MAFU Official Website

The song is entitled ‘Here In My Home’. Pete Teo wrote the song especially for the project… sung by 16 different artistes

there’ll be a music video too, co-directed by Yasmin Ahmad and Ho Yuhang,

Malaysian Artistes For Unity is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit national unity project made possible by the participation of over 120 notable Malaysians. Enlisted to the project over a short period of 2 weeks in April 2008, these participants range from artistes, celebrities, arts activists, media-personalities, musicians, dancers, sportsmen, filmmakers, web designers, producers, technicians, poets, models and more. All participants contributed their effort on a pro-bono basis. The project has a production budget of exactly zero.

Keep a lookout for this noble act of music and universal love!
Support Malaysian Artistes For Unity – first time ever launching of the MV on 3rd May 08, AIM live broadcasting at NTV7

(okay, the front part of the clip might bored you, but must see those in the middle. there’s really nice hologram)

“Diesel’s Spring/Summer 08 catwalk show, staged a few days ago at the Pitti Immagine Uomo fair in Florence, was nothing short of stunning. While regular human models paced up and down the runway, a host of polyp-like CGI characters appeared in mid-air to interact with them within an underwater landscape. And in a unique twist, these animated holograms were entirely viewable from both sides of the stage…

Diesel’s Creative Team (under the direction of Wilbert Das) based the show on an aquatic theme entitled “Liquid Space” and brought together Barcelona animation studio Dvein – who worked on the CGI visual effects and 3D animations – and Danish multi-media production agency, Vizoo, who provided the innovative technology for the show, which they had created themselves. Neither studio, say Diesel, had previously worked on anything like this before.” -CR review

after watching the video, i felt the holograms and models are moving individually at their own pace. models catwalk passing by without interaction. if the 3Ds could blend in with the model (eg: greeting gestures, hopping together or tailing each other; just some simple body gestures), it could be more captivating. plus, with background music, this could be a real big show!

this is their teaser

here’s the little girl

and the elephant

if you want to see more, click below
here’s the official website
video – the elephant
video – The Little Girl

In bed (2005)

Ron Mueck,an australian, is a hyperrealist sculptor working in Great Britain. Most of the sculptures by Mueck is highly realistic – that with a glance, you’ll think that it’s a real person, except of the size. with human as his main subject matter, his sculptures are several metres in size. see, size does matters!

‘Boy’ an artwork produced in 2001, is about 5 metre tall.

look at the details on ‘boy’s’ foot

as a puppet maker in early career, Mueck moved to making photorealist items to creating small figures and furthers to led him to the piece ‘Dead Dad’. it is a rather haunting silicone and mixed media sculpture of the corpse of Mueck’s father reduced to about two thirds of its natural scale.(if you really want to see the sculpture of his father click here(scroll to the end)

his artworks are made from mixed media, which includes fibreglass, resin, silicone, acrylic fibre, polyurethane and even human hair, punched in by a sharp needle, one by one. Amazing!

if this is enough to make you crave for more visuals of Mueck’s artworks, here’s to satisfy it…..

for images behind the scenes during his exhibition
for images of his artworks on show

after goggle with my eyes, mouth and mind wide open at his artworks, i feel that Mueck’s works creates an annoying discomfort feeling. it’s rather hard to put it in words to describe his works. it created a sensation of deep emotion. some would feel that he’s essentric and others would highly admired him.

i felt his creatures are bizarre and profound, eg: the bold man sitting be the corner of the room looking deeply depressed; the ‘wild man’ sitting nakedly on a chair as if he’s staring angrily at the audiences, feeling insecure; ‘mother and baby’ in a position of the newborn on the mummy’s belly. i applaud and admire his ability & patience in creating such highly detailed artworks.