Friday, May 27, 2011

"I am not weird. I am Limited Edition"

love the quote. i am limited edition.

I guess just quickly write a few things down.
yesterday, i went to a yoga class.....i never been to this one..and it suprise me that almost everybody in there are grandma's age....so i thought it's gonna be bored...not really gonna challenge me, or simply put more strength on my body. BUT IT ACTUALLY TURNS OUT ESPECIALLY WELL.....for a while..i thought of yoga as ...almost POSING. it's what created at the end matters as a FORM. but actually, from form to form is just as important if not more. i think it's more important. For example. it's about feeling your back dropping slowly onto the mat, feeling the slowly touch between the back and the ground. etc. and if yoga is only about posing. then whts so significant about breathing in yoga? It relax your nerves so that you can challenge your body more. but also through breathing, mind becomes more concentrated to the body.
body and space. ..is it about me and the environement? or the little spaces created by my body. both.

Sam came distracted me with good food. as always. so sam and me and mike went to eat at 20/20. it's actually really good. speaking of that. i have never been in project 20/20...

idk whts up with summer. kinda hope i never have to take GRE........now i have so much things to do. and ..so many things are on my mind again. that's just bad. small head loooootsss of stuff.

just have to be strong.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

it's all gonna be ok.

i have been asked a few times...or more than a  few times what i am doing this summer. I always wanted to tell them...NOTHING.
if i actually tell them what i am going to do ...it does sounds like ...NOTHING. i am not taking classes in ISU, not working (are you serious!?!?!?!?), no internship either (life suckssssss). but this summer, i have a big mission.
My mission is to figure out...what to do with my life. (well..that sounds...really big) I am going to take time doing what i really like doing, and actually spend time doing it. Painting. Singing. Yoga. Travel. Reading. and maybe even dancing (oh my top secret)...I want to bring things to influence me as a designer, things that will inform my architecture. and archtiecture itself will not do. And at the same time...this is to ENRICH mylife.

The other day. there pop out an idea of filming myself doing yoga. take stills from the films. so i am looking at both the flow of the movement, and the form created by my body at a certain moment. and i want to paint it...or make some models of it. blue phoam models..or copy samamtha's exercise 1 year ago ( yes, the one that i did not do) Life turns around. sometimes it's good to a few things that you dont actulally know why you are doing them. Carry them in your backpack. but because you have done it, one day they will start making sense. and by the time it made sense to you, it had already made who you are. ( excuse my broken english...this is really bad grammar)....
and this time...it's not really that i dont know why i do it...i kinda knows, but just not sure what is it leading towards...well...i might as well right this down, so that i dont forget later...now i am interested in looking at body, and how body creates forms...and becomes art. we will see how that goes.

so..i am writing down what i am doing this summer....as a todo list.
GRE. nail it at the end of June.
portfolio...make it better, put some toys in it, fix NYC project, put solar home in it. (that's a looot project)
Painting....
Yoga classes every day.
Ames choir every Monday
Reading...starting from..."intentions in architecture"..."Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees"..and of course..BIBLE
Travel to the west coast. BY MYSELF.and yes, this is gonna drive me crazy for sure. and i really hope that i am coming back safe and sound and in one piece. details havent been working on yet. but i know i am flying over...and take the train...44 hours to get back.  and you guys! if you dont see me back to school...i must died. unless...something else happened. ahhh i am talking nonsense again.

oh well.
peace out.

"rise and shine!" =P