I’m still tired. So I may not articulate as clearly as I’d like, but I know my words won’t get any better than this. I felt it’s been a while since I actually said anything, so here’s a short update to recapitulate where I am in life now.

• It’s my first time ever taking classes over the summer, and I was very excited about it. Education and warm sunny days; what more is there to ask for?
• My lcd monitor broke so I’m back to an old crt while doing more digital work at school.  But the colour on my crt seems to be more accurate to the print colour (I forgot how bright lcd screens are) so I’m thinking it doesn’t matter if I keep this monitor for work.  It is a bit big though.
• For some reason I have a lot of messages to reply to, which made me realize how inactive I’ve been. Or slow. Or both (Sorry..~ But I will reply).
• My portfolio and layouts have been sitting unfinished due to lack of motivation and time. Why yes, I do hear my hosts and my mind screaming at me. (Sorry, again..~)
• Art on demand is a big stress builder, and perhaps de-motivator.
• Despite sounding lazy with online work, I’ve become less lazy with offline work.
• I haven’t been focusing on photography as a strong artistic endeavor so much as I’ve been simply capturing photographic memories. Spring passed by too quickly and I wished to hold onto it.
• Although I haven’t posted drawings in a while, I’ve drawn way more than I could ever show (not that I want to show all of it). Every week I make at least twenty drawings of a certain theme on a fairly large scale (24″ x 36″). I think it’s one way to get me to improve and become more prolific. I’ve also been working with ink more as it should “free you up a bit”. It’s different because in all my other work I am strained to make perfect marks.
• Big Bang has stopped corrupting me now, but other Korean mainstream music has not.

Well, after watching that I’ve lost the power to keep going with this entry. But I do have a junky art dump. Most of these were for fun, and the bottom ones were paint chats.

Maybe something for graphic designers or typographers to look at (or people who are bored).

If you run through it,

It’s like snow is flying up.

’til the day they bloom.

The first thing I remember my professor mentioning about himself was the point and shoot camera attached to his belt every single day, because you never know when you will come across a moment worth capturing. I would do the same if I was less paranoid about my camera’s fragility. But on my last day I decided to do so, because hopefully, I would see it again. Or rather, it saw me.

I’m not sure what the fascination is when I see Canada geese on campus. It should be nothing exotic. Maybe it comforts me to know that they don’t fly away at the very sight of me. Maybe it amuses me that we would randomly have a staring contest. *Jiiii~i* But it settles me back into the crib I call home.

When I think of summer, I think of..

• Rays of sunshine poking in from the window and brightening my rooms for twelve hours
• Children screaming at each other down the block while riding on their scooters, carriages and roller blades
• Standing by the freezer aisle at grocery stores for longer than you really need to, and not to buy frozen items
• Suju’s “Haengbok”
• The annoying sound of lawn mowers day in and day out
• Going to school. For fun
• The emptiness of public transportation in my area
• Tim Horton’s Iced Cappuccino
• The ice cream truck playing an extremely loud melody of “It’s A Small World” as it passes by every day during sunset
• The top of my head soaking in the warmth from the sun as if it’s petting me gently while I walk
• Aqua
• Moving in comfortable clothes that look better
• Glistening morning dew on plants
• Lazy days
• The pressure to be more productive
• Windblown laundry as it dries on my nearly worn out hanging lines
• 8 p.m. curfews rather than 5 p.m.
• Fresh air rolling through indoors
• Fitting in the kiddy chair under the shade in my backyard with the harmonica brushing against my mouth
• Sean Paul and soca music blasting out of the cars across the street

Summer is a noisy and active season. I would really love some sunshine now.

What does summer remind you of?