Interesting Times

My proud first attempt in video editing with no help whatsoever.

Here is a little clip I made to illustrate my new question, how long does it take for your wait to become interesting.

Unfortunately the quality went down a little when I was exporting it. I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.

Interesting Times from Desmond Wong on Vimeo.

Interviews Preview

Here is a preview of my interview movie:
Tripod is definitely a must from now on....

Strange Encounters Preview from Desmond Wong on Vimeo.

Alpha Road Project

This is a side project I'm doing at the moment along with my interventions at the bus stops. I will be posting every residents who live on my street sets of jewelery and ask them to all wear them on tuesday. I wanted to find out whether they would talk to each others or have any sort of interaction when they regonise their neighbours.

Book Shelf is Back??

but the books are all gone!!

Intervention Installation no.75, no.76 and no.97

Here are more installtion from today

no.75: Excercise Corner



no.76: Game Installation, Pencil & Paper



no.97: Ashtray

Alpha Road Project Laser Cut

I was bored while I was laser cutting my side project so I tried out my new video camera on the production. I'll explain the project in details when I finish making them.

Laser Cutting from Desmond Wong on Vimeo.

no. 73 Communal Music Station

Althought This has not been installed, I just loved it so much that i had to take it home and take some pretty pictures. A fully working prototype music system with choice of pop/chart, underground and radio.

Intervention Installation no. 67 and no.77

To be honest both of the installations are unsuccessful as no. 67 did not stay up and no. 77 was stolen within 2 hours. I will be re-installing no. 67 tomorrow and re-make no. 77. I refused to be beaten by thieves.

no. 67 Topic of the Day Comment Board



no. 77 Book Swapping Library

Random Chairs

Just some fun with some some vinyle squares from one of my intervention.
The one on the right is my favourite.

Prototyping Ideas

From the previous sketches, I have decided to create a few quick working prototypes to see the reactions I get from the public. I want to create a culture which is exclusive to the period of waiting. I have decided to focus on bus-stop as it is increasingly difficult to produce interventions in train stations due to security reason. The initial selections are the followings:



no.67- Comment Board for 'Topic of The Day'
no.73- A communal music station for people with similar musical taste
no.74- Designated waiting areas depending on your willingness to socialise
no.75- Excercise Corner
no.76- Game Installation
no.77- 'Swap a Book' Library
no.81- Make-Up Desk
no.84- Pocession Swaping Boxes
no.93- Dancing into each other
no.97- Ashtray Installation

40 Delveloped Ideas

After my failure to finish 100 initial ideas and the decision to move away from unconscious positive momentarily, I focused the last 40 sketches of the 100 initial ideas on waiting as a social platform.


no.62-Train Doors which can only be open by 2 people holding the doors in opposite direction


no.63-Escalators that only operate when there reach a certain number of people

Project in a Day

Our task today was to produce fresh ideas and imagine that our final year presentation is today at 16:00, pushing us to be decisive and confident in my work. I was torn between using waiting as a social platform and producing goodness unconsciously while waiting. At the end I went with the later and made a bus-stop model which harvest one's feet tapping energy for a light indicator to stop the buses. However, I did not satisfy with my outcome as I felt the outcome was very singular and doesn't provide potential for further interaction. This help me to make a decision to focus on social platform instead.

Waiting for 100 Ideas

This is a little task I set myself after my contextual report. The aim is to produce 100 ideas for waiting in relation to the findings from my contextual report: Vulnerability, Anticipation, Mixing Experiences and Boosting Concentration. Amitted some of the ideas are a bit rubbish and silly, but this excercise allowed me to get the rubbish thoughts out of my head and layout all my good ones and analyse them. However, I only managed to complete 60.

Contextual Report: Waiting and Delays

Here is my contextual reported made with pieces of paper I have collected from 1st Year. Costed me 20p to produce 2 copies. I'm very pleased with my outcome.


Abstract

Wait, a word that is of the up most unpopularity but yet we encounter it everyday, from downloading programs on the computer to waiting for trains and buses to arrive. It is an unavoidable part of life which we often have to endure. Although much research has been carried out on the topic, the majority of them only concern mathematical solutions such as time waste management and probabilities (the chances of people arriving at the same time). These solutions simply aim to shorten the wait. However, rather than minimising the time wasted, what this project is concerned with is these idle moments of life and their possible uses. Time stops while waiting and becomes a dead weight. The mind then wanders off blankly without destination. How can one extract something positive from these moments?

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Workshops.3

Here are the documents where I comprised the sketches and outcome into garphic record. The projects included here are:

Design Debate: Design SHOULD be Playful
Object Fiction
Film Week: Adventure of a Schizophrenic Camera

Brief Document

Here is the revised graphics for our final year design brief.

The size is limited A5.

4960 Ideas and Sketches

4960 Ideas



Sketches

A belated 'Reflection' Week

Have I missed out anything?

Adventure of a Schizophrenic Camera

The video explores the scenario in which a very human mantle disorder, Schizophrenia has invaded a machine. How will it function and what can we gain from these clips?

Over Exposed, Higest ISO and super-impose back images
Continuous Images

Adventure of a Schizphernic Camera from Desmond Wong on Vimeo.

Workshop with El Ultimo Grito

We were asked to merge objects found from pound shops and to devise a context with the newly formed objects completed with a 300 words context/story.


Click on the image below to read the story:



This project for me is about how form has a language which while merged together we can knit a new narrative. The story and the object were mutually driven.

Design SHOULD be Playful!

This week we were to come with with an argument which support the above slogan. The goal of this debate is to win votes against the our opposing teams 'Design should NOT be playful'.


Obviously we won as we have our prob, the 'Para-Mug'. Never smash a mug again.

Beginning of a Beginning

We have finally started to look at our final year project and finding out our area of concern. Here is my starting point extracted from the NewScientists 24 October 2009.


Although it started off with the broad subject of time perception, I have now concentrated on the effect of it in relation to schizophrenia

Forgotten Craft, Drawing as a Creative Process

Here is the project as part of the double project thing with ICTTE. I'm trying to find a new understanding of drawing.


During the exploration of drawing through an ordinary pen and the modern Adobe programs such as Illustrator and InDesign I noticed the difference between how our drawing tools dictate our thinking process. I sat up various experiments and found out that while we draw with a pen on paper, our movements/thoughts are more continuous and organic. However, as soon as we use a mouse the process become a disjointed and calculated thought, as one has to work out the logistic of the program and figure out the most ‘convenient’ way to achieve the goal. It is driven by numbers and equation.

Therefore, I was interested how one could explore and exploit this idea of ‘convenience’ in the world of hand-drawing. I have created these new set of swatches by dismantling the different element in the movement in drawing and gave them numerical indicators. By doing so I hope to encourage a new way of thinking in which one explores drawing movement in numbers and turning these continuous chains of thoughts into data. Then it is up to the user of this chart how they would like to take these data forward.

ICTTE, Intergrating Culture Through The Everyday

Just a little project on marriage of cultures.

100% Design with Decode

Here is some pictures in 100% with Decode where I worked for a months.