Sudden Thought: Black Swan

Black Swan was out last Friday in the UK.. saw it on Sunday~

Initial thoughts? It was a perfect ending for her as she was.. perfect ;) 

I've just had this crazy idea of making an actual black swan... Modular Origami :) 

Should I? 

Image sourced from here

Life..Is Like a Cup of Coffee

For Your Interest.. I've only tried coffee once in my entire life - last Sunday's Costa Iced Mocha. It was unbearable. Still don't understand why people *love* coffee so much - especially teachers aswell >__<

Image sourced from Words4Mind - Coffee Art

^Image sourced from Google~Coffee Flavour Tasting Colour Wheel...

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

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Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

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When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

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Love Generously

Speed Drawings I less than *three*

Here's one produced using the Graphics Tablet model I'm hoping to get~ (Using Photoshop) 
Lady Gaga Speed Painting (Time Lapse)


Of course, how can I not research different programs for art? (This one's using Paint)
This guy's INSANELY talented! 
Titanic - The Drawing Scene - Rose Speed Painting by Hbt Allen


Speed Drawing of Neytiri from Avatar~
Click Here :)


I'm a fan of Prince of Persia Sands of Time... here's a speed drawing of it ~ Loads of detail! 
Click Me!


Last but not least, the classic pencil study of an eye
Hereeeeeee

FYI: < less than 3 = heart

~Have A Lovely Weekend And Fill It With Happiness~

For some reason, I've been having a major *brain fart* these days... => blocked brain.. unable to generate creativity~


Urban Dictionary defines it as: 


''A spontaneous stupid (Stupid the noun, not stupid the adjective) usually accompanied by loss of train of thought and saying something fantastically stupid without realising it.

"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Hold secondary fire and the screen will change"
"What the hell? 

"?? Oh, uhh... brainfart"  ''


Anyway, how has life been treating you lately? 
Yesterday I made another swan.................. but the 'experiment' was whether or not doubling the size of the triangles adjusts the size of the swan.. I didn't have the 1st one (pics you've hopefully seen) next to it for a comparison but my instinct tells me that they're very similar..


One thing I noticed is that the increase in dimensions of the little triangles (used to form the structure) does affect how the overall sculpture looked. The wings curved inwards.  
Also, I had a struggle on  F2L - the base layer for it to all hold together. 


Hopefully next time I'll be able to get back to you with picture(s) of comparisons.... ;) 


How has life been treating me then? Well, I've been researching more about Graphics Tablets and figured out that although I did want an A3 sized tablet, it does have the downsides such as costing significantly more and having to move your arm a lot for sketching...
Therefore, I have come to conclude that I would like.. in fact - love to purchase a 8 x 6 inch tablet.. due to the price (generally depending on where you buy it) and ease of use/transport as I do love to travel a lot *and* compose studies..  


Shall catch you all later, 
Read the title above ^^


Anita x

Fashion Origami Set: A Review

Lately, I've been taking a step back and realising what I actually want/change in life.. and I'm escaping reality (too depressing to be honest) by doing the things I love such as hanging out with my close friends and just.. being creative. (Not mentioning that I have 5 important exams in the upcoming 2 weeks O___o) 
This also means more posts (hopefully) being published here ^_________^


So, here's my thoughts on a 'Fashion Origami' set from the awesome F.B. nope, not Facebook! =P

''Create beautifully detailed garments with colourful folded paper. Dresses, hats, shoes and underwear! This set contains 100 sheets of brightly coloured origami paper and a full colour 28-page instruction booklet. 
The detailed booklet will guide you through the folding of the following models:
Shirt *, Tie *, Hat *, Bra **, Suit **, Shoes **, Dress **, Boots **.
Origami is a fascinating and rewarding skill, an absorbing blend of art, geometry and dexterity which takes time and patience to master.''

~4 colours with 9 sheets each 
~8 colours with 8 sheets each
=100 sheets


Not the ideal selection of colours eh? Well.. this set was intended for origami clothes.....

The instruction does contain some useful info about how to fold the 'folds'. Pretty basic & great for beginners =D

Step by step diagrams...

Honestly speaking, I wasn't really that into folding clothes so I used it for other things.... 

The checked pattern was created for the folding of an Origami Rose.. but it failed so I had to take it apart so I wouldn't feel bad for wasting a sheet of paper.. >< 

Heart with Crane on front...~ 

Creases were made from making something else.. can't remember.. explanation? Same as for the Heart with wings~ 

This type of paper isn't really good for the typical Tsurus' where you need to kind of blow them up.....

Seeing As...

I was approached with the question 'What is the most basic thing you can do to make someone happy?' the other day. Before I proceed, comment below your reply to this question ^________^.


For me.. I guess it would be some form of Handicraft - I recall last Wednesday when I gave someone a Modular Origami Onigiri.. the light that instantly shined from his face is.. indescribable - he wasn't 'cheerful' the day before and to be honest here, I almost fell to tears due to his expression and way of describing how it was one of those days where you just don't feel like doing anything.


Enough Said here >< Be right back to upload pictures for a upcoming post =P

More Pics ^_____^

Pouring it all out to count :)

If there's 100 stars in the Jar...~*

Wowweeeeeeeeee all wrapped up and ready to be delivered =D

Hi all!!~~ I know.. my bad! I haven't been updating either blogs this past month because of revision... it's a rubbish excuse but I'm really busy to study hard ><

6 exams coming up ahead so I know that I'll abandon this for a while~ Be patient with me.. pretty please with a cranberry on top? 

Meanwhile, I've been looking further into Modular Origami and made a Onigiri (Japanese Riceball) yesterday, here are the pics =P 

The original tutorial I followed had 2 eyes for Onigiri.. should I add them on? Personally I think it looks like Darth Vader with the eyes on lol :P 

A better View ~*

Just another piece of evidence to show how small my hands are ^___^

Just kidding.. this is for size reference. In fact, I think that it looks like a pine-cone.. 

You get me? TeeHee**

Speak to you soon!~* 

P.S. after I gave the Swan and stars to the teacher; he started a kind of 'Guess the Stars' competition with his classes haha~ 

For some reason everyone thought that the amount of stars will be in the 200s.. so the guesses were low and that affected the teacher's guess-- he had this ''theory'' of gathering all the guesses   from his students and calculating the average. He also claimed that the average would be the exact amount of stars~ 

Guess what?

I proved him wrong *pwned!!*

A good friend of mine (not mentioning names ***ahem A.B cough ahem ahem*** lol) kept on insisting that ''it's NOT possible for more than 200 stars to be in the jar''

Well, there were. 

In fact, there were a total of 515 stars in the jar. Clumsy me, allowing 2 stars to escape.. therefore making the grand total of 517 stars.

....And the jar wasn't full. But apparently this is a good thing because as said by the teacher ''There's always something in life that's missing''... hence the jar being not full. 

Well.. the true reason was that I was caught up with time.. and I only started making stars like.. 2nights before giving the presents. >< I sent his laptop flying~ oops.