had a great rest day today after a pretty tiring weekend
went to gym for a short work out then was thinking about catching a movie but decided to go down to kino and artfren
while taking the ecscalator down from ff, noticed the new christmas tree concept for paragon
its a normal tree but almost entirely covered with huge hanging golden and silvery balls
!
i got my idea for my christmas tree !
instead of using neon lights which the budget can cost quite an amount, why not using the initial idea for one of my garden mobile
i was quite happy with the sudden enlightenment that i was smiling throughout my way down ><" hahaha
went to kino after that to find that kino hasnt started selling books about christmas tree design .. or maybe they dont sell it at all ... guess will be going down to borders to get the book
( now i know how much books can give you information and thanks to 2d projects, everything is referred from books )
was browsing around and i found this

it was a FINE ART shelf and guess what they sell !! origami papers and origami kits
i was quite surprised to find that as many think that origami is only a craft, not an art
i bought a book on LaFosse and found some proper art exhibitions on origami itself with various art forms ranging from installations to sculptural works. this is what i will be going in december and i guess this gives me a deeper insight on how can i improve on the exhibition
when i talk about art and craft, im reminded on this H3 art student who wrote in his/her blog about my craftholic article
this is what she ( i think she's a she ) says
"Then, when reading my craftholic magazine today (the issue on papercrafts). I read about Kelvin Atmadibrata who is an origami enthusiast. He says in the article that he makes art through craft. This statement was interesting “When I fold a flower, I am making a craft. However, when I fold hundred flowers and arrange them in a certain way, I am making art”. How true. Funny thing is, he also did CRAFT as his a’level ART coursework."
im not sure whether she is mocking me ... or agree with me ... i really cant tell
i asked haidar about it and she thinks that she is mocking my statement in a way ...
hahaa lol
then she added these questions
"And so i am back to the questions: what makes craft an art? When does it become an art? Why is it that there are so many people around the world can do craft yet are not artists? If what Marcel Duchamp says is true “Art is whatever we call art”, then won’t those who do craft but do not have knowledge of art be at the losing end?"
which i think very interesting as it is a series of question which i find myself very difficult to give a clear explanation and a very wide filed to explore on its own
oh and for some of you who havent read about the article, here you go
craftholicmagazine.com/issue3.pdf
just copy and paste to your www bar
other than lafosse book, i also bought another origami book by robert harbin. quite an interesting and challenging book. these two are so far my 3rd and 4th non flower origami book that i have bought. and lafosse one is my first origami exploration book that i bought, means it doesnt only have designs but also articles about origami updates, paper making, etc etc. by the way, lafosse himself is a very good paper maker, and usually his designs are best to be folded with paper made by his own technique of paper making
another book that i bought is this art and design book by Fabiola Reyes. it is a collection of art works and designs ( mostly furniture and interior ) which are inspired from nature. it is a very interesting book ( but it cost me a bomb ) but i just have to have the book as there are so many things which i can learn from these people
ive been working with my 2d and had prepared quite a decent visual study on garden where i will be focusing more on vertical garden. quite an interesting project to come
after a long day of idling around, a good session of gym and an expensive shopping of books, i decided to 'reward' myself with a great dinner.


it cost me 17bucks but i get to enjoy a bowl of warm shoyu ramen, an uniquely three-quarter boiled egg and a small plate of chicken fried rice, and of course free flow of ice water. it was so good to enjoy such nice dinner and the restaurant atmosphere was really good. very cram but the noise and the seats everything add to the mood. :) had a super duper awesome dinner today lol
NYUMMYY
and after a great meal and an almost finished work for wednesday, it is time to sleeeppp hahaa
nite-y nite-y
kelvin used his rune at // 10:46 PM