mine right now. FML.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
inspirational designs
- iPod speaker light
space filler
- energy-saving outlet
space filler
- double-page scanner
space filler
- light disguised as a straw
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(got some snark from me initially, but I realized how useful a chic portable light would be for reading in dark places. I'd look dumb for carrying a flashlight, but this, I could pull off...)
and the best for last:
- chocolate USB hub
space filler
design credits go to Sang Hoon Lee @ www.sanghoon-design.com
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
it's funny how things come true
in the most unexpected ways you don't even imagine.
When I was preparing to leave home for Princeton after spending the holidays there, I was scanning around my room looking for things to take back with me. Letters from friends, old diaries, countless scrapbooks that I started but never managed to finish - these I threw aside, knowing that bringing them with me would be more hassle than anything. But then I found Akane's letter, my little miniature oboe figurine, and... a list of things that I wanted to do before I died.
It's funny because I remember how it happend - I'd emerged from a night of Youbing and internet-surfing in my hovel, and my mom approached me with an inspirational article about Schwarzen-newly-elected-Governator's success (god, publishing an article like this is so Korean, isn't it? Way to go, Chosun Ilbo). Apparently, the story he sold the press a story about writing down and setting goals for himself every year (actually, wait, never mind - it's true), and my mom suggested that I try it out. I wrote things on a whim without thinking about plausibility, possibility, or anything really. Then again, my then-wee, little high school brain could barely comprehend life after graduation and college - if I had started thinking reasonably, this list would have more closely resembled a homework-assignment to-do list.
Instead, it turned out like this:
Amazingly, there're a few items on there that I've crossed out unknowingly and/or unintentionally. Orchestra and composing are down by default of my student activities and classes that I've taken. I had also been suggesting promoting PURE (our Rock ensemble) through music videos that *cough*of course I'd be directing*cough*. As for the others... who knows? Maybe I'll unwittingly come across an opportunity to act, or suddenly find myself having to come up with strange costume design.
... but I turned to the back side and found some lol-sy resolutions that made me realize that the ones above were revisions of these, or vice-versa. So I guess these resolutions weren't as inspired and raw as I'd thought.
When I was preparing to leave home for Princeton after spending the holidays there, I was scanning around my room looking for things to take back with me. Letters from friends, old diaries, countless scrapbooks that I started but never managed to finish - these I threw aside, knowing that bringing them with me would be more hassle than anything. But then I found Akane's letter, my little miniature oboe figurine, and... a list of things that I wanted to do before I died.
It's funny because I remember how it happend - I'd emerged from a night of Youbing and internet-surfing in my hovel, and my mom approached me with an inspirational article about Schwarzen-newly-elected-Governator's success (god, publishing an article like this is so Korean, isn't it? Way to go, Chosun Ilbo). Apparently, the story he sold the press a story about writing down and setting goals for himself every year (actually, wait, never mind - it's true), and my mom suggested that I try it out. I wrote things on a whim without thinking about plausibility, possibility, or anything really. Then again, my then-wee, little high school brain could barely comprehend life after graduation and college - if I had started thinking reasonably, this list would have more closely resembled a homework-assignment to-do list.
Instead, it turned out like this:
Amazingly, there're a few items on there that I've crossed out unknowingly and/or unintentionally. Orchestra and composing are down by default of my student activities and classes that I've taken. I had also been suggesting promoting PURE (our Rock ensemble) through music videos that *cough*of course I'd be directing*cough*. As for the others... who knows? Maybe I'll unwittingly come across an opportunity to act, or suddenly find myself having to come up with strange costume design.
... but I turned to the back side and found some lol-sy resolutions that made me realize that the ones above were revisions of these, or vice-versa. So I guess these resolutions weren't as inspired and raw as I'd thought.
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