Visiting TOAE (Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition)

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TOAE – Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition – is one of the biggest event in Toronto. Exhibition happens every year in July at Nathan Phillips Square, where is in front of Toronto City Hall in downtown.

The truth is, I’ve never been there before till now for past 9 years in Canada.. Real reason that I paid to visit the exhibition was my friend who participated the exhibition this year. (Plus, it’s free! haha) She, Ivanne Binetruy, was one of my colleagues from college and now she’s trying to be a professional jewellery designer by her own. Even though she was the mother of two children, she was always passionated student at school and I had no doubt that she’ll be always the best in her profession field and now, here she is, representing her own works. :)

There were so many things to watch, but I visited Ivanne’s booth first to congrats her very first exhibition after graduated from school. :)

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And guess what? She got ‘Jewellery Student Award’ from the exhibition! What did I say? She’s still the best student here, haha. (She graduated this year, but she was student when she applied for this exhibition.)

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My personal favourite from her works: the ‘Diamond’ series on the left side and ‘Candy Child’ series on the right side. ‘Candy Child’ series are playful and brilliant too. Those colourful particles are actually children’s toy – sticky and easy to form so you can take it out from silver pendant or ring and change to other colour whenever you want. :)

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When that little lady saw the ‘Candy Child’ series, she said “I have that toy too, I know this!” As a mother of two, Ivanne was good at handling children at the exhibition. Maybe I should learn from her sometime later.. Haha. Quick promotion here! Ivanne just opened her website so you can see her works at here: http://www.ivannebinetruy.com/ She’s currently in France – her home country – but will back in Canada after summer and do some more works so please keep visit the website if you are interested in customized unique jewellery. :)

After visiting her booth, I took personal time to look around the exhibition. So many interesting and amazing works caught my eye but I couldn’t take other booths’ photos due to the privacy issues. (I got permission from Ivanne for this of course. She said, “You know I like to share stuffs with people!”) However, I took some photos of view of the exhibitions.

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Hope you could see how big this exhibition was. The tall building in the last photo is the new Toronto City Hall. The old one is just beside of this new building, across the road. That water is turning to the ice field in winter so people can enjoy skating here. :)

I spent more than 3 hours at the exhibition and later, seems like it’ll be raining so I decided to stay in the coffee shop for awhile to take some rest.

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It was my first time wearing this shoes and to be honest, it was hard to take a long walk with this.. :( Still, I cannot let it stay at home because I love to wearing them. Actually when I took this photo, I remembered little saying from drama ‘Sex and the City’: “The fact is, sometimes it’s hard to walk in single women shoes. That’s why we need really special ones now and then, to make the walk little more fun.”

Me? Yes, I’m single and maybe that’s why I’m so into this sentence.. ;)

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About 10 minutes later I stayed in the cafe, it was raining as I expected.

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This is the old city hall across the road. Personally, I like this building more than the new one. This photo was my first trial with ‘retro’ colour version from the camera and I kinda liked the colour. I think the colour matches good with this antique building. :)

Guess this would be my last post in this blog. I might come back later though, if I have something interesting that I want to share it with you guys. Hope you enjoyed my postings from this blog. :)

Bonus photo!

I’m sorry if any one of them see this photo and doesn’t like it but I couldn’t resist to take this shot because they were such a beautiful couple.

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Hope they’re still having great time together… :)

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Cyber Lions Winner at Cannes 2010 ‘Nonja’ and…

The most famous orangutan in the world ‘Nonja’ is now the winner of two fabulous awards. It’s not even the first time Nonja won the marketing awards. Check the previous article about her here.

Samsung Electronics Austria has proudly announced that marketing idea of Samsung ST1000(CL65) with Nonja has won Silver Cyber Lions at the Cannes Lions(Category: Community Applications).

The International Advertising Festival – Cannes Lions – is the world’s biggest celebration of creativity in communications. As the most prestigious international annual advertising awards, over 24,000 entries from all over the world are showcased and judged at the Festival.

The followings are extracts from the original article of Cannes Lions.

“Samsung needed a strong marketing idea to launch the ST1000(CL65), a digital camera that can upload pictures directly to facebook and is really easy to use. The budget available? Less than 50,000 USD. We wanted to prove the easy handling to the Facebook users by giving the camera to Nonja, an orangutan in the national zoo to take and upload pictures. The world’s first ape on facebook became a world wide phenomenon. Over 80’000 fans joined her account in just six weeks. The international press cover age was worth over 7 Mill. USD.”

In addition, Samsung’s Nonja project has won the ADC*E(Art Director Club of Europe) awards as Gold level of Web & use of media, in July.

the article of horizont.at

ADC*E is the only Awards scheme in the world to bring all the European award winning work from the national schemes into one competition. Once submitted, the work is judged by a panel of over 50 top creatives, a wonderful opportunity for European professionals from advertising, design, editorial, illustration, film, new media and photography to come together and highlight their country’s creativity.

ADC*E is an association of European Creative Clubs. Its aim is to foster and reward creative excellence in European design and advertising, and this is why every year it takes place the ADC*E Awards -Best of European Design and Advertising.

Orangutan Photographer Nonja is a Perfect Marketer of ST1000(CL65)

Our Orangutan friend ‘Nonja’ and her Samsung camera ST1000(CL65) got Silver at CLIO award. To visit the previous posts about Nonja, please click the links.

1st Post Have you seen an orangutan playing with a camera?

2nd Post Do you remember orangutan photographer Nonja? She’s back.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has been awarded a prestigious international CLIO award for a new strategic communications and public relations initiative to launch its ST1000(CL65) product. The CLIO Awards are one of the world’s most recognised international advertising, design and communications competitions, focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current and innovative work. The prize was awarded for an online and social media campaign to launch the ST1000(CL65) digital camera, in conjunction with Austria’s renowned Schonbrunn Zoo and demonstrated Samsung’s ongoing commitment to breakthrough communication campaigns.

Samsung developed a unique partnership with the Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna, to show consumers how easy and intuitive the new ST1000(CL65) camera is at uploading pictures to the internet via its innovative wireless capabilities, a feature shared across a number of Samsung’s digital cameras. Samsung equipped the zoo’s resident female Orangutan ‘Nonja’ with the ST1000(CL65) camera, and the images produced by Nonja were then uploaded through the camera’s wireless capabilities daily to a Facebook account and specially designed Microsite, receiving an overwhelming 200,000 hits from a worldwide audience of fans.

This unprecedented and ground breaking strategy proved that ST1000(CL65)’s capabilities and easy-to-use features could even be operated by anyone, including an Orangutan, a message that was successfully communicated to an audience around the world. The campaign showcased the ST1000(CL65)’s ability to capture and share photo memories wirelessly on the move, allowing users to truly connect with family and friends. Packed full of innovation and encased in a sleek compact frame, the camera’s wireless functionality enables users to send and post pictures in real time via applications like Facebook and provides an unrivalled experience in sharing content amongst loved ones. With the increasing need for camera users to share their images instantly with loved ones, a number of Samsung’s digital cameras provide wireless capabilities.

For more information of Nonja, please visit the sites below.

Samsung Affennews

Autumn Leaves’ – Final Project

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For jewellery program at my school, we have to clean up the bench that I worked after all classes are done. We also take back all projects that we’ve made throughout the term when we do bench clean up. The best project that I liked for this term is the last project that I made from ‘Metal Forming II’ class. To be honest, the finishing is not perfect and the construction is not perfectly done – I was short of time.. Well, can’t blame on time because I was bit lazy – but I like the design personally so I’m being brave here to show you my work..!

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This is my rough design concept. I learned ‘anticlastic’ and ‘folding’ methods from this class and I had to apply the skills that I’ve learned. (Anticlastic: Curved in opposite ways in two directions on a surface; from ‘Wiktionary’) So I tried to apply ‘anticlastic’ method for the round entrance of the necklace, and apply ‘folding’ method for the leaves.

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Middle of the progression! I’m on progress for anticlastic entrance, folding leaves, and chain. See the rectangular brass? That’s the beginning of the leaf. I had to anneal that plain brass to make it soft enough that I can fold in half just like the brass leaf above it. After I fold it, I cut out the exterior so it can look like a leaf, and then anneal it again with huge torch in silversmith room. When the brass became soft enough, I hammer the brass with forging hammer to not only stretching the metal but also to put the texture which will look like a leaf. After done hammering, anneal the metal again with torch and unfold the leaf – mostly by hand, but brass is harder than copper or silver so needed some pliers for help. Then, you’ll see the leaf look like the silver one on the top!

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This is ‘demo’ leaf that I demonstrated with copper before I work on with silver and brass. Shape wasn’t bad, but my professor worried about the sharp and cracked edges because it would be hurt the cloth or person’s skin who wears it. Personally, I liked the cracked edge since it gives more ‘leaf’ feeling but it’s unwearable according my professor so I had to let that go. Strange colour pattern on the back appeared because of the heat. I kind of like it. :)

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Jump rings for the chain! I first have to anneal long silver wire – approximately 100cm per chain, I guess – and then roll it on the small round mandrel so it can form the spring figure looks like on the right side of the photo. After that, cut the spring silver wire using saw to make individual jump rings. Now all I have to do is connect those jump rings one by one. Since my design has three long chains, it took some time to connect jump rings one by one but I actually liked it because I can work that part at home. :)

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Leaves are done! Except the stone setting on the silver leaf, I’ll do later. Synthetic corundum with red colour – probably ruby – is going to be set using tube setting method. :)

Well, those are some progression photos. Now, below photo is the final result that I came up with.

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To let some people know just in case who do not understand how this works as a necklace…

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Below photos are some close up shots.

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And that’s it! Hope you all enjoyed to see what I’ve done. :) I’m going to make more pieces next year so I’ll try to show more of my work IF I’m still a blogger here till then… Haha.

Bonus! My brother took a shot for me when I wore it. I thought perhaps I should make bigger leaf or smaller round entrance after I saw the photo, but.. Hope you’ll enjoy this one too! :)

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Souvenir de Paris

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Hello everyone, long time no posting.

I haven’t been feeling very well lately so do forgive me for not being able to communicate with you guys.

I have been quite down for the last two, three months, physically and mentally, but now I’m much better and came back to my easy, breezy, beautiful, happy, shiny, peaceful, bubbly Sara.

(Yes!! I’m going to be refusing to feel dark, down, sad, depressed and all the other bad things!)

Anyways, as I was coming back to Morocco in January, I stopped by Paris, France.

I stayed at the world-renowned sculptor Prof. Dong Lak Lim’s Paris home.

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After spending a night in Paris I woke up and opened the windows.

The fresh daybreak air made me fresh as well.

Looking at the luxurious villas on the hillside of 16th arrondissement of Paris brought back old memories.

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Prof. Lim is known as one of the top ten artists in the world that Korea produced.

Sitting at the small table in the corner of the living room,

The pretty little sweet park by the house comes into the picture over the window.

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Prof. Lim concentrating on work with his computer

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Looking at the picture on the living room wall, the roaring Pacific crossed my mind.

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Prof. Lim’s Europe exhibition posters were pasted on the wall.

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And on the speaker was a miniature of Prof. Lim’s art piece.

There were art pieces here and there making the whole house feel like a gallery.

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Since there was some time left till getting on the plane to Morocco, I got out of the house for

a while. Looking at the Eiffel tower and Seine is always a pleasure to the heart and eyes.

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A parisienne walking fast through the lonely streets

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It is always overwhelming to see the beauty of the Eiffel Tower.

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The way to the garden through the restaurant in the first floor of the Branly museum

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In the empty space on the first floor, some high school students are waiting to tour the

museum.

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The modern <Le Musee du Quai Branly>

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Capturing the sight of the Branly museum

The person in the fedora and a coat is the professor Dong-Lak Lim.

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Sadly time didn’t allow me to go inside the museum.

The scattered groundwork on the garden seemed quite free.

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The gift shop

Even the commercial gift shop seemed like a gallery.

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The artificial canal flowing through <Le Musee du Quai Branly>

It brings about a lovely image going well with the nearby mansions.

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On the cornerstone at the corner of the garden, it says

“The garden of the Branly museum that was designed by Gilles Clément was made by the

support of the enterprise ‘Gaz de France’.”

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Aren’t the windows of the museum quite unique?

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In the spacious space there are several chairs so that even a quite decent meeting could take

place. I thought it would be a great place for the students to discuss after touring the

museum.

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When Eiffel said he would put up a steel structure the Parisians of the day objected the idea by

saying “We don’t need any hideous steel crumbs in Paris”.

However, the Eiffel Tower is now the symbol of Paris.

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We went into the café on the first floor of the museum.

The unique and clever chairs pleasantly welcomed us.

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