This looks interesting. Reminds me of a mix between Jean Pierre Jeunet and Studio Ghibli
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Here are plenty of photos of Ingleside and what I have been doing around here these past few days. First of all, some photos of the house I'm living in now.
The common doorway. The landlord's parents stay on the first floor, so their entrance is separate from the rented rooms upstairs.
The bedroom. I now, looks like my belongings just exploded all over the place. It's the 'holiday' look, ok.
The bathroom.
The living room. Comfortable couches! (could do with a bit more lighting though)
The kitchen. It actually has a decent sized oven!I'm going to get pampered by this.
The neighbourhood. It's uphill, so assume the people staying here are either very fit or drive everywhere.
Another photo of the view from the living room. Hahah...I want to try the spring onion thing when I get back to my dorm.
And walking around Ingleside, here are a few photos. I'm kinda proud that I dared to explore the neighbourhood without a map (I research my route on Google maps the day before). This is Stern Grove, which is a small forest reserve/dog park. The lake is a natural lake though. It's nice that you can see some ducks and smell trees when you are walking there(although I found out today that there are some pretty awesomely big slugs that live here as well).
I've no pictures of them, but there are some circular stone pits where you can make a campfire, and some barbeque areas as well, which would be fun in less rainy weather.
I think this would be the park's management office, although it looks like an idyllic house in the countryside to me.
This pic is of Brooks Park, a tiny park 2 blocks away from where I stay, but it's probably one of the highest points around this area, so the view is pretty. You can see the ocean from here.
And then I walked to the beach since it was close to Stern Grove. It's really cold and I was stupid enough to take off my shoes and wade in the water, but the scene is really pretty, especially with the sun going down and mist in the mountains. There were some even crazier people surfing as well.
And then I sort of got lost a little on the way back (not fun when it's getting dark and the housing areas are almost deserted) But managed to get back onto the main road with some directions from passersby. My strategy is just to follow the main road with the train tracks and I'd eventually reach home.
When I'm not walking around outside, I'm usually either being a couch potato or cooking(or eating).
Jong Gol. The guy whose room I'm renting left some perishable food in the fridge, so those contributed to this dish.
Pizza. I should stop making these, I find I'd eat too much everytime I make pizza. It's the pastry, I'm addicted to pastry. I make breadsticks as a TV snack instead, today.
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Work in progress of a male bust. Since this photo, I'd put a toga on him and twisted his head a bit. But also I accidentally decapitated the guy bringing it back from the sculpture studio.Hopefully it will still be reparable when I get back to my dorm in Spring. The uni's going to be renovating the building over the holidays, so we had to bring everything out of it. I still shiver thinking about how I brought all those stuff back to my dorm this morning. I put this piece in my luggage bag because it was too heavy to carry by hand (I think maybe 30 kgs) and besides that I also carried another small sculpture, a board and a bag of clay, all in 1 journey. Almost broke both my back and my bags.
This one is finished and I handed it to my lecturer, along with the feet, to be baked over the holidays. Not totally happy since the face is a bit asymmetrical, but I didn't have the heart to tear it down either.
Final project for my anatomy class entitled 'Fire'(imagine a westernised Indian God Shiva, the destruction to bring about change as a positive thing theme).Still needs to be sandpapered and it's cracks repaired, but otherwise done. Maybe I'll be working on the face more though.
Also, I finally gave in and bought some more socks. I think I could save more money in the long run by washing my clothes when I can get a bigger load. Before this I've been running out of socks and having to wash my clothes just because of that.
And I found my pumpkin pie! It's one of those that you take out of the fridge and bake it yourself though, and it came out of the box in a mess(thanks to the store for storing it vertically, the unbaked filling slid off sideways. But at least now, my curiosity is satisfied,although I'd like a pie with more crust and less filling.
Cooking update: Chili stew. It's like ABC soup on steroids when it comes to the amount of ingredients, but it tastes like comfort food and is very healthy at the same time.
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
Thought of You from Ryan Woodward on Vimeo.
Watch this animation!!
Really good. Very beautiful and sweet. Check out this guy's artwork as well, he's got a really good control of his medium, just a few strokes to convey structure and movement.
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
Went for another field trip today, this time for anatomy class. Pretty sad that this plan was kind of a backup plan so only 3 people from my class turned up. Anyways, we went to the Body Worlds exhibition in San Jose(Google for pictures, I didn't post any here in case it offends anyone, but it's not that gruesome). It's an exhibition of human body parts and flayed bodies preserved in a technique called plastination .It's a relatively new technique, being invented in the 1970s. Basically it involves substituting body fluids with plastics to prevent decomposition, and since the plastic hardens, the bodies can be posed and structures can be sliced without collapsing on themselves. Been wanting to go for something like that since I read about the La Specola(an exhibition of realistic wax sculptures of flayed bodies, in Italy) in my anatomy book, even if I wouldn't dare to go for a dissection.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
I think it's a UK brand though. But their clothes are so my style. All about unique structure and material. Their style is kind of rugged and vintage with muted colours.(With the sale, it was still pretty expensive to me...I think it was $90 for just the inside blouse I'm wearing in the 3rd pic. Not to mention, I still convert everything)
Focus on the clothes here. I know I'm studying 3D modeling, but that doesn't mean I actually know how to model. I need more camwhore inspiration from the yum cha gang.My poses remind me of the joke about people who look exactly the same in all of their photos.
This jacket is really heavy. It's got all kinds of pockets and layers all over the place like cargo pants. Kind of reminds me of a line from Jurassic Park: "Is it heavy? That means it's expensive. Put it back."
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
I just finished watching 28 weeks later. Interestingly, I just found out it's actually a sequel to a movie called 28 days later D8.
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Fuh...at last my schedule for next Spring is fixed. I feel Zen now. Next time I will register for classes as soon as I can so I can easily get a space.
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
I just found this out while I was browsing the SF symphony orchestra website. Holst's Jupiter. Apparently the Youth orchestra is playing the Planets suite and a work by Bartok next March, which sounds like a good selection to me. Anyways, enjoy. I always stumble upon some piece that sounds familiar, but I never know what they are called.
And while we are at it, if you don't yet know Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica, it's time I told you about them. I really like their Piazzolla performances.
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Friday, November 12, 2010
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
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Monday, November 1, 2010
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Broccoli-kidney bean casserole, and pumpkin-apple soup. The casserole is one of those below-5-ingredients things(broccoli, kidney beans, tomato sauce, cheese, rice), but it turned out surprisingly good.
6 can chili. A bit of a cheat, since you just fry up some turkey and pour in 6 cans: 4 types of beans, tomato puree and chopped tomatoes. Then top off with cream(I substituted with sour cream, which is probably better) and cheese
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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Also, just bought a small amount of this to try since it was on offer. I think it's called sweet brown rice, or something to that effect.There's also many other kinds of brown and wild rice sold at the place I buy my food from, which looks really fascinating, especially the more colourful varieties. Unfortunately, I think I might have boiled today's rice with too much water, and it only achieved the consistency of soggy glutinous rice.I'll try again next time.
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