Wrkshy

Hi everyone,

Pardon the recent long absence from blogging. I've been occupied lately with school and work.

I have decided to shift my blog, so please head on down (update your links and bookmarks) to derozario.blogspot.com for updates.

See ya then.

From the New York Times:

"No lights, no camera, but there was action when Radiohead collaborated with Google to promote its latest video. For its song “House of Cards” off the album “In Rainbows,” the band made a video using lasers and computer data but not cameras or lights. Google is presenting the video, right, on its site (code.google.com/radiohead) as well as offering fans a short film to show how it was made. The search engine is also allowing amateur developers to download some of the data and create their own variation of the video under a license that allows remixes. According to Google, 64 lasers rotating and shooting landscapes in a 360-degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes in the video, which also uses 3-D technology. Radiohead released the “In Rainbows” album online in October as a pay-what-you-want digital download."

Perception3 is proud to have its first film, 空 / Absence, selected for exhibition as part of the Digital Homelands showcase presented by the National Museum of Singapore.

空 / Absence, a short film by Regina De Rozario and Seah Sze Yunn, will be part of a four-screen video installation that will feature over 20 works by other homegrown filmmakers that capture a myriad of experiences and memories of Singapore places.



空 / Absence
Written & directed by Regina De Rozario & Seah Sze Yunn
Duration: 7 mins 34 secs

*The film is the first of five films that will play on Screen 4 of the installation.

Synopsis: A housing block sits quietly on Banda Street in Chinatown, remarkably untouched by the redevelopment projects at its doorstep. A silent visitor arrives to explore its corridors and walkways - to observe, to compare, and to document the spaces she wandered through as a child. In her attempt to make a record, and recall what is already absent, she anticipates the loss that is to come.

Date: 11 July to 30 Sep 2008
Time: 10am to 8pm daily
Location: National Museum of Singapore, Salon Foyer (Level 1), 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897.

National Museum website - www.nationalmuseum.sg
Digital Homelands website - www.digitalhomelands.sg
Perception3 website - www.perceptionthree.net

Fantastic animation, and dialogue that left me a little sad

A couple of announcements:

I'm in the process of switching my website host, as such, mails sent to 'regina [at]perceptionthree.net' these last couple of days might have been bounced and returned. Apologies for that. Hopefully the transfer will be completed and the mailbox up and running again at the end of the month. Till then, if you need to reach me, you can do so at reg_derozario[at]hotmail.com, or via my mobile if you have it.

In addition to switching hosts, I've decided to obtain a new domain at reginaderozario.com. There's nothing there at the moment, but it'll eventually be where you'd find my portfolio, writings, and blog, which at this point, I'm not sure will remain as 'wrkshy'.

Long-time followers of my journal, since circa 2000, would have noticed the change in tone that has occurred in the last few years. Wrkshy started off as a personal site, a record, that was the extension of my hand-scrawled diary and sketchbook. It was the place where I aired my thoughts, vented my spleen, and basically rambled on about anything and everything in a somewhat haphazard, opinionated fashion.

Some things have changed, for better or for worse; some haven't, for better or for worse. I tend to cover very little about my personal life now. Most of what I note on this blog concerns art, my art, and my struggle with it, and even then I do write something, it's in short form. The longer draft remains in my head, or in the unrecorded conversations I have with Jae.

I haven't been a very good blogger, and for that I must apologise. There are excuses aplenty - too little time, too exhausted from my other work, etc. Even typing these out make my eyes roll back. Oh, who am I kidding.

That is not to say that I do not feel frustrated or a lesser need to vent spleen in the day to day or have nothing else to talk about except for my work. No, there's lots of stuff to share. I just need to think about why I've been holding back, and decide, if I do choose to keep this blog, why and how I should continue.

I had drinks with local artist and curator Susie Wong yesterday afternoon and we had a great chat about art spaces and our respective projects. At one point, in the midst of discussing my career, she said she had assumed I was much younger than my 35 years and had wondered about my reticence, and the way I carefully selected my words. I was, in her words, less overly expressive than most young women she knew.

It then struck me that perhaps I had indeed grown more 'muted' (that was how I described it to her) when it came to my personal life. Could this be maturity, an ageing calmness, a growing focus on 'the things that matter', or just the flip side of having said far too much and wanting to do everything when I was in my teens and 20s, that is to say, when I was Wrkshy?

Back to the idea of keeping this blog. It's obvious that I am in a different place, and penning my thoughts from there. Who would find this interesting, except for me? Would it not be enough then to keep the drafts in my head, and in conversations with people who care about these things?