map - mr. cheung

follow your heart was what i wanted to draw, so here's a flow chart of some of my main passions now... where does it go, maybe towards some sort of interdisciplinary love work collaborative atelier, one day, maybe one day!

Mapping - Mr. Hu - Mapping a Conversation

This was my attempt to map a conversation that I had with several friends the other night. It took place at a quaint little SF eatery over the course of about 40 minutes. I took notes as to the progression of topics and basic phrases and transcribed them. The progression of time proceeds downward, as is the natural way to read English. The horizontal axis represents a topical spectrum organizing roughly along the poles of "Employment" and Unemployment" (highly subjective, I know). Notable topics discussed are labeled and you will notice that revisited topics are shown by the word stream redirecting back to the same horizontal location.

Note that the interjections of friends sitting nearby but not fully participating in our conversation are depicted as minor deflections into and out of the central stream.

Disclaimer: I recognize that the most glaring falsity of this spectrum is the misleading idea that one must pass through all intermediary topics to go from one to another.

Mr. Shen - Map

Mr. Shen here!

This week's assignment was truly an interesting one. Basically we were assigned to map out something, anything, that's not your typical "point A to B" map.

I decided to take a stab at a "normal" week for the average working individual. This, however, does not reflect me very well.

There would be a "Vomiting Station" between every weekday and the "Work Week" section would be labeled "Unemployment".

Photo-Typography - Mr. Hu - Foil A Guy

This was pieced together from photos I took of things in my apartment and around Berkeley in general. Even though this theme was my idea, it was quite a bit harder to find clear and elegant letter-forms than I had imagined.

Photo Typography - Mr. Cheung - alphalights

j and i ran around her backyard with flashlights and caught some of these alphabets flying around... we set up her digital camera with long exposure (between 1 to 3 seconds) on a tripod and spelled letters with flashlights!

Mr. Shen - Photo-Typography

Mr. Shen here.

So, this was an interesting theme picked by our very own Mr. Hu. Basically, I went around the house and took pictures of things that reminded me of letters.

I decided to spell my name because, frankly, I'm an internet whore.

3D Robot - Mr. Hu - Trashomir

This is Trashomir. He's made of wire hangers, shoe horns, camera parts, champagne corks, and other stuff I picked up from the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse. His powers include the ability to give you tetanus. He would like to gain motility someday, but his most immediate hope is to find a face.

Robot (3D) - Mr. Cheung

threedee robot invadees citee...

(made in 3d studio max!)

Mr. Shen - Robot

Mr. Shen here.

This is the "3D Robot" piece that I made. The name is Woodbot. It's a prototype design of the surveyBots that survey the different planets and moons across our universe, testing and quantifying their worth as part of the "big picture".

Hired by the higher ups, they infiltrate by the [number too large to write], but no one ever sees or hears them.

It was done with wood blocks, a few toothpicks, some white glue and black paint.

Mr. Cheung - Imaginary Friend

Not so happy with this one, tried playing with photo-collaging to make it seem as if an imaginary friend was vanishing into another world. Oh, it's alright, this kind of reminds me of the CD cover of an 80s pop band!

Mr. Shen - Imaginary Friend

Mr. Shen here.

I don't think I've done something that's straight up illustration lately, so I decided to do something of that sort this time around. The piece is all vector so it can easily be scaled for mugs, t-shirts and other "sell out" items. :)

I never played cards with imaginary friends. It always ended up in a fight and blood on my hands.

Imaginary Friend - Mr. Hu - Tickler

My attempt to get illustrative with, er, Illustrator. Getting color into this sort of thing is a challenge for the future.