PART I: Future / Fantastical Business Card
TOM’S ASTRO DINER
Organisation Mission:
We (Tom’s Astro diner) are a shiny beacon of hospitality and hearty meals – where friends, families and occasional Klingons gather for some moon rock chocolate chunks, boba, pancakes, dim sum and other celestial feasts that are guaranteed to be out of this world!
List of individual title & Role descriptions:
Juliett- Toaster launcher (fantastical)
Juliett – Design individual breakfast food / complete mood board / Printer (real life)
Star sign: Virgo
Description:
- Won best cultural designer award – crafted a spaceship to a shape of a dumpling
- Timeless magazine review: First woman to eat dim sum in space
- Known as cheapest rocket manufacture – motto: “ no tip no tax, buy from me earn air miles”
Contact: Happydimsum@spacemail.net
Moodboard:
Final product:
PART II PechaKucha Presentations IN CLASS Exercise
Notes:
Dim sum:
First slide
- Dim Sum “a hearts delight”
- brunch food served with tea
- Originated from the history of Chinese history( Sung dynasty)
- The culture of eating dim sum is mostly originated in Cantonese cities etc. HK
- The verb of going to eat dim sum is called Yum ca ( drink tea)
- Dim sum is a meal for a wide grange of gatherings.
- From family reunions to dates to business meetings
Second slide
- Walk you over a classic Hk dimsum experience
- First: wait for either a shared or individual table
- Second: you select your tea
- Third: can either order or wait for the carts to come by you
- Forth: Eat!
Third slide
- Har gau (shrimp dumplings), crescent-shaped dumplings filled with shrimp and pork.
- Siu mai (cook-and-sell dumplings), basket-shaped dumplings that earn their name by being the first made, the first sold, the first eaten.
- Char siu bau (barbecued pork), steamed or baked buns filled with chunks of roast pork – known to many Americans.
- Lor bok goh (turnip cake), a translucent cake of turnips, ginger, shrimp and rice powder that is cut into slices and pan-fried before serving.
Forth slide
- Although dumplings are most prevalent in Chinese culture, The concept of wrapping a filling to a dough, are seen in other cultures as well!
- In Poltava Ukraine, their national dish is dumplings.
- Poltava Ukraine loved their national dish so much that they created a monument for it
- Dumplings in Poltava resembles generosity and wealth
- And is held at the Cathedral square of the city near the holy Dormition cathedral
Fifth slide
- It is a dumpling wrapped minced meat
- Compared to Chinese dumplings, Ukraine’s dumplings uses potatoes, cottage cheese and eggs for their dough
- And the shape of the dumpling is shaped as a cylinder rather than a dome
- The dumpling is usually served with the unique Poltava Dumpling Sauce
PART III: MONUMENT/MEMORIAL/PUBLIC ART PIECE
Podcast:
For the solo assignment, I chose the episode – “The New Gatekeepers: Will Google Decide How we remember Syria’s Civil War”. I chose this episode because of my constant reflection and awareness on how social media platforms are influencing people’s political view. And the rising concern of data collection, either from giant tech companies or the government, interfering with our privacy and human rights. In the episode, the interviewee Jackie Zammuto touches upon topics such as censorship of photographs and videos as well as the viewer’s accountability of expressing a political view by reposting images and videos. In the interview, she said “ Recordings of police abuse, private security forces abuses are documented by the public. And the people are risking their lives publishing online for the purpose of exposing these abuses and hopefully secure some sort of accountability.” I resonate with that quote a lot. Especially because this is what I am doing for the protest in Hong Kong as a citizen studying overseas. I see myself with a role in the protest to spread the word, wether with images or videos, to show the world the protester’s collective perspective of police brutality, government oppression by issuing criminal charges on protestors etc… And by doing so, I am risking my human rights, and my family’s human rights. For their eligibility to work or enter inside mainland China. I am constantly feeling oppressed, restraint and anxious by the thought of my internet footprint being traced, my data being sold to the government and my freedom being oppressed daily.
The guardian ” Facebook backs down from napalm girl censorship and reinstates photo”
Napalm Girl, Nick Ut.
