Spotted this lemon that shaped like a flower.
https://youtube.com/shorts/wY8kmFvy-kw
https://www.behance.net/gallery/186479083/DeformedLemon
2023-12-10
Deformed lemon
2023-12-08
Lunch order 666
I guess 666 is a suitable number to pick up an order from hell’s kitchen.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/186355667/LunchOrder666
2023-12-06
ZZZ
I have a collaborator whose name has the letter Z as the initial for all parts, and thus shows up as ZZZ, which seems sleepy, in our shared documents.
https://youtube.com/shorts/bdAGTjya8jA
https://www.behance.net/gallery/186219073/Zzz
2023-11-28
Cellular reincarnation
These “sleek” cellphones tend to slip and break easily so that new ones have to be bought constantly.
If the process of copying apps and data from an old to a new phone is like reincarnation, then the phone number is like soul or consciousness in that it is unique and can be associated with only one sim-card at a time.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/185895907/CellularReincarnation
2023-11-24
Thanksgiving dinner sketch
Familiarity brings comfort, including holiday meals.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/185309443/JoyRestaurantNov232023
2023-11-12
A political balancing act
A small island, squeezed between two big powers, has only a very narrow path to navigate, and requires high political skills to do so.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/184406335/UnicycleTWCNUS
2023-11-07
Stuck in traffic
I tried to take bus 281 from Palo Alto transit center to SJC18 and the bus got stuck in traffic on university avenue near highway-101 for more than an hour. (It took me about 40 minutes to walk the same trip.) I got a chance to draw a painful facial expression of one of the passengers.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/159829079/FingerPortraits/modules/1040399645
2023-11-06
Septology by Jon Fosse
An aging painter recorded his activities within a few days interleaved with flashbacks and reminiscences of his life and monologues about art, religion, and relationships in a single continuous sentence spanning seven volumes of this fiction.
Several characters in the story, including the writer himself, have doppelgangers with the same name and similar appearances but different life trajectories.
There can be multiple interpretations of this, such as mental confusion and imagined alternative lives as a reflection of the writer who possessed talent in art but deficiency (and regression due to aging and substance abuse) in other mental aspects.
I read volumes I-II (the other name) in an e-book version just to see what the Nobel literature prize is all about, and finished III-V (I is another) and VI-VII (a new name) in audio book versions as I found the audio format perfectly suitable for the continuous verbal style of the story without any visual structure.
A painting titled “St. Andrew’s cross” is repeated mentioned in the story, which I tried to visualize.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/183974007/StAndrewCrossSeptology
2023-11-05
Restless dreams
When waking up around 5:36 am this morning, my Fitbit tracker gave me a sleep score of 49 (out of 100) which is much lower than the usual 70+ scores I received.
My brain felt fine despite a bit “dry” (not moving as fluidly as it used to which I attributed to the time switch), but the tracker might have a point given that I could recall having a lot of vivid dreams from earlier this morning.
In the dreams I first encountered a bunch of intruders in my home. I told them that I am going to “incapacitate” them one by one, but before any excitement could happen my dream switched to the realization that I have a bunch of unfinished blog posts (which I guess is a metaphor of all these pending tasks awaiting me) about a city monk, altruism and selfishness, personal finance, french fries and mussels, which I plan to expand into real blog posts later.
Later in the night I created a visualization of my dreams by Adobe Fresco and Photoshop, iterating between manual drawings and generative fill so that I can have some control of the content without having to draw everything by hand.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/183897605/DreamsNov52023