Posts by Lai Siong Cheong
Green Hybrid Chinese New Year Card Idea
In last year’s blog titled ‘Three Electronic Scrapbook Ideas for Chinese New Year’, I mentioned that one can create a personalised new year card by converting it digitally and augmenting it with a handwritten message to make it more personalised. Now let me elaborate on the possibilities of this approach. For example, let’s start with…
Read MoreGet Started in Recreation Slideshow Making
Lights, camera, action! That’s traditional filmmaking. When comes to recreation slideshow making, it is easy, just shoot, swap, and record! My first attempt at digital video was in 2008. It was a mere 5 minutes video created using tools that came with the PC. It was my first experience creating a training video with a…
Read MoreReflection before New Year Resolution
Do you ever notice that most retail shops changed their decoration to that of the Chinese New Year theme on Christmas Day? We are going to say goodbye to the year 2018 and usher in 2019 in barely a week’s time! Is strange, is it peculiar to me only that Dec 31 feels so different…
Read MoreiOuting @ Telok Ayer Art Trail
How did our first iOuting Workshop go? It is with much excitement that I created a short video to document it. As mentioned in a previous blog, Kowling and I selected Telok Ayer because it is such a charming place. There were altogether 3 sessions for the workshop. In the first session, it was important…
Read MoreiOuting Workshop – Capture your Outing Experience
Kowling and I found that there are many interesting places in Singapore which are best kept secret to Singaporeans and tourists. How about coming close and personal and document our experience through photos, drawings and video slideshow? With the advancement in mobile technology, we can stitch the digital media content into a personalised video…
Read MoreParent-Child Bonding over Electronic Collage Class
I conducted one course in end-Nov in one of the People’s Association Community Clubs. It was a crash course as within 1.5 hours I introduced cyber wellness, mobile photography 101, and electronic collage-making and gave a glimpse of how to make a video slideshow. Luckily, the learners were very open, enthusiastic and receptive. In this…
Read MoreJourney of Learn, Live and Share
To many baby boomers in Singapore, we have the experience of growing up in a third-world country and retiring in a first-world country. We had few photos when we were young, and we over-compensated that by having a lot of pictures of our children and vacation. These are common phenomena for us who enjoy photography…
Read MoreLeapfrogging from PC to Mobile Platform for Electronic Scrapbooking
Collage-making on mobile platforms took off around 2015 with the perfect storm contributed by the pervasiveness of 4G infrastructure, mobile-native applications, and social media. The PC platform is no longer the prerequisite. The intuitive mobile platform interface makes navigating the complexity of the file system and operating system environment become a thing of the past.…
Read MoreTechnology Disruption of the Scrapbook Industry is not a matter of When not If
I think that the traditional scrapbooking industry will be disrupted by technology gradually, similar to the publishing and music industry. Notwithstanding, there is still a niche that cannot be fulfilled by digitalization. Why traditional scrapbook industry is like the arts of brewed coffee? We love the therapeutic feel and touch of physical tools and materials…
Read MoreThree Electronic Scrapbook Ideas for Chinese New Year
Introduction Let us stop and think for a minute, what has been the subtle impact of technology on our practice of new year traditional custom? Be it Chinese New Year, Hari Raya Pursa, or other festive celebrations for other races? Has technology disrupted the traditional custom of the new year? Absolutely! Technology is everywhere: Online…
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