Identity, Family and Love
A collective showcase from DMST103: Essential Digital Media Toolkit class. The themes being explored in these projects are queerness, toxic masculinity, and family.
Role: Full-stack Art Director
Tools: Figma - Adobe Creative Suites
Detox Masculinity - Digital Photography & Lighting
DETOX MASCULINITY, right in its name, is to detox toxic masculinity, challenging the term by showing the reverse of a set of attitudes and ways of behaving stereotypically that society expects of men and women. Based on my personal stories growing up in a country where female and gay rights are not fully recognized, and observance I collected throughout childhood, I want to use my visual creativity to address this problem in a very playful and colorful way!
Detox Masculinity - Digital Photography
DETOX MASCULINITY, right in its name, is to detox toxic masculinity, challenging the term by showing the reverse of a set of attitudes and ways of behaving stereotypically that society expects of men and women. Based on my personal stories growing up in a country where female and gay rights are not fully recognized, and observance I collected throughout childhood, I want to use my visual creativity to address this problem in a very playful and colorful way!
Detox Masculinity - Digital Photography & Lighting
DETOX MASCULINITY, right in its name, is to detox toxic masculinity, challenging the term by showing the reverse of a set of attitudes and ways of behaving stereotypically that society expects of men and women. Based on my personal stories growing up in a country where female and gay rights are not fully recognized, and observance I collected throughout childhood, I want to use my visual creativity to address this problem in a very playful and colorful way!
B. My Favorite Feelings - Cinematic Arts
B. My Favorite Feelings - Cinematic Arts
B. My Favorite Feelings - Cinematic Arts
The video is a medley of all my filmmaking works as well as a sequence of all my favorite experiences and activities that give me the feeling of warmth, happiness, and joy. How I embrace my identity and self-love is through the small moments I have in everyday life.
The video is a medley of all my filmmaking works as well as a sequence of all my favorite experiences and activities that give me the feeling of warmth, happiness, and joy. How I embrace my identity and self-love is through the small moments I have in everyday life.
The video is a medley of all my filmmaking works as well as a sequence of all my favorite experiences and activities that give me the feeling of warmth, happiness, and joy. How I embrace my identity and self-love is through the small moments I have in everyday life.
By rediscovering what I loved about my identity through exploring my innate talent in the visual arts, I found I could control how I sought out and captured beauty. Instead of hiding from the world’s ugliness, I began to use my art to stay in touch with the emotions that soothed, motivated, and rewarded me. I realized that true happiness is about the small joys that I experience in everyday life that can have a cumulative effect on how I feel satisfied with myself and being able to bring them on film has been my personal meaning as to why I exist.
C. The Sheep - Photogrammetry and 3D Model
C. The Sheep - Photogrammetry and 3D Model
C. The Sheep - Photogrammetry and 3D Model
A friend of mine used to give me this sheep model as my 15th birthday gift. When I bragged about it to my father, he seemed very unsatisfied and would explain how it was such a colorful gift to give to a male friend. I became very upset and could not understand why he acted that way. This project is tied with the topic of toxic masculinity.
A friend of mine used to give me this sheep model as my 15th birthday gift. When I bragged about it to my father, he seemed very unsatisfied and would explain how it was such a colorful gift to give to a male friend. I became very upset and could not understand why he acted that way. This project is tied with the topic of toxic masculinity.
A friend of mine used to give me this sheep model as my 15th birthday gift. When I bragged about it to my father, he seemed very unsatisfied and would explain how it was such a colorful gift to give to a male friend. This project is tied with the topic of toxic masculinity.
D. Family Expectation - Laser Cut Printing
Most Asian cultures are predominantly collectivistic in nature, where the individual is tied with the group identity while the notion of independent self is often deemphasized. As a Vietnamese, how I was brought up has pushed me to prioritize the desires of my family over my personal needs and goals. Whatever we do has to benefit off each other in the long run, and how a person presents themselves to others can reflect their family’s social standing, education, reputation and belief.
D. Family Expectation - Laser Cut Printing
Most Asian cultures are predominantly collectivistic in nature, where the individual is tied with the group identity while the notion of independent self is often deemphasized. As a Vietnamese, how I was brought up has pushed me to prioritize the desires of my family over my personal needs and goals. Whatever we do has to benefit off each other in the long run, and how a person presents themselves to others can reflect their family’s social standing, education, reputation and belief.
D. Family Expectation - Laser Cut Printing
Most Asian cultures are predominantly collectivistic in nature, where the individual is tied with the group identity while the notion of independent self is often deemphasized. As a Vietnamese, how I was brought up has pushed me to prioritize the desires of my family over my personal needs and goals.
E. Queer Train - Mini Game Coding Project
E. Queer Train - Mini Game Coding Project
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OHTER PROJECTS
OHTER PROJECTS
OHTER PROJECTS
OHTER PROJECTS
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Who Counts as Asian?
A multimedia series highlighting the diversity of Asian identities and challenging how the American Media defines “Asian”.
May 2020
Lucid Pictures - The History of Cinema
I collaborated with artists, designed and filmed 20 social media posts about cinema history. The page achieved over 3,000 followers on Facebook.
May 2022
Sunshine Love Trailer
A musical short film portraying the love of two persons in the middle of Old Quarters, Hanoi