Looking back this past week, seems like I had been pretty productive:
- made good progress on the ink art website
- fired up the laser cutter and prototyped some 1/10 models
- visited my woodworking friend in Tuen Mun to discuss the coming fair on 24th and possibly more future collaborations
- printed out the parts for the Open Press Project as suggested by a friend, will try to assemble and play with it later
- went back to my alma mater a couple of times to sit in on the sharing sessions of an outstanding alumni who has been helping Chinese cancer patients in Australia for more than 20 years and counting
- jogged 3 days, slowly and tiresomely getting to 4K. Thinking back, it must be a miracle that I was able to complete the 42K marathon back in Jan!
While prototyping the 1/10 models, I seemed to have rekindled my love in designing and making things. All the happy memories from shop class in high school, to brain-teasing lab work during university, and experimenting with state-of-the-art lasers during coops are all coming back to me it seems. And I still remember the joy of assembling and putting the digital fabrication machines to work for the first time in the studio. Hope was high when I first started the studio, but the passion seemed to have faded over time. It’s probably not too late to pick that up again, right?
Stumbled upon a book about Thomas Heatherwick today. I skimmed pass his projects, I recalled experiencing his awe inspiring Seed Cathedral during the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. I also recalled seeing an inspiring exhibition of his works in HK a few years back and thinking to myself that it would be a lot of fun to setup my studio to experiment with design like he does.
If God permits, let me restart my career in research, experiment, design, and make functional, sustainable, and delightful objects to serve others! ??
The feeling of finishing my last cartoon panel for the #inktober fest is comparable to finishing a marathon! It was no easy task to follow the random word prompt each day and come up with a cartoon panel that would fit coherently into a story. It was challenging yet fun. I took the opportunity to create a 24-panel fictional story of a (starving) artist ?. It brought back some good old memories of the time when we had to write and illustrate our own story book in primary school. I don’t remember needing to write any fictional stories since then. Anyway, I’m really satisfied with my first #inktober experience, and will likely do it again next year!
The hot summer days seem to have finally succumbed to the cool Autumn winds. It’s a good time to try picking up running again. I managed to kick my lazy butt out the door to run 3 times this week, could barely do 2.5k, but kickstarting the habit wins half the battle I suppose.
Just finished reading a short book Morrie: In His Own Words. Was constantly thinking about my 90-yr-old classmate from my Tuesdays-with-Morrie-like calligraphy class. He’s good and well and I still feel blessed to seeing him at class every Tuesday morning. But over the ~2.5 years since I started learning calligraphy, I’ve been witnessing his hearing and mobility decline. Occasionally when he was late to class, I would worry if anything bad might have happened to him.
Decided to take on the #inktober challenge this week, had a lot of fun each day dreaming up and inking episodes of the 
