The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search
The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search is on the hunt to identify the hottest and most innovative website, made by youths. With thousands of Malaysian websites including blogs and portals emerging daily, they are on the lookout for owners of super cool sites, giving them recognition for their work. Based on the phone conversation I had with one of their staff, my blog falls under the category and was shortlisted.
I am not a very out going person, and never took part in any of these blogging competition or gathering until now. According to them, I am encouraged to start inviting my friends to vote for me by clicking on the Voting Banner! (On the upper right hand side of this blog). Cool!
Awesome, the first prize is… I have no idea, anyway the prize does not matter. Vote for me. The banner acts as a hit counter as well as a vote tracker for this blog. In order to avoid abuse of their system, they have enabled every user to vote only once per hour. Hmmm, meaning to say you get to vote for me every hour, democracy has evolved or is this just democracy ala Malaysian style.
p.s. I received a parcel today, surprise surprise. :)
p.s.s Vote for me (Banner on the upper right hand side of this blog)
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We Shape Our Buildings and Afterwards, Our Buildings Shape Us
What did you see? What is above the woman’s head? What element is the backdrop? Researchers showed an identical image to people from East Africa, almost all of those took part in the experiment said the lady was balancing a box on her head, in an African culture where there are few angular visual cues, the group of people is seen sitting under a big tree. On the other hand, Westerners are used to corners and rectangular architecture, thus they are more likely to visualize the group of people in an indoor space and to interpret the rectangular shape above the lady’s head as a window opening.
The studies showed the influence of different culture and environment can have an effect on our visual perception, this theory was first explored by Robert Laws, a Scottish missionary working in Malawi, Africa, during the late 1800’s.
Winston Churchill’s epic statement, “We shape our buildings and afterwards, our buildings shape us,” is a fantastic observation of the architectural phenomenon, illuminating the fact that physical architecture is a static artifact and continues to transform us long after construction.
Couple with Churchill’s famous quotes and the illusion above, does a person who comes from a third world has the same creativity in architecture compare to someone whom was brought up in a historically rich city such as Paris?
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my friend (not an architecture student) last year, we were arguing about the use of Roman / Doric columns in most of the houses in Malaysia, a typical Malaysian trend where these columns are an essential element in every houses, an eye sore. Not only the use of these mini Doric columns are ugly, he was defending the overall design as well, saying it is beautiful.
It is hard to convince them that these houses are tasty for the tasteless.
Tags: Houses, Illusion, Malaysia, Malaysian, Optical Illusion, Robert Laws, Terrace House, Winston Churchill
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