Confessions of a researchaholic

2021-11-14

Advice from my 80-year-old self

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:36 pm
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I often talk to an imaginary 88-year-old self for advices as a way to elicit answers that I already have in mind.



grassdoor.com

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:03 pm
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For a split second I thought glassdoor.com started a new line of business.
🙂

2021-11-13

Sketching a face from memory

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:53 pm
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I let the drawing guide me without knowing what would happen before hand.

PS:
Never spell out the identify of a portrait subject for plausible deniability.
🙂

2021-10-24

Walking in a windy rain

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:43 pm
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I took a walk outside to feel the excitement of this rare rain storm.



2021-10-23

A fly around a bowl of noodles

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:14 pm
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Google Lens classified the wheat noodles as shirataki probably due to the shiny, translucent appearance.

https://youtu.be/_K6qj_GmbBA

2021-10-16

Impression of a museum guard

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 8:56 pm
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In a quiet Saturday afternoon when there were more guards than visitors in a recently re-opened art museum, I observed the unique combination of facial mask and head wrap of a particular guard who paced around me.

This is one of my most favorite paintings in the Anderson Collection.

2021-10-15

Halloween motion graphics

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 9:24 pm
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I created this in about a week as part of a live demo for a research presentation.

2021-10-05

Image-based home repair

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:12 pm
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A ceiling light remained broken for years which I could not figure out how to repair, until today when I took a photo and found via Google Lens about recessed lighting.

https://youtu.be/Ewp_CqZzkSc

2021-10-03

De-gentrification

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:04 pm
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San Francisco seems to be under a de-gentrification process since people started to leave during the pandemic.

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