recent leh ladakh trip !

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latest scribbling ,,,

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Its my first day in office... HR inductions can be highly boring ... 

my recent painting

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Congested

Congested is certain kind of mental pain for me, not very much physical though...
lack of space for freedom ... thoughts.

some charcoal work ...

inspired by sculpture from micalangelo
hope it's looking good in charcoal

आलस्यं परमं मित्रं .

आलस्यं परमं मित्रं ....

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nostaligia ,,,

Its part of 1 hour multi talented drama Firodiya I performed in my final year of engineering. Its end part of Play , where sand animation is used as tool to convey message of parallel drama. The protagonist lose them selfs trying to be part of colorful glossy picture of world.Mostly relating with students and their aspirations in wrong directions was portreyed in drama using metaphore of chamilions and changing colors wrt surroundings. And finally how they cought up in their own wishes circle ...was climax.
Me and my junier performed sand art on live music.Its one of my finest piece of art till now. we have been offered to design for small movie title by judge 'Mahesh Manjrekar'.

some better work I did 3 years back ...

ecstacy !

Ecstasy is trance state in which an individual transcends normal consciousness ...
few go for music ,,, some in dance ,,, n some become Meera in love with krishna ,,,
this painting showing her in very basic form of ecstasy through her body language...

i m in love with colored charcoal...

{ its been amaaazing medium... also it perfectly compliments my lazzyness }

design design

recently happen to come home n peep in to our traditional chaddar n towel design business ...
astonished to see one of recent design by my dad!

Return to innocence ,,,

Open Elective :
Day started with all the politics of numbers of available and allotted seats for courses ...
We had 3 courses available as open electives.
1. Play with clay
2. Identity, aesthetics and culture of making
3. Interactive multimedia

So the first day of my course started with cursing myself for reaching late to reserve seat.
I chose(?) 'Play with clay' , I was late to reach campus (as usual ). Early morning on 1 st jan(Y?) ...

The guy called 'Reghu' was our faculty, who looked very ordinary and talking very less.
We had to go 15 days at farm house and I had to go through foolish idea's 'being with yourself' stuff.
But I am happy to say ,,, that was my stupid prediction.
Raghu, indeed very enlightened artist... who sculpted 50,000 murals till now and 25 solo exhibitions.Who denied fellowship from US and works in small village for inspiration.
Very honest to his profession. Reghu do not preach any unnecessary philosophy.But his work speaks on behalf.Very nice quote i read in his folio>
"There's lot of theory. But you cant have a long story for blank canvas. You need to take a brush and paint"
Talking about clay, its such miraculous tool.You think about something and you can see its taking tangible form within minutes. You need to finish it before getting dry, which makes it spontaneous expression of art.





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Whole journey was kinda of return to childhood... return to innocence. This I could go closest to myself... { specially after working two years in some stupid IT firm ,,, n about to loose expression of myself }
overall ... Lot of fun ...with some creative satisfaction....

Many of us were already fascinated by Jinan who came for first elective.
And it was an eye opening experience as suspected.
One of my batchmate Radhika P says,
"It made me look into the depths of myself, and see the same ‘child’ that exists in me as it has always, only surroundings and habits have changed the totality. Changing habits was a part of the whole exercise...this was not easy to start with, but the moment I came to the realization that there was nothing impossible, the whole picture took a different turn...I tried writing with my left hand, tried doing things I often did in a very different manner....although at first it was a planned act of how to do it, when to do it, and in which way to do it, later it became far more spontaneous... when I felt like it I would try and write a paragraph with my left hand...not that the paragraph was meaningful, but the act of trying and exploring something new with my very own senses was indeed a great learning!"

an interesting article 'Dont follow the herd mentality' written by Justin G, published in Times of India after the course.

Gulal

Movie is based on Rajasthani youth and politics ...
amazing screen play ,,,excellent music, Excellent photogenic frames captured from jaipur ,,,I can say introduction to nice graphic in Indian cinema.


Few words needed Rajasthani background to understand ( i could understand because i went with my friend from Jodhpur ). Story talks about politics , love , betrayal , physical relation and hunger of legitimacy...

All in all ... good movie. I would rate 3 and half star out of five.

multi sensory

Recently happened to attend a workshop by a well known faculty from NID ,
MBBS graduate and MBA from IIM , was teaching us design in multi-sensory fashion.

Discussions started by observing things from different perspective with much deeper sense (physically).According to him , there are 55 senses in body apart from 5 known senses.
the way he made us to sense was also interesting ...
eg: texture of pain - sharp ( through eyes )
Sound of temperature - shivering ( in movies )
sense of breeze (by sound , not by touch sense ) etc ,,,

some serious fun we could be part of was - 'Hypnotism' .I could see its happening in front of my eyes .Nothing was magic. Everything was science.He made my friend to increase his hearing sense so high , that he could listen sound of typing buttons of mobile phone in other room.

The way he made us understand positive and negative vibes was awesome, ( i cant even explain , these need to be experienced).The existence of intuitions would not be so perfectly proved by anybody else than a doctor.

Some cool experiments were conducted to make our conditioned mind set free, to remove body consciousness and increase our boundaries of creativity.One of them was going in dense forest to take out fear factor.For which we been taken to deep forest in Kerla . We had to trek in night till top.We already met with an elephants and deers in journey.And weird sounds of insects in night were creating perfect ambiance.and then we had to walk half a km alone and w/o torch( area is famous for leopards )
awesome stuff huh !

n later in nights, interesting part used to come in picture ,,,
discussion on various topics ... love , sex , body consciousness , spirits ...
different questions we faced , problems , experiences we had .
And those would go till night 3-4 leaving much questions in our head.
few left unanswered ...few were unconvinced ,,

Love and sex , life and death , fate and chance ....
In my opinion those are questions of life time ... which are open ended !
Difficult to have rational thinking about it and come to any conclusion.

Good thing is ,our minds are ignited for more questions ,,,,which would have taken too much time if not now .

Design philosophy ...

ppl said Ranjan's class ll be life changing experience ... 'dharti phat jayegi , asman gir jayega' etc etc..l dont know how much it changed me ...u read n let me know ..

To do good design ..one must be clear with its philosophy...

imp lessons i learned :

1. Internet is not everything... which made me to go out and start observing things from my perspective ... { ethnography }

2. To design chair .. u need to know how big his butt is ! ...emphasis on user research...

3.everything we do have impact on surrounding...

Some of rich conversations happened in course

designers journey about 'strange making to sense making'...

being born as arrogant ...coming out of box of ego...

everyone was trying hard to understand wat n y design is ?

experience ... usability ... creativity... intelligence ?

its still vague as it was...

The final exercise termed 'me board' was one the most difficult for few of us.

because this requires a high degree of honesty, akin to 'searching for the truth',

and then representing it in some 'form' - better if its hand drawn { typical NID! }...

to sum up ...lets make some sense out of life guys ...

Delhi 6 .... Big disappointment

Being a designer I would have taken all the efforts talking beauty of the movie, because I have great empathy towards people making things artistic and different.

But I am writing this with deep pain and frustration after watching ‘delhi 6’.

Patchy and irrelavant second half really takes away all the credit of technicians.

The cinematography in first half is visual treat to eyes. And as expected rehman’s music is awesome.Screenplay fails to use both. Songs are abruptly cut.

'Kala bandar' is still dancing in my head.(its freaking pathetic ).

Abhishek have some scene in heaven with his dad( Amitabh of course).It’s like he appears there by missed call or something. That’s when audience loses patience and start laughing.

Fortunately the great actors like Rishi Kapoor and Atul Kulkarni are pleasant to watch.New comer Aditi Rao Hydari makes her mark in role of Ruma Bua.

Remaining is a pure waste of talent.

graphic graphic ,,,

Curtesy : http://www.wordle.net/
Visual summary of this blog ,,, till date ,,,

What exactly is UX ...

It took me long time to understand y we r not applying minds on assignments and what are we gonna do after that ...

Like all I am great fan of Apple products and trying to analyze what makes apple so special.
The role of designer that influence product ....

Which leads me to understand What UX is all about and how can we include it in work.

The Hot Crazy scale

Barney Stinson has given us so much. So many great quotes, thoughts, posters, things to look around… do you ever feel like you need just a little more Barney?

FYI , if you haven’t noticed Barney has a blog: Barney’s Blog. Now my main purpose in this is not to promote his very awesome blog is to highlight a very helpful tool that Barney introduces in Episode 5 of Season 3.

A little confused? Watch this clip from of Barney explaining the scale on How I Met Your Mother for a better understanding.

The problem is certain women’s increase in physical attractiveness has been disproportional to their increase in psychosis. Luckily for us, a chart exists where we can see just how out of balance the ratio between your hotness and craziness has become - knowledge that can prove to be invaluable over the course of your daily life.

good example of  information graphics  !!!

Please have a look at other examples for the same.

punha me , punha me !!

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attempt :10

pudhil kahi mahine mi langadatana disalyas lokkani karaN vicharu naye ....

no photoshop used taken by Mauli N

O block , 14th floor

just came to blor from home after diwali ... was opening latch of my door of my flat on 14th floor.
I heard sound of someone fighting. husband was trying to convince her.Shevti chidun to nighun gela. Me aNi watchman tithech hoto. ani 5 min sagaLa shant hota ...
amhi ekmekankade pahila ...ani amhi varati dhawlo. manaat ji bhiti hoti ti khari hoti ... ti kathadyachya palikade , chchajjyavar ubhi hoti..
ek paul pudhe ani busss...
anKhi vait mhanje ....tiche doLe shant hote ... khambir hote... NirNay kadachit pakka hota...
Me ani watchman 10-15 footanvar ubhe hoto.
one wrong word from us n she would hav killed herself.
awkword silence for 10-15 seconds ... payakhalchi jamin sarkaNe etyadi yalach mhaNat asawet ...
mulgi shikleli vataat hoti. IT companyt vagaire kaam karat asawi.


Me manatlya manat vakyanchi juLavNi suru keli ...
{ plz dont do that ,dont waste your life..blah blah ... tyapudhe kahi suchena ...}

Babu ( watchman,age-55 ) : edi chesi yem sadhyam aaitundi ? ( wat r u gonna achieve doing this ?)
she : Y u r here ?
Babu : whats reason u want to do this ?
She- none of ur concern ...
babu : at least talk with ur parents ,,, some one else might be blamed for ur act.
She : i dont have anyone ... I ran away from home to marry that bastard.
( finally he is able to make some connection. )
amhi thode pudhe sarakalo.
Babu : y? what has he done ?
She : he is going around with some other women...( errr)
Babu : *** ** ***** ***** (pure kannada stuff..)
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i couldnt understand what babu said ... but he was able to make her cry which was immensly necessary at that point of time.
barach veL dabun dharalela bandh futla. kathadyavar doka theun ti  radayla lagli.
we got a chance, we went near to hold her from falling down n then called her parents etc etc ...

Point is, in situations like these education.. skills.... sensitivity(?)...
nothing works... never felt so helpless.
babu'cha experience tevdha kaamala aala,,,,,

trip to gopaLswami

after being screwed badly by jury...

I decided to go for trip with my friend.Its my 6th or 7th trip towards jungles of bandipur...

but this time i was going with my friend from fine arts background from jaipur.

color and religion : Buddhism

After so called internal conflict(?) about joining NID ... this is my first field trip. Assignment was color study of religion . We choose Buddhism for color study and went to Kushalnagar (largest settlement of Tibetans in India,210 km from B'lore) ...
and decided to visit Golden temple to understand their culture.

With my limited understanding of Buddhism I thought they might be using very calm and cool colors e.g light blue, white and dark green .But whole journey was series of contradictions.
We could guess golden temple from 2 km apart ... their vibrant prayer with huge Dhols , 6 feet long saxophones and 500-600 monks singing at a time was pretty scary to enter.

But unlike Hindu temple, their are no barriers about how much inside you go. With a huge golden statue of Buddha and such colorful and vibrant ambiance you tend to forget yourself.( may be thats what they wanna achieve).
The most prominent color concept in Buddhism is that of the rainbow body, which is the highest level of meditative achievement(Nirvana) wherein the body is transformed into pure light.

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