IMITATION GAME

Imitation Game is a selected movie that we assigned to watch during Interior Architecture Theories outing class. When a first time heard about this film, I had no idea of what is this film all about, nor the genre. Since this film had been chose as a movie we need to experience, I expect this movie to be an educational type of movie. However, during watching the film I found out the genre of the film is Historical Thriller movie. It based from the true story of main character real life, Alan Turing been casted by Benedict Cumberbatch. I amused and shocked with the first dialogue which is “are you paying attention?” and it gave the feeling that the character was talking to us since we should pay full attention because it is part of our assignment. The film was revealing the top secret of Britain government during the World War II by hired the secret agent to break the communication system of their counter force.

The main character of this film, Alan Turing was the genius, smart, intelligent and brilliant mathematician during that century and a very naïve person. Throughout the introduction of Alan Turing, it really shows how naïve he is that always became a bully victim and always been ostracized by other. He had no friend before he met someone who safe him and changed his life. During his education period he always bullied by his schoolmate until one day someone named Christopher safe him. Since that, he became close and secretly had a crush on Christopher. Therefore, he decided to reveal and admit his true feeling to Christopher. Unfortunately, instead of successfully reveal his feeling, he received the news that Christopher died during the holiday. Even though the death news gave the big impact to him, he never stops having the same feeling towards Christopher. Its shows when he named the code breaker machine with late Christopher.

Throughout this movie, I really respect how he determines to focus and to achieve his goal once he set his mind on something. He was very confident in what his doing even he never knows the challenges that he might encounter.  I amuse with the way he successfully completed the code breaker machine. Although he successfully achieves his goal, he had been charge as a homosexual person, where in Britain it is an illegal issue. In my opinion, Alan Turing was a homosexual affected by the factors that he went though. He just put all his trust to Christopher and totally relied on him. That is why he fallen for him. He just need somebody to turn to after he been ostracized and been bullied. When the ending of the movie said that he committed suicide, I feel we as a new generation really lost something precious. Maybe if he still alive in this century, we will have a much more sophisticated computer system. I really feel thankful to my lecturer for chose this movie to experience. If not part of our assignment, I will never know about this movie. 

IPOH TRAVELOGUE: DAY 1

Greetings!

Hi readers! Now I am in my semester 4 and it is already February 2015. So this semester, I am taking Minor Experiencing Culture 2 with Ms Baizura. So as we can see at the top of this article, the title clearly show that I going to write about my experience in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. Let me start with the details of the trip. It was planned for 4 days 3 nights trip to Ipoh, and about 40 students together with 4 lecturers were participated. Briefly, is not only Ipoh Trip but I can say it was Center-point of Perak Trip since we start the trip by visited Gopeng Heritage House once we were in Perak. I will explain  and share my experience in detail together with the pictures later. What I want to highlight now is the places we visited on our first day. So after Gopeng Heritage House, we headed to Ipoh and stop by at Tanjung Tualang for lunch. According to the itinerary, on our first day we supposed to go to Gopeng Heritage House, Kellie's Castle, Tg. Tualang Tin Dredge and Koperasi Industri Kampung. But because a time constrain we had to postpone the visit to Kellie's Castle and Tin Dredger. Then after lunch we headed to our next destination which is Koperasi Industri Kampung at Kampung Gajah, about 30 minutes away from Tg Tualang.

Gopeng Heritage House

Environment of Tg. Tualang, it gives me a different feeling when I looked into this photo
since I used to KL environment

at Koperasi Industri Kampung, Kg  Gajah
We get a chance to learn the making process of Clay Labu

All the hard work learn to design the carving


After visited Koperasi Industri Kampung, lecturers decide to headed to Ipoh town for Hotel checked in. So from Kg. Gajah we straight away headed to Ipoh town. Around 6.30 pm we arrived at Ipoh Boutique Hotel.

Info-Graphic Board Design 4

This is Info-graphic board for the local identity I chose.

BEAUTY vs. USABILITY

BEAUTY vs. USABILITY is a common topic for creative people such as artists and designers to be discussed. Some artists said they are a designer while some designers called themselves as an artist. Why would they think so? Maybe the designers successfully design an art piece and maybe the artist did create functionable product. This topic is a very subjective topic to discuss. In this article, I would like to share my thought about the difference and the connection between Beauty and Usability.

BEAUTY is a word people usually use to complementing the ART while USABILITY is something that shows how successful a product of the DESIGN. In my opinion Art is a subjective matter. It can be differently interpreted for every single audience. Different people may have their own perspective towards whatever they see. So from their point of view, they might get inspired by the artwork. But for Design, it is like a two-way interaction, in other words it does involve the users. When it comes to design, it require a processes from inspiration, idea, function, development and few more things to achieve the goal of creating the product. Designer needs a well plan to make the design successful so it can motivate users. When the user motivated by the product they will automatically understand the function or the purpose of the product. Meanwhile, Artist usually starts with a clean surface and just freely expressed their emotion, opinion or issues that can be categorize as personal feeling to produce an art piece. Therefore, art is a subjective caused its deliver the different message and can be interpreted differently to the audience. Some people might or did say art require talent while design require skill, for me everyone can be and an artist but to be a good artist they need to sharpen their talent. Although famous artist who was born with talent, they still produce a painting to be better. The point is, to be somebody, everyone should learn and practice until achieve what they want same as a designer. They learn and trained how to be a designer, but not everyone can easily success as a designer. Everyone can design, but can all designer without the skill success in whatever they do. Design without the knowledge of design will end up produce unfriendly product to the user. Users might understand the function but maybe it can last longer or it might not convenient at all. However, it depends to the user to consider the product of design is a good design or a bad design. It is based on what people think. Certain people will appreciate it depends on their lifestyle, and certain maybe not. Whereas art would show about taste, like what I have wrote before art can be differently interpreted. So it would depend on people taste. Now we can see the differences between beauty and usability, so I believe Art and Design should be worked together as how design can be inspired by an art and how design can make the art become something functionable. – nfab