got milk?

http://www.gotmilk.com/

this website has awesome layout.

the one thing i can associate with milk the most is probably the milk carton. On entry, when you're waiting for the flash to load(into the home page) a milk carton popped up and twirled itself, on each of the 4 sides having different prints and by the time the first side comes back around again, it's a different print again!


possibilities are endless here.

anyway, I manage to get into the website, and the layout was very interesting indeed. It took me some time to find out exactly what I was doing - a lot of hidden buttons and i had a lot of fun playing round.

I wouldn't say its the easiest site to navigate round with - it was sophisticated, both good and bad. From a design point of view, the site was well built, very well managed and layout-ed. The themes from one page to another matched and coordianted flawlessly.

From the usability point of view, if I was no clever cookie who worked well with computers, it is total internet nightmare. I can imagine it being a hard to navigate round site for people who are unfamiliar with online environments(but thats hard to achieve these days).

Content-wise, it was rather confusing to be highly critical. Upon hovering over a logo that said 'Bone Chilla', i clicked and entered it not know what to expect. I then realized to my surprise I was expecting something - certainly what turned up on screen! I was expecting some form of information page or perhaps an advert campaign (i.e. Sony Bravia - Colours like no other) but what i got was an interactive game.
Which is thinking out of the box - I didnt get what I expected.
I then moved onto trying out other buttons but it turned out they were all games :'(

And I just found out, whoever designed this website must have been a total idiot!
After all that time spent getting confused over why there are only games on a website that promotes milk, I found out why I was being led to think that way.

Half the menu you will NOT see unless you scroll down
like this!



So i take whatever I've said back - and its suddenly now become a very fun site to go round!
It had recepies, news and events(recent updates etc) and even a shopping cart!
But what it also has, is a branch of the site dedicated to the brands' identity - the got milk? brand. How it came about, why it came about, and even with people gradually growing out of the line 'got milk?' how they come to refreshing the brands image without going to far removed from its original tagline.

Basically, it has taught me stuff, I participated and gave them a hit, they in return has given me new knowledge and a good time mopping around on it.

Very good interactive website - apart from the scrolling down and finding out theres some much more to the site!

something facinating

Oskar Fischinger

Many may not have heard of him before...and it took me a while to find his name - but it's all worth the while.

To me, he was the true founder of Visual Music - whereby a 'conceptual design that might be formulated in one's mind when listening to symphony' and classical music are blended together, giving not only the pleasure on the ears, but the exhilarating experience of visual impact synced with the music.

Some of his more famous works includes 'Komposition in Blau'(Composition in Blue) - and this won him the Brussels and Venice Festival of 1935 - bringing attention of the Hollywood directors.

I like his work a lot and the reason is simple because of its uniqueness - there's nothing (not anything that I've encountered in the 20 years I've been around) quite like it. The way it works so flawlessly and it all just seem to fit together so well - I'm absolutely bewitched by his talents and imagination.
It's hard to describe what his style is as there's nothing that I can compare with.

To me, he's one of a kind that has such a big impact on our current techniques that to some extent, I honestly don't think film making could be where it is today without him.

Although you may argue that he's more of a 'animator' than 'videographer' I still think there is a strong relationship between his style and influences and the way we shoot films/videos today.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=C30ekGqY6Mg

"James Wakefield"

exposed

Choices

James Wakefield, recent graduate under Manchaester Metropolitan University, has to me shown great depth of talent and thoughtfulness in his work.

His interesting choice of scenery has led the viewer to finding it almost hard to bear the loneliness one may experience. His work albumed 'Urban Decay' has brought about great trails of thoughts.

And i feel that is what a photograph is suppose to do, get feelings across to you without the use of words. Its a feeling from within that cannot be decribed merely by words.

looking ahead

For my second year, I had to make a decision as to which pathway I wish to specialize further in.

Out of Audio-Visual, Web-Enviroment and Virtual-Enviroment, I went with Audio-Visual.

I feel that the Audio-Visual path will enable me to fully express the way I feel perhaps?

"Paul Politis"

I admire his work.

Most of his work are B+W based and holds a level of details and thoughts behind it.

He's done series of photos on different themes on a wide variaty - the more recent one being urban photography

I've always been a great fan of photographs taken of the city espeicailly in B+W as i feel it futher punctuates the loneliness one may feel within the towns of concrete. To me, the above photo shows the absolute pin-point of how dramatic the feeling really is when one is perhaps depearate for help from within and cannot be reached because he's gone just so far into the oblivion of loneliness.

the 7 happy peas

the 7 happy peas

1/ happy
2/ artistic
3/ friendly, loving and kind
4/ a dreamer
5/ outrageous, adventurous, wild and crazy
6/ outgoing and fun
7/ best cook in the world

there are perfectly good reasons behind each of the personalities I've chosen.

but a shot of what they now look like :)

'the happy peas'

the second self

it took a long time to come to conclusion as to what i'd rather be

though i'm not happy in my current body, i'm very appreciative of what i already have

so then i thought, I'd like to be a pea

a happy pea with no worries of mortgages, how to get through life without money, always looking forward to pay-day so you can get your bills out the way

and the cycle goes on and on and it never ends, like the call it in 'Poor dad, Rich dad', the rat race

I've decided to make 7 individual peas, each representing a personality I'd like to have
As suppose to making myself a superstar, a model, a guy, another human being altogether, 'cause it means nothing to be shallow like that

it's the depth of personality that matters the most in my views