Tag Archive for 'photography'

creating a time capsule

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pyko
on June 23, 2008
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Quite some time ago (about late 2007) I saw this documentary called “21 Up Japan” which is similar to the “Up Series“. The idea of the documentary is the follow a group of children from when they were 7 years old, and then every 7 years they go back to them and see how they are going. The interviewers had a set of semi-structured questions which they asked, and it was very interesting to see how everyone’s answers changed from when they were 7, 14, and 21.

Time Capsule

After seeing this documentary I decided I wanted to do something similar - make my own time capsule :) However it wasn’t until a few months later in early 2008 when I found an old exercise book which had some short stories that I had written in 1995 that really got me started. Reading those stories made me realise how much can change in a few years (and how much we can forget!). My time capsule is bit different to 21 Up Japan - it does have a set of questions which I plan on answering once every year or so, but the majority of entries are more diary-like entries of times when I feel like something important has happened.

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effective powerpoint presentations

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pyko
on June 4, 2008
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pacman like pie charts

Recently my friend and I, have for some reason, talked to a lot of people about presentations - and we’ve been trying to convert them all to use “bullet-point-less” presentations. For those who we’ve talked to, you’ve probably already heard this, for those who haven’t…welcome to a whole new perspective on presentations!

Late last year, through random blog reading we found a wonderful blog all about presentations: Presentation Zen. There was one post in particular that compared the different presentation styles of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates which I feel is a great introduction and gets straight to the point.

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blutack pig

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pyko
on February 26, 2008
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On Sunday I decided to make a small pig out of blutack :) Probably sounds very random, but it was because earlier in the weekend I had saw similar small pigs at Paddy’s Market and they just looked so cute! Here is the result of my procrastination:

blutack pig

The pig itself is actually quite small - about 1cm in diameter, though I think that is what makes it cute. At first I was worried that using blutack would be very hard since blutack sticks to itself (and your fingers!), but in the end it wasn’t that bad. A toothpick is a must though - not just to poke the holes for the eyes/nose but also to push and shape the ears.

Since the pig was quite small it was rather hard to take a nice close-up photo, so as usual I took several shots. However, this time while flipping through all the blurred photos I remembered a Stop Motion Video tutorial I had read on Photojojo few months back - so alas, more procrastination…my first stop motion video attempt!

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the tiny blood red moon

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pyko
on August 28, 2007
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Well, today was the day - total lunar eclipse - the blood red moon! I actually had class 6pm-8pm, but the lecturer was nice and let us out at around 7pm (when the eclipse started) then we all sort of went out again at 7:50pm, even though the lecture hadn’t fully finished. The photos I took came out alright considering I didn’t have a high-tech camera - all I have is a simple “point and shoot” type (Nikon Coolpix 4100 to be exact).

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