Pecha Kucha night at SF

This was one of my wish when the beginning of this year.
I still remember the time when my friend imported PK night to Taiwan.
I said to them that it would be one of my wish this year to stand in front of PK night.
I missed one chance in Taiwan.
After I came to U.S.. I think it should be done here.
I join first PK night at June and started to prepare next time.
I was lucky to met Paul at Alberto's birthday party.
Paul is host of PK night at SF.
I said to him that I want to join PK night to present.
He was so nice and encouraged me to do that.
I signed up to Alberto that I would present at July.
Today was the day I presented.
There were many people there, and I felt nervous for sure.
If you asked me to mark me a score?
I would said 80.
Because I had been practice and done well.
After party, my roommate asked me why I look upset.
I said that during party time, I wanted to find somebody to chat.
But it looks a little bit different with my idea.
I thought there would be a chance to let people know who I am.
And maybe they will interest about me and come to ask me something.
But actually, they didn't. It looks so hard to get into their world.
My roommate said that I should live in reality instead of my day dream.
I think he was right and I should give myself a reward.
I saw twice of my video.
I really done well today.
Specially I used a second language to express myself.

Lucasart studio and Palace of fine art

Last friday......We went to visit Lucasart Studio and Palace of fine art.

I am sorry that too many stuff happened everyday that I cannot updated my blog on time.

But maybe it's good thing because that I tried my best to enjoy every second.

Ok..... Talking about Lucasart Studio . 

It's a very famous company was builded by Starwars' director Geoge Lucas.

There were three company which were included in this studio, Lucas film, Games and light&magic.

Thanks for Chin Ko for hosting this tour and Angus for sharing us this trip.

Due to Chin is a concept artist.We saw many amusing paintings and sculptures.

And we also took a picture with master Youda's sculpture.

In Games place, they always keep light dark and everyone got many cool toys.

About light & magic, because they do movies special effects.

Every movies they joined, they will post a poster on the wall.

And that poster were so many that you cannot believe that so many movies made by special effects.

It was pity that we cannot go into their office to say hi, but I feel satisfied.

After this tour, we went to Palace of fine art, just around the corner.

It was so nice that you can see movie use it for scene(The Rock).

I took some pictures that hope you can enjoy it.

Design party at airport SF

Friday was a very good day.
We took one day off to visit Lucasart studio.
And Thursday we went to join a party at airport museum SF.
It was a small presentation party which held in Aviation museum.
There were several famous design company were invited to present.
Such as Lunar, fuse project, whipsaw, Ideo, smart design etc..
At first, I thought that it was a party and if your company didn't be invited, you may not allow to join.
But thanks for Shifen, told me that I can join it.
So be it, I went to airport with some of my roommate.
During party time, I saw Hiro stood there, but I was shame to introduce myself.
So I didn't come to say hello.
But He remember me and ask Shifen to call me.
He was a so nice elder and I am so jealous at Shifen who can stay in his company.
I videoed some presentation and I will put one of it to blog.
Hope you can enjoy it.

Change the world

"we can change the world with one random act of kindness at a time."

It was Evan Almighty's dialogue.

Actually, I felt uncomfortable recently.

I caught a flu and headache. It also came with bad mood.

I don't know which one first but I do felt uncomfortable.

I remembered this dialogue"we can change the world with one random act of kindness at a time".

The movie may talk about Environment issue.

But It also helped me turned my sight to others, instead of myself.

I do my best to do that.

Today, I saw a woman who always sat at same place to sell her own made product.

I didn't buy anything.

All I did was that pray for her.

I hope that I can do more tomorrow.

Helping others to make yourself feel better.

Does that selfish? 

I don't know. Please don't judge me. I am one normal and emotional guy.

Last night in L.A. but not least.

Today is last night we stay in L.A. 

It is last but it is least.

We spent time to enjoy leisure time.

We ate lunch at farmer's market.

Farmer's market in U.S. is like a Fruit & vegetable market in Taiwan.

But there are many kinds of them.

We went to a farmer's market in L.A., it is modern farmer's market which is for tourist.

There was a food court in there and we went there for lunch and took a look. 

When I stayed inside, I felt like I stayed in BKK's Lupini or Mochi.

Not only variety foods that you can find in there but many kinds of cute, funny products in there.

This message was left until now.

Today is July 18, I had been SF 3 days.

LA's trip was a great experience.

1. I start feeling that how big America is?

2. I experienced Taiwanese passion. And felt no place like home.

3. I wish I can stay longer.

I wish I can say something smart, but I cannot.

Life is good here, but you need people to share with you.

Then you could be complete..... Yes, I miss my girl. 

And the element is ?

Stay in U.S. I didn't spent many time to think about design.

All I do is trying to live in this moment.

I watch my friend cook cake or any kind of food.

I travel to other place to see how people live there.

Recently, I start trying to do some video cutting.

And yesterday I saw Universal Studio.

This experience let me feel something different.

It is queer. I am not thinking about design stuff but I have learned something familiar.

Like cooking, you need to management what kind of food that you need put and which one first.

How many you need to put in there?

Scenes that I saw at Universal Studio, it was familiar just like cooking or jut like design.

Everything is about element, balance and beauty(or you can said what kind of feeling that you want to express). I like it.

Yes, the life here, I like it very much.

Black thirteen friday....

Today it is black thirteen friday and we were planing to Universal Studio.

I am so happy.It is my first time to U.S. and of cause it is my first day to Universal Studio.

They said  it is similar with Chinese culture & movie center(CMPC Studio).

But I don't think so.....

We spent 1 hour driven to there and saw famous L.A.'s traffic jam.

We were lucky because traffic jam was stay at opposite lane.

In L.A. you go to every place cannot without car.

Just like Jane said in U.S. : There is no leg if you had no car.

Thanks Calvin and Karen again.

Finally we saw sign which is wrote Hollywood and we also saw famous sign on the mountain.

It was pity that I lost chance to photo it.

When we arrived at it. We were lucky that it was not so many people in there.

It means we don't need to on line for long time.

We went to film tour directly. Thanks for experience Guru told us to there.

Because it was so amazing that you cannot lose it.

People said if you didn't see this, you missed whole thing. 

We saw many actually film place that we saw on movies or TV shows such as Kin-Kon or shark.

It was really cool that you saw disaster scene  could be re-happened again and again.

I saw car explored and fly to the sky then fly back. 

Earthquake scene, subway car crashed into station etc. it could be re-fix. It's really amusing me.

I saw airplane crashed and broken.

It was builded by real 747 airplane. The scene shock me a lot.

They said universal Studio is not cool as we look at movies.

I agree with it but you can still see some raw stuff in there.

In fact, I pretty like it.

I always like conflict.

Compare with movies we saw after.

The scene can give me more ideas.

One day is not enough.

We play and see many stuff but it still missed many of them.

But that's ok.

It makes me expect next time.