like the first two artist references, or very heavy on being illustrative, which would be the next two artist references. The common thing that I chose for my artwork would be that the concept is represented in a quirky way, yet bring out a message or question, much like the artists’ artworks represented below. The overall response I want to get by everyone through my logo design signifying the quantum concept is a confused “What? Why?” followed by “Oh, I get it now.”

The problem now then is to minimalise any graphic or image references I choose so that it may fit into my logo.

Experimental Interaction Final

Project 1

Group members: Benjamin Quek, Sylvia Low, Lim Ying Quan, Zarinah Azman

Project 1 Link: https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/zari0001/the-journey/ 

Project 1 Video: https://tinyurl.com/journeyEI

 

Project 2:

Group Members: Loh Wan Hui (Voiceover & Illustration), Ng Lui (Illustration), Zarinah Azman (Editor)

Project 2 Link: http://tinyurl.com/EImess

 

Project 3:

Group Members: How Yee Teng, Tjoa Wei Lin, Sylvia Low, Zarinah Azman

Project 3 Links:

@sirbubblegum:  https://www.instagram.com/sirbubblegum_/

@notadamleong: https://www.instagram.com/notadamleong/ 

Project 3 Slides: https://tinyurl.com/sirbubblegum

 

The Journey

Black never-ending nothingness. I opened my eyes to darkness, my muscle screaming in pain. Loud incessant deafening silence filled my ears. In the darkness, I squirmed and struggled. I could feel my entire body being wrapped in a sort of plastic. It was heavy and suffocating. I felt myself choking from the dense atmosphere. My eyes teared up as I struggled to breathe.

“Help!”

I screamed as loud as I could, mustering every strength I could and pushed my way out of wherever I was. With every movement I made, my surrounding made a low humming and with every hit on its walls, there echoed a metallic chime.

“Is anyone there?”

I yelled again, hoping that my cries of distress was heard. I could feel my blood rushing into my head, my head flushed and hot. My breathing started to hasten. With every breath I took, I could feel the sharp sensation in my lungs. I’m running out of oxygen.

“Help me! Please! Anyone!”

All of a sudden, loud metallic clanking filled the chamber I was in. Slowly, I could feel gusts of winds rushing in from the mouth of the metallic monster that swallowed me. The sounds of metal hitting metal echoed the empty room as my chamber slowly rolled out into the blinding bright light. I squinted my eyes, letting my eyes get accustomed to the intense change in brightness all while panting. There was an indescribable smell in the air. It was stale and yet familiar. The sickening, nauseating stench of sterility immediately triggered my memories. I remember this smell. It’s the smell of ethanol. I’m probably in a health institution of some sort.

I looked around my surrounding as I sat on the metallic drawer, bare skin touching on the metal surface. It was cold. I was cold. I found myself staring at a wall of metallic drawers, all stacked upon each other. The room was empty except for a couple of surgical trolleys with equipment scattered on top of it.

My mind was filled with questions. What am I doing here? What is this place? WHO AM I?

I tried my hardest trying to recall. My head started to ache but slowly, my memory came back.

 

But still, how did I get in here? A morgue? And why does this place seem familiar yet so odd at the same time?

my first post.

INT. SCHOOL – DAY

ZARINAH walks into a classroom. 

zarinah

hi, i want to sleep.

 

professor

no.

 

zarinah

(cries in malay)

END