Franz Kline Is My New Hero

Monday, January 9, 2012

Salam et bonjour,

Another normal week here in my side.

Coming up with numerous projects nowadays.
And my sister revealed about my late dad's friend that i only have a memory of him since i was a kid as the lemang man. Every raya's eve, my late dad would give the same command 'Pergi ambik lemang kat rumah Cikgu Latip' that i would accompany my brother to Cikgu Latip's house for the lemang every year until 3 or 4 years after my dad passed away. It turned out that
this guy had a degree in fine arts back in the 60s or 70s which was a surprise. I chuckled but my sister said that she saw the proof that the guy had his final year project painting photo placed in his wallet and to be said as his pride until today that no one knows until last Sunday. And then he dropped the 'bomb' that i myself couldn't answer specifically;"What is her niche?" And if i was inside the conversation*they met in Kuantan in the middle of morning market*, i would answer 'i can't decide yet that i'm still 'soul-searching' in following the right niche'. And the next thing i know, i had an appointment with him next month and need to finish at least five canvases to convince him or anyone else. And as 9gag always says, 'Challenge accepted'. It seems now my life revolves around 9gag. Hahahaha! So much the sound of a nerdy here.

So for today i'm doing reviews of series that i am currently watching.

Start off with junior masterchef season 2. Got to watch it back-to-back.Hehehe.
Seriously, i always ask myself 'what the hell did i do when i was in my childhood years?' in every single episode. And i can see that the kid from Junior Masterchef would answer back slowly with straight face,'Yeah, your childhood must be sucked.'=.=" Cooking chilli crab, said by a 10 year old boy. Rolling pavlova rolls by age of 9 by a young girl. And another girl said doing a full home cooked meal for the whole family by the age of 11. And i said to myself these kids are awesome enough that i think that we are the generation of EPIC FAIL to remember our childhood days playing with slides and shouting and screaming at toys-r-us for not getting Barbie or the inflatable swimming pool. While these kids would whine and and cry if they are in supermarket of not getting the right veggie to cook or in IKEA raging for the right pan to replace the old ones. =.=" For sure these kids are as awesome as last seasons but this time around, everyone has the potential to win has the consistency and competitiveness in scoring. So, for all the ladies during your pregnancy months, get yourself busy cooking to be delivering another Junior Masterchef. Hehehe.

Then i watched New Girl.
I finished the whole 9 episodes for the first season and it was hilarious comedy of the year(2011). How can you not resist watching a quirky girl living with three dudes in an apartment?I think i really like Jess's character *the PUSHING DAISY GIRL* and wishing that she ends up with Nick who is her housemate and who cannot get over his ex, Caroline. I think if i ask Jess if she believes the existence of leprechauns and unicorns, she would answer it without doubt,a definite yes. But, then, a guy name Paul * people knows him as the MAC GUY AD*, Jess's colleague at school who is a carbon copy of her except Paul is a dude. I believe that they believe to be meant forever. =.=" While Schmidt is another Jewish dude that lives in the same house with Jess,Nick and Winston that he is being called as the douche who always hits on girls with cheesy pick-up lines. To accompany him all the time, there is the douche jar that everytime he says something worth being called douch-y, he needs to put a dollar to redeem himself. There's Winston who was a basketball player that played in Latvia and experienced working at a normal company becoming a mailman in the office. However, he has the skills of picking up anything new pretty fast that there's the episode he teaches a bunch of kids of Jess how to play 'Eye of the Tiger' via bells. He made playing with bells look cooler. But, it was pretty hilarious from one episode to another with the fight that is kind of childish such as 'claiming back the hair conditioner by squeezing the hair back' and the 'dirty dancing song being sing in the high-end restaurant'.I'm looking forward on continuing to watch this sitcom because i rarely watch sitcoms, and a bit off-track from what i usually watch;sci-fi*except terra nova*, thriller*still can't accept Dexter*, or reality shows *not the real houswives or jersey shore*.

About the title...Franz Kline...
He's an abstract expressionist and his close buddy is Jason Pollock.
He decided to take away the conventional medium and substituted it with house paint which i find it to be brilliant and his colour choices are restricted to black and white only which is kind of cool *not many can pull off paintings brilliantly. He can show forms by playing both colours and brush strokes. But the main thing i like about him is the layerings. He only layered his paintings to get the depth*once, my sister struggled to explain to me the meaning of depth. XD* that he wanted without mixing colours like other artists and worrying about fine lines and my favourite piece of his is Chief. However, to achieve his way of painting is not as quick as people thought of as he took it reeaally long time and critical thinking to express the subject. The subjects that he usually portrayed in his paintings are things inside his studio for example, his arm chairs and even the yellow pages phone books.

So, ok, i'm going to go now.
See you in the next post.
:)
Current mood : Sleepy
Currently listening to : Summer Wars OST *if there's one thing that i still haven't bought that i am still longing for until today is Kazuma's figure*

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