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The need for "Cool"

2012-01-23T13:51:00.001+08:00

Googled on 23/01/2012: 1 pm.

Perth's soaring temperatures are no surprise as they seem to keep their record each summer. The heat is on and its terrible to work in a retail store called Bunnings, where there are no airconditioners and the warehouse is made of construction materials that heat up too soon. I finished my last day with Bunnings yesterday and did feel sad about leaving and saying goodbyes to everyone.

The last page of my letter to my best friend

2012-01-18T15:52:00.001+08:00

I love writing letters to my closest friends. I reserve my best words and longest, time-consuming efforts for those close to me. I finished a trip to New Zealand last December. Here, I am sharing the last page of my letter to my best friend, Neha.
Do you know what I do?

Difference of ads: India vs. Australia

2011-11-26T10:33:00.001+08:00

Below are few examples of commercials for discounted products.
From Australia and India. They are images from the internet and Youtube as below.
Which is better?

Harvey Norman advertising does not seem to have changed much over the years.

Random Monday in november

2011-11-21T22:53:00.001+08:00

Few weeks back my teacher, Wilma posted a link on Facebook.com about another blog. That is a collaborative/collective effort. It is called The Difference of 25.

The difference of 25 can be found on facebook

The purpose of this blog is to promote different styles/methods/voices of art created by individuals like you and me. According to Roos, the creator, "You will see the many differences and uniqueness of us all, although we work with one and the same theme."

New website

2011-11-10T10:50:00.000+08:00

I am in the process of creating my own website for professional work reasons..

Therefore, I have acquired myself a personal domain and using Blogger.com for hosting.

The blog/website will be used to display my work, my design. So I will be using this as a personal blog only and possibly get rid of the projects section.

The address is www.designbymikide.com
At the moment, it might not work, so it would be best to try it here

I will be using a very simple grayscale style, to highlight the work.

I was just not aware that one could use blogger to publish to a custom domain with no hosting fees, until a couple of days ago... It only costs US$10, AUD $9.something; and one gets Google Apps (free version) with calendar, Email (powered by gmail) and so on. Plus there are 100s of free apps to use for business, promotion and they save time. Most are free. The business version gives you more space on the cloud, with more functionality, and it is directed towards the medium to large sized business/enterprises.

It was quick and easy to connect them together. Wordpress charges for hosting and custom domains and I am not an expert at web-designing, using wordpress. And I love Blogger! Google has quite a secure system for storing its information.

The only complaint I have is that when I am trying to use the new post editor, it is too much to the left of the screen. That, I believe is not user-friendly. Might have to try the new editor to see how it works.

So I got my own address on the website. me @ mydomain dot com !

I would highly recommend this for people just starting on their own website and if they are used to using Blogger.

a few more...

2011-10-30T01:39:00.002+08:00

Here are few more rangolis made by one of my friend Khushbu. She has used the Pachboti Rangoli style. The first one is a hexagonal shape with shades of red, green and blue in it. The white rangoli is used to make designs on the other colors to give it a feel of carpet.

The other one is a multi colored design which is embellished it with 'dia' to make it more beautiful. Various colors are used and a pattern of circle is used... The design here consists of some shapes called 'gomukha'- the heart like shape; 'chakra'- spiral.

Diwali special.....

2011-10-28T01:32:00.024+08:00

Diwali, a festival with lots of goodness attached with it. A festival of lots of colors and enthusiasm added to it. Each year i make rangoli and some other decorations to add to this enthusiasm and joy. Also helping a bit to add more colors in faral is also part of it. There are so many pre-preparations to just make this day as beautiful and nice as possible.

This diwali i tried two rangolis. One was what we call it as 'pachbot chi rangoli'- a style of drawing rangolis were we use all the five fingers to make the design. The other one i tried was little bit new style called 'patches rangoli' were the various stones and pearls of different colors are used to make the rangoli.

The above pic was the pachboti rangoli- i designed it simple just with the basic circles and few color combinations. The 'dia' was drawn with just few mirrors placed beside it just to give a little gloss effect to the rangoli.

The other one was of patches. Here i first made the plywood cuttings of flower and 'koyari'- mango and 'swastik' shape. Then painted it with black and red colors. This was the base of the patches. This became the base color on which the design was made.

Then, i took pearls and stones of colors like green, orange, yellow etc. i.e which were in contrast to the base color. Arranged it to form various designs on it to make it look like this..

Finally on diwali, a design of rangoli along with these patches was done to give it this effect... Base of the rangoli was in green, yellow, pink and dark blue. In the center there was a 'diva' kept so that its light gets reflected on the stones, pearls and mirrors and make it look more vibrant.

For this blog

2011-08-03T22:41:00.003+08:00

Sorry and Thank you !!!!!!!

Well I am sorry coz i was added to this blog about a month ago or so but due to some reason or other i just could not write. And many of the times i did not even knew what would be my first post to this blog.

And i want to thank Mitali for adding me as an author to this blog. There is not much of a writer in me but will surely make an attempt to write . Instead of a formal writing i would really like to share through this blog...

Back to me and my left brain?

2011-08-02T12:33:00.001+08:00

Hmmph! I gave those two girls about a month's time, to write, but they haven't written anything-I think the other writers of this blog are too busy to write anything, so mai hi nayi baat shuru kar deti hoon.
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Resulting teabreaks

2011-07-07T00:20:00.000+08:00

I really cannot believe this time I got three 7's and one 8! These are really good grades, and better than my undergraduate grades- Usually in Undergrad, I would get two 7's and two 6's. I have got my Graduate Certificate in Applied Design and Art qualification. Now comes the harder part- editing the resume, the contact info, the email signatures, and so on. Thank God I did not put any degrees on my business cards!

<< -- I got this pen from Curtin University yesterday- a gift for filling out a survey as a Curtin Graduate and Alumnus. Such a pity that the typeface used for engraving my name upon the pen is a boring sans-serif one. Looks very un-artistic. I would have preferred a more ornamental typeface with much more character to it! Atleast a nice serif-ed one?
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Blogger was down :(

2011-07-01T19:13:00.000+08:00

Blogger was down all day yesterday, and could not post anything, unfortunately.
I am really excited to see Google+ and I added my name to the invites list, but it looks less likely that I will be able to get one soon, unless they decide to roll out the service to the whole world in the next couple of weeks.

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2011-06-29T14:39:00.002+08:00

I had a beautiful dream last night but I really cannot remember what it was about. Some of it was totally out of the blue whereas, some of it were things I knew. And I still cannot remember what it was all about...

I am trying out new things in Illustrator and Photoshop after having rediscovered them both, after nearly a year or so.

The above image represents the dream in some way, it is of course my understanding of something pretty yet unclear.
What do you think it looks like?

I am confused..

2011-06-27T15:08:00.003+08:00

.. free school or paid school?

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Another writer

2011-06-27T00:50:00.001+08:00

All my denim jeans is proud and delighted to present our additional author Neha. Neha will be writing soon for us,and on whatever she likes because this blog has never had a particular aim, except to tell the truth as we know it.

I will need to edit some of the info under about and contact pages to accumulate both of us for networking purposes.

I'm thinking of posting my portfolio on a separAte hosting site or as a Picasa photo album.

I welcome Neha n wish her all the best for writing in this space...

Aaraam ash

2011-06-26T15:33:00.003+08:00

Asho-aaraam ki zindagi... Pronounced aeesh this is the art of enjoying.The art of being in sync with others and the party of life. Some people do it all their life, whereas some others like us, have only few days to do it. At other times, we simply witness how other people do Ash.

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pregnant ash

2011-06-24T13:13:00.002+08:00

The lady called Aishwarya Rai Bachhan is pregnant and soon will be a mother.

I think I started taking interest in her life after she got married on my best friend's birthday- 20th April and I am still undecided if I love her or not. But like all her well wishers I wish her all the best in this beautiful time when there are Mona Lisa smiles...

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zombie ash..

2011-05-26T23:37:00.000+08:00

I found one of the larger photos of Ash online and turned it into a zombie style pic

I am not a big fan of hers but i think she still looks pretty , with her gaze and i think this is probably one of her best shots.

so, no offence.

That time at night

2011-04-27T21:35:00.001+08:00

There is a time at nights...
Or is it every morning?
when the moon is still shining
And I awake every dawn
when I can feel the earth moving
But time stands still
And I can feel my soul
When I don't have thoughts to distract me
and I can see my body sleeping.
but I'm not in my body
I feel a god somewhere in the sky
and my soul can talk to him
He is my best friend
I tell him about
my ambitions
aspirations
desires
Fantasies
And I think to myself
What I've achieved
and I realise there is so much that needs to be done.
In this world... ihalok
For this world... the real world
And as I fall asleep to dream about wonderland,
just like Alice did,
I think to myself
What a wonderful world!!!

An hour @ the University of Western Australia

2011-03-31T14:59:00.000+08:00

I have only been once to the famous UWA, in Nedlands. Just to take some photos and with a friend in 2009
But this time, I needed to go there to get something to eat.

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Happy that I will be an intern @ Nedlands

2011-03-29T18:57:00.000+08:00

I am starting my internship with deFiddes next week at their office in Nedlands. Its a bit far from my house- takes more than an hour by public transport and about half of that by car, but I don't mind. (Well I am not allowed to.)

I have to write a daily/weekly diary of my activities, research, work done and conclusions and submit it to SODA... I have already started doing that and I hope I can keep up with the pace of the other studies.

So what do I want out of my internship with them?
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Friday to Sunday

2011-03-26T23:22:00.000+08:00

FYI Ms.Rebecca Black,
I aint choosing any front seat or back seat coz, I am working over the weekend...
When I joined that job, I really enjoyed it and had fun. The team is real fun to work with, so are the managers, who, in their time around the store do jobs such as bringing trolleys in, from the parking.

However now I really need a design job, because I feel this job is below my intelligence. There is less scope for my creativity. Its not that I have more knowledge than the people I work with. But I do not want to learn more about the Retail business and rules and how to's of it. I want to contribute what I learned by spending hours at college, not at the store.

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High resolutions

2011-03-24T12:06:00.000+08:00

Dr.Hudson wants us to start a class blog so that we can improve our writing and be able to critique each other.
I am not sure how many people will be able to do this, or even willing to do it, but I have decided that I must write more. Whenever I can.
Could be about anything that I find interesting and not just the high points of the month or year- when I don't write for a whole year...

Also, my new computer is not heating up much (as yet) so I am keeping my fingers crossed that I can use the keyboard and be able to rest my palms on the wrist-rest, because I can't type otherwise.

Dr Hudson and many other lecturers have always advised us to surround ourselves with the things that inspire us and make our life pretty and go to all those places, do all those activities that we believe in. Because they appeal to us. We are here, with a desire to "do good"

And life is too short to hate, so LOVE what you are doing.
That includes being mad. Being mad about your life, your world, this world.

And Here I Am to be MAD- as I have mentioned before- a Master of Art and Design

Oh hang on - its actually being Madder or MADA- because its Master of Applied Design and Art.

Lets see how many bulbs we light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LPFsFazOCw&feature=related

Further career pathways

2011-03-22T23:39:00.000+08:00

This one is not to poke fun at anyone, but something that makes me very happy.

"The dramatics of the Arts and Design staff at my university are welcoming even though they may appear weird to an outsider. They are warm and pleasant to a student who wants to pursue further studies in this field.

They are encouraging for a person who wants to be an artist, wear what they love and do what they believe in, even if it means being crazy, but they are in love with themselves, their work, their profession and this is very inspiring in order to be curious about our practice and our practice led research.

In order to be creative- well as Dr.Hudson puts it in her accent- khreaithivv.. and be nice, there is a desire to be good.

Trigg Craig loves going off topic, going off track and confusing us, until we find our way. His strong voice combined with his blonde hair, big frame and dark glasses did appear scary during the first few instances, but I think he is very demure and always ready for healthy argument.

Julian Goddard has an accent like an American drawl plus an Australian one, but I am not sure where it comes from. He has a strong personality but a very hands on approach to everything, especially classes.

John Teschendorf is the funniest of them all. He cracks up jokes everytime he speaks and thinks of us students as little midgets.(maybe!)

Dr.Hudson loves mind maps and certain words like criticality and the likes. She is a fast speaker at times but I can get the essence of her speeches in the lectures and I am starting to learn how to be focused in her classes.

Annette Seeman is very smart and very smart. In her ways, her grooming, and her thinking, she is quick, to the point and intelligent, without being any less creative than the others.

What if these people wear Hogwarts' robes and teach us- Wow, my world would be like Harry Potter's , except there is no Voldemort to defeat, however that is just a passing thought...

I think i am going to have a good time with them.
By "them" I mean the dramatics. "

I hope it gets cold soon. i want to wear the new coat i got specially for winter!!
Not summer

in my backyard

2010-11-16T18:25:00.000+08:00

these are some photos of nature in my backyard, of our house..

this is my first time with a professional dslr camera...

I have not edited the photos, (lighting wise) and left them to be what they are.

They were taken around 6 this evening, so the light was not very harsh, however the alchemist, Sun has enough power to re-colour one of the bougainvillea shots.

I think this was more of a study of the changing tones within each subject, and I had fun!

Two topics in one..

2010-11-08T23:20:00.000+08:00

We bought a D3000 Nikon camera and I am going to learn soon how to be an expert in it.

Just a starting photo of my jewellery project:

The material is guess what?- Plywood
it has been laser cut with fine precision.

The photo may not be so good, but just letting you know, that it was taken without a flash, at nighttime, so the detail is not bad..

Will put up some more photos when I am finished with all my projects

And I should be writing more!!