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From NOTCOT - an artist lits candles, takes picture of them, and create a movie out of it. Neat idea, well-executed, and I think this format could have had so much more potential.

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The pictures from my recent NYC trip are up, and though most of them are sub-par, I will keep them around on my website for a bit.

The visitation to Mr. Bae Bien-U was just fantastic - it was my first time seeing the well-known works of his with my real eyes, and I even got to meet him in person and get an autograph. Yippie! I really recommend checking out his work because they are very Korean. Very very Korean. For you Koreans, you will appreciate better how the Korean landscape looks, and you non-Koreans, it will be your virgin experience. Check out my previous post for details on the exhibit down in Chelsea.

MoMA’s exhibits were fantastic too - I actually didn’t end up liking the Color Chart exhibit, because for one, they looked like someone just enlarged Pantone’s color palette onto white walls. Where’s the thought and artistic effort? However, the other special exhibit, Design and the Elastic Mind, was mind-bending. Very cool showcases of forward-thinking designs in the forms of interactive, organic, biomedical, product and visual design. The funniest design was donned something like “8 inventions for lonely men” that comprised of a motorized device that pulls and steals blanket away from you in bed, a cold air blower that is supposed to give you cold feet, a hair puller as your alarm clock, and such. The coolest one was origami work that is designed in a special software and made out of a single sheet of paper, and they were in forms of scorpions and grasshoppers and other complex shapes. And they looked REAL. I’m not kidding. Too bad I couldn’t take pictures of anything.

Besides fattening up my creative gland, I had to fatten up another important part of my body: my stomach! I ate so much good food that probably gave me 4 lbs easy. Spring break all over again. Except this time, I didn’t have to pay as much, thanks to Mrs. Hahn’s generosity. I extend my gratitude to her here so if you read this, Brian or June, please relay that to your mom for me again. Oh, and I almost got killed trying to get some truck food after a night out. There’s this fantastic Halal chicken-and-rice truck on 53rd and 6th, and when we got there via cab there were dozens of people mixed up in a gang fight, on the verge of actually exchanging punches, and then at one point one of the guys pulled a crazy move and drove his SUV up onto the sidewalk and started driving around. So yeah, we almost got ran over by some crazy mofo while trying to get some $6 meal on a freezing night of March.

Things I didn’t get to do this time: watch an independent film, catch up with Malvika, try out the dessert trucks, and take enough pictures. Hopefully there will be a “next time” before I move out to California in summer.

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A Romanian artist, Dan Perjovschi had an interesting exhibit at MoMA last year, basically a blank wall filled with his cartoon sketches. Called Projects 85: What happened to us?, it illustrates quick captures of certain aspects of our lives in a comic way.

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That is not a car. It’s a spaceship. Lamborghini Reventon.

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An egg farm ad can be funny too.

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These guys got their message through surely and effectively, I thought.

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Decotora???? is one of those Japanese terms that endured partial distortion or omission of the original foreign words to make it feel more Japanese. For example, Kosupure????? comes from KOSUtumu PURE (costume play), Karaoke???? from KARA OKEsutura (fake orchestra), kara meaning fake in Japanese, and Decotora DECOration TORAku (decoration truck). An interesting form of pop culture. Imagine Optimus Prime with blings?????…

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Fujiya Ginzan is a ryokan in the Ginzan hot springs area in Japan. Its owners invited the architect Kengo Kuma to renovate their interior, and the result is a minimal, refined modern feel to the centuries-old ryokan that provides nothing but Japanese comfort. Sans their futon, maybe.

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This video of EA Games’ new Fifa Street 3 is kinda amazing. I wonder if it’s completely real at all. That would be ridiculous.

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They came up with very creative ways to minimize usage of the materials. Reminded me of jigsaw puzzles.

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