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Brilliant idea! such a creativity. By someone named Svilen Dimchevski. Gotta be a name of an artist or something.

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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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They’re up! Go check it out from my portfolio site.

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I forgot to post about this photographer before leaving for Puerto Rico. Zena Holloway seems to be an expert at shooting underwater photography. The absence of background color, plus the floating of garments and hair makes the models look like half-ghosts, and half-statues. Very very cool.

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Extra! Waving hands to the world - I hereby share with you the update on Mr. Bae’s exhibit in Chelsea:

GanaArt New York, March 20th~April 14th, 2008

564 W. 25th St., New York, NY 10001

The opening event is on Thursday the 20th, at 6pm. I’m there. You better be too if you want to meet the man in person. A quick recap - Mr. Bae is a renown photographer famous for his B&W photographies of pine trees in Korea. When I look at his work, it feels like he almost froze down every little molecular particles in the air of the scenery. Breathtaking.

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I finally got a flash for my camera - rather, I finally got around to getting some batteries for the flash I bought a while ago and never bothered trying it out. I just bought the cheapest one from eBay since flashes compatible with Canon 300D (Rebel) tend not to be compatible with higher-end ones, and who knows, once I start getting paychecks I might splurge on, I dunno, a Mark-III or something.

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Bae Bien U is an internationally renown Korean photographer of our time, and he is most famous for the stunning images of pine trees on black-and-white, large prints. And guess what - I’m lucky enough that his daughter went to same school as me in Korea. When I ran into her (not in the literal sense), she told me this great news that he will be holding an exhibit in NYC in March. I will be there, and I hope to see you there. I will find out more about it and update it here. (FYI, that is his autograph, not a photograph of his or anything.)

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I came across this powerful picture of a baby on National Geographic. As you all know that they are renowned for stunning imageries of everything in this world. Their website could use a better photo gallery organization, I feel, but oh well. I should be thankful for them even that they share these for free, I guess.

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I started re-organizing my photos. I thought it was about time to move on to making the distinction between casual shooting and quality shooting. The goal is to continue on shooting pictures for casual purposes in JPEG format and organize them under iPhoto, and for ‘artsy’ (due to no better description) purposes in RAW and organize them under Lightroom. Time to get serious about photography.

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