Late Nights

They get more and more common :c

A quotation from conversations I've heard/seen:

Also, some pictures from my Stanford Summer internship (as I wait for my code to compile...)

The poster session at the end! Unfortunately it was windy, so those easels have a tendency to try to kill you WHACK. (There was food involved)

"THAT IS ... BEYOND ... WORDS ..." "That is why they are pictures."

To quote another two people "Canon" and "Aya." Hmmmm...

Pictures it is.

I keep imagining my Chemistry teacher doing and saying this. Ahhh.

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Oh, and somewhat cool (?) tshirt things? http://www.zazzle.com/thepianistalex

(So expensive, comment and maybe we can work out bulk orders if you are interested?)

PICTURES.

Table Flipping

Notice: a link banner! :3 Thank you Zurita for drawing it for me! :D

What frustrates me recently is the lack of thinking some of my classmates have in my photo class. The teacher gave an assignment to find a photograph and try to interpret the photographer's intentions behind it.

I guess it comes slightly easier to me because it is along the same lines of what my piano teacher asks me: Why does Beethoven do this? What does it make you feel? Is there any piece out there that can convey this exact meaning? Can you explain it in a way that distinguishes it so that I would immediately think "Oh, it's the third Chopin etude in the Opus 10 series?"

He never really accepted a "I don't know" answer. Well, he did, but not quite. I am really thankful for him for reminding me that music isn't music without emotions.

Everything has a reason. Even if it doesn't seem to at first glance, there is a reason why the composer wrote it as so out of the thousands of possible combinations that could have it followed.

The fact that I learned composition helps a bit with this fact. This is also the reason why I chose to take photography. I thought that a connection between the different arts may be able to help me progress further in music.

Either way, a classmate looks at a photo and tells me, "Oh, I don't know what this photography makes me feel. Can you help me? It's just a photo." After three minutes, she says, "This photo makes me feel dull."

I could point out the photography deliberately uses high contrast to show the brilliance of the lightning. It gives a feeling almost like fear. It makes us feel insignificant in the forces of nature. In the Grand Canyon with little, if any, traces of human civilization, we learn to appreciate the true beauty and power of Mother Earth.

Photography. Painting with light.

Music. Manipulation of time.

Seeing a photograph is different from looking at one.

Just like listening to music is different from hearing it.

And the most difficult part is, it cannot truly be taught. You'll have to discover it yourself when you listen to your feelings.

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Okay less seriousness.

My Computer Science book came today, but my camera memory wouldn't write so ahhhhhh no photos. Oh well, it's just a textbook. Albeit a very useful one. I hope. It also marks ahhh homework.

My physics teacher has this random "When Pigs Fly" thing on his ceiling.

Oink

My friend decided he can blame his laptop for poor Touhou performances. Also I think the fact that my brother is taking apart his Rubik's Cube may play a part in him dying in the game.

ARGHHH STOP TAKING APART MY CUBE OH CRAP I DIED.

Teatime ( ^‐^)_且~~

Sipping tea as I type this post. Also, I'll keep it short.

Mmm tea.

Saw a few Inception x your movie here trailers. Most were so-so, but this one was kinda cool hahaha~

(More here, though personally, I like this one best.)

San Francisco bids for World Expo!

WHOA

That's just a 20 minute drive away without traffic~

This would be interesting to see :3

Funding may be a problem, but I think it would be a nice boost to the San Francisco Bay Area. Albeit possibly one that may cause inconvenience as the expo runs. If it does indeed happen, I would have to visit.

You are now leaving San Francisco (no toll will be charged).

As long as it doesn't get to ShanghaiExpo-length lines~ "You'll regret it if you don't go. You'll regret it if you do."

Two Days in the Second Week of School

Yesterday in Physics C Class

Also he was demonstrating acceleration and gravity with a basketball and asked us if we thought if he looked like a basketball player if he posed like so. Hahahaha! Physics C and Computer Science are very interesting classes. (I start the day with the latter, and end it with the former.)

Yet school has started

Classes have commenced

I bid farewell to sleep

As homework never ends.

And more.