The Staircase

THE STAIRCASE 

Halloween is coming soon. This week creative thinking class activity was making a monster costume. it must have only 3 fingers, no eyes on his face, very long hair and most of the body covered with black. It such a good experience to make an adorable costume for my friend as a client using a trash bag, egg tray, raffia string, and cellophane paper. 

my group is consist of 4 people, they are Wesley, Philip, Steven, Ding Wei and I. Ding Wei became the client and the others became the designer. As a designer, we are required to listen to our customer's will. So, we tried to make the best monster costume for Ding Wei. He wanted to look like a scary monster with big wings and dinosaur backbone but has a cute bunny tail. we did as fast as we can do because the lecturer gave us a time limit to do this activity. we tried our best and our good cooperation. and finally, we were done! Here is Ding Wei with his adorable costume. we called it The Staircase Monster.

After finished in making the costume, we were required to make a short video about the monster. Then we started to make the video in the school stairs and tried to make the best story. do you wanna see this awesome video? 

here is the link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZT8KgAiHU0&feature=youtu.be 

enjoy watching!

now, I want to share the process of making the video and also the monster.

From this week activity we had so much fun and we also learn about how to be a good designer who must be a good listener for our customer desires and produce it into an amazing work with our sense of design. 

Thank You 

 

PAPRIKA

PAPRIKA

"Paprika" is an animated science fiction movie from Japan. It was released in 2006 and directed by Satoshi Kon based on a novel titled Paprika. The story is unique and interesting. it tells about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams. the  device is called DC mini. before the government can pass a bill authorizing the use of such advanced psychiatric technology, one of the prototypes is stolen. in the wrong hand, this device can be abuse. a well-known doctor, Atsuko Chiba enters the dream worlds under her exotic alter-ego named paprika. all that she did with a purpose to discover who is behind the plot to weaken this invention.

in my opinion, this movie is such a high-quality movie. it has a scientific story that needs to understand smartly. on the other hand, for some people who doesn't like Japanese animated movie like me, they would be very confusing to understand the complicated story and difficult to enjoy the movie. However, as a not a fan of animated movie, I like the composition color used in this movie scene and also the scientific story ideas that need to be appreciated. 

here my favorite scene that I found in the movie :

If you want to enjoy the movie, here is the link:

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v20824327D83k2yBH

Playgrounds in my Hometown

Semarang's Playground

Now, I want to share my short holiday experience in my hometown, Indonesia. i have visited 3 playgrounds in Semarang city. Actually, Semarang is not a very big and modern city compared with Jakarta. Therefore, there is not too much big famous playground located in Semarang.

Here are 3 playgrounds which I visited last week and I think it was a nice experience to fill your leisure time with your friends.

1. Small playground in MG suites apartment.

This playground is located in MG suites apartment. it is so small like a standard children's playground that we usually found. The design of the playground is quite nice, the colour used representing a cheerful mood for children. It is located near the swimming pool and there is a lot of trees so, the air is quite pure. thing need to be improved from this playground is the safety. I think safety is number one for children. In the afternoon, when there is no one in the swimming pool, this place is very quiet and there is no security or guard whose stand by in this place. therefore, if something happened to the children who play alone there, no one knows and no one can help except there is an adult is swimming and working in the gym. The grass and the plant need to be treated because there is some part of the ground which is not covered with grass anymore and it is dangerous for children who drops to the ground. 

2. "Play Play" playground in SETOS mall

"Play Play" is a current favorite playground for children and adult in Semarang. it is an indoor playground with thousand selection of games. this playground also serves a challenging game for adults and the price is quite cheap. Only Rp 50000 for 5 selection of games. it such a good place for a family and maybe it is fun to play there with your squad. Now, it is one of the best playgrounds in Semarang.  in spite of its popularity, play play also has several things to be improved. i think they should give more attention in terms of safety. I think the safety is not quite enough, especially for the challenging games. sometimes, the safety belt in its games is not installed perfectly and the operator of the games also not obey the safety procedure. in term of design, this place is good enough and they design this place really like a wonderland. they also create animal characters and candies as the decoration to sweeten this place and attract the children to come. 

3. Lakers BSB club house

This is most family favorite place in the weekend. This place located in Semarang but it is far from the city center. This place has an outdoor playground for children and completed with swimming pool, rabbits park, and organic vegetable field. This place has a very good environment, it is far from the city center so there is less air pollution and the weather is not too hot. the view also beautiful, it is located near the reservoir and we can see 2 mountains from this place. This place is designed perfectly because of its strategic location. Things that need to be improved from this place  is the cleanliness. the rabbit's park is quite dirty because of the vegetables gave by the visitors and  the are a lot of bird furs fall down to the park. The second thing that needs to be improved is the advertisement of this place. The location itself is far from the city center and not many people know about this place. so they need to make a more interesting advertisement and some interesting deals about this place, then people will more interested to come. 

faces around you

This week blog will talk about the faces around us. sometimes we just never realize that there are a lot of things around us which is looks like a face. sometimes it smiles, it looks so sad or maybe embrace and so on. here are 7 picture of faces around my creative thinking class today

this Chinese character looks like flat lips face with nose and eyes. it looks like someone who pulls a long face because of disappointment.

this 2 lamp and a door look like 2 eyes with a big mouth. it likes the expression of cuteness.  

look at the blue building behind the old house. it looks like a flat mouth sad face -__-

the 2 blue square above the rectangle look like 2 eyes and the rectangle looks like a flat mouth.

this cardboard that i found outside toilet is so cute. it looks like an embrace face of kids. the shadow inside the 2 rectangles looks like the glowing eyes that symbolize an innocence kid. 

duck face on the locker. look at the three stripes, it's like duck lips. Isn't it?

This two rectangle window looks like cheerful eyes, the handle above looks like a nose and  the handle below looks like a stuck out thongue.

I rotated my power outlet picture and what I found is a very sad and frustrated face.