Razeef's Room - Collaborative Studio Practice

This is a sample of picture of the room i'm working on now for Collaborative Studio Practice. Basically, this is just the outlook of the whole interior of the room. I will still add in more features into the landscape of the whole island. I will explain more detail on the concept of why i choose my room to be in such a way.

Razeef Mohd.

Syd Mead@RMIT

On 23 of march, i was lucky enough to get a chance to hear a talk by Syd Mead as well as meeting with him in person. The talk was pretty interesting and learn a lot form the man himself. The two things that i could not forget what Syd said was "If you do this and don't get paid then it's a Hobby" and "Imagination is much more important than knowledge."

The second one was a quote by Albert Einstein actually but these were the things that i remember well from his talk. This guy is brilliant and fantastic. Looking at his work gives me inspiration.

I would also love to thank my lecturer, John Power for helping me out on the ticket for the talk by Syd. Without his help, i would not be there. Thanks a lot John.

Razeef Mohd.

8 Bit Trip

I stumbled upon this clip of stop motion animation on youtube called 8 bit trip last year while i was looking for some animation on stop motion. Found this piece as an interesting piece and wanna share it.

These guys took almost 1500 hours of moving lego bricks and taking photos of them. Can you believe it. A brilliant work and credit to both of these guys in putting the efforts and hours in completing this.

Razeef Mohd.

Goodbye Grandma

This morning about 3 a.m, i lost someone very dear in my life. My Grandmother.

"Innalillahi wainna ilaihi rajeoon."

To Allah we belong and to him is our return. May Allah give me patience, forgive my grandmother and give her a best place in "Jannat ul Firdous. Amin.

I feel sad as i could not be there by her side performing the final rituals before burial.

Many fond memories with grandma as she used to take care of me when i was 6 years old. She would wake me up early in the morning and give me some money to buy nasi lemak so that i could take it to kindy. My grandma was big in size, so at that time i use to treat her stomach as water bed. I will run and jump on her and lie down on her stomach, but she will never scold me.

The last day i met her was few days before i came to melbourne. It was saturday, 20 February 2010 and i kissed her as usual before i leave. Those are the last picture of memory that i could capture in my head.

Love you Grandma.

Razeef Mohd.

Inspiring the Inspirer

"As i was walking towards him, I said no... Oh no... killing is not going to help me... Revenge is not good... It's going to keep on war for this generation and the next generation...

Let me let him live and then I will be free...

I am free... and everyone is free"

Patrick Chamusso, 2006

This was the words uttered by Patrick Chamusso in 2006 after a motion film was made based on his life story. A story that inspired me now for who i am and what will i be in future.

I start with these quotes from what he said. The quotes were strong enough and made me to think.

Why i chose to start my blog and my first posting on Mr Patrick is because of what i learned in class during the first week. The theme was Play + Inspiration and also not forgetting week 2 theme which is Community + Practice. So this is why i started the blog with individuals who inspire me and my life. In coming post i will include more individual who inspires me.

Why? Because whatever i do in my creative work, these are the elements around me, which pops out in my head and will influence the direction of how i transmit messages into creativity using the different medium around me.

Let me tell detail about myself a bit. I'm Razeef Mohd. From Malaysia but currently i'm in Melbourne doing my postgraduate studies. I'm doing my master in creative media (animation and interactive media) at RMIT University.

Thats a brief information about me and i would love to conclude this first post with the picture of Mr Patrick Chamusso and also a clip of the film, Catch a Fire the ending to share with all of you and i managed to get this clip from youtube, not forgetting as well the production team of this film. a great film...

Razeef Mohd.