The differences between Modernism and Post Modernism

What is Modernism and Post-Modernism?

From thefreedictionary.com that noted, modernism is a modern thinking in one's thoughts. Modernism is something contemporary, can be say something popular and latest. However, Modernism can be a genre of art and literature that makes a break with the previous genres.

While the meaning of Post- Modernism is react against early principle and  reintroducing the traditional or classical elements and carrying the style of modernist or practice to extreme.

However, I found a clean data from net is about the differences of Modernism and Post- Modernism

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From the data, I'm more understand about the differences of Modernism and Post- Modernism

Therefore I take compare some Modernism  and Post-Modernism artwork 

Modernism art:

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For this modernism art, we can see there are clean and pure lines that we know what is about inside. 

Post- modernism art :

Image from Arthink

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However, in post-modernism art, we see messy lines and color all over the places and it's complicated to understand.

Besides, we can know the differences between Modernism and Post- Modernism through music too.

Let's listen and compare.

Modernism music (Cowell- Dynamic Motion):

Post- Modernism music (Libertango + Tango - Post Modern Music of KyungHee University):

Modernism music is more to a clean chords, and very statistic. We can understand what is about. However, in Post-modernism it performed very dynamic chords and it's actually have very complicated meaning inside but overall sounds more romantic compare to modernism music that sounds like B*tch :D

Digital Cultural Website

Recently complete one of the assignment that is about digital cultural website. 

The project description in my website is introduce and present the information about the cultural heritage of Malaysia, however, the cultural heritage that I'm doing is one of the famous food in Malaysia which Penang Assam Laksa. 

The reason that why I'm doing Penang Assam Laksa is actually inspired by my grandmother. One day, my grandmother invited me and my family to her house to try out her Penang Assam Laksa. Grandmother is from Penang and her Laksa is really best. Therefore, I have an idea to spread the recipe of Penang Assam Laksa to all over the world by using website as McLuhan says " Medium is the message" .Using this website as the medium , I hope to spread the recipe (message) to all over the place ,so that everyone could cook Penang Assam Laksa.

However, the target audience for my website is youngster and adult.

Feel free to visit my website :) 

http://melissakoh831.com/

I hope I can improve more for my website in the future.

Semiotics on Dexter: Morning Routine

I watched Dexter start from last sem break, and I found semiotics in the showtime before the movie starts.

Dexter, is an America television drama series, it have 6 seasons and the first season is premiered on 1st October 2006 while the last series is premiered on 2nd October 2011. This movie is about Dexter Morgan, who is a blood splatter analyst in the Miami Metro Police Department while in moonlight he become a serial killer. However, I believe he is a good guy because he always hunting for another killer.

In the showtime, I found Denotation, Connotation and Myth.

The first shot of the opening scene show a mosquito sucking Dexter blood while he is sleeping then he slaps and kills it and a smile showing on his face.

Denotation : a mosquito sucking Dexter blood while he is sleeping then he slaps and kills it and a smile showing on his face.

Connotation : Dexter smiling scene that shows killing mosquito is good, and he not afraid of blood but he likes bloods very much.

Myth : Dexter likes bloods.

We can see some bloods trace in the title that shows this movie a bit creepy but not so creepy.

When comes to a drop of blood when Dexter shaving accident on his neck and he uses a tissue to absorb the blood, the blood spreading on the tissue.

Denotation : Dexter shaving accident ,he uses a tissue to wipe away and the bloods spread on the tissue.

Connotation : Before Dexter going to murder someone, he like to shave the person face with a small knife and collect it in to a small plastic.

Myth: Dexter is a blood collector.

However, comes to the part of he cutting the meat with plastic, mixing the source with the egg and slices it randomly, making coffee with the coffee machine, slicing the orange with slow motion and tying the plastic and the shoelace around on his hands while in the last third shot is he's wearing a shirt with slow motion.

Denotation : Cutting meat with plastic, slices the egg randomly , making coffee with coffee machine, slice the orang with slow motion tying the plastic and the shoelace around on his hands , wearing a shirt with slow motion.

Connotation : Dexter likes to murder a person in a big plastic so it wont remains any mistake, however after he murdered someone he slices the person in to part by part and grab it with a black plastic. The tool he usually slices the person up is using the a power saw sounds just like the coffee machine. However, the scene of tying the plastic and shoelace around his hands is, he always wrap a big gluon around his victim to prevent any struggling trace on the body of victim.

Myth : Dexter's murder way.

Therefore, the last 2nd shot is about after Dexter wearing a shirt but he doesn't smile to the audience.

Denotation: Dexter wearing a shirt but his face doesn't has a smile.

Connotation : Dexter working as a blood splatter analyst in the day , although he likes the job but he doesn't enjoy doing it because he scares he will be catch by his partner in one day.

Myth : Dexter is a blood splatter analyst.

Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the message

Who was Marshall McLuhan ?


In the book of Social Theory : Power and Identity in the global era , Marshall McLuhan  (1911-1980) was a theorist of literature whose came out the ideas about media and global culture. He invented several phrases that captured the popular imagination and continue to be useful pointers to key features of contemporary culture.


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"The Medium is the message"


The most famous phrases by Marshall McLuhan that has entered language and contemporary consciousness, influencing the way we think and feel about media, the way we perceive their effects, and our awareness of their potential repercussions.   


The medium is an extension of the human mind or body.


For example ,


An headset / handfree is the extension of our ear (that allows us to communicate to the others through mobile phone when we driving/ listening to music quietly)


The medium is the message is a trope that uses a phrase to encapsulate the fundamental premise of the study of media: that the medium communicates messages.


Here is the lecture of Marshall McLuhan of The medium is the message that I got from Youtube.com


Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

However, what if something occurs when a medium like headset/ handfree ,becomes over-extended? The resulting of amputations might be cause the person ear's deaf  or ear decease ? if someone turn up the volume too high. Although we know the advantages, even before implementation, but we choose to accept the disadvantages because there is a privileging of all types of technological extension, even deadly and horrific forms.


Four Questions Applied to Media


McLuhan has apply four laws to media that has frames as question , give us a new tool for looking at out culture.


"What does it (the medium/technology) extend?" For instant, mobile phone is extend our human voice.


"What does it make obsolete?" Mobile phone makes signals.


"What is retrieved?" The sense of community returns with the spread of telephone service.


"What does the technology reverse into if it is over-extended?" The over-extension of mobile phone culture engenders a need for solitude.


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Cross Cultural

Yesterday went for the Cultural talk. The talk was out of my expectation because I though it will be boring but actually it was quite lively and interesting especially the way of Speaker's (Shao Hong) brings out the information of culture for us.

By the way, from the Speaker, I get to know more about Cultural ,what cultural design feature and how we transfer cultural into our design.

Firstly, What is Cultural? Among of Malaysian, we know that what is our Cultural but however, we didn't know what deeply inside of Cultural. If I ask one of my friends what is Cultural , probably they will just answer 3 races in our country that is Malay,Chinese and Indian or traditional or other unrelated which they really don't understand the terms of cultural.

Before that, I might be one of my friends but from the note of Speaker that I have written , he said "Cultural is the way of life for an entire society and it generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance." Therefore, we could generate a new culture by doing an activities and some others practice the same activities , for example, if someone wearing earring on hers/his stomach then some others find it cool and learn to wear earring on hers/his stomach and more and more people also doing the same things. However, particular culture only play a specific role. Therefore, I only understand what is Cultural.

Besides that, why should we add culture into our design? It is because adding cultural value and create the core of product value. There are 3 culture structure:

1. Multiple Layers including layers representing artifacts values and basic assumptions.
2. A Framework for studying cultural objects ( the behaviour and meaning create by sociability
3. 3 layers : Physical/Material culture ( Food,garments/transportation...etc)
                  Social/ Behaviour culture (Human relationships/social)
                  Spiritual/Ideal Culture (Art & Religion)

While the Framework are : The Outer Level ( Colour,texture,form..)

                                           The middle Level ( Function,Safely...)

                                           The Inner level ( stories,emoticons, cultural festival...)

However, we should feel sensitive of the cultural elements that we use in our design model. In Cross cultural Design Model that actually a process of rethinking or reviewing. Before we design our model, we should identify to select one of the cultural features. In this process, we should really careful what we going to use because some of the element of cultural is violating. For example the Speaker show us the batik .

If we going to use batik into our design model, we shouldn't just apply that pattern because we like it but we should deep research into each of them because each of them convey different meaning and different names. Some of them are only can use for loyal family.

However, the research method is involve 3 process.

Identification --> Translation --> Implementation

There are also 4 steps that really helpful not only just for how to apply cultural into our design but also the other aspect. 

Step 1 : Investigation ( Setting a scenario)

Before we design our product/model , the research process is essential. No matter how, firstly we should read through the history of the cultural. This deep research is to help us to avoid abstinence of the cultural we use.

Step 2 : Interaction ( telling a story)

In this process, we should know exactly how culture had been applied. Therefore, looking other people works that had been done by them for better references and set our target audience.

Step 3 : Development ( Writing a script)

We should now begin to work on it , working on thumbnail or sketches and write a script. However, we should consider about the fashion and our user taste.

In a nutshell, the lesson that I have learn in this talk is we should careful about the material we are going to use, we should really deep research about it and follow the steps so to achieve a better design.

However, good design is come from many research.

Example that I found :

Art project Shinobi is a creative collaboration of two artists – visual artist Mike Zubik and calligraphic artist Ulia Kuznetsova.


The project started as the base for development of creative ideas of two stylistically different artists. Mike and Julia share similar approach to the visual solutions as well as identical views on the creative process. They are experienced in several creative spheres, but singled out two main directions in their own works – form and expression. Inspiration with Asian culture has become the essence of all Shinobi artworks. Both artists point out the huge influence of Asia on the contemporary worldwide culture.


Resorting to different styles and materials, the artists worked out a unique style of their own, which is based on seven elements of traditional fine arts and calligraphy, airbrushing, spray painting, and the elements of digital painting, like the mixed media Skateboard series.

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Let's D.I.Y :)

D.I.Y stands for Do It Yourself

for me, it's actually building,modifying and repairing something with a cheap materials.

This is some of the images that I collected in Facebook, because I like D.I.Y very much :).

Then, I would like to share with you all, hope those really helps you all.

Using bread instead of rice to make sushi~:) 

Any sushi lovers? lols

However, I like this idea, but I afraid, doesn't the plastic of Milo will melt when IRON IT?

You can also D.I.Y illusion~

Something nice and cheap that can give your friends as a gift

Simple D.I.Y for kids, I think.

D.I.Y Doraemon paper's toy :)

This is cool idea! Make a CD cover by just a sheet of paper.

Nice,simple and cheap.

D.I.Y Pikachu paper's toy :)

Delicious fried ice-cream! I will try to make it in one day :D

However, we can not only D.I.Y not only for the medium that we use, but also appear into the online games.

One of the example that I found

it's actually for kids, we need to choose the color and fill in the place(s) that we want, and it is actually a feedback loop for us when the color appear that what we want.

Here is the link for this game , http://www.flash-games.net/online/2885/cartoon-diy.html

Another link that I found many D.I.Y games
suft it and play if you like ^^

http://www.fupa.com/games/1/diy.html

The true reaction ;)

This morning I found something true and interesting when I Facebook-ing

The reaction of a person when she/he playing a game :D

1st picture is the reaction when a person playing adventure game
2nd picture is the reaction when a person playing battle game
3rd picture is the reaction when a person waiting for the game start
4th picture is the reaction when a person playing racing car game


This is so Me when I playing a game with the controller.