One thing that I have to agree... that photography is brilliant! Photography is another way for us to remember the things of the past. We, humans, as we began to grow of age, we tend to forget the things that we do in our past. But that might not be true because some old people tend to still remember their past so vividly. However photography helps you preserve such small details in our past. We might take random pictures of anything that might not be remembered by us since it is just in such short time. Sometimes we could not remember the little things that had happened in our past. Some might be vague. Photography is somewhat like our memory joggers, a stimulation for our memories. It means whenever we look at a photograph of our past, our mind suddenly flashes a series of motion graphics that relates to the photograph.

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This is a music video called Photograph by Nickelback. Such a beautiful concept for week 8 photograph. This music video is about his memories of his past life such as his teenage life and college life perhaps. He showed how he misses his old life when he was younger back then. The video shows that he came back to his hometown and looked at the places that he have visited . Please Enjoy!

Sing along if you must!

"Photograph"

Look at this photograph
Everytime I do it makes me laugh
How did our eyes get so red
And what the hell is on Joey's head

And this is where I grew up
I think the present owner fixed it up
I never knew we'd ever went without
The second floor is hard for sneaking out

And this is where I went to school
Most of the time had better things to do
Criminal record says I broke in twice
I must have done it half a dozen times

I wonder if it's too late
Should i go back and try to graduate
Life's better now than it was back then
If I was them I wouldn't let me in

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, god, I

Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye.
Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye.

Remember the old arcade
Blew every dollar that we ever made
The cops hated us hangin' out
They say somebody went and burned it down

We used to listen to the radio
And sing along with every song we know
We said someday we'd find out how it feels
To sing to more than just the steering wheel

Kim's the first girl I kissed
I was so nervous that I nearly missed
She's had a couple of kids since then
I haven't seen her since god knows when

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, god, I

Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye.
Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye.

I miss that town
I miss the faces
You can't erase
You can't replace it
I miss it now
I can't believe it
So hard to stay
Too hard to leave it

If I could I relive those days
I know the one thing that would never change

Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye.
Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye.

Look at this photograph
Everytime I do it makes me laugh
Everytime I do it makes me...

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ENJOY!

 

 Brunei, the Green Heart of Borneo

 

Brunei Darussalam, a Heritage

These two tourist commercials are promoting Brunei Tourism for the whole world to see. Each of these tourism commercials are different from each other but some of the elements are similar to each other. As you can see from their titles, they are both very contrasting videos. 'The Green Heart of Borneo' video shows more of Brunei's greener side and the 'Brunei Darussalam, a Heritage' shows more of Brunei's regalia, the country's heirlooms and Brunei history.  

The difference between the narratives of the videos is more to its visual aspects (pictorial). If you watch the videos, The Green Heart of Borneo shows more of Brunei's culture such as the people, the villages, the Kampung Ayer and also Brunei's flora and fauna whereas 'Brunei Darussalam, a heritage' shows more of its royal regalia and basically Brunei's wealth. If you compare the time duration of the videos, the first video which is the 'Heart of Borneo' is much longer than the second video which is the 'Brunei Darussalam, a heritage'. This proves that the first video shows more of Brunei than the second video. The second video has shorter time duration because it only wants the viewers to see part of its tourist attractions which is the Brunei heritage. The first video, on the other hand, shows most part of Brunei such as the people (culture) and the flora and fauna.

Moreover, the visual narrative is being assisted by the written narrative to somehow emphasized the attraction and to allow the audience to soak up the words in their minds and 'hink  It is not unusual for tourist commercial to use flowery words in order to attract people thus these videos have used several soothing and attractive words which mostly trying to suit the pictures such as 'golden' and 'glittery' which matches with Brunei's mosque, the golden pots and pans and the golden threads of the 'songkets' or 'jongsarat'. They also use words like 'local, faith, ceremony, treasures' these are words that shows what Brunei have such as the Islamic religion, the people and the ceremonies such as weddings. Overall, these words are carefully chosen in order to make viewers to 'feel' and ' think' that Brunei is what the video is trying to make them think which is beautiful, unique and filled with wonders. 

Furthermore, the background music also adds up to the attractions which emphasizes its uniqueness because the music is being played by a particular instrument such as 'gulingtangan' which can only be found in certain parts of Asia including Brunei. This makes other people who are not familiar with the instrument to be fascinated to such unique sound. 

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What is more interesting to narrate about other than a little girl's bedroom?

I have found this amazing bedrooms just by googling 'the little girl's bedroom' and all these expensive, magical fairytale-like bedrooms pop on my screen and I literally gasped and screamed thinking 'how I wish I can be this spoilt sometimes when I was younger'.

Imagine that you walk your way to your niece or your friend or your sister's daughter's bedroom and when you open the door and suddenly you are in Disney's Cinderella's world? It is amazing how these designers could actually make the phrase 'fairytales do exist' come true. This was made by Mark Wilkinson Furniture in London for a soccer star. Mr Wilkinson refused to give the names of his clients but he only tells the reporter that his client is a soccer player. Perhaps a very wealthy soccer player because this bedroom costs a whopping $99,000 US dollars! 

Thus we can see that a bedroom can tell us a story. For example these bedrooms tell us one of the fairytale stories we know of such as Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty which all come from the Disney Fairytale movies. Anyone who have watched some of the fairytale movies would recognize the designs in the bedrooms such as the round horse carriage which we have seen in Disney's Cinderella movie.

 

A short 'trailer' of the Disney's classic Cinderella movie will play in our mind as soon as we see the horse carriage, the castle and the little crown shapes. It also tells us a story of how the little girl herself loves the movie so much that she would have persuaded her parents to design a Cinderella theme for her room. This also tells us a story about the little girl's personality. We know that not all children have the same personalities so this bedroom could tell us that the little girl love to watch fairytale movies and also to want to have a life like the princesses she have watched.

This does not always occur to children but adults too. Our own personal spaces could tell our personality and this have proven by some researchers. Bedrooms, offices, bathrooms which are very personal to us could tell whether we are an extrovert or introvert, or that we are the 'messy' type or a perfectionist. Just by looking how we organize our bed, computer and even our wardrobes tell a lot about who we are. 

From each of these rooms we can tell what kind of person that owner is. He or she could be a clean or a messy person. We could also tell if that person is an organized person or not just by looking how he or she decorate her place or how she organize her toiletries, books and even how he or she folds their bedsheets. Thus personal spaces could tell us a story of an individual or even perhaps tell us the life of that individual because all those designs come from our own preferences meaning our ideal way on having such a space that suits our comfort which somehow preserves that personality of ours.


References:

http://www.articlesbase.com/interior-design-articles/bedroom-decorating-style-show-your-personality-768296.html
http://www.decoratingstudio.com/articles_consumer_info/color_personality.html
http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2002/spaces.html
http://www.bornrich.org/entry/soccer-offsprings-sleep-in-a-99000-enchanted-world/