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For this project, Kyle and I wanted to do something about our shared identity as American-born Cantonese. Feeling like outsiders in both American, and Cantonese culture, we found ourselves finding common ground in traditional Cantonese food and language. We wrote a short Cantonese narrative describing how language and culture are phased out through generations after… Read more Visual Metaphor
Project Title: Undecided (until we have finalized the parable that we will be using) Team Members: Derek Eng, Kyle Lok Concept | Storyline: American Born Chinese We are planning to tell the story of being an American-born Chinese, and the process of assimilation that our families go through after moving to the US. In order… Read more Visual Metaphor Proposal
Old Spice commercial – start at 2:16 https://youtu.be/Hq2SlCja3zo?t=137
For this assignment, I chose my memory of being hospitalized in 2018. I remember being taken out of an ambulance on a stretcher through a set of doors and into a room. Next, I waited there as I slowly died, with my breathing becoming weak and heart-pounding until a group of doctors and nurses hurried… Read more Memory Soundscape
Steyerl talks about how the “unbroken belief” of the documentary form is challenged. What does Steyerl mean by this? Certain movies and films are based on a true story. How does truth inform the fiction? How might fiction inform the truth? By this, Steyerl means that the original meaning of documentary films has been shifted… Read more The Uncertainty of Documentarism
For my memory, I want to record a trip to the hospital. Throughout my life, I’ve had a multitude of different health problems and have spent months going in and out of hospitals around the world. One specific memory that sticks out to me was when my lung collapsed in Beijing, and I was rushed… Read more Soundscape Memory
Derek Eng – Exploration For my diptych I first chose this image: This image features my friend in the foreground and some large buildings in the background along with some trees. I think this image has a strong composition due to the angle of the large building compared with the angle of the girl’s head.… Read more Diptych
The concept of “fluidity of the digital” stems from the fact that our current technology has progressed at such a rapid pace that the most accurate way of capturing images – photographs – is no longer a reliable source. That is, to say, that photos can be edited extremely easily now. This means that reality… Read more In Our Own Image Response
Derek Eng, G.O.A.T, Polyphia Concept and Design For this project I used the expansion aspect of Gestalt theory, where I implied that there was more outside of the frame by drawing lines that led out of the page. This gave the print more depth. In addition, I used a lot of the splitting theory with… Read more Sound Visualization Project
For our Pioneer Plaque, we chose to do emojis. In order to communicate the concept of emojis, we chose to put two more realistic human faces on the page and then associated them with the simpler emoji faces using arrows. For the emotions, we chose a simple happy and sad. Then, in the middle of… Read more Pioneer Plaque