Alice
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Wednesday, 27 August 08 - 04:31 AM (GMT +08:00) By Helenasia - in Animation |
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I stumbled upon this just now...its so inventive!! Loving it!
The 20 year old South African artist describes his work:
You can download the track here, or just go here for the artists youtube profile.The music video for my song ‘Alice’, an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’.
My keyboard
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Wednesday, 27 August 08 - 04:17 AM (GMT +08:00) By Helenasia - in Work |
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This is just a test run of my new apple keyboard. OMG isnt it the sexiest sleekest motherfucker you ever saw????
Its so beautiful and slim. Quiet...easy to clean...my wrists arent half in the air....man its so ergonomic and wonderful. And the keys have this really nice texture to them...sigh. This will be bliss to work on! It has only one issue that I have noticed which might be due to the fact that this is a British and not a US keyboard, so the shift key on the left is slightly shorter. I can live with it. In fact my little finger is already getting used to it.
Good stuff.
And all for 29 quid. Yay!
It bites
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Wednesday, 20 August 08 - 05:36 AM (GMT +08:00) By Helenasia - in Film |
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Oh. My. God.
I just watched THE hottest and MOST disturbing film I have seen in a long time. If not ever.
Seriously this one really fucked me up. It turns you on and then just when you are starting to relax it goes bad, so fucking bad. Dear God. This is so wrong and so awesome at the same time. As far as horror films go? This is one for the books. This is one of the best horror films I have ever seen. Am currently reading a book by Stephen King. The book is called Danse Macabre and is basically the history of horror films from 1950-1990. If it had been a new book, this film would be in it.
The film is not about ghosts. Its about mutation, the old story about the family who lives near a nuclear power plant in the middle of America. And its the old story how having sex before marriage leads to death. Just watch any high school horror film from the 80s or 90s and you always know that the first kids to die are the ones smoking pot or having sex...
I don't want to spoil this film for you, so I won't say anymore. All I am going to say is, the film is called "Teeth" and guys, beware, you might not feel like sleeping after this one. Especially not with someone next to you. This is probably one of the few horror films where you actually feel better sleeping alone. There were times where I couldn't help myself bursting out in horrified laughter. The film just totally goes beyond.
Go find it. "Teeth".
Everyone will finally be Equal...
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Tuesday, 19 August 08 - 05:18 PM (GMT +08:00) By Helenasia - in Film |
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I cannot wait to see this film. It totally kills Janteloven and makes it so obvious why in a socialist society, things can go so wrong. We are not all meant to be equal. Equal rights, yes, but equal abilities? That is up to us.
Exactly
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Sunday, 17 August 08 - 08:19 PM (GMT +08:00) By Helenasia - in Updates |
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Coraline
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Sunday, 17 August 08 - 06:59 AM (GMT +08:00) By Helenasia - in Animation |
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So the guy who directed stopmotion animation masterpieces Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach is now working on a new film. The storyline is based on a book by Neil Gaiman about a young girl who opens the door into her house and kinda into a parallel universe I guess where everything seems familiar but is somehow so horribly wrong. Probably turns out being one of those horribly scary animations that you have no idea how they made their PG rating...
Ok so its filmed entirely in stop motion animation, frame by frame, teeny movement by teeny movement...right down to the part where they animate Coraline breathing... Cool right??? Even cooler is that fact that its a 3D film (as in you can go to the cinema, wear 3D glasses and see parts of the film fly past you..., it is NOT 3D animation created in 3D software).
Coraline hits theatres February 2009!
But...for now you guys will be stuck like me watching these videos I nicked from Rotten Tomatoes and wondering how awesome will this film be.
All I can say is that I am so happy to be in this business. I move down to Wales on September 13th, my course doesn't start until October 8th though...am just itching to start! Meeting up with the head of the programme on Sept 22nd along with the other international students. If nothing else, then at least then the brainstorming can begin! Damn I miss brainstorming with a few people from Malaysia...
Jordan, Khai, Kamil, Tony, John, Meysam, Ian, Zahir, Jan...ah man...the ideas used to fly like fireworks!
Bleargh this sucks.
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Tuesday, 12 August 08 - 11:49 PM (GMT +08:00) By Helenasia - in Updates |
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So yeah I guess I just do not belong anywhere!
This is the country I was born in, well the UK at least, my dad is half English and my mom is Irish, so shouldnt i feel at home here? Just a tad????
Nooooo....I tried to apply for a student account today and was told that since I hadnt lived in the UK for the past 3 years I probably would not get one...sucks dont it! I feel like I am being treated like a second class citizen! I mean HELLO! THIS IS MEEE! HELEN! YOU ARE LUCKY TO HAVE ME IN YOUR DAMN COUNTRY!
Ummm ok. well maybe I went a bit far there, but I gotta say, I feel so bloody invisible in this country. I knew it would happen, but still. I am short, and normal here, completely average. I blend in like no other...heh. Noone here worships me as their Queen yet. Its hard to deal with. I just wish I was in Wales already so I could find a job, make friends and settle down! Ya know? Any roots I put down here in Glasgow will have to be pretty much torn up and moved again, so no point is there?
FUCK!
Homesick??? Me??? Maybe just a tad:P
Drop me a line if you are reading this, just let me know I aint alone in the world! COMMENTS PEOPLE! IDEAS ON HOW TO BE FABULOUS HERE!
FlyFM TVC
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Monday, 11 August 08 - 08:19 PM (GMT +08:00) By Helenasia - in Work |
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SO here finally is the TVC I did for Malaysia's radiostation FlyFM. Created entirely in 1 week, video audio and v/o:D
I still havent seen it on TV, it would be on ntv7 or 8tv, so if yall see it, let me know, but otherwise, I mean at least I did get paid for it:D My first paying job in animation;PGlasgow
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Saturday, 09 August 08 - 05:52 PM (GMT +08:00) By Helenasia - in Updates |
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Hiya! Yeah thats what everyone says here, no hi, just hiya!
To be honest I sometimes just cannot understand anything here! Some of the Glaswegians have a very very strong accent, and its just incredibly hard to understand. So I just smile and nod and hope they don't think I am rude... hehehe...
I have been in Scotland for about 2 weeks now and yeah I am liking it ok! For the first few days I stayed on the sofa in my mom's house which is way cool, its a converted old church. They made it into flats.
Then after that I moved in with my cousin Sophie, shes about 3 years younger than me, and pretty damn cool. Am renting a room from her flat for a month or until I go to Wales.
Life is pretty cool, but I gotta say its daaaaaaamn cold here at times. Yesterday it was warm enough to be out wearing only a sweater but today? Today its freezing ice cold rain... But what have I been up to since I arrived? Well not much to be honest...:P
I have been jogging 3 times, been walking soooo much its feeling great, I met up with some family, aunts uncles cousins whatnot, I went to see Wall-E (great film) and I have been drinking bottles and bottles of wine... Its just going down so nicely:P As far as the smoking goes, I havent actually been smoking that much, maybe 2-3 cigarettes a day, which is a shame considering I have a whole carton of smokes with me:P Oh well!
Am just really looking forward to starting my course and ya know, moving into a place where I can finally like unpack all my stuff permanently. I hate liiving out of a suitcase! But yeah after September 13th I will be living in Wales and from that day on you are all welcome to stay with me, I have a big bed:P
PS. No I havent picked up any guys here yet, why? Coz they just havent been worth it... and I am still slightly distracted by someone else:P
og nei ég meina ekki þennan sem var að sofa hjá fyrir nokkrum mánuðum heldur á ég við læknanemann sem ég pikkaði upp á eyjunni og er enn í sambandi við for some reason:P heehee....
Anyways, pictures are here:)
Lately
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Thursday, 07 August 08 - 11:57 AM (GMT +08:00) By Helenasia - in Updates |
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Note: I wrote this blog a while back, but never finished it, so I never published it. But finally finally here is the blog about me in the islands... God I miss them now!
Over the past 2 weeks so many things have happened that I barely know where to start. My world unfolded a little more with every heartbeat:D
It has left me with 3 songs on my brain:
1. Lately- Stevie Wonder
2. Leaving on an Airplane- sung by Bruce Lee
and for some reason:
3. Could you be, the most beautiful "girl" in the world- Prince
Maybe we could start with my trip to Pangkor Island.
PANGKOR 7th-11th July (Pangkor Photo Album)
On a Sunday morning me and my housemate Agusta (also Icelandic) headed down to KL to Puduraya bus station. We bought the tickets to Lumut at a price of 20 RM return... which is about 500 kr and then we took the four hour bus ride.
SO all in all this was a ridiculously cheap and easy trip so far.
I had booked us into a hotel for the first night, just in case all the hotels were full and just to make sure we had somewhere to sleep. The plan was that the next day we would find ourselves a more permanent place to rest our heads.
Its a good thing we did.
While sitting to dinner that first night at Horizon Inn, Agusta looked up in surprise. And then she looked down on her arm. A bright red dot had landed on her arm. Out of nowhere. It was a drop of blood. Not a big one, but definitely a drop of blood. She felt it land on her arm. There was no blood from the ceiling. It was a completely and utterly random drop of blood.
Anyone else getting freaked out here?
After dinner we went up to our rooms and realised that no, there was no cable TV as had been promised (and on this beach, theres no people, and nothing to do in the evenings, so you NEED cable TV). The pillows were hard, the blankets were manky and...well we didnt find this out until the morning after, but the toilet? It smelled like a public toilet from China.
So that same night we went hunting for a new hotel and found this lovely one called Pangkor Bay View Resort. It was more like a real hotel, even had a swimming pool! And for only 10 RM more per night! The next morning me and Agusta went out looking around and man...the beach...is beautiful!
Pangkor is a really really really quiet island. Its wonderful to go there and lie on the beach and just relax. Prices of food and stuff are pretty damn cheap and you can see cool animals like Hornbills and one night we even saw a wild boar! It kinda freaked Agusta out hahahaha...
Snorkeling on Pangkor is not good at all, we did kinda expect it since the island is on the west coast, but man, visibiilty is almost 0 and the fish? Very limited.
But if you ever want a place to go and just lie on the beach, sleep, sunbathe and relax then Pangkor is your destination. The water is also damn nice for swimming in:)Finally I have to mention this place. Daddy's Place, oh man that place has the best food on the island. Seriously. It is...mmm....unbelievably good. The chef there actually has a diploma and the food is cheap and beautifully prepared...
Me and Agusta headed back for KL on the Thursday, we spent the weekend at home and then, we headed off for Perhentian!
PERHENTIAN 14th-17th July
There are 3 moments that stand out when I look back on this trip.
The first is the turtles.
The beach we stayed on was beautiful and clean and had white delicate and fine sand... If you went into the water you only had to swim about 3 meters before seeing amazing sealife like clownfish, stingrays, and yes...turtles.
One day we went to another beach and there in a bucket was a whole bunch of tiny baby turtles. The guys who worked at that place collected all the babies and let them grow a little more before going into the water. Normally they only have a 10% survival rate due to sharks, eagles and other predators attacking them, but being a little stronger really helped their survival odds.
The girls caught up with me and we followed the turtle for a while. She didnt mind us at us! She even let us stroke her shell when she came up again for air!
She was definitely a Mama Turtle...way cool:)
The second event that really stood out was when I was snorkeling with Dennis one day.
We had spotted several sharks that day, only small ones but still a wee bit cool and scary at the same time.
I saw a pretty big one about 1.5 m long, and was swimming back to Dennis (figured strength in numbers). I was just kinda hanging there in the water when i felt something bump my leg. At first I was like crap I must have bumped a coral, but it felt so smooth and...cold....????
I looked down to see not one but TWO sharks (also about 1.5 m long) swimming past me. You better believe I almost wet myself in panic (its the ocean, noone would have known anyway) and rushed back to Dennis.
The last highlight was taking a wonderful swim in the moonlight... It was awesome, the water was so warm and the moon was so bright! Best skinny dipping ever:P
I was kinda worried though, I mean Perhentians are in a rather strict muslim state...and my glow in the dark white ass was as bright as another moon...hmmm...
The water is clear, the sea is full of life and the sand is soft and warm....Paradise....
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