The Many Doors of My Mind

300

2007-04-05T09:11:00.000-07:00

300 men... rippling muscles... bellowing voices and chilling war cries... bodies, appendages, weapons, blood... flying everywhere...

women, bred to perfection, as ruthless as the men they bore... with spirits as strong...

whats not to like?

hope it works...

2007-01-28T20:03:00.000-08:00

when you think a little town could offer you nothing... it manages to squeeze in some nice photos. a little photoshoot.

A night out in Singapore

2007-01-28T09:31:00.000-08:00

Went to Singapore a few weeks back, and caught up with some friends. Had a little photo session with one of my friends who I think is extremely beautiful and for someone her age to maintain that look, is awesome. Great musician, great personality, and great friend, C.

Don't ask, Don't get.

2007-01-14T23:13:00.000-08:00

If you don't ask, you won't receive. Even if you get rejected, turned down, brushed off, it is better to have tried than wondering of the possibilities that could have been.

And if you do get it, wasn't it easier than just waiting to be asked and given?

New camera kit on the way by the way =)

Where is David Yeow?

2007-01-14T23:10:00.000-08:00

Some of you (the rare few who do read this) might be wondering what happened to me. FEAR NOT! I have returned! Well basically being back home in Malaysia has kept me busy with food, friends, and visiting around (not to mention being plain lazy at home and catching up on sleep I lost during my semester).

So what are my plans? Try to do some photoshoots, read some books, brush up on some skills, meet up with my friends, and just exploring myself as an artistic anomaly. Some photos up real soon, but no promises =P

Stay tuned

World Domination

2006-12-18T07:00:00.000-08:00

Do not resist our hostile take over! Poor little red guys... well my sister is over in Melbourne for my graduation (which was last week... photos and thoughts maybe later)... and now she's staying over so she can go around the city easier. So we were wondering what to do... so how bout a little game?

RISK is not a game for those short on patience... we played for about 3 hours! i've played longer with other friends, some running for 6 hours

Anyway, this is the first time I managed to conquer the world with the might army of black. Resistance is futile! Fun fun fun... wished all I could do all day is play...

flying back in 2 days... can't wait! RELAXATION period for 2 months =)

2006-12-13T16:17:00.000-08:00

John Mayer's coming back, and he's going to be rocking. Just waiting for the world to change.

who reads these things anyway

2006-12-09T02:31:00.000-08:00

no one! =)

and it's really hot by the way... scorching...

getting back to the nine-0

2006-12-07T18:44:00.000-08:00

Results are out... and I FINALLY have proof that my designs aren't just mediocre... I scored a 90 on my recent design, and that is a BIG thing, considering that its my final year for my first degree, and its hard to score with a big 9 in front. Well I promised that I will show you all the final design, and here it is.

doyouseewhatisee

2006-12-03T04:30:00.000-08:00

architecturebuildingconstructionwallceilingwindowglasssteelconcretevertical
horizontallinearplaneslightshadowheavycolourmaterialroughnesssoftnesstou
chfeelingtimbersoilearthgrowbuildplansectionelevationperspectivedrawsketc
hmakemodelcutgluestickunitecombinecreatefinalformfunctionendphotograph
yfilmcameradigitalclickshutterapertureslowfastclosefarclearblurdepthfieldfra
meviewangleperspectivenikonbodylenslengthwideanglefisheyetelephotozoom
capturemomentfashionfemalebodyfigurecreationartimageprintphotoshopmak
eupstylisthairtouchuppeopleteamlightingequipmentwindowbackgroundpaper

Elegance

2006-11-30T05:02:00.000-08:00

How do you term beauty? In this century, where one side says you have to be a certain height, have a certain body figure, and have a certain look to be beautiful, and on the other side, what ever you are is enough, even if your over 300 pounds. But what does beauty really mean? Let us look at nature in the African desert. Look at the gazelles, limbre elegant things, that leap among the plains of nature, with slim bodies, as nature gave them. And now let us look at the elephants, huge lumbering things, slowly moving, grazing around the land that they walk on. How can you compare beauty between these two things? You can't say the beauty of the gazelle is the same as the elephant.

A gazelle is a gazelle, and will always have its slim elegant body shape. An elephant is always an elephant, and will never have the slim body shape as it's smaller counterpart. They both have their own positive attributes, and their individual beauty just can't be compared in the same field.

Why am I talking about gazelles and elephants? This is all due to a recent news report on fat models, and how they are also beautiful. I mean, sure, they are beautiful as people as well. But in terms of fashion, and I just can't seem to categorise slim models and fat models in the same field. Can you imagine seeing layers of fat bouncing down on the runway? Let models be models, and let fat people be fat. Everyone has their own beauty, and each has their own responsibility over their own body.

I am talking too much... just enjoy the photos

Triple Squeeze

2006-11-16T04:31:00.000-08:00

What do you get when you squeeze three architectural students in a photobooth? This =)

Verticality

2006-11-12T06:10:00.000-08:00

The fascination of height to humans can never be satisfied. Growing up, who doesn't dream of being tall, or reaching up into the skies, or being able to take in the view of all from a height inconceivable without technology

The wonders of the human mind, with technology and design, create these amazing extensions of livable space.
Be it glass, steel, masonry, it never ceases to create new structures that every now and then, allows us to just stare and admire at the beauty of construction.
Will we ever be satisfied with the heights that we have reached? How long till cities become towering shadows, that all life on the earth becomes nothing more than a memory.
Let us look up into the skies, and take it in while we can, before these towering sculptures cloud our eyes of the blue yonder.

Wow Wii!

2006-11-07T05:46:00.000-08:00

Wii! enter the Nintendo Wii! and wow wii, is it amazing! I had the pleasure of testing it out at Melbourne Central, and it was a blast! One of the most innovative designs in console gameplay.

The Controller basically can be Anything! Imagine it can be a tennis racket handle, or a steering wheel, or as a weapon, aiming and pulling the trigger. It brings interactive play to another level! The strength of your swing and angle, determines how a ball is hit. The angle you turn the control, determines how much a car turns. Wherever you aim on the tv screen, is where you truly shoot.

Man, if only I wasn't saving up for a RM17,000 camera... I'd want to buy one! haha. All I wish there was a scaled model gun for actual shooting games! That'll be definitely fun for FPS games. Man, with the Wii... anything is possible. Well, till it ships out on the 19th of Nov, guess I'll just have to visit Melbourne Central everyday to play it =)

Merry Marina

2006-11-05T21:36:00.000-08:00

Another introduction series, and this time, its the very first model that I worked with, and who was kind enough to trust me, when I did not have any formal training nor previous work.

Someone not to mess with, Marina is every right her own person, and a very strong character in that. She reminds me of Gong Li, though several people have other ideas of who she resembles. But she does have a pretty strong face.
She's currently in the Miss Chinese Melbourne competition, and all the best wishes to her. Till the future, we'll just have to wait to see more of Marina =)

[I am currently experiencing post-submission anti-rush syndrome... feels weird when you don't have assignments weighing down on your shoulders having to be finished by a deadline]

A close shave in life

2006-11-03T06:35:00.000-08:00

Well here I thought, another uneventful day at work, just finishing up on a macro model for a master plan at the end of Orchard Road in Singapore. I was working with another friend, who does not want to be known, hehe, and we were suppose to edit the model by slicing some components off the model. I was busy on one side of the table, and she was opposite me, each doing something. All of a sudden, i see this metallic piece fly by my arm, just a few centimeters short of coming into contact with my arm. When I looked down, I saw it was a long piece of blade, as it had snapped at the very end of the blade my friend was using. PHEW. Wouldn't want to have to end up in the hospital that early in the morning. But man, it was pretty scary. If I had sat to my left just a bit more, it could have entered my arm. Never knew model making would require me to take up a health insurance...

Work is pretty interesting huh...

Children of Men

2006-10-31T04:59:00.000-08:00

First week into my un-official holiday, and it has been pretty uneventful, save for one film - Children of Men. It's a shocker! Not your everyday action/love/comedy/fiction film. The show portrays a future where all women are infertile, and as a result, there are no newborns, and humankind is slowly dying off. England has become a new form of Nazi idealist, gathering and deporting foreigners of non-British decent. There are scenes that are so horrifying, that the portrayals are like modern Nazi concentration camps, and the conditions are terrible. Makes you wonder how Jews actually survived the Holocaust. All in all, a very captivating movie (unlike my unfortunate movie-mate, who couldn't stomach the movie, due to also the filmotography shakey shots) . You have been warned, be expected to be shocked.

On to the modern battlefield

2006-10-28T08:13:00.000-07:00

What do you do when you have complete 3 years of design, finished all the submissions, did every model, drawing, sketch, layout that you could possibly do, and now you have a one month break between now till your last exam paper? Go out and buy a new game to play! =D

Just bought the latest release of EA games Battlefield series. Introducing Battlefield 2142, where the war for the only survivable land due to a winter frost over the world has forced two opposing forces to fight till the last survivor. Equipped with the latest modern warfare weaponry, this game will sure to keep me up for nights. Built from a similiar engine for Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142 maintains the Ranking system that allows players to move up in ranks with online play, and with unlockable items, making the game one of the most interesting ones ever. Well, i'm off to play. Laters!

Why we love being Young

2006-10-27T18:53:00.000-07:00

Here's some revisits of my first few photoshoots, and what better way than to also introduce my models as I go along. First off, we have Jess Young. A wonderful young lady who has an amazing voice. She even won 2nd runner up at the Miss Chinese International. I'm very happy that she has believed in my work, and has continued to work with. Hopefully, we'll get some new shots done in November.

Here's one of the first few shots from my very 2nd photoshoot. Was trying to emulate a shot of Heidi Klum from Four Inches. Amazing book. Just as Heidi has amazing legs, so does Jess. Just fell in love with them.

These next two shots were done during a second photoshoot. I still had yet to have proper lights, so was playing around with flood lights and speedlights. Still glad that I could get some shots out of them. Well, I'm just waiting for our next photoshoot, to do justice to her beauty, seeing now that I have improved lots and have better equipment. Hope you'll enjoy them for now. Till laters.

The Night of the Living Dead

2006-10-27T07:49:00.000-07:00

FINALLY! submissions, assignments, models, drawings, posters, layouts... everything's finished! phew. Now i just gotta get back my 72 hours of sleep... *yawn*. some pictures soon of my finished project, and maybe some new photoshoots. laters!

Zombies

2006-10-22T09:46:00.000-07:00

1 week of zombiness over, another to go. I'm struggling everynight up till 5 in the morning. trying to get as much done as possible for my final presentation and submission for design. So far, al the drawings are coming along alright. Now all I need to do, is a 3d model, and a physical model, and get my final layout done for printing.

Here's some photos I took after lunch, coz my friend wanted some pics of them. Their just fluorescent lighting in Melbourne Central, which used to be pretty bright when all of them were bare white, but now, are pretty dark because their covered in red wrappings.

and here's... A GIANT BALL OF JEANS! hahaha. calvin klein jeans just opened in Melbourne Central, so to kick it off, they had a BIG ball of jeans. Guess you can just do about anything with jeans.

Well back to another long night. Have fun.

Working with models

2006-10-18T11:40:00.000-07:00

Models. Thats an interesting word in my life, where it sits between two parts of my mind. One with architecture, where one of my main activities is creating models. Another, is with my fashion photography.

By now, (if anyone's reading this), you should have known that I dwell quite a bit with photography. Over the recent year, I have developed an interest in fashion photography, which is by no easy means, as most people think.
"No I'm not colourblind, I know the world is black and white" - John Mayer

Fashion photography not only requires the eye for creating an image, it is also the love for fashion, for art, for creativity, and also meeting and working with new people all the time.

I'm so blessed to have worked with some wonderful ladies, and will definitely look forward to developing my work, and working with them again in the future.

I hope these shots will tempt you of what is to come, as I grow in life, in photography, in everything. More shots to come, very soon, after all my submissions for my other door. If any models or people in the fashion scene is watching this, please do not hesitate to contact me for any information or shooting oppurtunities. Till the next photoshoot.

2006-10-17T09:17:00.000-07:00

Well I wanted to introduce my fashion photography work, but I unfortunately just finished this model after 4 days of work, finishing up at 4am in the morning. So I might as well just post the finished model. Guess fashion photography has to wait for another day...

Anywayz, this is a 1:5 section model of a design of my own, for a small art gallery. It's... HUGE. I just hope it doesn't crash on the way to uni. Well, time to catch some sleep. Nite

The built environment

2006-10-16T17:55:00.000-07:00

Now we come to my career path, which has expanded on my view of design and philosophy. Here are some of my early works which I took when I started out in Architecture. The beauty of the centrifugal force that ties in the visual focus.

Here are some of latest work after developing in my photography. These show the beauty of the vertical linear visual that buildings have, drawing attention to the skys, towards the Heavens. Photos taken in the University of Melbourne. Here's a design I am working on for uni. It is a design for a Knowledge Transfer building for the University, trying to create a gateway for the city into the university. It is a minimalistic box, with a simple cut through at an angle, to make the building a gateway itself. When sectioned, it can be viewed as two seperate towers, one being the University component, and one being the City. In between these two elements is a conduit, where the transfer of people, sound, light, and ultimately, knowledge, takes place, and brings life to the building, to its meaning, to its purpose.

Back to finishing submissions. Two more weeks till everything is done.

Lets see what's behind Door number...

2006-10-15T07:18:00.000-07:00

Introducing the musical instruments stored behind door number 3. I've been exposed to music very early in my life, and thus can play a variety of musical instruments. I play the guitar, violin, piano, and the drums. Sorry I don't have a photo of drums, because I don't own one. Only those three things above =) All photos courtesy of me.

I don't play my instruments as much as I would want to, as I have so many other things on my hands. But I try to play the guitar when possible, as it is the easiest for me to play around with.

Lets hope I can make some music soon.

The opening of the doors

2006-10-14T08:10:00.000-07:00

Hello virtual world, where the multiple doors of my mind will open to. After much persuasion, I thought I'd might give it a go, and try to maintain a blog. Let me give you a quick overview of the doors to my mind

ARCHITECTURE - the primary door that is shaping the path of my career at the moment

PHOTOGRAPHY - the fashion side of my creative mind, that lets me create art with every click

MUSIC - the small musical monkey at the back of my mind, with my multiple instruments stored within it

I am sure as months go along, and if I still maintain this blog, more doors will slowly come forward to be explored, but as of this moment, these are the three main doors that I will show you in. More updates soon with my work from all these doors.

Thank you for participating in this birth.