October 2011
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Like it says.
I cleaned my keyboard today. It now types fine. My stomach flu is giving me a headache though. Still. But I did one productive thing today, at least. Clean my keyboard. Yep. Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from Dave’s Creative Block. | Comment »
September 2011
3 posts
Some technical issues with Karen's violin during...
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View from the back. (aka these drums sound...
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@amanda_tan no I judge YOU.
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August 2011
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Unboxing Day.
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The drums are here.
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The Half-Roach
The Half-Roach - Wi-Fi.m4v Watch on Posterous On our way back to ice cream and cider at my place, we ran into a roach half mangled by a colony of ants. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
July 2011
11 posts
Twitter response to previous post RE: MORTAL...
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Face to face with my mortal enemy.
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Hydrothermal Worm.
Look at it again. it’s really actually quite cute. See! See! Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 23: Hydrothermal Worm Value Sketch...
I’ve been so fascinated recently by this picture of a sandworm-like microscopic hydrothermal annelid. http://www.fei.com/resources/image-gallery/hydro-worm-2908.aspx Sketched in Photoshop CS5 Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
October 1989. (younger variants of my bro, my...
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October 1989. (younger variants of my bro, my...
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October 1989. (younger variants of my bro, my...
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October 1989. (younger variants of my bro, my...
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Day 22: House by the Hill (feat. Victoria Ho)...
House By A Hill - 12 07 11 by Victoria Ho & David Shiyang Liu Listen on Posterous A product of us messing up timetables with bandmates, and spontaneous music-making from an original of <a href=”http://www.vickiho.com/>Vick’s</a> - it’s the first time we’re playing this song with each other. Meaning, I hate the way the drums on this recording,...
Day 21: Materials Study #30daysofcreativity...
Yes, I think I’m going to keep on with my 30daysofcreativity even though it’s sort of over. Painted in photoshop cs5 with a 1 hour deadline. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
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Video(s) of the Week: a selection of Grickle...
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June 2011
23 posts
Day 20: Gesture Drawings, Hanis, 1645 hrs...
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Day 19: cool, warm shadows #30daysofcreativity...
After this, I swear, no more porcelain cups. Sent from my iPad Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 18: Composition with clouds and flung drawers....
Wanted to add stuff flying out and about but I want to get back to work. Sent from my iPad Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 17: 42 Gesture drawings. (and then some.)...
Count the yoga poses and action heroes. Thank you internets. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Either everyone's early, or we're having a great...
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Day 16: more value studies #30daysofcreativity...
Ok. I think enough porcelain cups for a while. Sent from my iPad Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 15: Nightmare Creature Sketch / Photoshop...
There was a time, when I was jacked up on hallucinogens, and it was a very, very bad trip. And every time I closed my eyes, faceless creatures were always in pursuit, little girls with knives cackling. Mirrors that I could fall into and never return from. My nightmare dreamscapes are a scary place. I was doodling in photoshop when I came up with this creature vaguely reminiscent of the faceless...
Day 14: oh, inner critic #30daysofcreativity
(whereby you put on your clothes, and curtly explain that person-with-more-awards-and-money prefers another, more terrifying kind of critic. Pausing, feeling a bit bad and ashamed I invite the both of us out for some beer.) Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 13: Work in Progress: Nighthawk(ers) 1/3 (with...
There’s a 24 hour McDonald’s near my place (where I also go for food) which looks almost like Phllie’s of Edward Hopper’s famous Nighthawkers painting. inspired me to start a possible series of late night eating places. Who knows whether I’ll finish them, but here’s a work in progress for the actually-very-lonely- McDonalds near my block where people go to...
Day 12: Petrol Kiosk #30daysofcreativity #artrage
Brands, Brands, and more brands.There is a petrol kiosk near where I live, with a 24 hour supermarket that I rush to whenever I run out of instant noodles late in the night. I’d never noticed, until I started sketching this out, how many bloody brands there are on that sign. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 11: values study 2 #30daysofcreativity...
Fuggin bloody shadows are hard to blend. Sent from my iPad Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 10: wall ornaments #30daysofcreativity...
Still finding a better way of blending shadows Sent from my iPad Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 9: values study on artrage #30daysofcreativity...
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Video of the Week: Hooray For Earth "True Loves"...
via vimeo.com Power of Ten meets Minecraft. Enjoy. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 8: my desk, with apologies to Quentin Blake...
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Day 7: Ghost Academy #30daysofcreativity
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Day 6: Ira Glass on Storytelling / Kinetic...
via vimeo.com All credit due to the amazing Ira Glass. Source audio is from this very seminal video by current.tv: youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY Made in three days on Illustrator and After Effects, for Day 6 of the #30daysofcreativity. (Yes, I think it shows too.) Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 5: Work In Progress: Kinetic Typography - So...
I’m spending far too much time on this! Next time I should keep exercises and studies to a maximum of 30s. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
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Video of the Week: Megaforce: Is Tropical
via motionographer.com Lots of cartoon violence. With children, and guns. You’ve been warned. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 4: figure sketches at Cathay....
Need to finish that kinetic typography study. :( Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 3: Work in Progress - Kinetic Typography...
Much slower and much more tedious than I thought. I’m about 1/3 through. Think I’m gonna have to postpone that first vector animation study.All compositing work is temporary. Might do away with paper theme that I’ve been overusing. See the full gallery on Posterous Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
Day 2: I'm in a box! #30daysofcreativity @thedak
If I had a box that big, I would get inside it too. Oh wait, I do. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
May 2011
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Day 1: And then it begins. #30daysofcreativity
The idea is to be productive without getting bored of the exercises, or slacking off or worrying about ‘real work’. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
The day is just too hot.
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April 2011
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With all due respect of course, but does anyone...
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Watch the magnetic timeline! THE MAGNETIC...
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Holy flying fnark FCPx is going to change quite a...
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The FCPUG #Supermeet. Might not tweet from now on...
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March 2011
4 posts
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[Video of the Week] Dogboarding on Vimeo
via vimeo.com You know how much I love the DANIELS. I guess they’re only going to keep getting better. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
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[video of the week] (notes on) biology on Vimeo
via vimeo.com for 2d stuff, I have always been torn between animation styles that ‘tween’ between keyframes, like much of what you see from flash animations, and those painstakingly drawn frame by frame. i guess tweening would be sort of impossible for a gem like this. Posted via email from Dave’s posterous. | Comment »
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The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Hate Speech...
via youtube.com Lisa recently had to come up with a new Xbox Live gamertag, and I had to repeatedly urge her to pick a gender neutral name. I guess I was just trying to warn her about the type of douchebags that populate online gaming spaces. I was reminded of another time when I played Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and used my usual offline female avatar. My teammates (all boys), upon realising that...
February 2011
9 posts
[sketchaday] Mama-shop downstairs (incomplete)
This local convenience store has been around for as long as I can remember. I think they moved in just about the time I turned 2. My childhood is littered with memories of buying frozen popsicles from here whenever I returned to Singapore for the holidays. Back then, they used to sell chewing gum shaped like cigarettes. The proprietor is still the same grumpy, now middle-aged, lady. The place was...