Life is too ironic to fully understand. It takes sadness to know what happiness is. Noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.
Inspired by retro TV screen, Gameboy Pixel Art and the memories of my childhood, perhaps the happiness moment waiting in front of the television. Time flies, do you still remember these character that I gathered from A–Z?
What could we conclude about our current struggle with the future and the past? Is our current obsession with nostalgia a resistance to a city that changes so quickly? Or is nostalgia just a phase that will soon be forgotten in time to come?
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The second part of this project is a 30 seconds motion-graphics video for IDA #MySmartNation Micro Video Contest.
Create an up-to-30 seconds video that presents your ideas, solutions, thoughts or feelings about our Smart Nation through commentary, a rap, a poem, a song or even a budget-Hollywood-style movie trailer. It is totally up to you. A quick video, that is all it takes!
Inspired by retro TV screen, Gameboy, Pixel Art and the memories of my childhood. Gathered a total of 26 character from A–Z set in the city of Singapore during the 80s'/90s'. Challenge the audience to guess which character still logically survived in the future context of Singapore. Thus engage the audience to relook into the technology shown in the cartoon series "The Jetsons" and how can we imagine Singapore, a high-tech nation, would develop in the future as we progress together.
About "The Jetsons": Robots, short workdays, trips to the moon, flying cars, video chat, floating cities, Jane's electric dress, human cloning, vacuum tube transport. These are no more an utopia dreams, some are already present.
The Jetsons are a family residing in Orbit City. The city's architecture is rendered in the Googie style, and all homes and businesses are raised high above the ground on adjustable columns. George Jetson lives with his family in the Skypad Apartments: his wife Jane is a homemaker, their teenage daughter Judy attends Orbit High School, and their early-childhood son Elroy attends Little Dipper School. Housekeeping is seen to by a robot maid, Rosie, which handles chores not otherwise rendered trivial by the home's numerous push-button Space Age-envisioned conveniences. The family has a dog named Astro, that talks with an initial consonant mutation in which every word begins with an "R", as if speaking with a growl.
George Jetson's workweek is typical of his era: an hour a day, two days a week. His boss is Cosmo Spacely, the bombastic owner of Spacely Space Sprockets. Spacely has a competitor, Mr. Cogswell, owner of the rival company Cogswell Cogs (sometimes known as Cogswell's Cosmic Cogs). Jetson commutes to work in an aerocar that resembles a flying saucer with a transparent bubble top. Daily life is leisurely, assisted by numerous labor-saving devices
