Walked by this liquor store in TPE terminal 2 and found interesting these wine bottles as lampshades.
January 18, 2025
January 16, 2025
The devil sheds Prada
I used to concentrate my paper submissions to a venue that gained prestige by accepting only the most novel ideas, but its prestige has been diluted with more incremental works over the years to the point that it has higher acceptance rate than alternatives (in an overlapping but different field) that I now submit to more.
Train station bench sleeper
What to do with about 10 minutes before the train arrived?
Adding some colors, even just rough regions, can greatly enhance the visual appeal of a sketch.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/217024435/PortraitsMotoGStylus2025/modules/1236093195
January 13, 2025
January 10, 2025
Baby driver
Bumped into this movie on a long flight as I was looking for something light and entertaining amidst external noise and internal drowsiness. It turned out to be much better than I thought, essentially a (rap) musical wrapped in actions instead of a mindless action flick.
A good movie is like a novel research project; one never knows apriori what it really is about or feels like, not from the title, synopsis, or even the trailer, until completing it.
January 7, 2025
Community piano
Saw and photographed this cute community piano on September 24 2024 and finally got a chance to add some motion graphics to it.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/216256361/CommunityPiano
January 5, 2025
Straightforward mystery
I was mystified by the code structure of a repo until realizing that I was on the wrong branch.
January 4, 2025
Painting style LoRA experiment
Watercolor painting and pencil sketching style experiments (conducted during company shutdown with some spare time and compute).
- Download tens of art works from my dad’s FB page.
- Train a LoRA over this ink style model.
- Generate outputs via prompts similar to the painting titles from the aforementioned FB page.
A few results look interesting while most are uncanny or boring.
My dad commented that AI cannot replace human artists.
January 2, 2025
Dinner after train 666
At the departing station for their evening train, he thought about ordering a meal box, but she preferred going for a restaurant at the destination station.
Upon arrival her original choice had a 20-minute wait, so they went to a nearby alternative.
It was slightly passing his usual dinner time, so he lost patience waiting for the food.
She looked flustered, but the food arrived soon after.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/215937081/SoftTrainNumber