iStockphoto Vetta Collection!

They call it the Creative Prowess!

According to iStockphoto:
"Vetta images are hand-picked by a team of high-performance iStockphoto editors for:

• Exquisite art direction
• Intelligently executed concepts
• Rarity"

4 of my artworks are selected and given 30 credits each, yay~

Malaysian slang: Support me lah!

Revenge Is Here!

I bought 10 tickets for Transformers Revenge of The Fallen through the GSC epayment site! I'll be watching the movie with my wife, sister, and friends on my birthday night~

We'll have dinner at Pavillion, KL, probably blah blah a bit before the "Revenge" hehehe!

I'm sure I'll hit the IMAX cinema soon after watching it on the normal screen. By the way, don't use the short form ROTF, cuz my beebee says it reads like Rolling on The Floor...

Local Cinema Online Booking System down!

Request Cannot Be Serviced
The site has exceeded its resource limit and cannot process this request.

This is what I saw on the GSC (Golden Screen Cinema) page when I was trying to reserve my Transformers Revenge of The Fallen movie tickets... Hmm, I smell war...

Are people getting so crazy about the robots like me? Probably.

Maybe they should have upgrade the servers and bandwidth limits eh?

iStockphoto upgrade downtime Thursday June 18

iStockphoto upgrade downtime Thursday June 18 - OOPS!

Well, they will compensate you by giving 10% off your next purchase of 120 credits or more with promo code HCKYE510 valid till Friday June 26, 2009. So act fast! Wait, what about us, the contributors???

For more info or to post your comments (complaints? hehe), visit iStockScoop (ha, I'm not aware of this "ultimate" unofficial site).

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Toys & Action Figures

The human alliance toy line is pretty much like Alternators/Binaltech series, and they look cool to me, it's time to save more money for these babies~

Here are the revealed Human Alliance figures: Bumblebee, Sideswipe, Skid, and Ironhide could be joining the lineups.

Here's the new movie accurate Optimus Prime. It looks thousand times cooler than the previous version tha I bought, but as usual, I will wait for the Takara Premium version because the finishing is so much nicer than Hasbro and normal Takara versions.


P/S: Just dump me at the toys department and I won't go away lol.

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Well, I don't cook (I suck...) but local organic eggs always taste so good~


Basically this is what I do all the time... think, sketch, illustrate, designing, sometimes coding (hate it big time!!) since 1999... Now I realise how fast time flies and there are still a lot of things I haven't done...

Transformers G1 Costumes

Just less than 1 week time, we're gonna watch Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. Guess I have to log on to the local cinema websites at 00:00 to book the seats! Their Movie... Our War...

Anyway, just remembered this as I search for the movie updates. You gotta see how crazy these guys are, they are just so passionate about Transformers Robots! I laughed everytime I see this. They're funny in a very positive way, haha.

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Fun Facts

Here's an very interesting post by the TF2 director Michael Bay. If you dig all Transformers movie updates and check the trailers frame by frame like me, you should read this :-D

Robots

• 14 robots last time, 46 robots this time (ILM only)
• If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
• Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
• Devastator’s hand is traveling 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyramid.
• The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than the old rigid simulation all-time record holder at ILM.
• All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
• Devastator’s parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state buildings.
• If all the texture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 football fields.

Disk space

• TF1 took 20 Terabytes of disk space. Trans2 took 145 Terabytes. Seven times bigger!
• 145 terabytes would fill 35,000 DVDs. Stacked one on top of the other without storage cases, they would be 145 feet tall.

Rendering times

• If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year’s premiere!
• A single imax shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop.
• IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

Imax

• Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
• Imax frames take about 6 times longer than anamorphic to render.
• IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

ILM screen time

ILM Screen Time is about 51 minutes.

Devastator

• Devastator is as tall as a 10 story building.
• Devastator has more than 10 times the number of individual parts found in an average car.
• Laid out end to end, Devastator’s parts would be almost 14 miles long.

Devastator totals

• Number of geom pieces: 52632
• The total number of polygons: 11,716,127
• The total length of all pieces: 73090 feet
• The total length of all pieces: 13.84 miles

I can only say WHOAH!!! Visit Bay's official website for plenty of exclusive images and video previews.

Showcase: Office & Business icons 01 has been used

Just received something like this in my mailbox: "iStockphoto: Your image has been used in a 'Designer Spotlight' Entry #26493"
This is an email from iStockphoto informing me that my Office & Business icons 01 (Premium Matte series) is used, and here are the details:
Designer: Goran Komar
Creative Direction: Goran Komar
Agency: Status Grupa
Client: Magma (see the icons page here)

Check out the Designer Spotlight entry here. Cheers~

Finished 2-day Photoshoots

Wow, it was a wonderful experience with Romantic Bridals so far. The 2-day-photoshoot is fun, but tiring too, hehe.

Day 1: We did studio and outdoor shootings @ Romantic Bridals' photo studio and Carcosa Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

Day 2: Few studio shots, then we moved on to outdoor shootings @ Sepang Gold Coast, Negeri Sembilan. We had our dinner there and back in KL at 10:30pm.

I'm gonna look at my new apartment tomorrow noon... how exciting, huh?

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Hi-res movie stills from Celebutopia.


TF2 Teaser Trailer (HD)

I just can't wait to see my childhood dream sequel! The movie will come to Malaysia on 26th June (27th is my birthday, maybe I can wish for some TF2 toys and figures kekeke~ Premium version by Takara, Japan is da best!).

I still remember how touching it was when I saw Optimus Prime transformed in the first movie, it's just so real as if I witness it... I also tried replaying the movie frame by frame... just hard to catch up with the transformations :p

And wow, Devastator is confirmed to debut, the big bad beast combined by 6 Decepticon Constructicons. Can Prime and the nice Autobots resist them and protect us (looks like we don't stand a chance to survive)? We'll see...

If you are looking for more Transformers movie and toys updates, make sure you visit these websites, there are lotsa cool images and videos:
1) Transformers Live Action Movie Blog
2) Transformer World 2005

Busy Week!

This is a very busy yet happy week! I'm going out to shop for black slacks and leather shoes today for my wedding album photoshoots on Tuesday & Wednesday. The photoshoots will take place at Carcosa Seri Negara Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, and Sepang Gold Coast.

Image source: KL Hotels

Image course: Lonely Planet

After that, me and my Beebee are gonna collect keys from the developer on Thursday to have the very first look at our new apartment (yay!). Rex, our interior designer (White Cube Designs) will come with us too to check on the qualities and if there were any defects.

Friday morning, we'll go back to Johore and come back to KL on Saturday night... hoah!

Make IM Your Own Button

Just noticed something: MSN Hotmail is using my icon for their 'make IM your own' button. This icon is part of the istockphoto's exclusive Software & Application Icon Set from Premium Matte series. I'm so happy about this haha!

A safer way to use your affordable istock files

Read this article before and after you purchase any creative work from iStockphoto! I've experienced 2 cases of my watermarked illustrations being used on websites... thank you istockphoto friends for reporting the cases for me!

Sotte Bosse 太陽のキス

I couldn't recall how I stumbled into this video on youtube... The motion graphic is cool, the song's nice, and the voice is sweet. I don't understand anything they sing but just fall in love with the music.

Just a week or two after watching this music video, I bought one of their albums: Moment, from HMV in Singapore. 太陽のキス is in the track list, other songs are nice too, especially the first track 瞳がほほえむから, kinda fresh and relaxing!Enjoy the music video! If you wanna know more about Sotte Bosse or just listen to the samples, just check their official website.

Flying V Electric Guitars T-Shirts

Vintage & Modern Flying V Electric Guitars for you rock and metal fans!
T-shirts are from my Zazzle store, while vector file is from istockphoto.

Breaking Piggy Bank

My new apartment is ready, gonna collect keys from developer next week. So it's time to break my precious piggy bank for renovation and all other stuffs!~

Isometric Icon Sets

Last Updated in the lightbox: 04-21-09.
10 - 15 credits each set.

Social Network icons | Premium Matte series

New in Premium Matte series, uploaded on 05/31/09
Format: EPS8 CMYK
Credits: 10

Love is in the DNA greeting card

New product from my Zazzle store!

A DNA, double helix like design with hands on top holding each other. Send it to the very special one to express your feelings!

It is available now, and you can customize it to suit your preferences. Click on the card images to view it.

Vector image available here.