声明

 

大家没有听到完成的故事,我表示很遗憾,现在由当事人之一的我来完善。今年六月份左右,我与大家熟知的“梦想家” R 互相有好感,差点开展了一段诡谲的同性恋情。我与A相识六年左右,从初中开始认识。R左右逢源,做事滴水不露,颇有社交家的风范。

 

我考虑过与R的未来,不太有信心能够两人一起承担一个未来。那时,我想到了身价不凡的离异爸爸,也许他能够帮助我解决基本房车问题。我向R透露了具体情况,表示未来没工作也不会一筹莫展,但我并不是富二代,此声明存档在我们中间朋友的短信中。 我那时还很天真很傻,没什么眼界,也不了解R贪慕虚荣的人品,很爽快的答应了A承诺给她一个平凡的未来,以致后来被加冕“骗子”的封号。

 

我在Facebook的原话为

和我妈旁敲侧击过,继承我爸的事业是不太靠谱的事,况且项目越来越少了,情况比较复杂。总之买房买车都ok,但其它的难说。我愿意自己努力创业,他也会支持,就是这么一个情况。”

 

怎知A听到那个惊人的财产数字产生了贪念,隔三周左右开始向我要求名牌。我逐渐起了疑心,向R表示我并不是富二代,R表示理解,随后态度略有转变,并且频繁联系起一名台湾富商长子D。其中阴差阳错使我们很多次没有在一起。后面几次R主动找过我,而我因为各种情况错过,我是因为担心没房没车没钱会苦着,所以几次蜿蜒拒绝。直到最后一次因为那周正好交付作业费用太多没有余钱,而彻底让自尊心非常强的R不情愿与我在一起,开始远程与我联系,以“奔放到极至” 与我互成“老公” “老婆”,确立了网恋关系。

 

与此同时,R与D约会频繁,经常出入图书馆,而我也从朋友口中听闻他们确实已交往。而R此时举动莫非是脚踏两只船?我本想负责任的决心在认清A的人品问题和膨胀的物质欲望后,顿时消灭。即便是追求更好的生活,藕断丝连也不太好吧。

 

R在我学业紧张的时候,持续和D约会,并以我冷漠为名义断然放弃我选择D。随后因为R之后因男子D改口无法对其负责,而回到被她抛弃过的我身边。我并没有说什么,同时觉醒这是个现实的社会,以及R的人品问题,并不打算和这种人共同一生。

 

此时,暂时只剩下我一个依靠的R,颇有望“夫”成龙的意思,R联络起网民与名人,纷纷向我发出做人做事的质疑,而我几次年少气盛的直率顶撞引来更多的喧闹。 每次争吵后感情越来越脆弱,我也首先察觉两人兴趣爱好,价值观,都大相径庭,理智的想了想,还是觉得分手对彼此的幸福都比较好。而R为了自己的面子,即便承认不同,也不愿意分手,反倒是在她操控的iBooloo 用强硬的口气逼迫我,讽刺我,挖苦我,用我的电子设备镜头监控我怕我逃出她的”魔掌“,而人前则表现出一副楚楚可怜被人遗弃的表象,大肆宣扬我以大局为重的“恶行”。

 

 

 

 

Apologies for the quality of sound in the happiness vs. identity part, it has been reduced since the video was been compressed

Soundtrack reference

Name: raining.mp3 Used at: the opening of sadness vs.identity Artist: BartMan444  Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pSyYhRYeIM

Name: dying.mp3  Used as: the background music for sadness vs. identity)  Artist: Maximilian Hecker  Album: Lady Sleep

Name: Swing Swing.mp3   Used as: the background music for happiness vs.identity  Artist: Alan Huang, Wei Ying Weng Album: The OST for film “Love in a Puff”

Concept

Mood changes one’s perception of the world and self, henceby changes one’s identity, considering that perception and behaviour are part of one’s identity. In plain word, when we’re in a different mood, we’re a different person, the way we see things and how we behave would be different.

Details

When the persona is in a sad mood, she feel lost so that her world is spinning around. She had lost control of her mind and unable to think; she’s like a puppet being manipulated by someone else. She would be distant from group, there would be an invisible boundary that hinders her from getting in contact with others (represented as a piece of glass). Despite of her effort to try to break out the boundary, she would get hurt because she’s fragile and sensitive when she’s in a depressive mood. She is inconfident so that she perceives herself as multiple times smaller than others. She’s like a falling flower. Her world loses shades and colorfulness. She’d be crying and being nostalgic.

When the persona is in a happy mood, she would be more aware to positive things such as blue sky and sunshine. She’d be as carefree as a puff of air floating across the sky. She’d be jumping up and down to express her excitement. She would think positive and perceive the world with love, that’s why everyone is smiling at her when she have walked pass a crowd. Even during darkest time of the day, she would sense brightness and colorfulness. She would be more close to nature and feels refreshed, her eyes will focus on only those warm and friendly subjects.

http://anasomnia.com/

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Ana somnia portraits a world of when you dreams, as the creator believes “our imagination works in wonder when there’s no one watching”. I believe it falls into the category of online art project since first of all, it is an artwork that expresses a certain theme and secondly it requires the audience to interact with the site  in order to explore the theme into further depth.For example, switch on webcam, turn off light, clicking around. Therefore, ana somnia cannot work on its own as an offline artwork. Neither was it a piece of net art, since the theme is not related to internet / net cultures.

This site operates with one’s webcam to detect light, if the amount of light falls below a certain level, then one will be led to ana’s dream where wild imagination proliferate and impossibilities meet. Things like bizzare living creatures, massive squid, dolphine bumping onto spring, rotating human head and many more would have emerged whilst one watch; accompanied by sound.

This site would not be made possible without the use of Flash, code and Illustration softwares. As well as the creative talent and drawing skill of the web designer.

I started off with establishing the web page frame in Dreamweaver. I have used elastic 2 columns template so that users would be able to zoom in/out without undesirable clitching and positioning problems. I’ve then made change to the template so that there’re no more columns but a large screen in the middle of page, everything will goes in here.  By doing so, user’s attention will focus on only what’s inside the screen and feels like watching a movie.

Rendering index page images in Photoshop to emphasis on the theme

Flickring index page snapshot (left), each color block represents a certain mood. The flickering was done with JQuery in Dreamweaver. I’ve decided to use the flickring of various color blocks as the intro because I think color is an effective metaphor of mood and the flickring adds both visual and interactive elements to the page. The flickring share resemblance to that of the TV screens, when it disfunctions or doesn’t receive signal. I’m trying to emulate a movie / TV screen here, since I want user to have a feeling of watching movie, watching how persona’s identity would have varied with changing mood. The two images would probably be the two channels that they can switch between. Hyperlinks will be created between rollover images and animation pages.

 

 

 

 

That’s how index page would look like after flickring. I have changed the layout of index page; as I decided only to focus on happy/sad mood. And large facial close-up would communicates one’s mood better. There’ll be an animation playing when user rollovers any of the below images on the page.

Process animation in Flash using Motion Tween and Bone Tool.

Process animation in Flash

Process animation in Flash

Haven’t rendered yet

Those  photographs were taken by  Chenman.  She is a famous Chinese photographer. I especially like the way that she manipulates a photo to express a certain feeling. I’m gonna adapt to her practice to produce two such images, each act as a button to the corresponding html pages. The index page will just  have those two images.

Reference

http://www.chenmaner.com/#/home/photo/art_work/vision/13

Link interactive part to the theme!

I’ve found them powerful in expressing one’s mood and their corresponding cognition

From http://www.flickr.com/photos/rb_photography/5109342288/

Metaphor: sunshine, abundant light, warm color, luminous, nature

Cognitive response: peaceful, hopeful

Metaphor: relaxing gesture, nature, landscape, warm and soft lighting

Cognitive response: comfortable, wide minded, more adaptive to the surrounding environment

From   Samantha Tio: Table for One

Metaphor: green, brown and dark shades, singularity, expression

Cognitive response: lonely, unhappy, painful, lost, heavy in thought

From:  http://zizart.tumblr.com/page/3

Metaphor: compositon, sepia shade, low ISO

Cognitive response: nostalgia, sad, reflective

Creating button in Flash

convert to symbol, F6, F7, resize image in different frame, designate an area to click on

Shape Tweening

Flying button

Change property and add filter

Add sound in flash

1.Import sound, Drag to stage, create blank keyframe

2.Property, edit, fade in

3.Edit effect, change amplitude…

Other

  • use encoder to compress mov
  • Import video to Flash, then integrate with sound
  • If want to make button in dreamweaver, then treat whole area of an object as a link

More photos to take…

Consider the effectiveness….

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