Work Work Work!

Picking up the portrait study, I have no idea where this is leading...Still trying to work out the canvas texture.

San Diego Comic Con Day I Part 2!!

Comic fan dresses up as "Wonder Woman"...

Poster of "Green Hornet". The original theme song is one of my favorite
biking music, which was also picked up in "Kill Bill":) (Youtube below)

Lots of smillies:)

Preview Night is great as people can hardly contain themselves from all the new gadgets and products. Sometimes it's really more about these and less about the "comic"..Well, still a lot of fun!

To be continued...!

San Diego Comic Con Day I!!

San Diego Comic Con (a.k.a San Diego Comic-Con International) is the biggest comic (I'm pretty sure about that) & multi media convention in the US--IT'S HUGE!!

I've always considered San Diego a place for shorts and bikinis, but it is actually cooler than Philadelphia right now!! You. don't. say!

Our favorite "Dexter" and "Nurse Jackie", the next seasons don't start until next year :(

A window view into the city of San Diego

To be continued...!

Oil Studies July

This is one of the studies I am doing since May. When you don't paint for a while you develop a sort of "fear" for color..At least for me. The canvas I used for this study was originally prepared for Odd Nerdrum, whose works shop with PAFA was canceled back in May. It's not the kind of surface that I find easy to work on, its rough texture makes every brush stroke a struggle. However, I love the transparency and brushy look. We sill see what progress I made as the project goes on:)

Figure Warm Ups

Just doing some figure warm ups. I can't say that I enjoy painting/drawing nude figures more than clothed figures by default, but there is something very serene and fundamentally unpretentious about nude figures. From the other perspective, the feeling is mostly mutual for the nude models, as I too, pose for figure painting artists.

Art related matter--Need to clean your Mac keyboard?

So I've had so many people asking if I knew places that can clean underneath a Mac's keyboard, for a fee. Well, I don't, because I do it myself... Here's how it can be done:)

Step1. Tools- A can of "cleaning duster" is definitely very handy to have. In addition, small tools for handling small parts.

Step 2. Take a photo of your Mac (Or don't and panic when things aren't back in the right places)

Step 3. Key removal There are two parts to a keyboard key on an Apple Keyboard.

1. Key cap.

2. The scissor mechanism, which is what holds on to the key cap.

To remove a Key cap, simply use your hand, or a flat head to lift one side, then gently pull up until the key cap pops up.

The scissor mechanism is basically two plastic prongs, the key cap is clicked onto both prongs. Be gentle when pulling the cap off the prongs.


One by one with patience, and so on... it takes about good 10 minutes to remove all the caps. Of course if you get better at it, it might take less, like everything else we do :)

Step 4. Cleaning the naked keyboard

Everyone has a way to clean stuff, I found some fun fact about cleaning a key board--

Until we clean our keyboard, we have no idea how dirty the key board might be (and can be, really!) Hairball, food crumbs, dirt, coffee stains, even dry sushi...(Ewww)

Such extreme method is not recommended...

--------------------------------------------Dusting in progress---------------------------------------------

Now it's time to put things back in order! Yay!

My experience is to line up the clicks and the prong at one time, push the key cap until you hear the clicking sound (twice).

Then put the cap down, push it into the board, you should hear a few more promising clicking.
Also, I found it easier to just push the cap down and hope things line up.

Done (Well, not quite, but it will) :D

Good luck to you! :)

5-story paintbrush by Oldenburg to rise at PAFA

Behold, a "5-story paintbrush by Oldenburg to rise at PAFA" and the project is expected to be completed by 2011. This project will cost possibly millions of dollars, consider Mr. Oldenburg's renowned international installation artist status. Mr. Oldenburg's previous works including "the clothespin" in center city, "Free stamp" at Cleveland City Hall...Hopefully, some of that money will come back to school... Meanwhile, we still need more paper towels in some of the restrooms and the TAMPON dispenser are still EMPTY!

Take a 360º visual tour in Vatican

This is amazing! You can see Cappella Sistina with a click of a button!

Lithography -Old Factory

Lithography is soooo hard, but the result could be so surprising :) I like it because you can basically draw with a crayon or oil stencil and get exactly what you drew. The tricky part is mixing acid and GA. The trickier part is the printing process, it definitely requires good team work :)

"Old Abandoned Factory"
lithography
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There is something very mysterious and touching about the remains of industrial facilities, like this old abandoned factory. I have no clue what the factory was build for or what it produced. It's been standing alone in an area surrounded by private business, small factories and artist studios for years. The building is rusty, all of its extended parts seem to be falling apart, yet it stands, in the arms of weeds and grass growing almost as tall as itself. What can I say~ I love abandoned things :)

Church Lady Asks For A refund From Her Church...Very Funny...and a bit, sad.

At the end, God did not authorize her refund. Neither parties can be reached for comments.

Walking and observing8

I saw this the other day on my way to work. I was like: Damn this old mean woman is scolding
a driver, how pity of her to do something like that to a fellow human being!!

Turned out she's only scolding her little puppy sitting on the passenger side..I guess it was going to the vet so it was not behaving..(who would) :(

Sometimes in life, things aren't what they seem to be. Sometimes, we see things with colored lenses to see what we want to see. The only way to see the truth unfiltered, is to confront ourselves. (in this case, a second look before the quick conclusion).