i iz kuhlehver

Alrighty .. sorry folks been a bit lax with my internet comments and responses.. i will get back to people shortly.. meanwhile dissertation looms over. um.. yes. whilst i was looking for great sound track asian music to listen to whilst working i came across this…

ISSUES:

1- americans. don’t dub our films. Its just wrong. i think a little bit of me dies everytime i see jet li dubbed with an american accent in Once Upon a time in China. hmmm if i didn’t read subtitles off korean and japanese dramas.. i would do very little reading at all hmms..

2- why is Chow Yung Fat dubbed with an english accent? lets see.. he’s a mentor.. and the all knowing intelligent elder of the characters.. yes we’ll just shove him into the american stereotypes of older british man type clever. this reminds me of Giles from buffy.. im wondering if that started a certain something (all watchers .. ie clever knowledgeable folk came from England… hmms…)

[3- why is Zhang Ziyi dubbed with an american accent and sounding kinda vague and ah-em shallow? all the dubbing was put emotionally out of context. you would have heard the hate in her voice in the original.. rather than the.. why won't you let me have those shoes type tone.. (now who's stereotyping?)] okay.. i can sort of take this back.. i grit my teeth and watche the whole clip.. shes not so bad.. however very vague dubbing is used for many asian films.. glad that the lead female sounds somewhat actually involved with the story..

uggh rant.. anyways..’ questions? comments?’ (a quote from buffy i might add)

That reminds me i was walking by turnham green tube.. ice cream in hand and all and saw the new album for someone i can’t remember… album titled.. ROKSTARR (googling tells me it was taio cruz). i like english language abusal (read my blog and you’ll know) and making up my own words.. but seriously children just for the record .. illitracy is like so not cool. now if i could only practice what i preach..

welcome home

found this on my gate. there were too many to photograph.

the next day they were all huddled together, not moving at all.

the day after they were no where to be seen.

never thought i’d have this conversation.

okay call me gross or whatever,  having run out of trousers and pants and almost socks i finally went to a launderette. this is almost 3 weeks of laundry mind you. i haven’t had a washing machine since ive moved.. and finding a launderrette thats actually a launderette and not a dry cleaners in chiswick is a little harder than you might think. okay so having lugged two bags of clothes up and down pretty much the whole of the high street i ended up taking a 7min bus trip to ravenscourt park. for the underground literate thats 2 tube stops away. not overly far. although yes it is if its just to get some clothes cleaned.

okay now to the important bit. the chap working there was a middle eastern man in his 40s come 50s. after showing me how to use the machines he proceeded to make light conversation. what an eye opener. seriously.

man ^_^ : oh so you visiting? ( seemed like a reasonable question at the time but in hind sight i did have two binbag size lots of clothes.. did i look like was just doing a bit of sight seeing..)

moi ^_^  : er no. not really. im a student.. 

man ^o^ : oh studying english yes? (we talked before this and i do have a wee bit of  british accent not to hold that against the man.. he was nice and helpful)

moi ^_^ : er no. im studying graphic design. 

man ^_^ : graphic .. graphic..design i see..

(a little while later)

man ^o^ : so you from china?

moi ^_^  : er yes sort of. my parents are from hong kong. but i was born here.

man ^o^ : oh. (pause) you know karate?

moi ‘ _ ‘  : (he has a heavy accent so i ask him to repeat the question) er.. er.. sorry?

man ^o^ : karate. you know karate? (at this point he gets into this martial artesque stance….)

moi o_o : er. no. not really. (for real? really? karate is.. japanese.. right..right)

man ‘ o ‘  : all chinese people know karate? yes?

moi ^_^; : (i figure theres no point correcting him) er no not really. only bad people.. um.. mafia. they sort of need it to protect them selves and er.. things..

man ^O^ : oh HAHAAHAHAH i see i see..

moi o_o : (for real. FOR REAL?!!)

ER yes… one of those conversations you think, you hear are too silly to happen. but it really does happen. maybe i should have corrected him on the whole karate thing. having said that. i know very little about his culture. interesting to see stereotypes still very much alive.. 

anywho.. funny how the value of money dates things… i can’t remember the last time i saw a machine accepting coppers.

i love his mop bucket too. never seen one like it. its probably as old as me.

lets sell you something.

alrighty poos. dan dan give me some nice advertising links so i thought i ought of share for those graphically inclined.

somewhat fresh and slightly interactive way of being sold something by DHL

advertisements for cars are getting better and better. actually they’ve always been rather good to begin with. honda in particular have rather memorable ones. i also like how sound is being explored more in advertising.. or is it.. more like its much more obvious. we all remember fords campaign with the disected car parts turned muscial impliments. well anyways people who actually have a television may have actually seen this one. i haven’t so im posting it here. on a final note on this, it seems the idea of selling something has become a lot more about creating something unbelievable scale wise and idea wise. im not sure if thats a good or a bad thing but i think the well will start running dry rather soon.

ahh yush .. anyone remember the nicole kidman channel ads not that long ago. very moulin rouge oui? well i only just found out they were directed by baz lurman so that explains rather a lot. although the lines and story was bad to say the least. sorry as much is i like nicole kidman (mucho) i found her less convincing than audrey tautou in the lastest channel no. 5 ads. ( i never realised was so lovely to look at untill i saw her sans amelie hair. also a rather fine actress in my opinion having seen this ad.) very convincing emotional performance.  anyways we all know that perfume ads are a load of fluff, almost pure ideallic fantasy throwing the perfume at as since technically they make no comprehensible sense to us mere mortals who have no understanding of notes and aldehydes other organic compounds, doughnuts and what nots . anyways enjoy.

if you have the band width to waste go to channels site to watch it HD fullscreen.

love the art direction and story telling. you’ll love it even more when you see the behind the seens clip

theres nothing quite like seeing passion as someone talks about their labour of love. anyways. BACK TO WOOORK!!! GARHH!!

hohoho

garrrh

i sooo did not spend 30 mins learning how to make a gif on photoshop ugggg.. its 3.43 now.. bed now!! anywho.. if you can guess what this is um.. i shall.. draw anything you want? anywho dont be deceived by the flashy ness.. thats me getting carried away with the sharpening tool.. it doens’t change colour. aaanyways. bed!! NOW!!

EDIT : okay fail. wordpress won’t let me put it up. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/x5452/whatwhatwhaaaat.gif

4.00 bedtime. FAIL!!

not so obvious

i guess that describes all the pictures. the first one is obvious. the second is actually a frozen lake. the third, stranded and the last picture is something for you to guess. 

these are all from my time in swansea over the winter hol. never got round to posting them. maybe i’ll make my way to easter pics soon. more to come!

hey pork chop!

For those who are wondering where my ringtone is from. the little boy pig on the right is my role model.

so. im thinking of quitting graphic design.

SO THAT I CAN DO THIS!!! BEHOLD!!

er well no really.. but i do love systems and looking at how this works.. i should apply this kind of crazy meticulousness to my craft. this i find very mmm in a holy crap thats hot kind of way (very bad selection of sequential words, i know… im still running on a low tank and recovering from a week of 4am bed times and allnighters) 

i should also take notes on how to present work in crits. this is how! 

1- get a fantastic out of this world idea

2- present it with simple words.. speak slowly and organise thoughts logically

3- make everyone else think ‘wtf’ by making it seem as if your crazy complicated idea is as easy as ‘peeing your pants’ by doing 2 (quote taken from miss shin )

… mmm.. i love it when people talk technical.. drool…

…and one more for crazy fantabulousness and fun! 

right. bed. now.

last minute run..

last night i was in a large panic to find tomatoes with the stalks for my deadline the day after. i went to sainsburys.. nope.. fine.. back down to the other way.. tescos.. no.. m & s shut.. waitrose shut.. 7 mins before the other sainsburys shut… RUUUNNN…. i caught sight of another girl coming from a different direction running too.. and we smiled.. ahh the last minute rush into sainsburies.  having found my desired purchases i used the extra two minutes to stroll to the far end of the store.. mmm frozen food section.. having decided i wouldn’t spend any money on ice cream as it was all too expensive and none particularly desireable i walked along on my merry way, on towards the checkouts and there it was…. bird’s eye artic roll….

oh my this brings back childhood memories.. theres something almost a bit odd and understated.. about this ubercute old schooly british dessert ( a bit like an underdog.. yes this icecream is very deep indeed!!) . we used to eat it at school too.. hmm sponge cake.. raspberry jam… ice cream? yes please!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3792084/Arctic-Roll-makes-a-comeback.html