Change vs. StayThere’s a part of me that believes that if I keep doing something for as long as I can, the chances of me succeeding would be more than if I keep changing the thing I do. Surely if you stay and continue doing something for a long time, you’d get better at what you’re doing?Then again, if you decided not to stay and go for change, it’d definitely be an adventurous ride. Of surprises, pleasant or unpleasant, you would grow.Take your side. ——Triangle stands for change in mathematical terms and is also the constant element in the visual representation. It is represents the self here. I wanted to show the difference between the 2 sides hence the 2 varied patterns of how the constant changes as time (multiple triangles) passes.Wonder what else can I do with this.  

Change vs. Stay

There’s a part of me that believes that if I keep doing something for as long as I can, the chances of me succeeding would be more than if I keep changing the thing I do. Surely if you stay and continue doing something for a long time, you’d get better at what you’re doing?

Then again, if you decided not to stay and go for change, it’d definitely be an adventurous ride. Of surprises, pleasant or unpleasant, you would grow.

Take your side.

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Triangle stands for change in mathematical terms and is also the constant element in the visual representation. It is represents the self here. I wanted to show the difference between the 2 sides hence the 2 varied patterns of how the constant changes as time (multiple triangles) passes.

Wonder what else can I do with this.  

The Happiness Project: Quiz: Are you a Moderator or an Abstainer, When Trying to Give Something Up?

I’m a moderator. I need sleep and will sleep (at least a few hours?) even with crushing deadlines because I will aim to finish them as on time as possible. I still watch dramas but with an allocated time slot and once a week. Yep, I’m a moderator. Think I can add this idea to my balance umbrella. 

The Happiness Project: Self-Acceptance: Are You An "Alchemist" Or A "Leopard"?

I think I’m 75% a leopard, 25% an alchemist?  

fluxhibition #3 - Boxes, cases, kits, containers - contemporary fluxus art and artists

Fluxus kits

From Designing Design

Today’s designers are beginning to realize that endless possibilities for design lie dormant not just in the new situations brought on by technology, but also in the common circumstances of our daily lives. Creation of novel things is not the only creativity. The sensibility that allows one to rediscover the unknown in the familiar is equally creative. We hold a great accumulation of culture in our own hands, yet we remain unaware of its value. The ability to make use of these cultural assets as a virgin resource is no less creative than the ability to produce something out of nothing. Beneath our feet lies a gigantic, untouched vein of ore. Just as simply donning sunglasses makes the world look fresher to us, there is an unlimited number of ways of looking at things, and most of them haven’t been discovered yet. To awaken and activate those new ways of perceiving of things is to enrich our cognitive faculty, and this relates to the enrichment of the relationship between objects and human beings. Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life. Designers who have inherited the legacy of modernism and shoulder the new century have gradually begun to explore their consciousness of that fact.

Kenya Hara. Designing Design. Pg 434.  

Someday when I’m rich enough, i must own this book.

Week 3- presentation afterthoughts



There’s still so much to do. So much to read. 
Right now my project has taken an abstract turn, it’s kind of like art now, but a part of me wants it to be clear and more of “design” than art. What I like don’t quite tally with the visuals I’m producing. I can’t waste time thinking so much again. But whatever visual I have now, I’m still not quite satisfied with them yet. Ok what should I do next then:

  • Find a chance artist/designer that speaks to my soul and to my project, research on his methodology/philosophy to back up what I’m doing.
  • Research more in depth into my balance themes
  • MAKE MORE VISUALS.

My soul, why are you so difficult to please!

To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion - Oliver Segovia - Harvard Business Review

Not sure if I agree with this but this is quite a different pov

UPDATED Description

Version 1

The project translates a series of self-imposed challenges into a system of visual language that represents a journey. The journey being a symbolic representation of the feelings, experiences and thoughts faced at the point of facing graduation. The challenges being experiments that I put myself go through metaphorically, of the questions that I ask myself for example:

How will I balance work and life?
How will I figure out what to do with my life if I don’t know what I want to do?

Version 2

The project is a system of visual language that represents my feelings, experiences and thoughts faced at the point of graduation. Also consisting of questions that I ask myself for example: How will I balance work and life? How will I figure out what to do with my life? Some of these questions are then expressed into metaphorical experiments that I challenge and impose myself to go through, as I try to answer them.

The Happiness Revolution (by Jes742)

thatkindofwoman: Time Wasting Experiment

thatkindofwoman:

Time Wasting Experiment

(via witanddelight)