a 3D experience (Avatar by James Cameron)

After a morning dash of badminton tournament, elsie then recommended watching a imax-3d movie in one of the malls here. without further ado we decided to spent the afternoon in going to the cinema house. Excitement filled my heart that i can't wait to seat on the cinema benches and sprawled my eyes to the wide screen (since we arrive earlier to the actual screening time.)




Then when its time to go inside the movie room, we can wait to get a grab of our 3d glasses and have them flashed with a camera (photo sake). whew! a crowded alley awaits us that we didn't even had ourselves a snack of popcorn.

we were pinned on our chairs when the movie started, i can't even stand up to pee. It was a good experience and artistically fascinating. 3D movie is an awesome experience. I can almost touch the screen elements and i can't stop to move along with the scenes (especially when the bombs explodes). Surely, Avatar was a plus.

I will surely agree if someone says this movie is tastefully done. The story, the actors and the whole thing was great. I would even love to set foot on Pandora.

Music for Artist?

Who speaks Russian? Well, I don’t. But I found this very awesome and so über Russian band that plays cool music. At first I thought I was only downloading some sort of instrumental album to be stocked and used in the near future for some video soundtracks but when I hit the play button and started to listen to it I found my head swinging and nodding and my body feels like moving with the beats. I guess my office mate was right. When I asked him why he listens to Arabic music for the fact that his an Indian (for sure he won’t understand a damn word from the lyrics)he just simply replied “Its about the music not the lyrics”. Because it is then now I understand what he means. It isn’t necessarily a must to know the lyrics to appreciate band music, it’s just a part of it, for as a whole the music has the beat, the tempo and the mood that sets you into it.

I’m indulging to this Russian band and I’m shaking my body to its beat, see, it just another piece of source to where I draw my emotions. Music can be everything and Musicians are artist, meet Muha.

Artemis Fowl Hype

I was surfing the net as I often do every afternoon when a site struck me. It was about a so called pre-casting for Artemis Fowl on the big screen. I immediately click on the link and to my dismay I found nothing but a bunch of fansites trying to make up there own chemistry for a possible Artemis Fowl movie. So with a little curiosity I tried to hit the search engine and look up for the actual site of might be true or just a hearsay up coming movie for Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl. I was not left hopeless for doing such idiotic act I say for honestly I found something interesting. Yes, much interesting that I was got hooked for a while, the actual Artemis Fowlsite.

It was very fascinating Eoin Colfer teamed up with a known comic writer Andrew Donkin and Disney illustrators Giovanni Rigano and Paolo Lamanna together they made a fabulous graphic novel. It was some kind of an evolution for a fantasy novel and somehow a good start before hitting the big screen. Now after the wizard boy I had no doubts that sooner this new boy genius with criminal mind might hit big time soon.

But for now just need to take some grabs of that well-illustrated graphic novels or either continue reading the story (since I just finished book 2 and im on my way for book 3).

How to do Vector Image?

Okey, I was talking on how vector mania hit the graphic world until early this morning a friend of mine asked me the question, "How do you vectorized a photograph?"
Well, its not so long since i learned this thing from a tutorial site
( www.tutorialized.com ) and from there i got a link from some one who tought its readers the things that they want to know
from a certain designing software.

So from this post i will be sharing the link where i've learned to do the vectorizing thing and from there on its up to you to explore the posibilities of vectorizing. Or somehow you might create your own shortcut in vectorizing ( like i do ).

But i must forewarned you, before you proceed with the tutorials at least equipt yourself with a basics of adobe photoshop and get to familiarized its tools (or any software you're about to use coz don't expect for the site to teach you how to use the mouse of your computer). For if not, you will find this tutorial a total shit and a pain in the ass.

http://9tutorials.com/2007/07/27/create-your-beautiful-illustration-by-using-photoshop.html

GOOD LUCK and ENJOY doing your vector!

Sardiman

started: Sept. 3, 2009 (3 hours)
finished: Sept. 4, 2009 (4 hours)
influence: rubenslp
listening to: alternative music (various artist courtesy of doidoi's selection)
software: started with adobe illustrator cs4 finished with coreldraw x4

Ladies in Vector

Vector images are everywhere and every artist shall i say graphic artist are dying to know how to do one. Vector thing had been a hits since so last year? And until here up to now is been a craze in every design media. Well, here are some vectors i made out from my friends pictures added with a little magic. Hehehe.. savor some.

Trying out the Redscale

I was browsing this particular group called Lomomanila in an online photo gallery called Flicker when I came across with a certain technique that I can actually do with my Diana F+ camera. I was pinned with the word Redscale and so I’ve done some research to know how the technique works and how to apply it.

(Here is the site that I came across with on how to do a home made redscale film http://fmphotocourses.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-make-redscale-film.html )

Well, redscale is just another technique were in the concept is to use the wrong side of the film in taking photographs. Not to be hard on oneself there are ready made redscale film available in the market but doing a home made one out of ordinary films adds excitement to the whole lomography experience.

While I was doing mine, I need to hide in the cabinet (since I don’t have a dark room) to insure that the yank films will never get exposed to any light. And with high hopes that the yank film which was loaded back to the other canister will also be as useful as the other film.

Then under the scourging heat of the sun here in Bahrain I snap some photos of summer bits from my Diana F+ with the own modified redscale film. The summer fun and the reddish looks of the output pictures seems to add flavor to the meaning of Bahrain in Summer eventually it also looks so vintage that you might wonder what era those photos are taken. Here are some of the pictures that I have taken: (best viewed when wearing some sunglasses, lol! )