I just looked at a single-authored SIGGRAPH submission from a recent collaborator (with a first-authored SIGGRAPH paper before even getting into a graduate degree program), intentionally after the deadline to ensure that I wouldn’t be tempted to contribute anything to his solo effort (as I just did) before the review process.
I like the work and hope it will get accepted so that we could finally meet in person at the conference.
(Hopefully the Canadian visa would be easier to obtain than the US equivalence, as otherwise he would not have any co-author to present the paper.)
January 26, 2025
Single-authored SIGGRAPH submission from a recent collaborator whom I have yet to meet in person
January 25, 2025
Spilling tortilla chips
She spilled the bag of tortilla chips all over the place.
He sighed, and later realized that he should have made a humorous comment.
January 20, 2025
The chart of everything
The most profound chart I have seen for a while; see the paper (and video presentation) here.
January 18, 2025
Sparkling wine bottles
Walked by this liquor store in TPE terminal 2 and found interesting these wine bottles as lampshades.
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