Before Sunset

One of my favorite movies is Before Sunset. For one of the Photoshop exercises, I created an imaginary poster for this movie.

I wanted to show the two lead characters, in fact the only ones, in a silhouette-ish layer to convey the idea that they have been living in the shadow of their encounters 9 years [...]

Kim Yu-Na, Figure Skating, and The Asian Pressure

Before I say anything, let me first clarify that I’m calling it the “Asian” pressure because 1) I’m Asian, and I’m writing from a personal experience, and 2) The people in the story are Asian. I’m well aware that it’s not just an Asian thing, so please feel free to insert_your_label_here.

As you probably already know, [...]

A Yoga Room to Call My Own

Tonight’s lecture was on using Adobe Bridge as a Digital Asset Management tool, and one exercise was on the use of shadow and lighting.

I was to transform this room into anything I wanted:

Just another empty apartment room.

I thought, hey, why not my own Yoga space? And so, making it into my dream yoga room, [...]

The Pursuit of Happiness

Throughout this past week and a couple before that, I have been randomly running into the concept of “happiness” everywhere I looked. My guess is, because it’s the end of the year and also the end of what TIME Magazine called The Decade from Hell (geez, sensational much?), a whole lot of us are reflecting [...]

Is Information Overload Overloaded?

Lately, it seems like I have been calling everything I’ve once held in my own reality as “truth” into question. So when I read this on the Harvard Business blog by Tom Davenport: Why We Don’t Care About Information Overload, I took it as yet another gentle reminder of “perspectives, perspectives, perspectives”.

In my undergrad at the [...]

I'm (Not) Here to Be Your Friend

Last week I read a short blog post by David Spinks (hi David!) about his participation as a Community Manager titled I’m Not Here to Be Your Friend, and I’ve been thinking about it quite a bit. Actually, I’ve been wanting to ignore it, let it go, mind my own business, you know, keep calm [...]