sunnysymphony

# 9 - unconscious attraction

2011-10-30T23:00:00.000+07:00

i love browsing through blogs: from fashion to craft. i find myself spending hours just watching and saving pictures. unexpectedly, i do enjoy it and somehow, i feel the pleasure just by looking at the beautiful photos posting on their blogs. how could it be so? how do i feel the pleasure just by looking at it? this is so abstract. i really want to find out what those pictures do to me. however, what is even more amazing is how, just a picture, can twist a whole image that represent someone. although you do not know a person, you have a whole concept of this individual just by looking at pictures posting on his or her blog. he or she might be an independent kind if his or her blog is full of film photos with unique perspectives. it is amazing how pictures can say a lot about a person. however, how could you be so sure that you are not deceived? surely, you are not the one who aware of this fact. somehow, a concept that you have from looking at those pictures might be calculated.

the picture is from much love, one of blogs i visit. the contain of this post does not mean to offend anyone. it is just my thought.

# 8 - cities on a paper

2011-10-23T21:56:00.000+07:00

i love miniatures. actually i love imitations of mundane things, such as building, or cars. i do not know why, but i guess it might be because it 'defamiliarizes' things that seem to be mundane to us. if anyone shares this obsession with me, the work of florent chavouet is what i would like to recommend. he brilliantly draws cities and towns of japan onto a piece of paper. his work is so vivid that i feel like it could come to life. his work is full of details. i do not get tired of looking at it and finding details i miss from my previous observations.

i might not be a good critic, so please go to his website for more information:

florent chavouet

# 7 - time off

2011-10-16T21:34:00.000+07:00

this is a picture from my trip to japan last year with my school friend. it was the first time for me to go aboard merely for traveling and it was also the first time for me to travel only with my friends. it was a new experience for both of us; an adventure of us in a country where we hardly speak the language. we were so excited!! however, what we cherished the most about this trip is the fact that, during the trip, our mind was free from all the worries. for once, it felt like we were free from any confinements, from any responsibilities. it's true that we were thinking and rushing everyday; where to go, where to eat, where to sleep. however, those are just temporary. it felt like, those two weeks, we lived day by day. just think of where we wanted to go and just went there. it is indescribable. it is as if you do not need to carry any weight on your shoulders. however, it lasted only two weeks. as we were back to thailand, everything was back to normal.

# 6 - mini me

2011-10-09T17:26:00.000+07:00

these are the icons of myself drawn by my friend, nanze. it is funny to see how these pictures look different although it was the drawing of the same model, me. when i was a kid, i used to think over how people look different from each other since they all have the same eyes, nose, and mouth. the obvious answer is the fact that the shapes are different, but i still cannot get over this amazing creation of nature. studying math, people can calculate the possibilities, but the possibilities of people's looks seem to be uncountable. this is just....amazing.

this is the icon i made for myself. i decided not to put a nose and a mouth there since i want to emphasize on my eyes. i think that what people recognize the most about me. many people said that i have an interesting pair of eyebrows. somehow, it makes me look sad. people also remember me from my glasses since i usually wear them.

# 5 - mundane life

2011-10-02T20:56:00.016+07:00

i first saw this picture of bruno quinquet at bangkok art and culture center. this set of picture, compared to other work shown in the same exhibition, seems to be plain and boring. however, i was fascinated as it suggests the viewers to see boring lives of salaryman in a whole new interesting and meaningful way. especially this particular one, to me, it reflects how people working so hard in order to be successful. another reason why i love this set of photo is because it makes me aware of the fact that, soon, i will become one of those who quinquet had captured on camera. when i was young, a life of salaryman is something i would not want to become; wake up, eat, fight with traffic, work, eat, go home, sleep. this mundane daily life of salaryman was something i had not wanted to become. i still have the same impression on it now but, as i am growing up, reality hits me hard and becoming a salaryman with monthly incomes seems to be a good ground to stand on. i have to admit that now i still do not know what i am going to become in the future. i might be one of those who refuse the monthly income in order to persuade my dream.

visit quinquet's website for more information:

bruno quinquet

# 4 - simply beautiful

2011-09-25T22:52:00.006+07:00

when i visited "trans-cool tokyo" exhibition last year at bangkok art and culture center, i was moved by shimabuku michihiro's photographs. other artists try to do something extraordinary to capture people's attention, but for shimabuku, his photographs are not unbelievably beautiful; it is rather ordinary but meaningful. this photograph shows the ruins from a major kobe earthquake in 1995. it looks like another plain picture except the fact that it shows the sign saying 「人間性回復のチャンス」which means “the chance to recover our humanity”. this reflects a lot of things happening during the earthquake including human's behavior.

this makes me feel that something beautiful and meaningful might not be hard to seek as people usually think. like shimabuku's work, it does not need to be "extraordinary" to enchant the audience. therefore, if we do not try so hard to search for what we do not have, we might notice something special around ourselves. as paulo coelho wrote in his book "the alchemist" that "when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises".

visit shimabuku's website for more information:

shimabuku michihiro

# 3 - watercolor class

2011-09-18T13:44:00.007+07:00

due to the fact that i am not that good at expressing myself through words, so i decided to take a watercolor class as a search for a new way to express my feeling. during the class, i have been criticized by a teacher a lot since it was my very first time painting seriously. this makes me doubt what art really is. i am always told that there is no right or wrong in art which mean it cannot be judged. however, it is obvious that i have been judged by my teacher. i am also told that art is an expression of a person. if it is so, my work cannot definitely be judge!! besides, if i want to express myself, do i have to do it according to rule (in this case, watercoloring rules)? if i expressed according to my teacher's rule, would not it make my painting unoriginal? these are questions in my head after my first class. does it sound like i want to quit? no, i will not quit now because i have already paid 4,500 baht for 30 hours and i still want to learn more about watercolor painting.

# 2 - eye tricks

2011-09-11T20:07:00.006+07:00

miniature is another thing that has attracted me. it is interesting to see the imitation of things that is not only reduced in size dramatically but also made meticulously. therefore, when i first saw this picture on pascal grob's blog, i was amazed how delicate these miniatures were!! it looked as if it had been real. however, as i went on reading his description, it turned out that i was deceived by my own eyes!! this is actually a picture of a real city, zurich. it turns out to look this way due to his playing with depth of field of his camera. although it is not a real meticulous model, the fact that it looks this amazing still stuns me as much. it is interesting to see how different lens, tiny pieces of glasses, can offer you many different ways to see the world. as for this picture, i feel as if i can literally rule zurich with my one hand.

visit pascal's blog and give him an applaude:

miniature zurich

# 1 - kyoto sunset

2011-09-04T23:42:00.003+07:00

i am always fond of sky, it is amazing how the same sky can look differently everyday. i decided to take this picture because this scenery of sunset in kyoto really captured me. although i was away but this scenery gave me warmth and calm feeling as if i was at home. not only its light was nice in color, but also the fact that this picture shows a mountain and the sun behind buildings gives me a contrast feeling between being dense/tense and being free/peaceful.