gene hua

Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work: the work of becoming expert through study and practice, the work of finding solutions to problems and problems with those solutions, the work of trial and error, the work of thinking and perfecting, the work of creating. Creating consumes. It is all day, every day. It knows neither weekends nor vacations. It is not when we feel like it. It is habit, compulsion, obsession, vocation. The common thread that links creators is how they spend their time. No matter what you read, no matter what they claim, nearly all creators spend nearly all their time on the work of creation. There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

Creative People Say No - Kevin Ashton

Mom: I was looking through my contacts and couldn't remember the guy's last name, but thankfully Sherry was so useful!
Me: Sherry?
Me:
Me: ...you mean Siri?

so my roommate and his future housemates magically acquired a mannequin from questionable sources and now it’s sitting in our room until he can move it to the house. Basically, we’re hiding a dead body.

22 Desserts In Jars
I don’t think I’ve ever posted food but uggghghghhhhhhh — **22 Desserts In Jars**

I don’t think I’ve ever posted food but uggghghghhhhhhh

What a way to end the semester. (at Mr. Smalls Theatre)

It’s amazing what kind of work you can produce when numbers on paper aren’t the motivating factor.

You’d think that after going through so much trouble last year figuring out how to apply for financial aid, I’d fly through it this year

nope

All I wanted to be was a normal kid, not a child prodigy, but I just had to deal with it My drawing professor, talking about his life experiences

Meet the new $100 bill.
Not sure how I feel about the ginormous ‘100’ on the back (if you’re carrying them around it basically shouts “look at me I’m rich”), or the left and right margins. But yay for more security. — Meet the new $100 bill.

Not sure how I feel about the ginormous ‘100’ on the back (if you’re carrying them around it basically shouts “look at me I’m rich”), or the left and right margins. But yay for more security.

(Source: Spotify)

I am suddenly and inexplicably reminded of an elective class I had in sixth grade: an exploratory wheel of sorts, but in Chinese because I was in the CLIP program at Lawson. We had an assignment to make a PowerPoint presentation that would teach us the fundamentals of the software. It could be on anything, but we had to explain it, in Chinese.

I didn’t know what to do my project on (this issue still plagues me today, actually). And so instead of making a set of slides presenting a subject, I made a frame-by-frame animation of a billiards table and a floating pool stick shooting balls one by one into the pockets, which would run when I held down the Left Arrow key.

Mr. Kwan made me do it over again.

And so I made one about MapleStory. It was the most boring and ugly thing in the world.

CMU is upgrading the technology in their ID cards and have asked students to submit designs for the new card in the process. Several design students submitted proposals, most of them great, and this is what they ended up choosing for vote I AM SO ANGRY

I have a class on sustainable design this semester, and it’s influenced me to the point where now that it’s getting warmer, I kind of cringe every time my roommate leaves the AC running a) when its like 60 degrees out and b) when he’s not even in the room. All those hydrofluorocarbons, needlessly floating into the air.

is there any hope for me or am I one of THEM now