July Piano Roadshow

Gabe will be performing along with his friends from Symphony Music School on July 12 2008, starting at 4:00 pm in Mal Artha Gading, Kelapa Gading Permai.

The show will be themed after Jay Zhou's movie The Secret.. yes, they'll be playing some of the Secret's beautiful soundtracks! Although Gabe and Lovina, the performing disciples under 8 yo. will not be playing the Secret's songs, it'll still be a lot of fun.

Gambatte ne, all!

Oh, if you happen to be around.. don't forget to join the fun! ^^

Animation

“Dad, what is animation?” asked Gabe the other day.

“It’s a bunch of still images put together to produce movement.” I answered, at the same time thinking for alternative explanation.

“Dad, I don’t understand.. how can still images produce movement?”

I should have thought out alternative first.. but I skipped the mumbo jumbo.

“Cartoon movies are animations, too.” I replied instead.

“So animation is cartoon..” Gabe concluded.

“Not always…. say, I have an idea.. Let’s make an experiment with one of the Transformers..”

“What’s the idea?” Gabe looked intrigued.

“We’ll make a short animation of Bumblebee transforming from Camaro car..”

So I went to grab my old cellphone which has a built in VGA camera, took the Bumblebee car, and set up a chair as stage for the animation.

Gabe was curious.. wondering what was I up to?

But then after having taken a few snapshots of Bumblebee and showed Gabe in slideshow mode, he was so excited.

(click the image to view animation)

“Let me do another!” Gabe begged..

“I’ll make another animation, but watch carefully.. so then you can do it your own.”

I took another figure and make the animation. But Gabe could hardly wait, “Let me, let me, please.. Dad!”

“Okay, here we go.. you take the snapshot, I’ll transform it once at a time.”

“Why not me do it all?”

“Teamwork, son..”

“Can a person do this all by himself?”

“Of course… but it’s so much fun when we do it together..”

And here is the animation of Brawl transformation shot by Gabe.. neat!

(click the image to view animation)

Mission Success!

Gabe said that joyfully at the end of the piano show on Saturday 31th May 2008, at Mitra Keluarga, Kelapa Gading. What an exciting experience for everybody! Gabe and his friends were quite nervous before the show, even after having played the scores, Gabe's hands were frozen cold!

He's been quite edgy since a few days before the show. I understood his situation, his teacher had given a bit hard pressure on him and everyone else for the show to be successful. But in the end, it was worth while.. Good entertainment for the hospital visitors, and everybody was happy and seemed to have enjoyed the show very much. Indeed, mission success!

The hospital staffs did record the show, we'll post the video when we have received it.