Night of the Egyptian Museum @ Stars & Planet Edufun Club.
After a series of weekends, getting up early like how I never do, the ditching of classes on weekdays and the staying till late at night at the mom's office, we finally got everything together and managed to put together a good show for the annual event.
We got off on a rocky start but things started going smoothly as we went. But of course there were bumps here and there though it wasn't something that we couldn't deal with.
Behind the scenes: The before process.
My task was to create a space for the uber precious exhibits. I don't remember what the very initial idea/plan was but that plan didn't follow through. After much consideration, googling, re-planning, I decided to use cardboard boxes to build them display units.
There were loads of shifting and rearranging in the process. By that I literally meant it. I kept fogetting which boxes go where and how do you put them together. Even by taking a picture of it doesn't help. It was..hard. Then the worse part was sticking everything together so that it wouldn't fall off. Ze mom and I tried all sorts of glue and tape. From the rel expensive ones to the ones that only cost 1 figure. And guess which one finally worked? The MYR6 one. LOL.
There were loads of shifting and rearranging in the process. By that I literally meant it. I kept fogetting which boxes go where and how do you put them together. Even by taking a picture of it doesn't help. It was..hard. Then the worse part was sticking everything together so that it wouldn't fall off. Ze mom and I tried all sorts of glue and tape. From the rel expensive ones to the ones that only cost 1 figure. And guess which one finally worked? The MYR6 one. LOL.
AFTER the whole sticking part, next comes the easiest part of them all... spray panting! One thing about it though, the paint fumes might just suffocate you. Everyone felt like they might just pass out in any second. Oh, I forgot the part where we had to shred the boxes with knives and pen knifes to create a less boring look for it. Those jagged parts gave out an ancient feel after being covered with spray paint. And that was one of the tricky part. A....certain skill is needed to get that awesome(?) effect. LOL. Ze mom does it ze best :)
When you put both the siblings together, you get loads of a series of random events. Haha. This is just A part of it. After a long and tiring day, it was fun having to let loose of ourselves. We de-stress by going crazy, acting like a duo of hooligans. Awesome, no?
The results
ZAPPPP! I somehow love this picture. Was actually fiddling with the settings to get a decent picture in very low lighting. The thing about Olympus cameras, it doesn't give out goos shots of anything if it's in low light/dark background. And if the flash is used, the whole effect of the background is gone 'cuz of the brightness of the flash =.= Be it a 14 or 10 mega-pixels Olympus, taking low light shots with it is a complete failure.
Thank goodness for the wonders of photoshop! I tried to twitch it a little here and there by brightening a few spots here and there. This is how a part of the display unit looks like. Am loving the effects !
Here's the unit as a whole. The photoshop did not work wonders here on the left side as you can see. Sigh. Mainly because it was extremely dark there. Oh well.
The exhibits in one of the display units. A pyramid marked with the eye of Horus.
Cousin, Chee Foong who helped me out during the entire process. He, who can be a pain in the ass most of the time but is actually good company to have in times of stress.
See what I mean? He entertains me with his immaturity/childishness.
He may be twice the size of me but he still is the kid he is. I've known him for 12 years but I still get surprised to see him so...serious when doing something he actually enjoys. Say, crafting. Shocking, ain't it? For someone like him who likes art.
The man-made pyramid. The red lighting at the back actually made it quite creepy.
And then we have the other man made item, King Tutankhamen. He was made from scratch using cement(?). Not sure about it. It weighs up to 150 kilograms! The designs on it were drawn by a 13 years old boy. He has the whole artsy fartsy look. LOL.
Mind me. I forgot what these paintings meant. It's related to the King actually. These were also done by the same kid.
And here we have the Nefertiti.
Some display items here.
The canopic jars where the Kings organs were stored back in the ancient Egyptian days. These jars were made by by 80 year old grandma. It is solid yet fragile at the same time. Back when my mom was an Arts student, she had heaps of assignments that includes sculpting and what not. My mom would always ask my grandma to finish it up for her at the very last minute. I guess that all came in handy, aye?
Fooling around #1
Fooling around #2
It was a rather new experience for me. I suppose I gained something from the entire process of it. If you'd like to visit the museum, you can check their site out for more information about it. If not, you can just catch it on TV3 and TV9 when they air it. They actually came to visit a couple of weeks ago. For those of you who reads KOSMO!, you might have came across the article featuring the event.
Okay. A proper post from me FINALLY. Hope you enjoyed the post! Till the next one :)
