After last week’s group critique, I’m taking a step further into project 1 by doing more researching on Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities (calvino_italo_invisible_cities), in which is structured as a fictional conversation between the real-life historical figures Marco Polo, a Venetian tradesman, and Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Mongol Empire. Marco leaves to travel […]

 Project 1 (medium format film) Concept: As the 20th Century saw the shift from economies based on need to economies based on desire, advertising – along with marketing, branding, and schemes like planned obsolescence – became the essential engines that drive that desire. I am critical of the desire-based economy in that it has led […]

The elements, parts, plans, drawings, and ideas for the final master’s project. Project 1 (medium format film) Concept: As the 20th Century saw the shift from economies based on need to economies based on desire, advertising – along with marketing, branding, and schemes like planned obsolescence – became the essential engines that drive that desire. […]

  Bus station mockups with my guidebook info. Because most of these billboard frame at small bus station are sideways so I wanted to try still poster on them first. The TV monitors on buses use the horizontal composition which is where my video work will be playing at. I’m also working on the billboard […]

The final draft for railway station guidebook/handbook is ready with maps and short description of the history and present status of each station.   guidebook

Engraving and cutting designs are ready for both the board and zoomed map created with Illustrator. The more zoomed map will be engraved onto a big wood plate, nailed onto the gallery wall and positioned above the monitors so they audiences can see physically see all these railway station sites on the map in detail. […]

Update on the embassy project: After the tutorial with Aurelien, I decided to narrow down my focuses from the broad rage of non-places (negative places) and positive places to railway stations, where I’m tracking down the disused railway stations in Edinburgh to specific coordinates as accurate as possible (either they are demolished, forgotten, or transformed […]

Some updates on the project and where I’m at: I’m sending out 5 rolls of motion picture films to a photo lab specialized in processing those type of films on Monday since the c41 machine that the school has can’t develop motion picture films. Hopefully I will receive the negatives in a week or so […]

The ontology of photography and its relationship with realism Since 1839, photography has been understood as a physical consequence of light falling into a light-sensitive surface; it’s a natural form of realism that makes an authentic copy of the world. The photograph functions as a metaphor for seeing and as a mirror to the world, […]

  “The beginning and the end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is in me, all things being grasped, related, re-created, moulded and reconstructed in a personal form and an original manner.”  – Johann von Goethe   Edward Hopper throws light into […]