VFS Digital Design Awards 03

Here are the awards I got this year from VFS... for Best Visual Design and Best Designer in Supporting Role...

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Design Anarchy by Kalle Lasn

The most thought provoking work I have seen outside of Adbusters magazine itself... thank God I bought this!!!

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Finally saw my Niece

My brother Usman visited me here in Vancouver over this weekend... I had a great time... finally went out around Vancouver... and seeing my niece for the first time was amazing she is just adorable... MASHALLAH...

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The best band alive! Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky live at Reckless Records.
Setlist:
Yasmin The light
Once more to the afterlife
Greet Death

If you guys remember the last scene from my short film "Innerspace and all that" on Sufism, then you know who they are... Explosions in the Sky... as far as I can say they are the best (period)... here is some info on them... from wikipedia

listen and think!

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Stadium Arcade

What a song!!! equally great video... love the riffs man... great album... red hot!!!


Thought I include the Classic video from the californication album "the otherside"

The Eraser

Thom Yorke of Radiohead's new album "The Eraser"... been listening to it since a week now... I got a crappy 192 Kbps version of it from torrents... Waiting for the CD to come out...

technorati tags:ThomYork, Radiohead, Music, theEraser

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then and now

PBS Design e2

VFS Digital Design 03 Graduation Show Pictures

Here are some my Graduation Pictures at Digital Design 03 Vancouver Film School. Thanks to Allen, Up, Ryan, and Jack for the pictures.

Go to Flickr for the Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/designbysoil/

Rammstein Amerika

Could not help resist putting this here... brilliantly done... atleast I confess that WE ALL LIVE IN AMERIKA

Designbysoil Experimental Portfolio

Collection of Designbysoil - Experimental Work - PDF 18.6 MB
http://bigbert.vfs.com/~dd03ark/ark.graphic.designer.experimental.pdf

Project: Innerspace and all that

This is the final project I did at VFS
About this movie

Getting the VFS Digital Design Diploma

VFS Digital Design Best Visual Design Award Clip

*Thanks to Ryan and Allen for the clip

World Dominance

People with Apple computers can now use Windows on their computers using a patch available over the internet.
It's Boot Camp software.

Iam feeling very hot now, so I can't write anything more.

But one more line would be to refer to the title of the post.

Ten things I have learned by Milton Glaser

http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html 

Belong

 

The "Bit"ten Apple.

Soon to celebrate its 30th birthday, Apple sure is getting old (age wise) but its products remain as fresh as its image but that’s just a commonality, with age comes wisdom. (For most!)
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I can predict some new launches coinciding with the birthday. We might get to see an ibook with the Intel dual processors further reaching consumers with a lesser price than the power mac pro. That could be one launch.
Apple had also filed for registration of the term “iMobile” starting the speculation among analysts that it could be launching a mobile phone. But I am going to be a tad different and predict something completely different.

For me iMobile could be as per the name a mobile, the auto kind which comes together to become an automobile. While my mind doesn’t allow me ideas for the aesthetics of it, what it does allow me is the “inner” stuff.
The engine for example could be a Dual Intel Centrino (ok, ok that was a joke), the engine could be normal but the interior of the car will be of the computer. The seats will be actual working DRAM, (joking again).
Let me get serious, the car will be stocked with a really powerful computer and a wi-fi station. Download the songs on to the inbuilt computers 40 TB hard disk from the fast speed internet and listen through the stereo speakers which Apple has recently launched. Microsoft has not made a secret out of it’s inroads into the software needs of the future automobile. For Apple to take it further by introducing a car, it would be shocking for all. Just imagine the grill on the front holding up a chrome Apple logo. Same thing goes for the center of the steering wheel.
That would be really a thing, the Apple iMobile.

Happy Birthday Apple.

VFS Digital Design 03 Grad Poster

Here is a copy of our grad poster... each of us in the class contributed different assets to this piece... the central theme was developed by me... and the final composition too... So the graduation is on 20 April, 2006... in our Digital Design 420 Homer Campus Vancouver, Canada.

the word "complete"

March 09, 2006

Facing west; while lying on my bed, It was about 6:30 AM and 2 degree celcius outside, my alarm clock went off and my brain broadcasted a signal to search an escape route to reality. What was the reality? It took my brain 2 nano seconds to establish it. "Nothing ordinary about it...” kept saying a region in my brain that was keeping track of the last 4 months.

But in something extraordinary there are always ordinary things like taking a bath, putting clothes on, breakfast and catching a bus that fade into the background... and the mind records them very differently, like it never happened...

Almost 8:00 AM now and I am sitting on the second last seat on an express bus to downtown Vancouver with the Quran in my hand and a bag containing 80Gigs of binary information that I am hoping to connect with my workstation at VFS to spit out 14 minutes and 22 seconds of moving images. I choose to call this duration of moving images "Innerspace and all that..." partially because it suited the subject matter and partially my inspiring brother once wrote it on piece of paper... and I digged it too much.

It is now 10:00 AM and I am in the audio lab while the new digital design batch is having their class on Protools and Reason. I am dongling around in Protools to adjust the levels of the background score and the narration. I bounce it to disk and leave the room. Over about 20 steps from this room is the "Orange Lab", where my class fellows have been living for the past 2 months. Literally, they have been sleeping and working there. The lab is a mess. With papers, clothes, pillows, and bottles are crowding most of space the workstations and the sleek LCDs take. Some cheap ass instructor is filming while he is advising his student projects... for the school's promotional DVD. I found that very uncomforting... and left the room... without giving it a second thought.

It is now almost 6:00 PM and I am filling out a form for Final project delivery... in my hands is the final copy of the film... burned on DVD... and I am saying to myself... finally it is over.

Nobody has seen what I have been doing for the last four months. I mean nobody. Not a single soul. What is about? How does it look like? Is it religious? Are you happy with it? Where is it? Are the questions that I have been ignoring for the last four months…

Somehow they all believe that is an amazing piece that I have been so secret about. But I tell them it is not. Because my brain thinks that it is not. It falls short on many aspects that I tried hard to control. But in the end I can say for sure... it is whatever it is... whatever it was supposed to be... it is an outcome of an organic process... undefinable... by definition very unprofessional and at the same time very creative.

When will I let anybody see it is still a question I don't have an answer for... and will anybody like it or understand it... do I even care... well, we will see in the next couple of weeks... here is a pdf draft of about the film