ヤギの目

ヤギの目は怖い。

いつの頃からか、ふと気がつくと頭に木を描いている。

意味はよくわからない。

同じように、ふと世の中のいろいろなものが繋がって感じるときがある。やっぱり意味はよくわからない。

最近は仕事が暇だとよくPHOTOSHOPの練習をしてブログにアップしてる。今月はたくさんできてる。もっとペインティングっぽくPHOTOSHOPできるようになりたいと思う。

誰かいい方法知ってたら教えて。

Thai Dance

My wife did a dance performance at Thai New Year Festival in Hollywood last weekend. She's been taking a Thai dance class for a few month and just got her first gig there. It was quite an interesting event.

There were lots of people, different kinds of people, eating Thai food, drinking beer, watching Muay Thai and Thai dances.

It was pretty random that my wife, a Japanese girl, was performing Thai dance for Thai festival, but I like the multiculturalism. The event sort of reminds me of the reason why I live here.

She wrote a blog about the event.

Check it out if you can read Japanese or have a decent translator.

http://qottonart.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html

Self Portrait

I've decided that I haven't done enough self-portrait.

So here is the first one and it doesn't look like me.

I don't know if I like staring at myself for too long, but I'll try again.

Yellow and Blue

Another view of the kitchen/dining of our apartment.

The yellow and blue Eames chairs always comfort us while we enjoy our delicious meal.....although they are a little chilly for our asses in winter.

Kurosawa Return

A study of skintone.

He now really looks like a Kung-fu guy to me for some reason.

Profile

Profile: noun,

1. A side view of an object or structure, especially of the human head.

2. An outline of an object.

3. Degree of exposure to public notice: visibility

4. A formal summary or analysis of data

A profile is often easier for me to draw than frontal and I like analyzing.

Kurosawa

Today I did a quick portrait of Kurosawa when I had a little down time at work.

If you don't know him, he would just look like an old Asian dude with thick black-frame glasses. He might even look like a great Kung-Fu master.

But, if you know him, he now becomes a great movie director with a sharp brain and unique vision.

Your knowledge always effects what you see.

But, even if you don't know him, you would still be interested if an artist did a great portrait of him.

I want to be that artist.

台所

ウチのキッチン/ダイニング。

ここで毎日朝食を食べ、晩飯を食べ、時には昼食も食べてる。
時には手を抜く事もあるけれど、いつもおいしいものがつくられ
僕に日々のエネルギーを与えてくれる。

改めて考えると不思議な空間で行われる不思議な出来事。
それでもやっぱり当たり前のように僕らは何かを食べて
せかせかと生きている。

Spring

It looks like Spring has come.

I like spring although there is no much of spring in LA.

It seems as if it skips to mid-summer after winter.

Well...I'm just glad there was a little bit of rainy-cold winter at least.

Otherwise, it just feels the same all year around.

I feel like traveling to different cities to see different seasons and different climates.

近況２月。

気づいたら、いつのまにか前回のポストから３週間も経ってる。

時間が経つのが早すぎる。

でも、やっと一つプロジェクトが終わった。

少し時間をかけすぎたけど、なんとかできて良かった。

次は自分の式のだ。

最近ちょっと書きたいと思うことがあったんだけど、なかなかうまくまとまらず、時間だけが過ぎて、内容からフレッシュさが損なわれつつあって残念。

もっと時間のある時にまた書こう。

毎日のように通勤で自転車には乗ってるけど、最近あんまりゆっくりポタリングってしてないから、近々どっか行きたいなぁ。