Giberish.

Well, its the last few blog entries for school. And I seriously tempted to write the nonsense I write in my blog all the time. As most of you know, I did my design diploma before Comms. And while doing design, there's always this label(stereotype) for designers:

Designers are just weird.

Having been there and done that, I'm clearing the air on this statement. There are a few some excuses reasons for such a claim to be made.

1. Designers often are required to think out of the box. The box retrains thinking. So our brain's kinda not in the skull 24/7. Hence the occasional weird control of movements.
   
2. While the brain's not at home, designers are required forced to come out with totally new concepts 24/7 (again). Forcing just makes thinking weirder cause the brain just refuses to return to base. Reason for that: home base is under attack, who in the world would want to stay home and get bombed to death. --.--
3. After the "bombings", the brain does return to the designer's skull. However, the designer's brain has to start on the restoration of the home base (motivation/to de-unmoralise oneself). This process often amazes the laymen. Even amazes the designer.
   
4. When restoration is done, you'll then realise that the designer is sleep-deprived, food-deprived, play-deprived, (in my case) booze-deprived and in some drastic cases; sex-deprived. No wonder most designers are emo, gay and skinny. (Why didn't the skinny happen to me? Guess I didn't stay in the industry long enough. ~Shrugs~)

Most of us (the young ones) look like that, probably plus minus here and there.

Hey. But we do create the coolest stuff in the world. Think the movie Alien. Ok. The guy's totally weird even from my own point of view. H.R. Giger. He's the dude that designed the alien and the set in the movie.
But didn't it appeal greatly to the masses?

Designers are weird but we are definitely great too. If not, where do all your lovely handphone designs come from?

Ebony and Ivory.

We complain everyday about not getting the attention we desire. But in Tanzania, albinos get so much attention that they fear for their lives. Please view the video as well.

Albinism is a condition due to the lack of melanin pigment in the body. And albinos' greatest enemy is the sun.
It is actually quite sad to see people killing people for the sake of unjustified beliefs of people towards something or someone out of the norm. It is of course nice to know that the Tanzania government is taking action to protect their minority people. But this is only after 19 albinos have been killed. I won't deny that humans tend to act when a cure is needed than when its better to prevent.

It is pretty hard for people to accept anything not normal. I had this classmate in kindergarden and she's an albino. Everyone in the class just ostracized her. Even I, being her only friend, was alienated from the class too (partially due to my height as well; I was a head taller than most of my classmates then). My classmates said she had some disease and could be contagious. I don't blame them, after all we were 5-6 at that time. But I didn't see her that way though I did ask her if she was Chinese or a Caucasian. Whichever, to me, she's just different.

I think that we can of course learn all the different techniques and ways of communicating and interacting with people; but at the end of the day, I do think its the choice we make. Do we choose to treat albinos like dirt and think that they are people with leprosy? Or do we choose to just treat them like us as how we would with another normal human being?

Extreme art?

There's a sick dude who thinks that thinks starving a dog's art. It's a really saddening scene to see. And best part is there are many people viewing the art.
Here's the idiot's reason.

Hello everyone. My name is Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. I am 50 years old and an artist. Recently, I have been critisized for my work titled "Eres lo que lees", which features a dog named Nativity. The purpose of the work was not to cause any type of infliction on the poor, innocent creature, but rather to illustrate a point. In my home city of San Jose, Costa Rica, tens of thousands of stray dogs starve and die of illness each year in the streets and no one pays them a second thought.

Now, if you publicly display one of these starving creatures, such as the case with Nativity, it creates a backlash that brings out a big of hypocrisy in all of us. Nativity was a very sick creature and would have died in the streets anyway.

God. Can't you use another way to display such art? There are loads of photographers/artists/writers out there that have shown the many problems in the world without having the resort to such actions. Having educated in the creative field, I have learnt that you can create but in a diplomatic kind of way.Like this photo. The photographer didn't kill the person to illustrate the sense of poverty or the troubles faced in that country.

Blinkymummy has written on someone trying to "illegally" bring in a dog. Some what so contradicts the art that our dear friend has created. Please sign the petition. He has the intention of re-creating such gruesome work. Please stop/prevent him from doing so again. Who knows how many innocent lives that he might have taken in the name of art? I do believe if I were art, I won't want to relate myself to such an act at all!