Dazza Pictures

Launched – The Post Modern Abstrakt [ www.dazza.sg ].

Hidee ho,
it’s been months in the making, but I’m happy to launch the first incarnation of my new portfolio website – dazza.sg.

I probably first started thinking about it maybe June ’07. I knew I wanted to relaunch lyrradnahc.com, and it was something at the back of my head as I was on my sabbatical. I’ll admit it, I just got plain lazy and enjoyed not having to think about work. I woke up late most days, enjoyed sitting at cafes, reading, just observing people and watching life go by. It felt great being able to head to the cinemas on a weekday afternoon to catch films again. The hiatus plan also included getting into espresso making, getting my advanced PADI and working/learning as a photographers’ assistant. And I guess somewhere during that time, I put on paper the first sketch of the design.

And then in August, I got called up for my first Reservist in-camp. I had managed to lay below MINDEF’s radar for 7 years and I wasn’t really looking forward to spending 2 weeks away from my break! And so, the brilliant thing about MINDEF’s efficiency, I learnt on the very evening on the last day of our ’2 week obligation’ – that in November I’d have to come back again for a weapons conversion course. Brilliant.

To cut to the chase, I must have really started designing / developing this baby sometime in October ’07. I took my time with it and am not abashed to say that I designed the site for ME. Friends kept asking me when I would finally get it done, perhaps they were meaning to say ‘When the hell are you gonna look for a job?!’ :-p. First it was – ‘End of the year’, ‘January 2nd’, ‘Before chinese new year’, yada, yada, yada… Realising they were probably right to hound me for it, I decided to go on a retreat. A retreat to Bora Bora. I’d head to the island paradise to reflect on life, watch fishes, get a tan and ogle at bikinis. So I packed my bags, set my MSN nick and facebook status to announce my trip and disappeared for a week. Only thing is… the trip… well… was my self-imagined vacation and Bora Bora was actually my SOHO. Sorry guys to have fooled you. But it’s now launched right?!

The effects on the site will probably run a little slower on older machines and I was selfish not giving a hoot about that. This site is still in Flash 8 and not the latest greatest Flash CS3, one thing – I don’t have the dough for the new suite and also I’m scared of Actionscript 3. [start gripe] My gripe with Adobe and the whole ‘latest! greatest!’ concept is, it is fucking tiresome to have to re-learn the authoring tool every time a new version is released. If it was the ‘latest and greatest’ then you wouldn’t need to launch a new and improved version right? But then again, that would mean lower profits too no? [ok, end of gripe]

Anyway, take a look around, take a seat, stay and let us know what you think. Cheers.