DOOM

God is Dying

God is dying. What would one think if one hear this sentence? Well, I have a pretty good logical explanation. If God created the Earth then in my view God is the Earth, which consist of sea water, fresh water, land, mineral, plants, animals, human, fungus, virus, etc. Now if we are digging into the earth and strip her dry. She won't last much longer. So, if the earth die then God would go with it, wouldn't he?

Designers or Engineers

I am raising a question of Design. In my point of view is that Design and Art must go hand in hand. My logical metaphor is that if Art would be computer Science then Design must be some where along the line of Information Technology. Now I am sure many of you out there would agree with me, accept in this odd place called Thailand. Many people misunderstand craft for art and byproduct of technological and human behavior research are the main core of design. The model of "FASION FOLLOW FUNCTION" are sooo long gone, come on this the Post Modern Era. Would you wake up and smell the trend in the design world. By researching the behavior and invent new mechanical gismo are engineer's job, isn't it? How could a plain and tasteless looking thing (but function well) be part of the design world? I say these people are engineers and technicians rather than designers.

Design Fundamental 2 --Grade--Project 3 Movement

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Branding

Last year one of my thesis advisee was doing her topic on relationship between capitalism and materialism. One of my favorite, if you ask me. The interesting feedback that she'd gotten back from her research was that, let name him John Doe. If John Doe wasn't wearing 5,000 B. Paul Smith T-shirt and a pair of way over price D&G (22,000 B) He wasn't confidence enough to leave home with his whole self. So I looked onto how objects and brand play a role in our culture, along with this I've written a short essay.


These days products are no longer appreciate by its function value but rather in its exchange value. Once, prestige product, glare with superb craftsmanship, now becomes a trend which will offer similar product with much lower quality at inexpensive prices. This lead to mass-produced and BRANDING strategies that will require large investment, rather than just concentrate with investing on and how to make their products better.

If the Branding strategy is achieved, the products hold a sign value. The values that becomes status of the users. This phenomenon has gone so far that people struggled to grasped the products just for their sign value. This resulted in the working class are trying to take short cuts and put themselves in the higher status by owning these products. Of course, in exchange with these products are money therefore, shot cuts of how to make money are invented. This could be the beginning of the problem of underage and students who perused prostitution path.

The materialistic culture and the counterfeit phenomenon (another whole discussions) has gone beyond fashion, cosmetics. It has reshaped our socio-culture-sports, schools, activities, space, open air and culture are turned into commodities. This could be view clearly in Thailand.

(To Be Continued)

CMD121 MIDTERM EXAM Result

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Thailand in Postmodern era

Growing up in Thailand and the United States and often shifts geographical locations.  I’ve been a transplant back in Bangkok and witness the social shifted.  Thailand has entered the postmodern era without ever experienced being modern.   Agriculture is the foundation of Thailand’s system and resources. In a sense modernity has begun around 1900s-20s but was never introduced to Thailand until 1940s-50s.  The socio-cultural in Thailand was somewhat primitive comparing to the modern culture.  Therefore, Thai society has been consuming without really ever learning how to properly produce modern and postmodern commodities.  

Yet, the Thai society abandoned classical goods and stare at it in despised.  Praising luxurious import products that are priced at skyrocket high.  As, the globalization phenomenon is cropping up, the super materialistic society has become the hyper-elite circle.  Building up trends and influenced, middle and lower class affected, into a materialistic monstrous communities looking for ways to putting themselves into a higher class hoping to present themselves  to be recognize as the upper of the social hierarchy and veiling their ignorance of the modern world behind façade of commodities.   Jumping on the bandwagon, hoping to be perceived as the elite and rich in cultural.  

Similarly, some took another justification and focus on exhibiting ownership of the import products.  Placing exchange value before functioning value then build up sentimental value around pure objects.  As following the global trend, citizen of Thailand are slowly losing their identity as the consuming mania are merely buying but never really learn how to properly domestically manualfactured.  This resulting in unbalance economy.