The Nutshell Statement

Kenneth Kwok is a native of Toronto, home of the TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). He has experience in filmmaking and video editing and possibly even sound editing. He is currently studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Material Arts and Design since Fall of 2011.

My art style varies from short-films to portraits of random celebrities and friends, and even woodwork. When making videos, I prefer to make videos of love and friendship and often without any dialogue. I believe the theme of love and friendship is really easy to work with because this theme is so broad that anything like comedy or thrillers can be added in the work. Like many good films, my videos require a well thought-out story line. Aside from that, to make my videos, I use whatever equipment I have, like a tripod, to get high and low shots without the use of a ladder or a higher platform. A decent camera is required as well of course.

In my opinion, I think all films are similar, if not the same. But I guess my work is different from the others such that I use cheap and good quality equipment and I like to include some sort of comedic relief in most of my videos.

There is inspiration everywhere; you just have to know where to find it. My inspiration is all over Youtube ranging from singer and song writers like ClaraC, to film makers like WongFu Productions

As a young artist, my goal is to learn from the best and hopefully become a well-known artist.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Purpose of Intent

A blog has many uses. Some use it to keep track of the news; others use it as a diary or a journal. For me, a blog is a way to communicate with others. I use a blog to keep track of my life, my events, and even my actions. I’ve made this blog as a way to start over a new leaf, or in this case, move into a new shell. I named the blog KK’s Nutshell because in a way I feel that a blog is like a walnut. The shell is the visual feature of the blog while the posts are the contents inside the walnut. The only reason why I chose a walnut is because walnuts are especially hard to crack open. I am similar to a walnut. I am hard to crack but once I’m open, the things I post on the blog are rewarding. The pictures in the header and the background are pictures that I took one morning outside in my backyard. It took some time for me to be able to upload them on to the blog because the image sizes were too big. As a result I took the two images and compressed them in photoshop. I chose to do my blog on blogger because I felt like I was in my comfort zone. I knew my way around on blogger and it was much easier than blog options that were given. It also seemed that I was able to be more creative on blogger as well.

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