the past few days... agIdeas 2009

Friday, May 8, 2009

HELLO EVERYBODY!

Aah feels good to be back. I sound like some person giving a speech on stage or some celebrity and the kinds. Must be the influence of having 3 days of mind-battering agIdeas!

So what's agIdeas? It's a forum event where great designers - local and international - gather at Melbourne to give us a 20-minute talk on design. So one designer 20 minutes... which is a time frame they don't really stick to actually so yeah. And after one is done, the other goes up and it's like a non-stop thing for almost a whole working day yep.

Sounds pretty tiring. Hearing people talk. Paying over AU$300 to hear some people talk. Some of you are going what the fuc--- yeah. But really, it was pretty worth it. I mean. $300? Lunch and dinner for 15 days in melbourne you can get with that sum. But well for those who can afford it I say go.

If you can afford it but you just KNOW you won't be able to stand listening to people talk and would end up getting totally bored and end up not learning anything from it, don't go. Or go once and see how it is for ya. Because I know how it can be boring at times. Damn, I remember that speaker and that speaker... made me very sleepy. But I don't sleep at public places, and I happen to have a rather high tolerance of 'boring stuff'. So I still hung on.

But aside from all that boring parts, some speakers were just very inspiring! I listen to them and just admire them for their humour, maturity, confidence and wisdom. Oh and of course, creativity. They can have this great power over you and move you to clap even when no one's clapping and I did that once seriously and thank god people followed my clapping or it would be soooo awkward.

I mean the guy did a good job! Ain't nothin' wrong with clapping for that!

So to sum it up there were around 44 speakers in total, and how many ever thousands of audiences. Point is ticket sold out.

To those interested, this here is a list of some designers who spoke to us... I'm not going to type them all down okay but here are the ones I liked:

*actually, not all of them are designers. but all creative people

Shannon Bennett

Jill Bilcock

Chris Bosse

Andrea Innocent

Etienne Mineur

John Marsden

ENESS

Charlton Hill

Richard Hoare (Breville)

Philip Millar

Stanley Wong

Luca Missoni

And some other apparantly very famous ones but I didn't like them as much as the people on the above list:

Monster Children

Soap

Tobias Frere-Jones

Luca Missoni might be more famous to our young readers here, he is a fashion designer from Italy here I shall show you guys some of his beauuuutiful works:

Yep. Expensive stuff. Great patterns, gorgeous colours.

Alright done with agIdeas stuff! For two days I slept in my bro's apartment. Here's him playing his bass... he keeps asking me about how it sounded etc etc and trying to make me impressed because I never once told him it sounded "excellent" or anything like that. I have high standards you see. Even higher when we have just finished watching movie The Pianist. I have Chopin and only Chopin's beautiful music in my head...

Also when watching The Pianist, Dorota played Bach's Prelude No.1 on the cello and it sounded astounding. Makes me want to play it too! I have the music sheet but so far can only play the top half of the song... and with great difficulty and abundant mistakes. ;_;

For curious minds, here is the song: