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HAWKEYE NO……

(based on THIS)

Summer Plans!

Because summer is here!! I must make a list of things I want to do, otherwise I probably will never get to them. 

List one: fun stuff

  • Play Zelda: Skyward Sword
  • Play Final Fantasy XIII-2
  • Attempt to sabotage Eric’s ability to finish The World Ends With You in one week so I win our bet… somehow… can’t believe I actually won. :P
  • Draw a picture for Eric’s birthday (asap, since its passed LOL)
  • Hang out with friends!! :D like JJTT, tiffany, eric, alex, jeesoo, svadharma, and the tree group!
  • Visit Yahni’s home in Livermore
  • Watch Avengers, Brave, Spider-Man etc.
  • Get some sketch nibs
List two: applying to cinematic arts
  • Make a short fun game. Like just a shooter or sth easy.
  • Make a proper game. Story and everything.
  • Write a bunch of personal statements and stuff to apply for the Cinematic Arts school.
  • Go to Taiwan. While there, get to know the teachers there, so I can maybe ask them for a rec letter for the Cinematic Arts application. Haha. :)
  • E-mail Ewa like maybe 10 weeks in advance of due date for application to ask for a rec letter (to give her enough time to respond and agree, then write the letter)
  • Ask Mr. Chow for a rec letter too, hm, either in the next couple of weeks before MV lets out, or over the summer via e-mail as well.
  • Draw some new stuff.

sighhh or sth like that. 

School is winding down…

Freshman year is coming to a close… What have I really gained from this year?

I don’t know if I gained any skills drawing-wise. If I calm down and take a hella long time, I can churn out good pieces. If I’m trying to finish quickly, it looks okay, but not at a level where I can consider myself an Art Major. (cue unartistic people telling me nooo your drawings are amazing- thanks, really but I want to be better <3) I learned a bunch about design, kinda. Not really. It’s an aesthetics thing. If you can make it look nice, and make sure there aren’t any glaring holes in the formatting, it’s ‘design’. It’s ‘art’. I don’t like sculpture. Never again. Next semester I have to take ‘Visual Culture and Literacy’ so… maybe I’ll get a better appreciation of art there. Or not. The problem is though, that I probably would’ve done this level of art before I came to USC anyways…

In terms of writing, I doubt that I’m going to be a good writer. I can barely form coherent arguments anymore. HAHA. Writing 140 taught me that I suck at writing essays because I consistently got B-, and never improved my grade. Actually I think I got one B later on and my first essay was a B+… but in the end my grade was a B- SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. That was a dampener. And this semester in my other class that requires papers… NOPE. The only ego-booster was my research paper for GE6, where I got the one 10 out of the hundred people in the class.

I made some friends, two really good ones from my WRIT140. <3 They’ve introduced me to (most of?) their friends too, so I kind of know more people than I would’ve otherwise, especially since I live in an apartment, not a dorm. Have a bunch of -we’re in the same class so we’re friendly acquaintances but probably not going to keep this acquaintanceship after its over- friends. Got closer to MV friends that I didn’t expect to over my ‘tree’ group. Or maybe that’s simply because I don’t really talk to the ‘tree’ group online, so during college when I can’t meet up with them in person I don’t talk to them. Such is life. And on the other hand, got called cute by random guys. :| High school did not prepare me for this. Ugh. And trying to figure out what crushes are yep. Also I got to know my family better too! With my cousins in LA for work or school, they’ve taken me out a few times and I learn all this stuff about the family that I didn’t really pay attention to before (as a kid- don’t listen to this stuff haha…).

And I think I’ve become a little bit more confident! :) I can say NO sometimes, and I can hack it alone at events (it’s lonely and sad though). I’m trying to be dedicated to a club (running for board!), I’ve made non-Asian friends, non-freshman/same year friends, and gotten to know a little bit of what it’s like to party (second-hand knowledge).

 I’ve gained experience, I guess, that’s all I can say. Last year I was pretty apprehensive about coming, even after visiting campus. Debating between here, some UCs and Ringling (art). But there’s no questioning what-ifs. I don’t regret coming to USC. After all, I met Tom Felton here. ;)

@_@ tired. stressed.

I WAS SO TIRED, I DIPPED MY PAINTBRUSH IN MY TEA. WHAT. =_=

WIP: essay (monday 5pm)

WIP: mixed media picture (monday, 6pm)

WIP: design spread (flexible, monday, 3pm)

WIP: smart grid (thursday, 10am)

WIP: design book: cd, printed (friday, 9am)

tinart1:

I was wondering why I felt so weird about studying art, cuz it’s what I do… but I think I realized that before my art was really stifled with paintings… but with the freedom to draw whatever I wanted. In school, I rarely get to do that. &gt;_&gt; So, yeah, this piece I really like. It’s a whatever you want. It’s shaping up quite well. Works in Progressssss
the keychains are from daiso~ from like a while back, idk if they still have them ahaha.

tinart1:

I was wondering why I felt so weird about studying art, cuz it’s what I do… but I think I realized that before my art was really stifled with paintings… but with the freedom to draw whatever I wanted. In school, I rarely get to do that. >_> So, yeah, this piece I really like. It’s a whatever you want. It’s shaping up quite well. Works in Progressssss

the keychains are from daiso~ from like a while back, idk if they still have them ahaha.

Throwing money around

What I wouldn’t give to play some good video games right now.

zeldaffxiii-2
1 Zelda: Skyward Sword ($49.99)
2 Final Fantasy XIII-2 ($59.99)
3 Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance (unreleased, but probably $39.99)

Things I’d gladly drop some cash for. YEAH. CAN I GO BE A VIDEO GAME DESIGNER.

pmt~

hey hey so apparently i am the one who started the trend of saying ‘pmt’ instead of ‘pearl milk tea’ ! i feel oddly satisfied knowing that i converted people. hohoho. like saying ‘tap ex’ instead of ‘tapioca express’ (though, my brother was the one who said that first).

It’s been on my mind since coming to college because of the ‘boba’ vs. ‘pmt’ battle that happens all the time. I didn’t think it was such a big deal, since I interchangeably use boba and pmt. Then I started wondering when we started using pmt, and then I am pretty sure that I started using it and my friends started spreading it. :O Alex’n agrees with me. I haven’t asked Anindya yet though, but he’s the one who uses it most, and is the most vocal of my friends. 

Boba is basically the black pearls that are in the drinks. But you don’t just eat boba by itself, so its connotation has come to include the milk tea that you drink with it. On the other hand, pmt includes everything as it stands for pearl milk tea. It just makes me laugh when some of my friends who fight for pmt actually don’t like the p (pearls). And then order “One pearl milk tea, no pearls.” Then it’s just milk tea! LOL you didn’t need to say pearl milk tea! OH well.

Last day of being able to drink such good pmt. Fantasia <3

spring break list of things to do

So I don’t forget to do anything while I’m home…

  • go to Hong Kong~~~
  • visit MV teachers
  • play Skyward Sword with Alex
  • do a bunch of animations and drawings for that internship
  • visit all the Berkeley kids :)
  • hw over break :|
  • look up/apply to other summer internships
  • eat dim sum/pmt/GOOD FOOD
  • bring passport/important stuff back home

I think that’s it so far. Gotta figure out where the Berkeley kids live though. I know my ldbffl lives in Freeborn, Unit 1. And my whitewashedfob lives in the not-as-cool-looking-as-doheny-library-Hogwarts. And Ja lives somewhere in Unit 1. And Jason lives somewhere not close to there. 

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M&Ms Droplets

now that’s what photography should be about… not a black and white picture of someone’s shoes

The top picture is full of M&M’s. They’re bule, red, orange, green, yellow, and brown.

But in the bottom picture we clearly see there’s white, pink, and even purple candies in the bowl.

The bottom picture is of gumballs! This concludes that the bottom picture is not taken with that camera at all. I’d even go as far to say that it was edited in photoshop with a filter!

Yes the above image and the below image are not the same photograph being taken. This is rather obvious.

BUT Mr. Wright there is one thing you overlooked. Examine the droplets on the bottom image. None of them are from the same angle. This is a natural occurance when looking through water droplets.

Is it not possible that the photographer took the second image first?

Would it not be more probable that when asked HOW it was taken he/she took the above image of their setup Using M&Ms, something much more common in a household rather than many gumballs, something they may have just bought for the original photo? 

So to claim it was not taken with the same camera is indeed a long shot Mr. Wright.

Thank you for your time.

Really Edgeworth, is that you’re argument.

Aren’t you overlooking the fact that there are no pink M&Ms. This proves undeniably that these are not, in fact M&Ms, but some other kind of candy.

And one other thing, I find it highly improbable that not one piece of candy is facing so the M logo is on the candy.

So in conclusion, there is no way these are possibly M&Ms.

hey mister I think you’re confuuuuuuused. Edgeworth agreed that they weren’t M&M’s. He was just refuting that there is a possibility there wasnt any photoshop used and that the above image was only depicting the method used in the bottom image.

I think someone might be getting a little senile hehehe

Everyone seems to be walking around the accusations by examining whether they are or aren’t M&Ms. That is not what’s important. What we should be looking at is instead, the so-called droplets, compared to the background image.

The angles within the droplets do not realistically coincide with one another! As well, I don’t spend much time staring at drops of water, but I can surely say I’ve never seen such clarity in any water droplet. Also, as in the former picture, there is an obvious fogging on the glass, surely caused by whichever process was used to spray the water. Where is the fog? 

On top of all that, the drops are amazingly tiny compared to the anonymous-candy. One could argue the sheet is further away than in the ‘example’ pic, but the blurring of the candies definitely objects to that. We could also try to assume that the spray method used in the ‘original’ photo caused much tinier water spots, but are we to believe that the photographer was so careless that they couldn’t recreate the correct droplet size in the ‘example’? Surely, they should have been able to cause at least a closer resemblance.

Sure seems like they went out of their way to showcase the methodology of how the photograph was taken, yet neglected to go far enough to ensure it could be a like-comparison?

Rather unlikely!

Actually, Mr. Godot!! 

Well, according to the properties of light and the way it’s refracted…

If you mirror it the right way, they line up just fine!

Hold on there, pups. You’re all going in completely different directions. Shih-na, if you will?

Lang Zi says: “The truth lies not at the exit, but rather, shines outside the maze itself.”

You need to see past the boundaries given to you in order to figure out the actual purpose and, as much as I’d hate to admit, both Mr. Prosecutor and the crow-girl have some pretty tame ground under their feet with those assumptions.

As said before, it’s logical to assume the photographer is merely depicting the method used in order to get the results shown in the second photo—and it can be just that.

But what if it’s something else entirely?

We’re all wolves who’ve been swindled by the coyote that has stolen our kill. How do we know if the photographer just isn’t using some clever ploy to get us all confused? He could have taken these pictures separately and simply put them together with getting us riled up in mind.

I think we all need to reconsider our options, here.

lol these arguments