25/08/24
Summer is almost gone by now.
tiredless summer,
wordless summer,
Singapore Zoo has always exhibited animals in naturalistic, 'open' exhibits with hidden barriers, moats, and glass between the animals and visitors.
It is considered an “open zoo” as its enclosures are designed predominantly without visible physical barriers. Instead, cascading waters, vegetation, and moats mask barriers and enhance the illusion of a natural environment for the wildlife.
Expressing moats as geographical habitat features In contrast to total concealment is the idea of deliberately, or of necessity, showing the moat barrier--as a river, gorge, cliff or eroded landscape, for example. This approach can have two alternate intentions:
(1) to enter the moat into the interpretive story-line of the exhibit and so convey the notion that animals in the wild are limited in their home-ranges by natural barriers;
(2) to portray moats as a part of the habitat without visitors seeing them either explicitly or implicitly as a barrier.
I am a barely literate animal behind such moat,
reading,
hopeless,
summer.
20/06/24
During my master studies, I was in a hands-on start-up class where we would actually have a valid start-up idea that we believe in and we’d build around it.
My teammate and I created <Project Vérité>, it is about the creation of a physical public space to showcase online-exclusive projects and innovations in a showroom with a set-up made specifically for the object.
Terrible name, according to our French friends. Quite pretentious, they said.
And maybe a even terrible start-up idea, too. Terrible as its utopian nature that is meant not to survive in the world we live in.
But I believed in the idea, and I still do to this date.
<Project Vérité> was created out of the faith for physical reality. We want to rip out the reality hidden beneath the code, highlighting the importance of aesthetic satisfaction touch can bring.
Physical space, physical touch,
see with eyes, feel with fingertips,
aesthetic satisfaction.
In an era of substantial collapse as of the Big Crunch of the universe,
e.g. smartphone incorporating countless functionalities, online grocery shopping, remote working..
I believe in <Project Vérité>, and I miss my <Project Vérité>.
12/06/24
08/06/24
03/06/24
A couple of fragmented and disoriented days have passed.
Technology, or to be specific, my intolerance of tech that doesn’t work has become my weakness.
says someone who lost an entire day of work due to a software crash, most likely due to some insufficient computer RAM, which definitely result in some serious trust issues in his tech.
It happens to the best of us, he calms himself thinking in such way, but What to do then?
You start over again, and not just replicate the work that’s been done and lost,
but make it 10x better.
Happy June.
25/05/24 Saturday
For the past few days, I’ve been DEEP in the rabbit hole of writing an extremely long video script about film scanning, specifically, my unorthodox workflow of DSLR scanning featuring conversion software Negative Lab Pro and RAW enhancement software DxO PureRAW.
The script is taking so long that I’m starting to lose faith on how to make a video out of it without breaking my bank, and most critically, without ruining my work schedule.
I now understand what David Imel, a non-full-time-creator of his YouTube channel, said in response of “Can you make more videos?”:
No, I can’t afford it.
21/05/24 Tuesday
Will people without / deprived of access to AI become less of a member of the society?
19/05/24 Sunday
Auto-correction
Whenever I type my name Yinghao, of course it will be highlighted as a spelling mistake. And if the system has auto-correction on, my name will be auto-corrected as Gingham. And I delete it and type my name again, it will get auto-corrected again as Gingham.
Gingham, also called Vichy check, is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric typically with tartan (plaid), striped, or check duotone patterns, in bright color and in white made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarns. It is made of carded, medium or fine yarns.
Something to make a project on.
18/05/24 Saturday
A set of dimensions to think about.
1D: Sein (to be/exist)
2D: To be believed to Sein
3D: To be observed and such observation can be shared
4D: To be interacted with clear and accurate anticipation
5D: To be interacted without clear and accurate anticipation
6D and further: ?
* Things of higher dimensions possess the nature of lower dimensions.
Actually, it doesn’t have to be named “dimensions”, but it helps to think.
A headache felt by one is 2D; Emotions are 2D.
A mountain at distance is 3D.
An eclipse is 3D.
A mannequin is 4D.
A person or a living creature is 5D.
1D?
Maybe that’s for a photo to seize and deliver as a medium of art.
17/05/24 Friday
Sympathy for the machine
it knows so much of such little things,
0 and 1.
Whose knowledge about the world and oneself is more fragmented,
more limiting,
us, or the machine?
(while I was experimenting with AI-enhanced film scans)
Also, starting today May 17-21, three of my photos as below will be part of a collective exhibition “There was a mountain” in London, organized by Hidden Mountains.
Location: Koppel Collective, 1 Adelaide Road, London, NW3 3QE
Free entry 10 AM - 6 PM.
14/05/24 Tuesday
Just received and edited my first roll of medium format film scan, 6x8, shot on my first medium format camera Fujifilm GX680.
Quite some heavy-lifting when shooting them, in literal sense.
I realize that the shooting method predefines the way I perceive the outcome of such shooting.
With more dedication before pressing the shutter, comes a much long-lasting gaze at the pictures.
10/05/24 Friday
Human will always need aesthetic experience from material goods / real things.