Confessions of a researchaholic

2021-04-06

The last Rothko

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 10:04 pm
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This drawing is inspired by the description of Rothko’s suicide in this video and some of his works in wikiart and Rothko center.

2021-04-04

Spiral staircase dream

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 5:12 am
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The plot of a dream can correlate with physical sensations.

2021-04-03

Bearded profile

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:58 pm
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Small changes can cause large perceptual differences in a face sketch.

2021-04-01

Remote working

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 1:47 am
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Since I do not really have the notion of “work” days, I am already well set-up for remote work when the lockdown started.
🙂

2021-03-31

Total return swap

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 10:27 am
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I listened to this WSJ podcast about recent block selling from some banks caused by a total return swap.

Apparently, it is possible to structure financial instruments into various forms as long as there are counter parities on each side.
In that particular case, a bank purchased a set of stocks and swapped the variable return (dividends and capital gains/losses) with a fixed return, and had to sell the assets when the counter party failed to pay for capital losses, causing further downward spiral.

2021-03-30

Rag on a handle

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 10:13 pm
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I guess it is a sign of lockdown that I would sit in front of a refrigerator and draw this.

2021-03-27

Dying baby maple

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 5:05 pm
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It showed sign of surviving a transplant last year but appeared to be dead now.

2021-03-25

Butterfly cut

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 9:15 pm
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The idea came to my mind immediately after the evening training.

2021-03-23

Animated logo

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:08 pm
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This is an experiment with Spark logo-maker and Fresco motion.
I plan to add an animation driven by a black-white Character Animator puppet.

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