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So you learned the art of pretending to be everyone else.",[16,2299,2300],{},"But that doesn’t mean that you are the same as everyone else.",[16,2302,2303],{},"When your act is convincing enough, most people will never know the real you.",[16,2305,2306],{},"But it doesn’t mean that the need to adapt to everyone else is easy and not painful.",[16,2308,2309],{},"It’s never easy to have to live a life that’s not yours just to avoid the unnecessary hate and pain.",[16,2311,2312],{},"But it’s also why when you’re in the company of people who don’t care, you’ll always find freedom.",[16,2314,2315],{},"Kindness is the highest form of intelligence because it allows everyone to be themselves.",[16,2317,2318],{},"It’s why I have very few closed friends because I can simply be myself when I’m with them.",[137,2320,2322],{"id":2321},"meta","Meta",[97,2324,2325,2327,2330],{},[100,2326,2281],{},[100,2328,2329],{},"Date: 2024-04-08",[100,2331,2332],{},"Published: 2024-04-26",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":2334},[2335,2336],{"id":2293,"depth":64,"text":2294},{"id":2321,"depth":64,"text":2322},{"published":2338},"2024-04-26 02:00:00","Diversity, friends, and kindness.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdifferent\u002Fdifferent-b-300-1.png",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdifferent",{"title":2281,"description":2339},[590],"blog\u002Fdifferent",[1924,590,1834,591,2347,2348,2349,2350],"smlalphabet","kindness","community","friendship","sryBgzuVtWAZpnYwQI5ITNVRjH9In8HM5UM7nUUWhQk",{"id":2353,"title":2354,"author":7,"body":2355,"date":2421,"description":71,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":2423,"img_width":71,"meta":2424,"navigation":74,"path":2425,"seo":2426,"series":2427,"stem":2428,"tags":2429,"__hash__":2430},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fai-visual-literacy.md","Visual Literacy in the Age of AI",{"type":9,"value":2356,"toc":2418},[2357,2363,2365,2368,2371,2374,2377,2380,2383,2386,2389,2392,2395,2398,2401,2404,2407,2410,2413,2415],[54,2358],{":sources_index0":56,":sources_index1":57,"alt":2354,"fb_link":2359,"ig_link":2360,"sources_format":2361,"tw_link":2362},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facebook.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fposts\u002Fpfbid0KBst3uX5Uxcvj3NkW5LjFvVMhdAtAjHDGwjKvR4A5t9GwJqG4mzeBYqBrjtMcmhvl","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FC6JAYMixqXV\u002F","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-visual-literacy\u002Fai-visual-literacy-a-300-{}.png","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1775852454661497000",[137,2364,2294],{"id":2293},[16,2366,2367],{},"If you wished to command the beast known as the AI, then you must first have the vocabulary to do so. If you wish to see what the txt2img technology is truly capable of, then you must first know how to describe visual things with text.",[16,2369,2370],{},"Unfortunately, most people who don’t work in art and design don’t have the ability to describe visual matters verbally.",[16,2372,2373],{},"This inability to talk about art and design thus robs them from the full potential to utilize AI as part of their workflow.",[16,2375,2376],{},"To them, AI is the one who is making all the decisions, because the technology is the one who is in fact deciding where to walk, how to walk, simply because the humans commanding it is telling it simply to “walk” without any instructions.",[16,2378,2379],{},"But did you know that there lies a class of people who can describe visual things with accuracy and decisiveness?",[16,2381,2382],{},"They are the artists, designers, and architects.",[16,2384,2385],{},"They are people who have spent their lifetime talking about visual matters to their clients — who are additionally able to translate the incoherence of their clients’ wants and desires into visual things that delight.",[16,2387,2388],{},"These are also the people who have been able to utilize the AI technology with the most capability — because they are the ones commanding the machine.",[16,2390,2391],{},"They are the ones who see this new technology as one of collaboration and not the one making all the decisions.",[16,2393,2394],{},"But did you know that you can also be like them? You can join the ranks of artists and designers and command the beast as your faithful companion — all you gotta do is start talking about the things you see.",[16,2396,2397],{},"An exercise that I like to do is simple — when I look at things, I would describe what I like \u002F dislike about them.",[16,2399,2400],{},"Whether you like something does not actually matter much — why you like something is how you could build your visual vocabulary.",[16,2402,2403],{},"This is a technique I learned from an MIT professor of architecture when I was a teenager — at a time when I was planning to go to college for Architecture, as a subject that combines art and science — my parents took me to see the professor for they believed that it would be helpful.",[16,2405,2406],{},"I fell in love with graphic design when I got to Yale — but this technique has never left me.",[16,2408,2409],{},"When I experience life and all the objects that I see, I always ask myself why I like \u002F dislike something.",[16,2411,2412],{},"It’s one of the reasons why I often write a lot about the works I produce myself, for that is simply part of my daily routine.",[833,2414],{},[16,2416,2417],{},"Visual Literacy in the Age of AI\n\u002F 2024-04-04 \u002F SML",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":2419},[2420],{"id":2293,"depth":64,"text":2294},{"published":2422},"2024-04-24 10:00:00","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-visual-literacy\u002Fai-visual-literacy-a-300-1.png",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fai-visual-literacy",{"title":2354,"description":71},[587],"blog\u002Fai-visual-literacy",[587,692,1216,940,590,1834],"_dhxWFMnDdjhApZEi0IKhPSZeoVB4QZh7w8ppgzl8tY",{"id":2432,"title":2433,"author":7,"body":2434,"date":2552,"description":2554,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":2555,"img_width":71,"meta":2556,"navigation":74,"path":2557,"seo":2558,"series":2559,"stem":2560,"tags":2561,"__hash__":2566},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fsml-bai-teawood.md","TeaWood 茶木",{"type":9,"value":2435,"toc":2548},[2436,2440,2443,2446,2449,2457,2460,2463,2466,2469,2472,2475,2478,2481,2484,2487,2490,2493,2496,2500,2506,2515,2517,2531,2540,2543,2545],[12,2437],{":sources":2438,"alt":2439},"[\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsml-bai-teawood\u002Fsml-bai-teawood-300-1.jpg\",\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsml-bai-teawood\u002Fsml-bai-teawood-300-2.jpg\",\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsml-bai-teawood\u002Fsml-bai-teawood-300-3.jpg\"]","TeaWood 茶木, Chinese Food Culture",[16,2441,2442],{},"TeaWood 茶木 @teawood.hk is one of my favorite casual dining restaurant in Hong Kong. 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Although I also like the beef noodle soup from Din Tai Fung 鼎泰豐, I slightly prefer the version at TeaWood.",[16,2464,2465],{},"They always come with generous portion of Cilantro that adds the necessary herbal accents to an otherwise filling dish. Comes with carrot and daikon, which makes the dish feels less heavy. Very yummy stock as well.",[16,2467,2468],{},"2\u002F Sweet Soft Boiled Egg 甜蜜溏心蛋",[16,2470,2471],{},"I often go to Shanghainese restaurants just for the smoked eggs, but these soft boiled eggs are a closed second. These are very similar to the ones that are served in Japanese ramen restaurants, but with a hint a sweet notes.",[16,2473,2474],{},"3\u002F Sausages Grilled in Taiwanese Style 古早烤香腸",[16,2476,2477],{},"Most people would be familiar with 臘腸 Lap cheong, but unlike the smoked and dried sausages, 香腸 Xiang chang is a fresh and plump sausage that’s rather sweet. These are gently grilled to give a contrast in texture on the skin.",[16,2479,2480],{},"4\u002F Fried Chicken Pieces in Taiwanese Style 台灣鹽酥雞",[16,2482,2483],{},"Taiwanese fried chicken has an interesting coating that’s similar to the ones used for salt and pepper squid. I like these bite sized versions better than the larger steaks — which are popular in Taiwanese street food.",[16,2485,2486],{},"5\u002F Yuzu Iced Drink 柚子冰",[16,2488,2489],{},"Lemon Iced Water is a popular drink in Hong Kong. Instead of lemon, yuzu is used.",[16,2491,2492],{},"6\u002F SML + B",[16,2494,2495],{},"I can’t show his face. I’m secretly hoping that I can do it after ten years. 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For me, ADHD is a superpower.",[16,2639,2640],{},"Immersing myself in a community of individuals with ADHD significantly broadens the scope of my network coverage.",[137,2642,2644],{"id":2643},"questions-and-feedback","Questions and Feedback",[16,2646,2647],{},"I’ve received a few comments and questions regarding this post, which I shall include here for completeness.",[2649,2650,2652],"h3",{"id":2651},"what-are-the-nodes","What are the nodes?",[16,2654,2655],{},[452,2656,2659],{"href":2657,"rel":2658},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002Fneurodiversity\u002Fcomments\u002F1bn49gm\u002Fcomment\u002Fkwg0jfq\u002F",[456],"Reddit comment",[16,2661,2662],{},"Consider the world of concepts as a network of nodes, which each node being a unique concept or subject matter. Often, to be able to see how something could be something else depends on being able to see the hidden pattern within that link them together.",[16,2664,2665],{},"For simple things, the connection would be direct. For example, for photojournalism, which is linking photography with journalism — the field of using photography as a medium to tell a journalistic story.",[16,2667,2668],{},"For more complex topics, to see the solution would require knowledge of multiple fields. For example, to understand how you could create solution that would allow autonomous vehicle navigation — aka self-driving cars — you would have to know about sensor data, traffic laws, analysis of environmental conditions, predictive modeling, etc.",[16,2670,2671],{},"To have a hunch that a problem is even potentially solvable, it requires at least some knowledge of these fields. Then a hypothesis can be formed and ask the questions “what if”.",[16,2673,2674],{},"Partially, I wrote this because often people would comment that people with ADHD (or other types of neurodivergent people) of “wasting time to mind about unnecessary knowledge”.",[16,2676,2677],{},"I’d like to show, through this example, that maybe there are exceptional advantages offered by exploring the random universe.",[16,2679,2680],{},"— that potentially, if we would have the open heart to embrace and appreciate these efforts, and to allow people to be who they are, then potentially more problems would be solved.",[16,2682,2683],{},"— by simply allowing people who are genetically predisposed to do what they are capable of doing",[2649,2685,2687],{"id":2686},"its-more-than-adhd-it-occurs-in-asd-and-mania-as-well-its-pattern-recognition-and-synthesis-and-we-are-all-wired-for-it","It’s more than adhd. It occurs in asd and mania As well. It’s pattern recognition and synthesis. And we are all wired for it",[16,2689,2690],{},[452,2691,2659],{"href":2692,"rel":2693},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fr\u002Fneurodiversity\u002Fcomments\u002F1bn49gm\u002Fcomment\u002Fkwfv0ns\u002F",[456],[16,2695,2696],{},"Thanks — I can’t speak for other neurodivergent types because I don’t have them — but yes, largely, it’s pattern recognition.",[2649,2698,2700],{"id":2699},"using-tugraphgraph-processingto-calculate-and-predict-the-future","Using TuGraph（Graph Processing）to calculate and predict the future",[16,2702,2703],{},[452,2704,2707],{"href":2705,"rel":2706},"https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Flisyaoran6\u002Fstatus\u002F1772094370390360510",[456],"Twitter comment",[97,2709,2710],{},[100,2711,2712,2713,2718],{},"Article: ",[452,2714,2717],{"href":2715,"rel":2716},"https:\u002F\u002Fbaijiahao.baidu.com\u002Fs?id=1787371035271551205",[456],"支付寶有多狠？ 當年為抓騙子搞出“圖計算”，現在竟用它預測未來",[97,2719,2720,2723],{},[100,2721,2722],{},"How ruthless is Alipay? 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I do draw — but the type of drawings that I do is never intended to be final works, so they have no fidelity to them.",[16,2744,2745],{},"I draw them purely as ideas — enough for me to know what I need to do to realize it.",[16,2747,2748],{},"Sketches are visual notes and diaries. There are ideas that I’ve jotted on my Moleskines dating as far as 30 years ago that I haven’t realized because of time. 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As someone who loves sneakers, I thought that maybe I could try to have custom made sneakers in Hong Kong instead — currently investigating vendors!",[16,2794,2795],{},"These sneakers are based on the Dragon motif with color palette from the Forbidden City. I was born in the year of Dragon, a mythological creature that’s not only associated with the Chinese Zodiac, but also used to be something associated with the emperor in ancient China — so I thought why not combine these two things.",[16,2797,2798],{},"I made these in Midjourney. Often, people would ask why not draw these or 3D model them — you’re mostly missing the point. The use of AI is to quickly realize concepts — to see if they could work. If they could work then you could tweak + finalize the design for production. If I were to do this from scratch and 3D model individual sneakers, then it would’ve taken days + months — time which I don’t have. If I were to hire a 3d modeling firm to do it, it would take so many revisions. Thus AI is an imagination machine that enable productivity in such way that most people probably didn’t realize.",[833,2800],{},[16,2802,2803],{},"A friend got me into Nike Air Max Plus TN sneakers recently, but I don’t like most of its styling, so I tried to imagine what I would design if it’s up to me.",[16,2805,2806],{},"I was born in the Year of Dragon. Besides being a Chinese Zodiac, the Chinese dragon is a mythological creature that was once reserved by the Emperor in Ancient China, so I thought it could be fun to create a series of Nike with patterns inspired by the traditional Chinese sculptures seen inside the Forbidden City, while having a color palette that‘s vibrant and exciting.",[54,2808],{":sources_index0":56,":sources_index1":240,"alt":2784,"fb_link":2809,"ig_link":2810,"li_link":2811,"sources_format":2812,"tw_link":2813},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facebook.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fposts\u002Fpfbid02ZS2puxYgBSN78KMCobMFn8jhUrEGCYP8SGAM326QVXuuar1Ui9deab3TboUWbfrCl","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FC4v_VGESTxB\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Ffeed\u002Fupdate\u002Furn:li:ugcPost:7176431523326226432\u002F","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fairmaxplus-dragon\u002Fairmaxplus-dragon-a-300-{}.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1770551948019982433",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":2815},[],{"published":2817},"2024-03-20 20:00:00","Design concepts for Nike Air Max Plus TN","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fairmaxplus-dragon\u002Fairmaxplus-dragon-a-300-1.jpg",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fnike-airmaxplus-dragon-a",{"title":2784,"description":2818},[587],"blog\u002Fnike-airmaxplus-dragon-a",[587,2826,2827,2828,1275,770,586],"design","sneakers","concept","cmxWqDm9ZrGutGs7hEh16rkMypNGnqeNEhT1JOAlMJk",{"id":2831,"title":2832,"author":7,"body":2833,"date":2965,"description":2967,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":2968,"img_width":71,"meta":2969,"navigation":74,"path":2970,"seo":2971,"series":2972,"stem":2973,"tags":2974,"__hash__":2977},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fyale-pizza-tour-nyc-2007.md","Yale 2.0: Pizza Tour NYC 2007",{"type":9,"value":2834,"toc":2961},[2835,2838,2844,2846,2849,2852,2855,2884,2887,2913,2916,2919,2922,2925,2928,2931,2934,2937,2941,2944,2947,2955,2958],[12,2836],{":sources":2837,"alt":2832},"[\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyale-20-frannys-2007\u002Fyale-20-pizza-tour-2007-b-300-1.jpg\",\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyale-20-frannys-2007\u002Fyale-20-pizza-tour-2007-b-300-4.jpg\",\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyale-20-frannys-2007\u002Fyale-20-pizza-tour-2007-b-300-8.jpg\"]",[54,2839],{":sources_index0":56,":sources_index1":566,"alt":2832,"fb_link":2840,"fl_link":2841,"ig_link":2842,"sources_format":2843},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facebook.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fposts\u002Fpfbid02tcLWn8XFdFrCup2y4wGgn91dqGYznPeqWzTrEzoTN1NnQn4UrduSi9G2MGHErjwUl","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002Falbums\u002F72157603267013620\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FC4vpz6UJQgX\u002F","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyale-20-frannys-2007\u002Fyale-20-pizza-tour-2007-b-300-{}.jpg",[137,2845,2294],{"id":2293},[16,2847,2848],{},"1\u002F Food connects people. Back in 2007, Vladimir Coho, YC’99, brought together a group of strangers to eat at all the finest pizza places in New York. This documents what happened at the last stop — Franny’s.",[16,2850,2851],{},"2\u002F Once upon a time, before Facebook’s public debut, a few schools, including Yale, were chosen to test the platform. Yalies had a dedicated digital hub at yale.facebook.com, where Vladimir Coho once held an event, now lost to the digital ether.",[16,2853,2854],{},"Event",[97,2856,2857,2860,2863,2866,2869,2872,2875,2878,2881],{},[100,2858,2859],{},"Name: Pizza Tour NYC",[100,2861,2862],{},"Tagline: for friends and family",[100,2864,2865],{},"Host: Vladimir Coho",[100,2867,2868],{},"Type: Other - Carnival",[100,2870,2871],{},"Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2007",[100,2873,2874],{},"Time: 10:00am - 10:00pm",[100,2876,2877],{},"Location: NYC",[100,2879,2880],{},"City\u002FTown: New York, NY",[100,2882,2883],{},"Purpose: Tour some of the best Pizza in NYC. Now that I’m on the West Coast, this is a very important “keeping it real” event for me. I mustn’t forget what real pizza tastes like. Seattle’s pie sucks, for the most part.",[16,2885,2886],{},"Pizza Restaurants",[97,2888,2889,2892,2895,2898,2901,2904,2907,2910],{},[100,2890,2891],{},"Rose & Joe's Bakery (31st St near Ditmars Blvd, Astoria)",[100,2893,2894],{},"Rosario's (31st St near Ditmars Blvd, Astoria)",[100,2896,2897],{},"Joe’s (7 Carmine Street, West Village)",[100,2899,2900],{},"Grandaisy Bakery (73 Sullivan St., SoHo)",[100,2902,2903],{},"Lombardi’s (32 Spring St., SoHo)",[100,2905,2906],{},"Luzzo's (1st Ave. & 12th St.)",[100,2908,2909],{},"Fornino (187 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn)",[100,2911,2912],{},"Franny’s (295 Flatbush Ave., Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)",[16,2914,2915],{},"3\u002F Photographing meals has become a staple in the era of social media, a trend that persists unwaveringly. Sometimes, I wonder whether chefs intentionally serve dishes piping hot, ensuring they retain their warmth even after the ritual of snapping pictures is complete.",[16,2917,2918],{},"4\u002F Dr Sam + SML (aka me)",[16,2920,2921],{},"5\u002F Venessa, who served us at Franny’s, handled our antics with grace and a smile!",[16,2923,2924],{},"6\u002F The chef at Franny’s — I have long held the idea that people who are passionate about their work always look exceptionally attractive. Here’s a living example.",[16,2926,2927],{},"7\u002F My favorite photo of the night. This would be perfect as a spread in a magazine.",[16,2929,2930],{},"8\u002F I prefer photos of the waiter taking our order instead of the receipt, as it feels more personal and humanizes the experience.",[16,2932,2933],{},"9\u002F Whenever I dine out, I make a point to photograph the menu. Remembering the options available can offer insight into our decision-making for the dishes we selected.",[16,2935,2936],{},"14\u002F Studying of the menu. Hyper focus mode.",[137,2938,2940],{"id":2939},"end-notes","End notes",[16,2942,2943],{},"I always carry my camera everywhere I go. I don’t remember things very well, so I like to keep a visual record of things that happened. In some ways, it might not be a coincidence that I spent 4 years working as the Photo Editor at The Yale Herald. After college, I continued to do photojournalism on my own — documenting things that I find interesting. Some of them will occasionally get picked up by major news media outlets, mainly because I publish many of my photographs via Creative Commons.",[16,2945,2946],{},"I believe that important ideas often lack the necessary coverage, but they need to be seen by people. 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I learned the difficult lesson that because of how Creative Commons work, sometimes even the best intention can result in the worst possible situation, so I no longer license any photographs featuring people under CCBY.",[16,2959,2960],{},"Copyright 2007 See-ming Lee \u002F SML Photography \u002F SML Universe Limited",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":2962},[2963,2964],{"id":2293,"depth":64,"text":2294},{"id":2939,"depth":64,"text":2940},{"published":2966},"2024-03-20 17:00:00","A group of strangers came together all for the love of pizza.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyale-20-frannys-2007\u002Fyale-20-pizza-tour-2007-b-300-1.jpg",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fyale-pizza-tour-nyc-2007",{"title":2832,"description":2967},[1693],"blog\u002Fyale-pizza-tour-nyc-2007",[1693,695,2975,83,78,2976,938],"photojournalism","facebook","1cGIiHvfk1VmrtxHJboneJLiFYUa10i7no3n7-slFw4",{"id":2979,"title":2980,"author":7,"body":2981,"date":3077,"description":3079,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":3080,"img_width":71,"meta":3081,"navigation":74,"path":3082,"seo":3083,"series":3084,"stem":3086,"tags":3087,"__hash__":3089},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fart-education-yale.md","Art Education at Yale",{"type":9,"value":2982,"toc":3072},[2983,2986,2989,2992,2996,3013,3017,3025,3027,3030,3033,3036,3039,3042,3045,3048,3051,3054,3057,3060,3063,3066,3069],[12,2984],{":alt":143,":sources":2985},"[\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fart-education\u002Fart-education-a-300-1.png\",\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fart-education\u002Fart-education-a-300-4.png\",\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fart-education\u002Fart-education-a-300-10.png\"]",[16,2987,2988],{},"I believe that the way art is taught at Yale is superior. My only art education is from Yale — before that, I did math + science in high school for easy A’s (Notes 1).",[16,2990,2991],{},"I fell in love with art because it challenges me to think and to imagine. I wrote this post because a friend on Facebook talked to me about finding an art school for her daughter, and I recommend that she look into Yale.",[2649,2993,2995],{"id":2994},"notes","Notes",[1872,2997,2998,3004],{},[100,2999,3000,3001],{},"Science is absolute. Art is qualitative. To get good grades, science is the natural choice. My favorite subject in high school was organic chemistry, and it’s why I did freshman orgo with all the pre-meds at Yale. Because it’s fun. Also, McBride (Notes 2) is nuts — one of my favorite professors at Yale. ",[452,3002,3003],{"href":1639},"#crazyisgood",[100,3005,3006,3007,3012],{},"J Michael Mcbride. ",[452,3008,3011],{"href":3009,"rel":3010},"https:\u002F\u002Fchem.yale.edu\u002Ffaculty\u002Fj-michael-mcbride",[456],"Yale Faculty",". Member of Yale faculty since 1966. Professor Emeritus of Chemistry.",[137,3014,3016],{"id":3015},"text-as-image","Text as Image",[54,3018],{":sources_index0":56,":sources_index1":1349,"alt":3019,"fb_link":3020,"ig_link":3021,"li_link":3022,"sources_format":3023,"tw_link":3024},"Art Edcuation at Yale \u002F 2024-03-18 \u002F SML","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facebook.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fposts\u002Fpfbid0iy58bnWFMiJZBidgBmQrD57xHPZzwRzrTkyXbqMDEEE3LHpgD5z9Qre4CZgJsMsZl","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FC4o6ndWxUcv\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Ffeed\u002Fupdate\u002Furn:li:share:7175323365648322560\u002F","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fart-education\u002Fart-education-a-300-{}.png","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1769419375248134594",[137,3026,2294],{"id":2293},[16,3028,3029],{},"There’s art education — and there’s Yale art education.",[16,3031,3032],{},"The Yale way is not the way how art is taught in most schools. The Yale way, I believe, is largely what shaped me to be the person I am — because the Yale way is unusual — but it works.",[16,3034,3035],{},"Most art schools teach students how to draw — the technique of drawing things. In many ways, this technique-driven approach has trained a large number of people to become the perfect reproduction machines. It makes people think about art in their ability to create works of amazement — but to me, largely missing the point.",[16,3037,3038],{},"The Yale way is to let you do anything you want — but always asking an important question:",[16,3040,3041],{},"Why?",[16,3043,3044],{},"My concentration is in graphic design, so I will use design as an example.",[16,3046,3047],{},"Let’s say you’re designing a poster for a movie — why did you use this photo? Why not an illustration? Why is photography better than other types of visual representation?",[16,3049,3050],{},"Why this font? Why place this font at this location? Why not 1mm to the left? Why this color? Why not a shade lighter? Why this size? Why not bigger? Why not smaller?",[16,3052,3053],{},"When you’re eventually able to articulate succinctly why you did everything that you presented, it’s considered finished.",[16,3055,3056],{},"In many ways, the art education at Yale is similar to how one would present at a thesis defense. It’s similar to how a Q+A session at a press conference is carried out. It trains everyone to think for themselves and to have the confidence to be able to defend every decision.",[16,3058,3059],{},"It’s why I can usually talk about what I do and why I do anything in all of the works — because partially, to be able to talk about my works is a core part of my education.",[16,3061,3062],{},"Fundamentally, art and design are both rooted in concepts — concepts that you can see. A concept is a statement and thesis. It‘s an idea that you can experience visually.",[16,3064,3065],{},"You know what art is not? Art is not the perfect reproduction skills. There are far better ways to do that — machines.",[16,3067,3068],{},"Training to become the perfect reproduction machine will never make you a great artist.",[16,3070,3071],{},"Learning how to express yourself in the best way possible, on the other hand, most definitely will.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":3073},[3074,3075,3076],{"id":2994,"depth":2764,"text":2995},{"id":3015,"depth":64,"text":3016},{"id":2293,"depth":64,"text":2294},{"published":3078},"2024-03-18 02:00:00","Why I recommend Yale for people looking to study art.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fart-education\u002Fart-education-a-300-1.png",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fart-education-yale",{"title":2980,"description":3079},[3085],"edu","blog\u002Fart-education-yale",[692,3085,3088,1693,590,591],"education","BRla0REEEgcghcEoqQa9O5AmhhmWG58HZ2Y_7wWdfJw",{"id":3091,"title":3092,"author":7,"body":3093,"date":3295,"description":3297,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":3298,"img_width":71,"meta":3299,"navigation":74,"path":3300,"seo":3301,"series":3302,"stem":3304,"tags":3305,"__hash__":3306},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fparadise-dynasty.md","Paradise Dynasty 樂天皇朝",{"type":9,"value":3094,"toc":3289},[3095,3099,3106,3109,3112,3118,3144,3147,3150,3153,3156,3159,3162,3165,3168,3171,3174,3184,3188,3191,3194,3197,3201,3210,3236,3238,3244,3256,3265,3267,3277,3284,3286],[12,3096],{":sources":3097,"alt":3098},"[\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fparadise-dynasty\u002Fparadise-dynasty-a-300-1.jpg\",\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fparadise-dynasty\u002Fparadise-dynasty-a-300-5.jpg\",\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fparadise-dynasty\u002Fparadise-dynasty-a-300-9.jpg\"]","Paradise Dynasty 樂天皇朝, Chinese Food Culture",[54,3100],{":sources_index0":56,":sources_index1":1349,"alt":3098,"fb_link":3101,"fl_link":3102,"ig_link":3103,"sources_format":3104,"tw_link":3105},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facebook.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fposts\u002Fpfbid02AbXiX4ZbZLjC2KJG88EfT8uEk5FsUsZfEdwfyLxmAeJq9oQT2Fe7u6bBAcfcSdU9l","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002Falbums\u002F72177720315488242\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FC4oW6_3y8nd\u002F","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fparadise-dynasty\u002Fparadise-dynasty-a-300-{}.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1769484943896531166",[16,3107,3108],{},"I saw some colorful Xiao Long Bao 小籠包 while looking for a place to eat in Grand Plaza, and decided to check it out.",[16,3110,3111],{},"2\u002F Specialty Dynasty Xiao Long Bao (8 flavors) 特色皇朝小籠包 (八色)",[16,3113,3114,3115],{},"Xiaolongbao refers to a type of small Chinese steamed bun traditionally prepared in a xiaolong, a small bamboo steaming basket. Xiaolongbao are often referred to as a kind of \"dumpling\", but are distinct from Chinese jiaozi or wonton. ",[3116,3117,56],"span",{},[1872,3119,3120,3123,3126,3129,3132,3135,3138,3141],{},[100,3121,3122],{},"招牌原味 Signature Original",[100,3124,3125],{},"芝士 Cheese",[100,3127,3128],{},"蟹粉 Crab Roe",[100,3130,3131],{},"蒜香 Garlic",[100,3133,3134],{},"川味 Szechaun",[100,3136,3137],{},"韓式泡菜 Korean Kimchi",[100,3139,3140],{},"鵝肝 Foie Gras",[100,3142,3143],{},"黑松露 Black Truffle",[16,3145,3146],{},"The signature original is definitely the best.",[16,3148,3149],{},"3\u002F Vinegar 醋 is the only condiment I need for Xiao Long Bao.",[16,3151,3152],{},"4\u002F But some people also prefer hot sauce and pepper.",[16,3154,3155],{},"5\u002F 聞香蔥油餅 Scallion Pastry",[16,3157,3158],{},"6\u002F 聞香蔥油餅 Scallion Pastry - Inside view",[16,3160,3161],{},"Unusual item. Tasty. This pastry seems to be a modern interpretation of the traditional dish — Scallion pancakes 蔥油餅.",[16,3163,3164],{},"7\u002F 蘿蔔絲酥餅 Radish Pastry",[16,3166,3167],{},"Shredded daikon radish is thinly sliced and wrapped in pastry. Aka Turnip Puff Pastry, Radish Puff.",[16,3169,3170],{},"8\u002F 香煎豆沙鍋餅 Pan-fried Pancake with Red Bean Paste",[16,3172,3173],{},"Shanghainese dessert. One of my favorite desserts in Chinese cuisine. Often, I would intentionally dine in Shanghainese restaurants just so I know that I could order this dish.",[16,3175,3176,3178,3179],{},[3116,3177,56],{}," ",[452,3180,3183],{"href":3181,"rel":3182},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FXiaolongbao",[456],"Wikipedia: Xiaolongbao",[137,3185,3187],{"id":3186},"verdict","Verdict",[16,3189,3190],{},"Recommended. I like the original signature Xiaolongbao the best. The black truffle one is interesting — though if you’re a truffle lover then it’s not really that exceptional. I’m mostly glad that it’s not bad truffle… The rest are interesting but not exceptional.",[16,3192,3193],{},"Will revisit — good enough to take a friend for a casual lunch. Not for special occasion. I’d give the signature original Xiaolongbao half a star. The rest of the food is good — but again, not exceptional. I mean they’re pretty good — good enough for a revisit. To me, any place that’s worth revisiting is generally good for me.",[16,3195,3196],{},"With so many amazing food options in Hong Kong, I rarely go to a restaurant twice unless the food is good.",[137,3198,3200],{"id":3199},"time-out","Time Out",[16,3202,3203,3204,3209],{},"Since publishing this post, I have found out that Time Out wrote an article about the ",[452,3205,3208],{"href":3206,"rel":3207},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.timeout.com\u002Fhong-kong\u002Frestaurants\u002Fbest-xiao-long-bao-hong-kong",[456],"Best Xiao Long Bao in Hong Kong"," and Paradise Dynasty is listed as one of the places. 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It started out as a project for a typography class while I was in college. Like most graphic design assignments at Yale, it was very open ended. We were asked to show the experience of a city through the language of typography. I have always been interested in numbers, and as such I decided to run around New Haven and photograph numbers which represent the city, from 1 to 100.",[16,3505,3506],{},"The series was to be projected on the wall as a slideshow. The numbers are recognizably New Haven, and most who have been in New Haven can recognize the sense of time and space as they go through the series. Some commented that it reminded them of Sesame Street.",[16,3508,3509],{},"I thought of extended this to different neighborhoods in New York, but I never had the time to work on more of them after college, and as such I have only completed the first and only one…",[16,3511,3512],{},"The original series was displayed via a conventional slide projector. 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Its Wan Chai branch was on the list of Michelin Recommended Restaurants for 2011-2017.",[16,3914,3915],{},"Several everyday restaurants in Hong Kong have earned stars in the Michelin Guide — which is one of the truly special thing about the food in Hong Kong.",[137,3917,3684],{"id":3683},[16,3919,3920,3921,2530],{},"Dinner \u002F 2024-02-23 \u002F SML",[29,3922],{},[16,3924,233,3925,3271],{},[29,3926],{},[16,3928,3722],{},[16,3930,3931,3932,3934,3935,3937,3938,3940],{},"Copyright 2024",[29,3933],{},"\nSee-ming Lee \u002F",[29,3936],{},"\nSML Photography \u002F",[29,3939],{},"\nSML Universe Limited",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":3942},[3943,3950],{"id":2293,"depth":64,"text":2294,"children":3944},[3945,3946,3947,3948,3949],{"id":3871,"depth":2764,"text":3872},{"id":3881,"depth":2764,"text":3882},{"id":3891,"depth":2764,"text":3892},{"id":3901,"depth":2764,"text":3902},{"id":3908,"depth":2764,"text":3909},{"id":3683,"depth":64,"text":3684},{"published":3952},"2024-02-24 01:00:00","A standard casual meal in Hong Kong.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcongee-dinner\u002Fcongee-dinner-a-300-1.jpg",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcongee-dinner-a",{"title":3840,"description":3953},[1046],"blog\u002Fcongee-dinner-a",[160,1046,78],"orXbTRny-wavixYBmAuGxkCTOwYyZsYhxU5ymhrESBI",{"id":3963,"title":3964,"author":7,"body":3965,"date":4005,"description":4007,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":3992,"img_width":71,"meta":4008,"navigation":74,"path":4009,"seo":4010,"series":4011,"stem":4012,"tags":4013,"__hash__":4015},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Ftai-o-chairs.md","Chairs at the Front Porch",{"type":9,"value":3966,"toc":4003},[3967,3971,3974,3977,3980,3983,3986,3993,3995],[1935,3968],{"alt":3969,"size_type":1937,"src":3970},"Chairs at the Front Porch, Residential Houses in Tai O, Hong Kong \u002F SML + BAI \u002FSML.20231219.6D.38441.BW","\u002Fphoto\u002Ftai-o\u002FSML.20231219.6D.38441.BW.jpg",[16,3972,3973],{},"This is a typical front porch of the houses in Tai O. There’s nothing special about this except how representative it is of the type of front porches from a long gone era. In some ways, Tai O is a wonderful place to visit, for it has kept all the charm that you would see as common place in Hong Kong — before that culture was swept away by the waves of modernity.",[16,3975,3976],{},"The front porches in these houses are never gated. It has two arm chairs, and a stack of plastic chairs. Usually, these chairs that are decorated are reserved for the elders of the family — the grand parents, or the great grand parents. The older generation would sit outside of the house to enjoy the fresh air. 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He likes to try to “convince” me that what makes Hong Kong special are the random “Dai Pai Dong”s (大牌檔) that are made for “regular people” (LOL). And I often have to tell him — I do appreciate the local cultures. I do sometimes go to local places. It’s exceptionally strange that he would have the opinion that I’m not “local” enough.",[16,4028,4029],{},"I don’t go to them often — not because I “have” to go to nice places. But if I go out at all, I want to have a decent time — i.e. I don’t want to have to self-serve, be yelled at by the waiters, and is it so bad to want seats that have a back?! But would I go to local places from time to time — absolutely!",[16,4031,4032],{},"There’s this place close to my home where you could find construction workers visit during lunch time, and it’s actually quite the experience to enjoy dim sum while having some “delay no more” (very vulgar Cantonese slang that I would never write or say) going on in the background continuously. You can’t get more local than that!",[16,4034,4035],{},"This photo was taken at a local “food area” near the Mui Wo ferry, where we had dinner. It’s literally one of the four restaurants that serve local seafood by the pier. I don’t remember the name of the restaurant — it’s not the type of place you would really care what they’re called, but referencing the map, it’s called Ke Ho Restaurant 幾好餐廳. It’s actually a funny name now that I realize it. “Ke Ho 幾好” literally means “pretty good”. There’s some humor in it because it’s odd to say “pretty good” — i.e. it’s not exceptionally good, just decently consumable. It’s Chinese humility yo. It’s funny — and the food? Actually pretty good.",[16,4037,4038],{},"B took the photo with my camera. I post-processed it. I kept the chaos in the background mainly to show what the place is like. Happy? Me in a random place. No more sh!t about me not being local, please. If you know me, I rarely care where I eat. 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You’ll never see me like this unless you happened to be where I’m at when I woke up.",[16,5629,5630],{},"I decided to take a photo because it’s special — it’s basically my “private view” — a view that you would never see unless we’re very good friends — such good friends that somehow you happen to be where I’m at in the morning.",[16,5632,5633],{},"This was also a phase where I decided to not take self portraits with a smile.",[16,5635,5636],{},"A friend who’s an artist suggested to me that self portraits should always show the state of mind we’re in.",[16,5638,5639],{},"I was in pain since I was recovering from the surgery, but I took the time to setup the shot because I had a lot of time, and I was advised by my doctor to move around if possible.",[16,5641,5642],{},"I let the facial hair grow coz if I had to work, I had to be clean shaven — if you do what I do, it’s best to remain semi low profile when talking to clients, so that the work (the design) could shine, instead of distracting them with what I look like, or what I’m wearing.",[16,5644,5645],{},"The strobe is blown out — don’t judge!",[16,5647,5648],{},"But I like it anyway, for it reminded me of how I felt so many years ago — the emotional state of mine.",[97,5650,5651,5654,5657,5659,5662,5665],{},[100,5652,5653],{},"Big Hair SML \u002F 20080106.10D.46967 \u002F SML",[100,5655,5656],{},"SML Universe NYC",[100,5658,2951],{},[100,5660,5661],{},"Canon EF 70-200 f\u002F4L",[100,5663,5664],{},"Canon 580EX remote strobe on umbrella left",[100,5666,5667],{},"ISO 100, 131 mm, f\u002F4, 1\u002F60 sec",[16,5669,5670],{},"Copyright 2008 See-ming Lee \u002F SML Photography \u002F SML Universe Limited. 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Unlike many conventions which have sales people talking non-stop, this convention is mostly silent, with men (and women) lying down patiently waiting for skilled tattooist to needle ink onto their skin while the artists patiently wait for the work to proceed while layers of skin heals over the entirety of the day.",[16,5731,5732],{},"Most of the photographs I have taken from this day was made possible mostly because of the excellent low-light high ISO performance of the 6D combined with the super 100-400 which allows me to photograph people from afar without alerting their attention.",[16,5734,5735],{},"The event was held at the InnoCentre in Kowloon Tong from October 4-6, 2013.",[16,5737,5738],{},[452,5739,5742],{"href":5740,"rel":5741},"https:\u002F\u002Fhktattoocon.com",[456],"hktattoocon.com",[16,5744,5745],{},[5746,5747,5748],"em",{},"Description of the photo when it was originally published on October 29, 2013.",[137,5750,3684],{"id":3683},[16,5752,5753],{},"男忍 Men of Endurance \u002F 第一屆香港國際紋身展 1st International Hong Kong China Tattoo Convention 2013 (HKTattooCon) \u002F SML.20131006.6D.30157.BW",[97,5755,5756,5759,5762,5765,5768,5771,5773,5775,5778],{},[100,5757,5758],{},"Date: 2013-10-13T19:41:49+0800",[100,5760,5761],{},"Dimensions: 5301 x 3534",[100,5763,5764],{},"Exposure: 1\u002F320 sec at f\u002F5.6",[100,5766,5767],{},"Focal Length: 260 mm",[100,5769,5770],{},"ISO: 4000",[100,5772,5243],{},[100,5774,1949],{},[100,5776,5777],{},"Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f\u002F4.5-5.6L IS USM",[100,5779,5780],{},"GPS: 22°20'12\" N 114°10'32\" E",[2649,5782,1136],{"id":1135},[97,5784,5785,5788,5791],{},[100,5786,5787],{},"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CCBYNC)",[100,5789,5790],{},"See-ming Lee 李思明 \u002F SML Photography \u002F SML Universe Limited",[100,5792,5793],{},"Copyright 2013 See-ming Lee",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":5795},[5796,5797],{"id":5722,"depth":64,"text":5723},{"id":3683,"depth":64,"text":3684,"children":5798},[5799],{"id":1135,"depth":2764,"text":1136},{"published":5801},"2024-02-07 19:00:00","Visually explaining a photo shot in 2013","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fendurance\u002Fendurance-01-300-1.jpg",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fendurance",{"title":5686,"description":5802},[695],"blog\u002Fendurance",[695,2975,162,5810,83],"men","ObVfvISpfmiZ-MmAAmebp8CR4THnXfh6ciNdoDaKbfA",{"id":5813,"title":5814,"author":7,"body":5815,"date":5950,"description":5952,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":5953,"img_width":71,"meta":5954,"navigation":74,"path":5955,"seo":5956,"series":5957,"stem":5958,"tags":5959,"__hash__":5961},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fcriteria.md","Will I do this if I get nothing in return?",{"type":9,"value":5816,"toc":5943},[5817,5824,5826,5829,5832,5835,5842,5845,5848,5866,5869,5872,5875,5878,5881,5888,5891,5894,5897,5900,5903,5906,5908,5912,5920,5924,5927,5930,5933,5936],[54,5818],{":sources_index0":56,":sources_index1":1349,"alt":5814,"fb_link":5819,"ig_link":5820,"li_link":5821,"sources_format":5822,"tw_link":5823},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facebook.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fposts\u002Fpfbid02JMfwpEKNe5BLYVqE9ih1HjZhvoDczgqokXqJzPKqDsHLGq2HftAdjHdmY1kRZigyl","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FC3ClBghRCc0\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Ffeed\u002Fupdate\u002Furn:li:activity:7160917682131726336\u002F","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcriteria\u002Fcriteria-03-300-{}.png","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1755151088750407753",[137,5825,2294],{"id":2293},[16,5827,5828],{},"Will I do this if I get nothing in return? — My only criteria for deciding if I will work on something.",[16,5830,5831],{},"My criteria for doing anything used to be:",[16,5833,5834],{},"Will I do this if I die tomorrow?",[16,5836,5837,5838,3520],{},"— something I learned from Steve Jobs, from his 2005 Commencement Speech at Stanford. 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Money should be the result, not the reason.",[16,5860,5861,5865],{},[452,5862,5864],{"href":5863},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwork\u002F","Work"," - 2022-12-04",[16,5867,5868],{},"Identifying what drives me, and what makes me happy, is what I’ve ultimately decided is what is most important to me.",[16,5870,5871],{},"It took me a long time to find that — and for me, I’ve identified that I simply want to be helpful.",[16,5873,5874],{},"The tricky aspect about this is that I learned early on in my career that most people see my offer to help as an insult — an insult to their abilities to solve a problem themselves.",[16,5876,5877],{},"I’ve learned the hard lesson to never offer help unless someone asked for it.",[16,5879,5880],{},"But I’ve found a better way now. In 2017, I started a personal project to help myself play a game better. It was never intended to become anything, but out of nowhere, people also found it to be helpful — as evidenced by the one million monthly active users that we have.",[16,5882,5883,5884,3520],{},"I didn’t work on it for money — in many ways, this site is possibly the worst way to generate money, given the fan content policy from Supercell strictly prohibits revenue other than from ad revenue. 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I actually tried to do a bit of that, but alas.",[16,6726,6727],{},"I will write more about this in the future.",[2649,6729,6731],{"id":6730},"royaleapi-website-design","RoyaleAPI Website Design",[1287,6733],{":sources_index0":1289,":sources_index1":1289,"alt":6563,"sources_format":6564,":ig_link":143},[16,6735,6736],{},"This site was never intended to be one used by millions of players, and as with all of my personal projects, I utilized it as an opportunity to test out frameworks and technologies that I’m interested in. So it’s built with a lot of things that might not even be ideally suited for the task.",[16,6738,6739,6740,6745],{},"I learned a lot about the different technologies that were relatively new at the time, and based on my dependency on several Python libraries, I found myself being involved and became part of the core team of a Python async web framework. 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Can AI be used to create art?","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facebook.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fposts\u002Fpfbid02jZz8ZYWKCNMVLodkDqyeP4aK7seuKruKrYetVEzATPqGWBoFEP3BkSEozccRAF4cl","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FC2VQbwXP0Xa\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Ffeed\u002Fupdate\u002Furn:li:activity:7154565404944728064\u002F","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-art-rfi\u002Fai-art-rfi-300-1.png","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1748757056629436660",[16,6907,6908],{},"I've heard a lot of strong feelings about this topic regarding AI and art. To cover all the different views and arguments, I’d like to hear your thoughts. I’ll use your input in an article I’m putting together. Please pass this form along to your friends who also have strong feelings about AI art.",[16,6910,6911],{},"About me: I’ve been a designer and technologist for the past 30 years, and my work has always lied at the intersection of art and technology. 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Hearing them talk about their work helped me understand their intentions better, as sometimes the artist’s statements tend not to be very human.",[709,6966],{":video_title":143,"aspect_ratio":711,"li_link":6947,"youtube_id":6967,"yt_link":6968},"78HOgQr6UpA","https:\u002F\u002Fyoutube.com\u002Fshorts\u002F78HOgQr6UpA",[137,6970,6972],{"id":6971},"_3-olek-2009-100-acrylic-art-guards","3. 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Olek, 2012, You Can’t Fool.",[1287,7047],{":sources_index0":1289,":sources_index1":1289,"alt":7048,"li_link":6947,"sources_format":7049,"fl_link":7050},"Olek, 2012, You Can’t Fool.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Folek-sml\u002Folek-sml-05-300-8.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F8160686627\u002F",[16,7052,7053,7055],{},[3768,7054,7048],{}," During their stay, Olek asked me to take photos of a piece they made about the US Election. We did the photo shoot in the Hyatt hotel room they were staying in, and I edited all the photos into a stop-frame animation, just in time to post online before Election Day.",[709,7057],{":video_title":143,"aspect_ratio":711,"li_link":6947,"youtube_id":7058,"yt_link":7059},"BbAKEZQaJCo","https:\u002F\u002Fyoutube.com\u002Fshorts\u002FBbAKEZQaJCo",[137,7061,7063],{"id":7062},"_9-after-2012","9. 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It was not intended to be a photo trip, but I took a camera anyway. Swiss Alps is one of the most magical places I have ever been. Matterhorn is quite possibly the most magical mountain I have been.",[16,7113,7114,7115,7120,7121,7125],{},"An unexpected find is ",[452,7116,7119],{"href":7117,"rel":7118},"https:\u002F\u002Fhiltl.ch\u002Fen\u002F",[456],"Hiltl"," (",[452,7122,2101],{"href":7123,"rel":7124},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FHiltl_Restaurant",[456],") in Zurich, a vegetarian restaurant that remain the best I’ve had in my life. I ended dining there for 50% of the trip. It’s just too good. I don’t usually take photos when I eat, but I’ll try to take some next time if I’m not on an “unplug trip” in the future.",[16,7127,7128],{},"If you’re interested in the photos, they have two licensing terms:",[97,7130,7131,7144],{},[100,7132,7133,7134,7139],{},"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs ",[452,7135,7138],{"href":7136,"rel":7137},"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002Fdeed.en",[456],"CCBYNCND",[97,7140,7141],{},[100,7142,7143],{},"You can download the full-resolution images for free on Flickr (links at the photos below), provided you provide credits (my name, link backs) and don’t change anything.",[100,7145,7146,7147],{},"Commercial terms\n",[97,7148,7149],{},[100,7150,7151],{},"I will make some of these photos available on Getty Images.",[137,7153,7155],{"id":7154},"_1-gornegrat-zermatt-switzerland","1: Gornegrat, Zermatt, Switzerland",[1287,7157],{":sources_index0":56,":sources_index1":56,"alt":7158,"ig_link":7159,"sources_format":7160,"fb_link":7161,"fl_link":7162,"tw_link":7163},"Gornegrat, Zermatt, Switzerland \u002F SML.20150919.6D.34107","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FC2Hzwv5xhef\u002F","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fswitzerland-2015\u002Fswitzerland-2015-300-{}.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facebook.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fposts\u002Fpfbid0W1zuNkjt7nixiWMcB2q83GMZ683EYusnxATyCoxmAkotyZSq6NfL85yByL1fHWjol","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F37793814132\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1746882384669372599",[16,7165,7166],{},"The Gornergrat (English: Gorner Ridge; 3,135 m (10,285 ft)) is a rocky ridge of the Pennine Alps, overlooking the Gorner Glacier south-east of Zermatt in Switzerland. It can be reached from Zermatt by the Gornergrat rack railway (GGB), the highest open-air railway in Europe.",[16,7168,7169],{},[452,7170,7173],{"href":7171,"rel":7172},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FGornergrat",[456],"Wikipedia: Gornergrat",[97,7175,7176,7178,7181,7183,7185],{},[100,7177,7158],{},[100,7179,7180],{},"Visp, Canton de Valais, Schweiz",[100,7182,3999],{},[100,7184,4330],{},[100,7186,7187],{},"ISO 100, 25 mm, f\u002F8, 1\u002F250 sec",[137,7189,7191],{"id":7190},"_2-matterhorn-gornegrat-zermatt-switzerland","2: Matterhorn, Gornegrat, Zermatt, Switzerland",[1287,7193],{":sources_index0":7194,":sources_index1":7194,"alt":7195,"ig_link":7159,"sources_format":7160,"fb_link":7161,"fl_link":7196,"tw_link":7197},"2","Matterhorn, Gornegrat, Zermatt, Switzerland \u002F SML.20150919.6D.34158.BW.C169","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F37796696752\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1746882517037433012",[16,7199,7200],{},"The Matterhorn (German: Matterhorn, (ˈmatərˌhɔrn); Italian: Cervino, (ˈtʃerˈviːno); French: Mont Cervin, (mɔ̃ sɛʁvɛ̃)) is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy. It is a large, near-symmetrical pyramidal peak in the extended Monte Rosa area of the Pennine Alps, whose summit is 4,478 metres (14,692 ft) high, making it one of the highest summits in the Alps and Europe.",[16,7202,7203],{},[452,7204,7207],{"href":7205,"rel":7206},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FMatterhorn",[456],"Wikipedia: Matterhorn",[97,7209,7210,7212,7215,7217,7219],{},[100,7211,7195],{},[100,7213,7214],{},"Gornergrat, Canton de Valais, Schweiz",[100,7216,3999],{},[100,7218,4330],{},[100,7220,7221],{},"ISO 100, 38 mm, f\u002F8, 1\u002F800 sec",[137,7223,7225],{"id":7224},"_3-matterhorn-gornegrat-zermatt-switzerland","3 Matterhorn, Gornegrat, Zermatt, Switzerland",[1287,7227],{":sources_index0":58,":sources_index1":58,"alt":7195,"ig_link":7159,"sources_format":7160,"fb_link":7161,"fl_link":7228,"tw_link":7229},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F37844863142\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1746882626122911991",[16,7231,7232],{},"The Matterhorn is one of the most iconic and distinctive mountains in the world, renowned for its near-symmetrical pyramidal peak. It is located in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy. The mountain stands at 4,478 meters (14,692 feet) tall and is one of the highest summits in the Alps and Europe.",[97,7234,7235,7238,7240,7243,7246,7248,7250],{},[100,7236,7237],{},"Matterhorn Panorama from Gornergrat, Zermatt, Switzerland \u002F SML.20150919.6D.34258-34274.Pano.E",[100,7239,7214],{},[100,7241,7242],{},"Handheld pano stitched with 17 full frame captures",[100,7244,7245],{},"12155 × 4813",[100,7247,3999],{},[100,7249,4330],{},[100,7251,7252],{},"ISO 100, 24 mm, f\u002F8, 1\u002F400 sec",[137,7254,7256],{"id":7255},"_4-rhine-falls-zurich-switzerland","4 Rhine Falls, Zurich, Switzerland",[1287,7258],{":sources_index0":2249,":sources_index1":2249,"alt":7259,"ig_link":7159,"sources_format":7160,"fb_link":7161,"fl_link":7260,"tw_link":7261},"Rhine Falls, Zurich, Switzerland \u002F SML.20150922.6D.34396-34404.Pano.E1","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F38055410026\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1746882722705076512",[16,7263,7264],{},"The Rhine Falls (German: Rheinfall) is a waterfall in Switzerland, Europe.",[16,7266,7267],{},"The falls are located on the High Rhine on the border between the cantons of Schaffhausen and Zürich, between the villages of Neuhausen am Rheinfall (SH) and Laufen-Uhwiesen\u002FDachsen (ZH), next to the town of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland.",[16,7269,7270],{},[452,7271,7274],{"href":7272,"rel":7273},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FRhine_Falls",[456],"Wikipedia: Rhine Falls",[97,7276,7277,7279,7282,7285,7288,7290,7292],{},[100,7278,7259],{},[100,7280,7281],{},"Neuhausem, Kanton Schaffhausen, Schweiz",[100,7283,7284],{},"Handheld pano stitched with 9 full frame captures",[100,7286,7287],{},"9097 × 3337",[100,7289,3999],{},[100,7291,4330],{},[100,7293,7294],{},"ISO 100, 24 mm, f\u002F8, 1\u002F200 sec",[137,7296,7298],{"id":7297},"_5-st-moritz-switzerland","5 St. Moritz, Switzerland",[1287,7300],{":sources_index0":3376,":sources_index1":3376,"alt":7301,"ig_link":7159,"sources_format":7160,"fb_link":7161,"fl_link":7302,"tw_link":7303},"St. Moritz, Switzerland \u002F SML.20150917.6D.33989.CR2","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F37814338231\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1746882825410998760",[16,7305,7306],{},"A restaurant at the top of the mountain. Nice designs.",[97,7308,7309,7311,7314,7317,7319,7321],{},[100,7310,7301],{},[100,7312,7313],{},"Quattro Bar, Corviglia, 7500 St. Moritz, Switzerland",[100,7315,7316],{},"St. Moritz, Kanton Graubünden, Schweiz",[100,7318,3999],{},[100,7320,4330],{},[100,7322,7323],{},"ISO 100, 42 mm, f\u002F8, 1\u002F400 sec",[137,7325,7327],{"id":7326},"_6-zurich-panorama-from-felsenegg-switzerland","6 Zurich Panorama from Felsenegg, Switzerland",[1287,7329],{":sources_index0":664,":sources_index1":664,"alt":7330,"ig_link":7159,"sources_format":7160,"fb_link":7161,"fl_link":7331,"tw_link":7332},"Zurich Panorama from Felsenegg, Switzerland \u002F SML.20150924.6D.34460-34474.Pano.E","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F37637898680\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1746882922970554879",[16,7334,7335],{},"Felsenegg is located some 7 km (4.3 mi) to the southwest of the city of Zürich on the Albis chain, between the municipalities of Stallikon and Adliswil. The hilltop station of Luftseilbahn Adliswil-Felsenegg (LAF for short or commonly called Felseneggbahn) aerial tramway is situated on Felsenegg.",[16,7337,7338],{},"Felsenegg includes a restaurant located at the summit overlooking the Sihl Valley and Lake Zürich to the east, and Reppisch valley, Türlersee and the so-called Säuliamt (District of Affoltern) to the west.",[16,7340,7341],{},"This panorama was taken from the outdoor sitting at Panorama-Restaurant Felsenegg (Felsenegg 1, Felsenegg 8143, Switzerland) with a city view of Zurich. You can in fact see the outdoor sitting on the left.  Unfortunately, cropping it out will remove the nice horizon so I kept it in there.",[16,7343,7344],{},"Stitched with 15 captures, handheld.",[97,7346,7347,7349,7352,7355,7358,7360,7362],{},[100,7348,7330],{},[100,7350,7351],{},"Felsenegg, Kanton Zürich, Schweiz",[100,7353,7354],{},"Handheld pano stitched with 15 full frame captures",[100,7356,7357],{},"12170 × 4809",[100,7359,3999],{},[100,7361,4330],{},[100,7363,7364],{},"ISO 100, 24 mm, f\u002F8, 1\u002F320 sec",[137,7366,7368],{"id":7367},"_7-lion-monument-lion-of-lucerne-lucerne-switzerland","7 Lion Monument (Lion of Lucerne), Lucerne, Switzerland",[1287,7370],{":sources_index0":1770,":sources_index1":1770,"alt":7371,"ig_link":7159,"sources_format":7160,"fb_link":7161,"fl_link":7372,"tw_link":7373},"Lion Monument (Lion of Lucerne), Lucerne, Switzerland \u002F SML.20150921.6D.34373.E1","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F38382141092\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1746883073877373287",[16,7375,7376],{},"The Lion Monument (German: Löwendenkmal), or the Lion of Lucerne, is a rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820â21 by Lukas Ahorn. 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Celebrate life. Celebrate diversity.",[833,7490],{},[16,7492,7493],{},"“Life Celebrates Diversity” is an ongoing photography project where I photograph everyday objects that are similar to each other, yet because of their unique differences, ultimately demonstrate that the beauty of life lies in the existence of our differences.",[16,7495,7496],{},"When I first started the project in 2009, I mostly took photos of things found in nature. In 2012, I started including things that are man made — to show the same concept with more variety.",[16,7498,7499],{},"This is an ongoing project that I plan to extend further. At the moment, I don’t feel that it’s working well because a lot of people who saw the photos didn’t really understand my intentions. I’m planning to change a few things about it this year, including some type of project extensions that might make it better.",[16,7501,7502],{},"If you can think of anything to help me improve this concept further, please do reach out. I’d love to make it better so that my intentions will be more universally understood without having to slap an artist statement next to them.",[16,7504,7505],{},"I’m most reachable in the following places:",[97,7507,7508,7515,7522],{},[100,7509,7510],{},[452,7511,7514],{"href":7512,"rel":7513},"https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee",[456],"Twitter @seeminglee",[100,7516,7517],{},[452,7518,7521],{"href":7519,"rel":7520},"https:\u002F\u002Finstagram.com\u002Fseeminglee",[456],"Instagram @seeminglee",[100,7523,7524],{},"Discord is actually preferred, but since I get so many friend requests on Discord, if you don’t already know me, please send me a message on either Twitter or Instagram, then we can move the discussion to Discord if it’s suitable.",[137,7526,7528],{"id":7527},"photos","Photos",[54,7530],{":sources_index0":56,":sources_index1":733,"alt":7485,"ig_link":7531,"sources_format":7532,"fb_link":7533,"fl_link":7534,"th_link":7535,"tw_link":7536},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FC2Ebxs9xrcz\u002F","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Flife-diversity\u002Flife-diversity-02-300-{}.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facebook.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fposts\u002Fpfbid0yhphq5ShLt6F5LbepTdjhHdQUFDWiJrnwZ45SFcRRmW3qdbbCApt5J1WG9ti7EC8l","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002Falbums\u002F72177720314055528","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.threads.net\u002F@seeminglee\u002Fpost\u002FC2FLelLxjRc","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1746511487487893661",[2649,7538,7540],{"id":7539},"plum-diversity","Plum Diversity",[1287,7542],{":sources_index0":1349,":sources_index1":1349,"alt":7543,"sources_format":7532,"fb_link":7544,"fl_link":7545,"tw_link":7546},"Plum Diversity \u002F Farmers Market, New York City \u002F SML.20090828.10D.51933.P1","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facebook.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fposts\u002Fpfbid02v4B1vKWQa9L3aAd6U1eW2rsRDGS5P1ziGCrNtwN1uf3xzPLMEgbjA2bSq1jzKYuRl","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F3868851112\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1746543229586354276",[16,7548,7549],{},"This is my favorite photo of the series. It was shot at the Farmers Market in New York. I love plums as a fruit, but there are some hidden metaphors here as well.",[16,7551,7552],{},"My family name, 李 Lee (Mandarin Li), if not used as a surname, has the literal meaning of being a plum. Symbolically, the character 李 is made up with two characters:",[97,7554,7555,7558,7561],{},[100,7556,7557],{},"木 wood \u002F tree",[100,7559,7560],{},"子 son \u002F child \u002F seed",[100,7562,7563],{},"李 is as such the child of a tree — in other words, the fruit.",[16,7565,7566],{},"So if you think deeply about this photo, it’s a metaphoric portrait of my family. 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I wrote it rather structurally, following the mathematical order of 3-7-3, like music, but also mathematically beautiful. I put the words in alphabetical sequence to give it the flow. I don’t know what to call it except that I like how it reads. A friend who is a published poet call is a manifesto. And so it is also known as the “Life Manifesto”.",[137,7606,7608],{"id":7607},"life-manifesto","Life Manifesto",[1287,7610],{":sources_index0":993,":sources_index1":993,"alt":7611,"sources_format":7532,"fl_link":7612,"wi_link":7613},"Life Manifesto \u002F 2007-07-07 \u002F SML","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F8022657838\u002Fin\u002Falbum-72177720314055528\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.m.wikimedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FFile:Life_(Manifesto)_2007.07.07-2012.09.25_SML_(8022657838).png",[16,7615,7616],{},"Life.",[16,7618,7619,7620,7622,7623,7625,7626],{},"Life celebrates diversity.",[29,7621],{},"\nLife celebrates differences.",[29,7624],{},"\nLife celebrates humanity.",[29,7627],{},[16,7629,7630,7631,7633,7634,7636,7637,7639,7640,7642,7643,7645,7646,7648],{},"Regardless of age, attire, or build.",[29,7632],{},"\nRegardless of class, color, or culture.",[29,7635],{},"\nRegardless of education, flavor, or gender.",[29,7638],{},"\nRegardless of hair style, income level, or interest.",[29,7641],{},"\nRegardless of life style, location, or philosophy.",[29,7644],{},"\nRegardless of profession, physique, or race.",[29,7647],{},"\nRegardless of religion, role, or sexual taste.",[16,7650,7651,7652,7654,7655,7657,7658],{},"Life is equilibriumism.",[29,7653],{},"\nLife is everything and nothing.",[29,7656],{},"\nLife is all of us and none of us.",[29,7659],{},[16,7661,7662],{},"— See-ming Lee, 2007-07-07",[16,7664,7665,7666,7670],{},"The version that I posted on the web so many years ago was made in yellow. 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There are many AI image rendering engines out there, but only Stable Diffusion gives me the best range of possibilities. The learning curve for Stable Diffusion is steep, but if you’re willing to do the work to figure it out, then it will allow an artist or a designer the maximum control that you seek to realize a creative vision.",[16,7724,7725],{},"At the moment, there are AI engines like Midjourney that most creative professionals use. It is a very powerful engine, but it lacks controllability — there are some things that simply can’t be easily done — such as the designs I have here — where I supplied the typographic forms that I drew inside Adobe Illustrator to control the flow and composition of the ribbons.",[16,7727,7728],{},"I want to show these experiments because I have tried very hard to convince artists who work with Midjourney to try out Stable Diffusion in order to give them the freedom to create anything they want. Yet many of them give up as soon as they played with Stable Diffusion briefly, usually discouraged by its “ugly UI”.",[16,7730,7731],{},"The beauty of Stable Diffusion is that it’s not only available in one user interface. It’s open source. If you don’t like the UI, write a better version! That’s the beauty of open source. It‘s something that I have been working on — to make better interfaces for it so maybe more designers would be willing to give it a go.",[16,7733,7734],{},"Until then, here are some sketches that I have been working on.",[16,7736,7737],{},"If it’s not so very clear about what’s going on. 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They use the same workflow, but are not visually as interesting. 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Self portrait. It’s also a photo I used on Facebook around 2010, during a time when some friends complained that I should have a face as my profile pic on a site called Facebook.",[6897,9022],{":height":6899,":width":6899,"alt":9023,"src":9024,"tw_link":9025},"Mashtable: The Evolution of the Facebook profile. With See-ming Lee's profile in the gallery.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsmlme\u002Fsmlme-2023-12-07-150-2.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1732644909491093583",[16,9027,9028],{},[452,9029,9032],{"href":9030,"rel":9031},"https:\u002F\u002Fweb.archive.org\u002Fweb\u002F20110924211110\u002Fhttp:\u002F\u002Fmashable.com\u002F2011\u002F09\u002F22\u002Ffacebook-profile-evolution\u002F#270592008--The-App-Era",[456],"Mastable Article on the Internet Archive",[16,9034,9035],{},"Mashable published a screenshot of my Facebook profile in 2011 with this photo on it, and people kept on DMing about seeing me on Mashable. 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The way you do it is somewhat challenging also:",[1872,9074,9075,9078,9081],{},[100,9076,9077],{},"You need to do this completely in the dark — so you kind of not really know what you’re doing.",[100,9079,9080],{},"The result is a bit of a mix of time-lapse and motionography. It’s photography with a cubist twist.",[100,9082,9083],{},"The best shots is if you kind of “move” your head over time as it scans.",[16,9085,9086],{},"There’s also the issue of dust spots — you will leave dusts on the surface. I post-processed these images back in 2009 and at that time it would mean manually go through pixel by pixel in Photoshop so I haven’t really had the time do it all. I plan to make more of these in the future, but I have said this since 2009 and haven’t revisited at all.",[16,9088,9089],{},"No one likes these self portraits except me. 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Flatbed scanner is an old tech — so those of you who are young might not know what it is.",[16,9107,9108],{},"Essentially, you scan documents into the computer by placing the objects onto a piece of glass, and a recording device that would scan line by line over time from one end to another.",[16,9110,9111],{},"So I placed my head on the glass surface, and move around while the scanner moves. Since the image was recorded over a minute, I was able to create “brush strokes” from my movement.",[16,9113,9114],{},"Cubism is the art philosophy of looking at things from different perspective. Time-lapse photography is taking a series of photos over time. Scanography is the art of photography using a flatbed scanner. Combining all three philosophies is the driving concept behind this series.",[97,9116,9117,9119,9122],{},[100,9118,9097],{},[100,9120,9121],{},"Epson 4810",[100,9123,9124],{},"2009-09-02, SML Universe NYC",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":9126},[9127],{"id":1120,"depth":64,"text":1121},{"published":9129},"2023-12-03","My favorite self-portrait was not even taken with a camera.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fme-2009-scanography",{"title":9060,"description":9130},[697],"blog\u002Fme-2009-scanography",[697,938,695,3490,83],"boJ_hI9Nv22z9ZAMXCweqLwnyEn7vmj6qqP1i7YFXuA",{"id":9139,"title":9140,"author":7,"body":9141,"date":9214,"description":9216,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":9217,"img_width":71,"meta":9218,"navigation":74,"path":9219,"seo":9220,"series":9221,"stem":9222,"tags":9223,"__hash__":9224},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fclash-royale-league-2023-royaleapi.md","Clash Royale League (CRL) World Finals 2023, RoyaleAPI",{"type":9,"value":9142,"toc":9211},[9143,9147,9150,9157,9164,9166,9174,9177,9180,9183,9186,9190],[1287,9144],{":ig_link":143,":sources_index0":56,":sources_index1":56,"alt":9140,"li_link":9145,"sources_format":9146},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Ffeed\u002Fupdate\u002Furn:li:share:7132398281426407424\u002F","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrl-2023\u002Fclashfest-2023-promo-02.png",[16,9148,9149],{},"I will be in Helsinki for a week — from November 21 to November 27 — to attend the Clash Royale League (CRL) World Finals 2023. 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But its deep data analytics capabilities have attracted the advanced users — particularly the professional players and their analysts who are involved in esports — where winning\u002Flosing each game could be a difference of $50k prize fund — all within 5 minutes.",[16,9178,9179],{},"RoyaleAPI started out as a personal project that’s only used by myself and a few small circle of friends. Little did I know, it would evolve into my full-time commitment with millions of monthly active users. And because of this, we’re now a top-tier content partner with Supercell, and it’s the main reason why we’re invited to participate in the CRL World Finals — the most important esports event for the game.",[16,9181,9182],{},"Because of this project, I have come full circle back to what I have always loved — combining design and technology at the same time. This way of working is unique to me, and as I advanced my career, I have always been faced with the tough choice of choosing one over the other.",[16,9184,9185],{},"I will provide more details about what we do at RoyaleAPI later, but for now, I must go pack and get ready for my flight tomorrow!",[137,9187,9189],{"id":9188},"related","Related",[97,9191,9192,9198,9204],{},[100,9193,9194],{},[452,9195,9197],{"href":9162,"rel":9196},[456],"RoyaleAPI.com",[100,9199,9200],{},[452,9201,9203],{"href":6550,"rel":9202},[456],"RoyaleaPI Blog: Discontinuing API service for developers — Will not affect website",[100,9205,9206],{},[452,9207,9210],{"href":9208,"rel":9209},"https:\u002F\u002Fsupercell.com\u002Fen\u002Fgames\u002Fclashroyale\u002Fblog\u002Fcommunity\u002Fcreator-spotlight-royaleapi\u002F",[456],"Supercell Creator Spotlight: RoyaleAPI",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":9212},[9213],{"id":9188,"depth":64,"text":9189},{"published":9215},"2023-11-20 16:00","I will be in Helsinki for a week in November. Here’s why.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrl-royaleapi\u002Fcrl-royaleapi-300-1.jpg",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fclash-royale-league-2023-royaleapi",{"title":9140,"description":9216},[6462],"blog\u002Fclash-royale-league-2023-royaleapi",[6489,6462,4502],"rbd5GVjA-epQLeMZjA7ayeH-CP8OdUPT4SmMcL_3TKQ",{"id":9226,"title":8274,"author":7,"body":9227,"date":9252,"description":9254,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":9255,"img_width":71,"meta":9256,"navigation":74,"path":9257,"seo":9258,"series":9259,"stem":9260,"tags":9261,"__hash__":9262},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-sml-2023-11-18.md",{"type":9,"value":9228,"toc":9250},[9229,9233,9236,9243],[8278,9230],{":sources":9231,"alt":9232},"[\"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-sml\u002Fgoogle-sml-sq-2023-11-18-300-1.jpg\"]","Google: See-ming Lee",[16,9234,9235],{},"I found out a few days ago that I’m listed on Google as a “photographer” now. 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See-ming Lee.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F3882355899\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FXKQdEllXCa\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Ffeed\u002Fupdate\u002Furn:li:share:7131531716623552513\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fseeminglee\u002Fstatus\u002F1725761033904808256",[16,9277,9278],{},"If you want to be good at anything, you just have to do it. Do a lot of it. Everything I do professionally these days I did not learn them from school. I just did a lot of it.",[16,9280,9281,9282,9287],{},"This photograph was taken in 1996 at Yale. It was a photograph showing the harsh winter of New Haven. It was taken at the Old Campus — where the freshmen live. I spent four years working at ",[452,9283,9286],{"href":9284,"rel":9285},"https:\u002F\u002Fyale-herald.com\u002F",[456],"TheYaleHerald"," — first as a photographer, then eventually as the photo editor. The Herald is a weekly newspaper at Yale with features and articles that people actually read.",[16,9289,9290,9291,9296],{},"I never took a class in photography. But I photographed a lot. I used to buy T-MAX + TriX in bulk from ",[452,9292,9295],{"href":9293,"rel":9294},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bhphotovideo.com\u002F",[456],"B&H"," and rolled my own film. I went through 100 feet of film every month — sometimes in a week. I worked in the darkroom every week. Processing, developing, getting dirty with all these nasty chemicals and working under the red safe light.",[16,9298,9299],{},"It was a lot of work, but when you have worked in the darkroom, then you would understand why Sharpen is called “Unsharped Mask” in Photoshop. These are super old tech. Try doing Unsharped Mask in the darkroom — it’s not for the faint of heart.",[16,9301,9302],{},"In any case, just do it. You don’t need to go to school for anything — unless of course you want to meet interesting people, then it is a very good place for it. Otherwise, to learn anything and to eventually master something, just do it.",[16,9304,9305],{},"Do it every day. Do it whenever you want to. I truly believe that anyone can become good at anything if they have the will to do it — as that is how I do what I do.",[16,9307,9308],{},"Do.",[137,9310,2995],{"id":2994},[2649,9312,9313],{"id":2975},"Photojournalism",[16,9315,9316],{},"This is something that I did a lot of throughout the years. I never truly knew why I got into it, but if I had to think about a reason for it, it’s because I love exploring things that interest me. I want to record what I saw, and to share them with others.",[16,9318,9319],{},"Later in life, I found that there are many important ideas that simply don’t get the necessary coverage that they deserve. As someone who grew up being so different from others, I know how it feels like to want to say something but never being heard.",[16,9321,9322],{},"My own ideas do not matter much — but there are important ideas and philosophies that I feel are important enough to warrant representations. Since no one was covering them, I took my camera, ran around, and photographed them. Then I processed and shared them everywhere on social media (Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, etc) with the intention that more people would see them.",[16,9324,9325],{},"I wanted to give a voice to those who simply don’t have a way to reach people who need to hear them — often because of bigotry and prejudice.",[16,9327,9328],{},"Important ideas can change the world. I want to do my part to give them a nudge and to help them along. Then I know that at least I have done something about it. It matters not whether my little dent in the universe would make a significant difference. What’s important is that I know that I have done my part — no matter how insignificant it may be.",[2649,9330,9332],{"id":9331},"gregory-crewdson","Gregory Crewdson",[16,9334,9335],{},"I did major in art, and yes, Gregory Crewdson was already teaching at Yale when I was there. I never intended to do photography so extensively — and certainly not as an art medium. My interests in photography was simply that it’s something I always wanted to do, and to record a moment of time and things that happened.",[16,9337,9338],{},"Had I appreciated photography in the same way I did now, I would’ve jumped at the chance of taking his class. But I never did. He did give some guest lectures in some of my classes, and I went to some of his presentations. I also got to look at his works up close and personal.",[16,9340,9341],{},"The strange thing about all of this was that when I eventually saw his works again at Gagosian in 2012, it all felt so different. The Gregroy Crewdson that I knew was someone who is very personable and friendly. His works — approachable. It’s so different when you see these same photographs being shown in an imposing huge space with white walls like the Gagosian Gallery in New York. It’s the same works — but the context of how it‘s shown — in an artist studio vs a gallery — makes all the difference. I have always felt that art is a relationship you form with the artist, and the context of how you see the work is very important.",[2649,9343,9345],{"id":9344},"t-max","T-Max",[16,9347,9348],{},"T-Max is a black and white film from Kodak. It’s a very fine grain film. I used to buy them in bulk and roll my own film. I would then develop it in the darkroom. I usually get the T-Max 400.",[16,9350,9351],{},"In the old days, you have to pick the ISO when you get the films. ISO is the light sensitivity of the film. The higher the ISO, the more sensitive it is to light. 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I loved that I was the only one using it, so I could start my development and not having to “mark my territory,” so to speak. In my four years of using that dark room, I think that I have only run into another person twice.",[137,9363,9365],{"id":9364},"epilogue","Epilogue",[16,9367,9368,9369,9372],{},"This post was originally published on ",[452,9370,1652],{"href":9273,"rel":9371},[456]," in 2013. 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I made a revision of it in 2022, tweaking a few typographic details that would likely be unnoticeable to non-designer. But even with the 2022 edits, I feel that it’s lacking something — perhaps the emotion of it.",[16,9410,9411],{},"So I tweaked it further today, and added an ever so light dark blue background to give just a touch of emotion. I also took the opportunity to place the circles dead center. That has been one aspect that always bothered me. The typographic forms were actually not balanced, and so the circles were not centered, but it feels weird when it is not.",[16,9413,9414],{},"I will likely tweak it further if I could somehow make the pink swash go further to the right, such that the circles would then be mathematically centered in the forms. 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I don’t even know how I found them, but it is from there where I met @meat99 eventually. I gathered that this phrase has meaning for Meat99, though for me it is just an excuse for me to play with OpenType.",[16,9453,9454],{},"This is obviously set in Bickham Script Pro. Back then the OT version was just released by Adobe, and with very sexy contextual ligature support. Adobe also added the full glyph table to Illustrator right about think thus I was hunting for every opportunity to play with it.",[16,9456,9457],{},"2007 was a very manic year for me so the quote did not mean much then. But as with all highs they must always be followed by the low lows, and so I found myself looking at my designs years later and somehow it had encouraged me to not give up.",[16,9459,9460],{},"Life has a very wtf way of moving forward. The past me talking to the present me, as the present me now is writing to talk to the future me. 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Alpe, being the GSheet pro that he is, has other ideas — and he made this GSheet that links to all the other sheets instead. This definitely won’t be my way of doing things — but since he’s kept this sheet updated, I can deal with that. 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Here’s what it means. Visually explaining what my first name See-ming means, as an infographic.",[137,9638,9640],{"id":9639},"思-see","思 See",[16,9642,9643],{},"思 (pronounced ‘see’) is composed of two parts: 田 and 心.",[16,9645,9646],{},"田 is a pictogram and it means an agricultural field. 心 is a pictogram as well. It means the heart.",[16,9648,9649],{},"Together, it means putting your heart on your field. The character 思 means to analyze and to think.",[137,9651,9653],{"id":9652},"明-ming","明 Ming",[16,9655,9656],{},"明 (pronounced ‘ming’) is composed of two parts: 日 and 月\n日 is the sun, and 月 is the moon\nWhen you place the largest light sources together, it’s bright, so 明 means bright and clear. 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Recently, I read about doing long exposure via stack sequences, so I tried to see if I can utilise this new knowledge to render a long-exposure shot this way since I have already a long series of captures done.",[16,10134,10135],{},"For this photo, I have used 36 captures spaced at 10-sec each to create the final image. The time spacing is probably a bit too wide to render the smoothest clouds, because it was originally intended as a time-lapse sequence and not an LE stack. I used Photoshop’s Stack Median functionality to blend the transition, then I lowered the clarity in Lightroom to smooth out some uneven edges on the clouds and water. And voila. It works pretty well, so I will definitely work on more in the future.",[16,10137,10138],{},"Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 17-40mm f\u002F4L USM mounted on tripod in Hong Kong. Processed in Lightroom 5 + Photoshop CC 2014.",[137,10140,10142],{"id":10141},"serenity-at-night-夜之寧","Serenity at Night 夜之寧",[16,10144,10145],{},"夜雨霧濃山無形\n水影明照彩霞城",[8278,10147],{":add_links":10125,":sources":10148,"alt":10149,"fl_link":10150,"ig_link":10129},"[\"\u002Fphoto\u002Fserenity\u002Fserenity-sml-01-150-002.jpg\"]","“夜雨霧濃山無形 水影明照彩霞城” \u002F 夜之寧 Serenity at Night \u002F SML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P1","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F8447582461\u002F",[16,10152,10153],{},"Long exposure photography used to take a lot of time. I would travel to a remote location and stayed for hours, then circled back to the studio and worked on it for yet more hours. It still takes a lot of time but removing travel in the equation is far more efficient in the equation.",[16,10155,10156],{},"When I used to live in New York, I would sit in front of the Manhattan Bridge for hours with my tripods to do long exposure HDRs. But after 9-11, police would come and hurry me away, thinking that I am plotting an attack. Seriously WTF? Yes, I bet that a terrorist would spend 3 hours sitting under the bridge with a tripod just so you can see that he is analysing the structural engineering for attacks. NYPD has always been a hassle to me and is very annoying.\nSo more Hong Kong awesomeness for me now is that I can just mount my camera on the tripod at home and do landscape photography before I go to bed at night. This is a 30-second exposure and everything gets mixed to a beautiful blur. I love it so much that I have decided to try my hand at some Chinese poetry which rhymes.",[16,10158,10159],{},"夜雨霧濃山無形 水影明照彩霞城",[2649,10161,10163],{"id":10162},"sml-translate","SML Translate",[97,10165,10166,10195],{},[100,10167,10168,10169],{},"夜雨霧濃山無形\n",[97,10170,10171,10174,10177,10180,10183,10186,10189,10192],{},[100,10172,10173],{},"夜: night.",[100,10175,10176],{},"雨: rain.",[100,10178,10179],{},"霧: fog.",[100,10181,10182],{},"濃: concentrated, thick. Describes the fog.",[100,10184,10185],{},"山: mountains.",[100,10187,10188],{},"無: no, not.",[100,10190,10191],{},"形: forms.",[100,10193,10194],{},"夜雨霧濃山無形: On a rainy night, the fog is thick and the mountains are left with no form.",[100,10196,10197,10198],{},"水影明照彩霞城\n",[97,10199,10200,10203,10206,10209,10212,10215,10218,10221],{},[100,10201,10202],{},"水: water, lake, ocean, sea.",[100,10204,10205],{},"影: reflection, image.",[100,10207,10208],{},"明: bright, clear.",[100,10210,10211],{},"照: image, light, bright.",[100,10213,10214],{},"彩: rainbow (color).",[100,10216,10217],{},"霞: red cloud, after glow.",[100,10219,10220],{},"城: city.",[100,10222,10223],{},"水影明照彩霞城: The water reflects the bright lights from the city to render a city painted in the colors of a rainbow.",[2649,10225,10227],{"id":10226},"sml-workflow","SML Workflow",[16,10229,10230],{},"Photographed with the Canon EOS M + EF 17-40 f\u002F4L mounted on a tripod. Noise reduction in Lightroom 4. Processed in Photoshop CS6.",[2649,10232,3684],{"id":3683},[97,10234,10235,10238,10241,10244,10247,10249,10252,10255,10258,10261],{},[100,10236,10237],{},"Date: 2013-02-06 02:07:29 GMT+0800",[100,10239,10240],{},"Dimensions: 4958 x 3306",[100,10242,10243],{},"Exposure: 30.0 sec at f\u002F4.0",[100,10245,10246],{},"ISO: 100",[100,10248,5243],{},[100,10250,10251],{},"Camera: Canon EOS M",[100,10253,10254],{},"Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f\u002F4L USM",[100,10256,10257],{},"GPS: 22°26'58\" N 114°12'26\" E",[100,10259,10260],{},"Serial: SML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P1",[100,10262,10263],{},"Series: 寧 Serenity",[137,10265,10267],{"id":10266},"cuhk-serenity-香港中文大學夜之寧","CUHK Serenity 香港中文大學夜之寧",[16,10269,10270],{},"春夜霧朦朧 紫空燦金輝",[8278,10272],{":add_links":10125,":sources":10273,"alt":10274,"fl_link":10275,"ig_link":10129,"gi_link":10276},"[\"\u002Fphoto\u002Fserenity\u002Fserenity-sml-01-150-003.jpg\"]","“春夜霧朦朧 紫空燦金輝” \u002F 香港中文大學夜之寧 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Night Serenity (60-sec LE) \u002F SML.20130513.6D.06547","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F8737183033\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gettyimages.com\u002Fdetail\u002Fphoto\u002Fnight-serenity-in-purple-and-gold-royalty-free-image\u002F980820070",[16,10278,10279],{},"Purple and gold are the school colors for The Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大學 CUHK), and so I feel that it would be fitting to process this night-time long exposure as such.",[16,10281,10282],{},"In ancient times, purple was the color worn by Roman Emperors and magistrates, and later by Roman Catholic bishops. Since that time, it has been commonly associated with royalty and piety. The color gold is likely to represent the phoenix in the university’s emblem.",[16,10284,10285],{},"This is a 60-second long exposure using the 6D + 24-70 f\u002F2.8L mounted on Manfrotto tripod, remote release with the Canon TC-80N3.",[2649,10287,10289],{"id":10288},"sml-translate-春夜霧朦朧-紫空燦金輝","SML Translate: 春夜霧朦朧 紫空燦金輝",[97,10291,10292,10295,10298,10301,10304,10307,10310,10313,10316,10319],{},[100,10293,10294],{},"春: spring (describes the season).",[100,10296,10297],{},"夜: night (describes the time).",[100,10299,10300],{},"霧: fog, foggy (describes the weather).",[100,10302,10303],{},"朦朧: fogginess (descries the scene due to the foggy weather).",[100,10305,10306],{},"紫: purple (the color).",[100,10308,10309],{},"空: sky.",[100,10311,10312],{},"燦: sparkles (with).",[100,10314,10315],{},"金: gold (color).",[100,10317,10318],{},"輝: bright lights.",[100,10320,10321],{},"春夜霧朦朧 紫空燦金輝: On a foggy spring night, golden lights shine brightly under the purple sky.",[137,10323,10325],{"id":10324},"hong-kong-panoramic-serenity","Hong Kong Panoramic Serenity",[16,10327,10328],{},"香港全景之寧",[8278,10330],{":add_links":10125,":sources":10331,"alt":10332,"fl_link":10333,"ig_link":10129,"gi_link":10334},"[\"\u002Fphoto\u002Fserenity\u002Fserenity-sml-01-150-004.jpg\"]","“日落雲錦 水靜山寧” \u002F 香港全景之寧 Hong Kong Panoramic Serenity \u002F SML.20130402.7D.37445-SML.20130402.7D.37452-Pano.Rectilinear.76x50.P1.L1","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F8613908994\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gettyimages.com\u002Fdetail\u002Fphoto\u002Fsunset-cloudscape-at-mountain-shoreline-panorama-royalty-free-image\u002F166771257",[16,10336,10337],{},"As promised, here is the panorama shot at the same time earlier. The clouds are the focus here so it is exposed for it instead of the buildings on the mountain (which is part of the Chinese University of Hong Kong).",[16,10339,10340],{},"Technically speaking it should be possible for me to do an HDR to expose for both, which I will try in the future. The last time I try to do HDR with panorama though it was insanely complicated, as I ended up having 100+ images to stitch then HDR with and I feel like that it was not really worth the trouble after working on them for a while. But if I have a day’s time I will probably try to do it again. And definitely for this series I would because some images are worth the trouble, and the scenery like this most definitely is.",[16,10342,10343],{},"Stitched using eight 7D full-resolution RAW captures.",[2649,10345,10347],{"id":10346},"sml-translate-日落雲錦-水靜山寧","SML Translate: 日落雲錦 水靜山寧",[97,10349,10350,10353,10356,10359,10362,10365,10368,10370],{},[100,10351,10352],{},"日: sun.",[100,10354,10355],{},"落: down.",[100,10357,10358],{},"雲: clouds.",[100,10360,10361],{},"錦: brocade (describe thickness of clouds).",[100,10363,10364],{},"水: water (the ocean).",[100,10366,10367],{},"靜: quiet.",[100,10369,10185],{},[100,10371,10372],{},"寧: serene (also title of series)",[2649,10374,3684],{"id":10375},"sml-data-1",[97,10377,10378,10381,10384,10387,10390,10393,10395,10398,10401,10404,10407,10410,10413,10416,10419,10422],{},[100,10379,10380],{},"Date: 2013-04-02T18:12:22+0800",[100,10382,10383],{},"Dimensions: 9583 x 3651",[100,10385,10386],{},"Exposure: 1\u002F60 - 1\u002F80 sec at f\u002F8.0",[100,10388,10389],{},"Focal Length: 40 mm",[100,10391,10392],{},"ISO: 125",[100,10394,5243],{},[100,10396,10397],{},"Camera: Canon EOS 7D",[100,10399,10400],{},"Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f\u002F2.8L USM",[100,10402,10403],{},"Accessories: Canon TC-80N3, Manfrotto tripod",[100,10405,10406],{},"Panorama FOV: 76 degree horizontal, 50 degree vertical",[100,10408,10409],{},"Panoramic Projection: Rectilinear",[100,10411,10412],{},"GPS: 22°25'9\" N 114°13'25\" E",[100,10414,10415],{},"Location: SML Universe HKG, Hong Kong.",[100,10417,10418],{},"Serial: SML.20130402.7D.37445-SML.20130402.7D.37452-Pano.Rectilinear.76x50.P1.L1",[100,10420,10421],{},"Workflow: Hugin 2012, Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4",[100,10423,10424],{},"Series: 寧 Serenity, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography",[137,10426,10428],{"id":10427},"hong-kong-tolo-harbour-night-serenity","Hong Kong Tolo Harbour Night Serenity",[16,10430,10431],{},"香港吐露港夜之寧",[16,10433,10434],{},"仲夏夜深流金夢",[8278,10436],{":add_links":10125,":sources":10437,"alt":10438,"fl_link":10439,"ig_link":10129,"gi_link":10440},"[\"\u002Fphoto\u002Fserenity\u002Fserenity-sml-01-150-005.jpg\"]","“仲夏夜深流金夢” \u002F 香港吐露港夜之寧 Hong Kong Tolo Harbour Night Serenity (903-sec LE) \u002F SML.20130520.6D.06967","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F8755964579\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gettyimages.com\u002Fdetail\u002Fphoto\u002Fmidsummer-night-dreams-royalty-free-image\u002F980791678",[16,10442,10443],{},"After some satisfying results with long exposures recently, I tried my hands on some truly long exposure — 15 minutes (or 903 seconds to be exact).",[16,10445,10446,10447,10449],{},"I have previously shot this floating anchor (buoy) before, with the 7D + 70-200 f\u002F4 + 1.4x at 15 seconds ",[3116,10448,56],{},". This one though is shot with the 6D + 100-400 at 15 minutes, and it is interesting to compare the difference.",[16,10451,10452],{},"At 15 minutes, the water surface is completely smoothed and it truly looks like liquid gold. If you look at the 15-second shot, on the other hand, you will observe that the water is still somewhat “rough” by comparison. There is also a nice “dimple” near the anchor which is very sweet. Also unexpected is the refracted shine to the right of the buoy—which makes the light even more precious.",[2649,10454,10456],{"id":10455},"sml-translate-仲夏夜深流金夢","SML Translate: 仲夏夜深流金夢",[97,10458,10459,10462,10465,10467,10470,10473,10476,10479],{},[100,10460,10461],{},"仲: middle, mid.",[100,10463,10464],{},"夏: summer.",[100,10466,10173],{},[100,10468,10469],{},"深: deep. (describes the night — deep into the night).",[100,10471,10472],{},"流: flowing (describes the water).",[100,10474,10475],{},"金: gold, golden. (the color of the flowing water).",[100,10477,10478],{},"夢: dream. (the mood)",[100,10480,10481],{},"仲夏夜深流金夢: A dream of flowing liquid gold in the middle of summer. It might not technically be “summer” yet but it surely feels like so already in Hong Kong — it has been 32-degree celcius out for the past few days.",[2649,10483,3684],{"id":10484},"sml-data-2",[97,10486,10487,10490,10493,10496,10499,10501,10503,10505,10508,10511,10514,10517,10520,10523,10526],{},[100,10488,10489],{},"Date: 2013-05-20T01:16:563+0800",[100,10491,10492],{},"Dimensions: 5472 x 3648",[100,10494,10495],{},"Exposure: 903.0 sec at f\u002F20",[100,10497,10498],{},"Focal Length: 400 mm",[100,10500,10246],{},[100,10502,5243],{},[100,10504,1949],{},[100,10506,10507],{},"Lens: Canon EF 100-400 f\u002F4.5-5.6L IS USM",[100,10509,10510],{},"Accessories: Canon TC-80N3 Timer Remote Release, Manfrotto tripod",[100,10512,10513],{},"GPS: 22°25'10\" N 114°13'26\" E",[100,10515,10516],{},"Location: SML Universe HKG",[100,10518,10519],{},"Subject: 香港吐露港 Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong",[100,10521,10522],{},"Serial: SML.20130520.6D.06967",[100,10524,10525],{},"Workflow: Lightroom 4",[100,10527,10528],{},"Series: 寧 Serenity, Long Exposure 長時間曝光",[137,10530,10531],{"id":10531},"雨過雲海山乍露",[8278,10533],{":add_links":10125,":sources":10534,"alt":10535,"fl_link":10536,"ig_link":10129},"[\"\u002Fphoto\u002Fserenity\u002Fserenity-sml-01-150-006.jpg\"]","“雨過雲海山乍露” \u002F 寧 Serenity \u002F SML.20130409.7D.37534.P1.L1.BW","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F8634138898\u002F",[16,10538,10539],{},"When I first started the 寧 Serenity, I expected that it could not last too long because how much could someone photograph the view outside one’s window?",[16,10541,10542],{},"But I was wrong. In every single capture, I observe how the same become different, and how I am getting better at photographing something as mundane as the view outside my window—simply because my standards also go up as a result of doing it over and over again.",[16,10544,10545],{},"Some artists I see will try to paint \u002F photograph something different every time they utilise their medium. I think that trying new things is great, but so is doing the same thing repeatedly. Like nature, life never really does repeats itself. And so when you do things repeatedly it also tend to be different each time. When you add all these minute differences over time you will see a dramatic difference to your art over time.",[16,10547,10548],{},"I believe in that. So this series will continue. It would, I think, be interesting 10 years from now to look back and see just how crappy these photos are…",[2649,10550,3684],{"id":10551},"sml-data-3",[97,10553,10554,10557,10560,10563,10565,10567,10569,10571,10573,10575,10577,10580,10583,10586],{},[100,10555,10556],{},"Date: 2013-04-09T13:11:18+0800",[100,10558,10559],{},"Dimensions: 3158 x 4737",[100,10561,10562],{},"Exposure: 1\u002F500 sec at f\u002F8.0",[100,10564,5237],{},[100,10566,10246],{},[100,10568,5243],{},[100,10570,10397],{},[100,10572,5248],{},[100,10574,10412],{},[100,10576,10516],{},[100,10578,10579],{},"Subject: 中國香港八仙嶺和吐露港 Tolo Harbour + Pat Sin Leng, Hong Kong, China",[100,10581,10582],{},"Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4",[100,10584,10585],{},"Serial: SML.20130409.7D.37534.P1.L1.BW",[100,10587,10263],{},[137,10589,10591],{"id":10590},"evening-cloudscape-黃昏雲影","Evening Cloudscape 黃昏雲影",[8278,10593],{":add_links":10125,":sources":10594,"alt":10595,"fl_link":10596,"ig_link":10129},"[\"\u002Fphoto\u002Fserenity\u002Fserenity-sml-01-150-007.jpg\"]","黃昏雲影 Evening Cloudscape \u002F 香港日落全景之寧 Hong Kong Sunset Panoramic Serenity \u002F SML.20130706.7D.43781-SML.20130706.7D.43784-Pano.i4.9x2.L1.P1","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F9284487950\u002F",[16,10598,10599],{},"This was shot handheld with the 7D + 100-400 during sunset last week. The color information is rather tricky in this shot, so I processed it mainly inside Photoshop Lab mode. If processed in black and white then the drama is somewhat gone, but leaving them intact looks odd also. I might circle back and work on it more later.",[16,10601,10602],{},"Stitched with 4 captures.",[2649,10604,3684],{"id":10605},"sml-data-4",[97,10607,10608,10611,10614,10617,10619,10621,10623,10625,10627,10630,10633,10635,10637,10640,10643],{},[100,10609,10610],{},"Date: 2013-07-06T18:02:15+0800",[100,10612,10613],{},"Dimensions: 14160 x 3702",[100,10615,10616],{},"Exposure: 1\u002F800 sec at f\u002F8.0",[100,10618,10498],{},[100,10620,10246],{},[100,10622,5243],{},[100,10624,10397],{},[100,10626,5777],{},[100,10628,10629],{},"Panorama FOV: 9 degree horizontal, 2 degree vertical",[100,10631,10632],{},"Panoramic Projection: Planar",[100,10634,10513],{},[100,10636,10516],{},[100,10638,10639],{},"Workflow: Autopano Giga 3, Lightroom 5, Photoshop CC",[100,10641,10642],{},"Serial: SML.20130706.7D.43781-SML.20130706.7D.43784-Pano.i4.9x2.L1.P1",[100,10644,10424],{},[137,10646,10648],{"id":10647},"quiet-summer-靜夏","Quiet summer 靜夏",[8278,10650],{":add_links":10125,":sources":10651,"alt":10652,"fl_link":10653,"ig_link":10129},"[\"\u002Fphoto\u002Fserenity\u002Fserenity-sml-01-150-008.jpg\"]","靜夏 Quiet summer \u002F 香港日落全景之寧 Hong Kong Sunset Panoramic Serenity \u002F SML.20130704.7D.43437-SML.20130704.7D.43449-Pano.i13.12x4","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F9211780721\u002F",[16,10655,10656],{},"Recently during sunset, a line of disparate and lingering clouds caught my attention. They hung in mid-air, against a vast mountain with very delicate power lines running on its top. In the shadow area, you can briefly make out that it was captured near urban areas—it is that of the Tai Po district in Hong Kong. But it is not the focus here. The silhouette forms is what interest me, so I left them hidden in the shadow. Could I have pumped them up with some Photoshopping? Yes, I guess I could but then you would miss the delicate lines. Minimalism is the aim. When we remove the details, we can see the tiny details more succinctly, I believe.",[16,10658,10659],{},"13 Canon EOS 7D + 100-400 captures. Stitched with Autopano Giga 3. Processed in Lightroom 4.",[2649,10661,3684],{"id":10662},"sml-data-5",[97,10664,10665,10668,10671,10673,10675,10678,10680,10682,10684,10687,10689,10691,10693,10696,10699,10702],{},[100,10666,10667],{},"Date: 2013-07-04T19:10:18+0800",[100,10669,10670],{},"Dimensions: 19510 x 5720",[100,10672,10562],{},[100,10674,10498],{},[100,10676,10677],{},"ISO: 640",[100,10679,5243],{},[100,10681,10397],{},[100,10683,5777],{},[100,10685,10686],{},"Panorama FOV: 12 degree horizontal, 4 degree vertical",[100,10688,10632],{},[100,10690,10513],{},[100,10692,10516],{},[100,10694,10695],{},"Subject: 香港大埔 Taipo, Hong Kong",[100,10697,10698],{},"Workflow: Autopano Giga 3, Lightroom 4",[100,10700,10701],{},"Serial: SML.20130704.7D.43437-SML.20130704.7D.43449-Pano.i13.12x4",[100,10703,10424],{},[137,10705,10707],{"id":10706},"sunset-cloudscape","Sunset cloudscape",[16,10709,10710],{},"日落山雲觀",[8278,10712],{":add_links":10125,":sources":10713,"alt":10714,"fl_link":10715,"ig_link":10129},"[\"\u002Fphoto\u002Fserenity\u002Fserenity-sml-01-150-009.jpg\"]","日落山雲觀 Sunset cloudscape \u002F 香港中文大學全景之寧 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Panoramic Serenity \u002F SML.20130607.6D.05426-SML.20130607.6D.05430-Pano.i5.131x94.SQ.BW","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F9101974140\u002F",[16,10717,10718],{},"This photo has been stuck in processing for a while. Mostly I thought that it has a lot of potential, but I do not feel that I have quite finished it, though I do not really know what is bothering me concretely—except that it is not at its best form yet.",[16,10720,10721],{},"It is a panorama stitched together using 5 captures, though I have decided to crop to a square as I am mostly interested in the “extension” of the cloud immediately next to the mountains, and the additional area to the right of where the frame is cropped is somewhat unnecessary.",[16,10723,10724],{},"Keeping only what is necessary to complete an image is what I generally aim for. When I made the shot it seems useful, but it feels more successful when cropped as a square.",[2649,10726,3684],{"id":10727},"sml-data-6",[97,10729,10730,10733,10736,10739,10741,10743,10745,10747,10749,10752,10754,10756,10758,10761,10764,10767],{},[100,10731,10732],{},"Date: 2013-06-07T18:48:53+0800",[100,10734,10735],{},"Dimensions: 4423 x 4423",[100,10737,10738],{},"Exposure: 1\u002F80 sec at f\u002F8.0",[100,10740,5237],{},[100,10742,10246],{},[100,10744,5243],{},[100,10746,1949],{},[100,10748,10254],{},[100,10750,10751],{},"Panorama FOV: 131 degree horizontal, 94 degree vertical",[100,10753,5254],{},[100,10755,10412],{},[100,10757,10516],{},[100,10759,10760],{},"Subject: 香港中文大學 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)",[100,10762,10763],{},"Workflow: Autopango Giga 3, Lightroom 4",[100,10765,10766],{},"Serial: SML.20130607.6D.05426-SML.20130607.6D.05430-Pano.i5.131x94.SQ.BW",[100,10768,10424],{},[137,10770,10772],{"id":10771},"storm-風暴","Storm  風暴",[8278,10774],{":add_links":10125,":sources":10775,"alt":10776,"fl_link":10777,"ig_link":10129,"gi_link":10778},"[\"\u002Fphoto\u002Fserenity\u002Fserenity-sml-01-150-010.jpg\"]","風暴 Storm \u002F 香港吐露港之寧 Hong Kong Tolo Harbour Serenity HDR \u002F SML.20130726.6D.24188-89-90.HDR.P1.L1.BW","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fseeminglee\u002F9370400032\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gettyimages.com\u002Fdetail\u002Fphoto\u002Fcloudscape-before-the-storm-royalty-free-image\u002F175635205",[16,10780,10781],{},"Many of the photographs shot for the serenity series suffer from one problem: the buildings on the horizon lack details as they are technically facing against the sun.",[16,10783,10784],{},"There is a need for HDR in these instances, mostly so you can get the necessary details of the clouds (the star for this capture) as well as the necessary details of the buildings (the shadow area). By compressing the luminance information spanning -3 to +3, you get something like this.",[16,10786,10787],{},"In processing HDR images, I am not interested in creating “effects,” I am only interested in getting the details which are otherwise lost in a straight 14-bit range afforded by the camera RAW.",[16,10789,10790],{},"I used to use Photomatix but increasingly I am finding its quality to be favoring the artificial looks rather than pure tone compression, so for this I used Photoshop HDR Pro, which lately has been giving fairly promising results.",[16,10792,10793],{},"P.S. Per request I will post some unprocessed RAW capture info to see the before and after so you can clearly see that there is a need for HDR processing to get the results which I want.",[2649,10795,3684],{"id":10796},"sml-data-7",[97,10798,10799,10802,10805,10808,10811,10813,10816,10818,10820,10823,10825,10827,10830,10833],{},[100,10800,10801],{},"Date: 2013-07-26T17:02:49+0800",[100,10803,10804],{},"Dimensions: 3577 x 5184",[100,10806,10807],{},"Exposure: 1\u002F400 sec (0EV), 1\u002F3200 sec (-3EV), 1\u002F50 sec (+3EV) at f\u002F8.0",[100,10809,10810],{},"Focal Length: 24 mm",[100,10812,10246],{},[100,10814,10815],{},"Flash: did not fire",[100,10817,1949],{},[100,10819,10400],{},[100,10821,10822],{},"GPS: 22°25'12\" N 114°13'27\" E",[100,10824,10516],{},[100,10826,10519],{},[100,10828,10829],{},"Workflow: Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5",[100,10831,10832],{},"Serial: SML.20130726.6D.24188-89-90.HDR.P1.L1.BW",[100,10834,10263],{},{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":10836},[10837,10838,10843,10846,10850,10854,10857,10860,10863,10866],{"id":10109,"depth":64,"text":10110},{"id":10141,"depth":64,"text":10142,"children":10839},[10840,10841,10842],{"id":10162,"depth":2764,"text":10163},{"id":10226,"depth":2764,"text":10227},{"id":3683,"depth":2764,"text":3684},{"id":10266,"depth":64,"text":10267,"children":10844},[10845],{"id":10288,"depth":2764,"text":10289},{"id":10324,"depth":64,"text":10325,"children":10847},[10848,10849],{"id":10346,"depth":2764,"text":10347},{"id":10375,"depth":2764,"text":3684},{"id":10427,"depth":64,"text":10428,"children":10851},[10852,10853],{"id":10455,"depth":2764,"text":10456},{"id":10484,"depth":2764,"text":3684},{"id":10531,"depth":64,"text":10531,"children":10855},[10856],{"id":10551,"depth":2764,"text":3684},{"id":10590,"depth":64,"text":10591,"children":10858},[10859],{"id":10605,"depth":2764,"text":3684},{"id":10647,"depth":64,"text":10648,"children":10861},[10862],{"id":10662,"depth":2764,"text":3684},{"id":10706,"depth":64,"text":10707,"children":10864},[10865],{"id":10727,"depth":2764,"text":3684},{"id":10771,"depth":64,"text":10772,"children":10867},[10868],{"id":10796,"depth":2764,"text":3684},{"published":10870},"2023-10-03 08:00:00","Peacefulness through simplicity. Photography series. 2012-2015.","\u002Fphoto\u002Fserenity\u002Fserenity-sml-01-150-001.jpg",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fserenity",{"title":10078,"description":10871},[10002],"blog\u002Fserenity",[695,10002,10006,83],"PpwWF3hen69BhVCDyNEv99mfYkoLHmFa0fOjGkrxV7I",{"id":10881,"title":10882,"author":7,"body":10883,"date":10911,"description":10913,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":10888,"img_width":71,"meta":10914,"navigation":74,"path":10915,"seo":10916,"series":10917,"stem":10918,"tags":10919,"__hash__":10920},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Frtfm.md","RTFM",{"type":9,"value":10884,"toc":10909},[10885,10889,10892,10895,10903,10906],[6897,10886],{":height":6899,":width":6899,"alt":10887,"src":10888},"RTFM = How I learned everything.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fphil\u002Frtfm.png",[16,10890,10891],{},"Most software comes with a manual which no one reads. Instead, humans have a tendency to skip the manual, play with the software, and then proceed to go onto online forums or their friends and ask how they can do anything.",[16,10893,10894],{},"Manuals are generally written by software companies to teach users how to use their software. Manuals written by the software companies are generally very well written because it is in their best interests to have customers who understand their software well.",[16,10896,10897,10898,10902],{},"People often asked me how I know the software which I use so well. Because I read the ",[10899,10900,10901],"del",{},"fucking"," friendly manual (RTFM). When I was little, my mom told me that in order for me to use my dad’s brand new PC, I have to first read the MSDOS 3.3 manual, so I read it cover to cover. After I finished with the User Guide and proceeded to use the PC, my mom reminded me that the manual comes in two volumes. So I read the Reference cover to cover also. I still remember some command parameters (aka flags) til this day. (Edit 2023: I no longer remember DOS commands anymore because I rarely use PCs these days. I do remember Linux commands that I learned way back in the 90s though.)",[16,10904,10905],{},"Similarly, when I started using Photoshop 3.0, I read Adobe’s manual cover to cover. The same applies for Illustrator, Ableton Live, After Effects, Premiere Pro. For software which does not comes with manuals, I read O’Reilly references and cookbooks cover to cover: Java, JavaScript, Python, … I read all the manuals for Canon EOS 10D, 7D, 580EX, … I read all the manuals for everything which comes with the manual.",[16,10907,10908],{},"RTFM. This is the only way to learn everything technical. And if it’s not technical but it has a manual, read it anyway.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":10910},[],{"published":10912},"2013-08-07","How I learned everything.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Frtfm",{"title":10882,"description":10913},[591],"blog\u002Frtfm",[3085,591,590,3088],"f7zw2_cc-hc7YVtFeMnNmWQF1awDMn-9cC53dzmGys4",{"id":10922,"title":10923,"author":7,"body":10924,"date":10947,"description":10928,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":10929,"img_width":71,"meta":10949,"navigation":74,"path":10950,"seo":10951,"series":10952,"stem":10953,"tags":10954,"__hash__":10955},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fprofessionalism.md","Professionalism",{"type":9,"value":10925,"toc":10945},[10926,10930,10933,10936,10939,10942],[6897,10927],{":height":6899,":width":6899,"alt":10928,"src":10929},"Professionalism is qualitative, not quantitative.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fphil\u002Fprofessionalism.png",[16,10931,10932],{},"Some people said that they are not a professional because they don't make any money doing what they do. I find this interesting. What does making money have anything to do with being a professional or not?",[16,10934,10935],{},"To me, professionalism is an attitude. It is a measure of how one approaches an activity. It has nothing to do with the amount of money one makes doing it.",[16,10937,10938],{},"I have worked with countless so-called “professionals” in my years of business over the years and I can tell you that there are a lot of people—regardless of competency—who charge their clients exuberant sums of money but who can never deliver what was promised. I have also worked with countless so-called “non-professionals” who do not receive much pay but are top-notch in what they do.",[16,10940,10941],{},"You are a professional if you can deliver a professional product. You are a professional if you maintain a professional attitude while doing it. You are not a professional just because you do it for a living. You are not a professional just because you have a degree in that field. You are most certainly not a professional just because you are able to make lots of money doing it.",[16,10943,10944],{},"Business transactions are monetary exchange agreed by two parties. Business dealings, monetary compensation and professionalism often relate. However, relationship is not the same as equality.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":10946},[],{"published":10948},"2012-12-26",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fprofessionalism",{"title":10923,"description":10928},[591],"blog\u002Fprofessionalism",[5960,591,590],"7qmK84w5uReMOqZywGuRUGlU_NoS0Y7WbJXTWIqdFpY",{"id":10957,"title":10958,"author":7,"body":10959,"date":11010,"description":11012,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":10964,"img_width":71,"meta":11013,"navigation":74,"path":11014,"seo":11015,"series":11016,"stem":11017,"tags":11018,"__hash__":11019},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fdo-it.md","Do it",{"type":9,"value":10960,"toc":11008},[10961,10965,10981,10984,10993,10996,10999,11002,11005],[6897,10962],{":height":6899,":width":6899,"alt":10963,"src":10964},"Do it.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fphil\u002Fdo-it.png",[16,10966,10963,10967,10969,10970,10972,10973,10975,10976,10978,10979],{},[29,10968],{},"\nDo it for you.",[29,10971],{},"\nDo it for your own happiness.",[29,10974],{},"\nDo it so your life has meaning.",[29,10977],{},"\nDo it so you can be.",[29,10980],{},[16,10982,10983],{},"Countless humans I have interfaced with in the past have mentioned to me that they want to do something but they don't because they don't know what other people would think about them when they do it.",[16,10985,10986,10987,10992],{},"In his book ",[452,10988,10991],{"href":10989,"rel":10990},"http:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FThe_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People",[456],"“The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,”"," author Stephen R. Covey suggests that moving from dependence to independence (i.e. self-mastery) is key to one’s happiness and sanity. In other words, caring about what other people think is a self-destruction act.",[16,10994,10995],{},"The happiness of others is not your concern—especially if you have not yet mastered self-happiness. You are however responsible for your own happiness. Everything that I do, I do it for myself. I don’t do anything because it makes other people happy. I do it because it makes me happy. The same philosophy applies for what I do for work. Work should be 100% fun. Work should be play and play only.",[16,10997,10998],{},"Once you learn to let go and not mind about other people‘s business, you can move on with your life. Opinionated people who “thoughtfully” offer suggestions to others are everywhere. They will continue to “care” about you and proceed to drive you nuts. In these scenarios, I find it best to initiate a dialog with them. Make sure that they understand that what they are suggesting is not helpful. Ask them to stop. Have the ability to “agree to disagree.”",[16,11000,11001],{},"Unfortunately some of these “caring people” will not stop even after prolonged discussions. In my experience, some humans—for reasons which escapes me—simply do not have a logic unit in their CPUs. These types of humans will continue to send negative waves in the form of opinions and comments as “suggestions” about what you do. When these are constantly present and leeching into your sanity, terminate relationships with them right away. If you can't cut them loose then just move as far away as possible.",[16,11003,11004],{},"Remember: be independent. Be yourself. Be happy. Be responsible for you and yourself only.",[16,11006,11007],{},"Disclaimer: Brain-hacking results vary. What works for me might not work for you.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":11009},[],{"published":11011},"2012-12-16","Do it for your own happiness",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdo-it",{"title":10958,"description":11012},[591],"blog\u002Fdo-it",[1927,591,590],"lLSkviZpTnQUndI9SuS5bUJAX34Jpgp7zqO0XtW6LMU",{"id":11021,"title":11022,"author":7,"body":11023,"date":11054,"description":11030,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":11027,"img_width":71,"meta":11056,"navigation":74,"path":11057,"seo":11058,"series":11059,"stem":11060,"tags":11061,"__hash__":11062},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fno.md","Learn to say no",{"type":9,"value":11024,"toc":11052},[11025,11028,11031,11034,11037,11040,11043],[6897,11026],{":height":6899,":width":6899,"alt":11022,"src":11027},"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fphil\u002Flearn-to-say-no.png",[16,11029,11030],{},"Say no to things which are unrealistic.",[16,11032,11033],{},"I have a tendency to over-commit. In the past when clients asked me if I can do something within an unrealistically short period of time, I used to agree to them and as a result also drove myself to death—literally. The stress was so high that I had contemplated killing myself.",[16,11035,11036],{},"The crazy thing was that since I was a perfectionist then, I decided to postpone suicide because I could not see myself having a tomb with something like “SML, the one who did not finish an XYZ project.” I also considered the possibility that no one would show up to my funeral because I somehow messed up their project. Yes I know that this is all very funny but somehow crazies have their crazy ways to cope with life.",[16,11038,11039],{},"These days I just say no. I tell people to go find someone else for things which I think will kill me. Interestingly they usually stay with me because usually when I was given unrealistic requests like that it was because they could not find any humans to do it and I am usually their last hope.",[16,11041,11042],{},"Wishful thinking is a common attribute among humans. Humans are just weird.",[16,11044,11045],{},[5746,11046,11047,11048,458],{},"This is an excerpt from a longer blog about ",[452,11049,11051],{"href":11050},"\u002Fblog\u002Fperfection\u002F","Perfection",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":11053},[],{"published":11055},"2012-12-06",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fno",{"title":11022,"description":11030},[591],"blog\u002Fno",[591,590],"YeA97r-JKo0hIRZKO-FkVkVdjY-_SQDljnqDniP9s5s",{"id":11064,"title":11065,"author":7,"body":11066,"date":11089,"description":11091,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":11071,"img_width":71,"meta":11092,"navigation":74,"path":11093,"seo":11094,"series":11095,"stem":11096,"tags":11097,"__hash__":11098},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fbe-yourself.md","Be yourself",{"type":9,"value":11067,"toc":11087},[11068,11072,11075,11078,11081,11084],[6897,11069],{":height":6899,":width":6899,"alt":11070,"src":11071},"Be yourself. Be who you are. Never change for others.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fphil\u002Fbe-yourself.png",[16,11073,11074],{},"I used to care about what people think about me. So I change the way I am for others. It drives me nuts.",[16,11076,11077],{},"In order to appear “normal” to people and be able to talk at half my normal rate, I started taking prescription medication that will make me talk slower in 2007. Although people like the new “normal pace” me, I have also ceased to win any important international design awards because I have also lost my creativity as a result. These days I minimize taking any. (Edit 2023: I no longer take meds for them)",[16,11079,11080],{},"In order to appeal to the body conscious community, I used to go to the gym 3x\u002Fweek and had a professional personal trainer for several years. Did I feel good? Yes. Did he get me into shape? Yes. Did it increase the chance for me to be in love? No. Did I get happier? Yes and no. I did feel better but it is taking so much of my time that I ended up getting stressed out from not having the time to do my work—which is the most important thing in my life. I have thus decided that it is unimportant to me. I exercise these days from carrying all that photography equipment around town and in remote location. That works well. (Edit 2023: I do go to the gym for personal health reasons but definitely not a gym rat by any definition)",[16,11082,11083],{},"Overtime I have stopped doing things just to please the crowd. I have principals. I make it my mission to talk about important issues which no one talks about. I make it my mission to blog about things which mainstream media will not cover. I have learned over time that being popular is unimportant to me. I am happy being on my own. If others don’t like me it’s ok. By being who I am, I am able to do what I love. By being who I am, I no longer waste time with people who are unimportant to me.",[16,11085,11086],{},"Self identity is something which defines who you are. Embrace it.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":11088},[],{"published":11090},"2012-12-05","Be who you are. Never change for others.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbe-yourself",{"title":11065,"description":11091},[591],"blog\u002Fbe-yourself",[591,1927,590],"KAbN7KdEayHGe7P_o9qUPPllVkoUuFKomZ1y87UHQrY",{"id":11100,"title":5864,"author":7,"body":11101,"date":11119,"description":11121,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":11106,"img_width":71,"meta":11122,"navigation":74,"path":11123,"seo":11124,"series":11125,"stem":11126,"tags":11127,"__hash__":11128},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fwork.md",{"type":9,"value":11102,"toc":11117},[11103,11107,11109,11111,11114],[6897,11104],{":height":6899,":width":6899,"alt":11105,"src":11106},"Work should be play and play alone. Do what you love — that's the only thing which matters","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fphil\u002Fwork.png",[16,11108,5852],{},[16,11110,5855],{},[16,11112,11113],{},"Don't ever work for money. Money always follows when you do what you love. Money should be the result, not the reason.",[16,11115,11116],{},"Disclaimer: this philosophy works for me but your results may vary. I cannot guarantee results for everyone and cannot be held liable for your life nor financial situation.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":11118},[],{"published":11120},"2012-12-04","Work should be play and play alone.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwork",{"title":5864,"description":11121},[591],"blog\u002Fwork",[591,5960,590],"kJzOjzMF-I9VWXlTCH5FWitXiAB_f6y_RYJ67BoIUqk",{"id":11130,"title":11051,"author":7,"body":11131,"date":11192,"description":11194,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":11136,"img_width":71,"meta":11195,"navigation":74,"path":11196,"seo":11197,"series":11198,"stem":11199,"tags":11200,"__hash__":11201},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Fperfection.md",{"type":9,"value":11132,"toc":11190},[11133,11137,11140,11143,11146,11152,11158,11163,11169,11175,11181],[6897,11134],{":height":6899,":width":6899,"alt":11135,"src":11136},"Delete perfection and have zero expectations.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fphil\u002Fperfection.png",[16,11138,11139],{},"Perfection does not exist. You might as well remove the word from your dictionary right now before it turns you into absolute demise. If perfection existed, I certainly have never seen it, nor have I ever experienced it.",[16,11141,11142],{},"For a large part of my life, I had been a perfectionist, and I expected perfection from others. Since perfection does not exist, you can imagine how unhappy I used to be. I put in 200% of my effort to the point of exhaustion and all I was left with was depression of failing to reach the impossible goal of being perfect. All I was able to see was flaws in myself, and flaws in others. I got upset when things were not perfect, and it drove me nuts.",[16,11144,11145],{},"I believe that there are certain things in life which you cannot learn no matter how intelligent you are. There are things which you can only learn only when you have lived long enough. Older people have the leg up here. I often tell people that I aspire to attain things which could only be gained through time, and this is one of those things. It took me more than three decades to realize that perfection does not exist. I now embrace imperfection fully. I embrace it through these methods:",[16,11147,11148,11151],{},[3768,11149,11150],{},"Zero expectations."," I have found that expecting nothing from others is a good way to maintain happiness. When someone promise me that they would complete a task by a certain date, I expect that they would complete nothing. When they do, I get happy. When I order food from a restaurant, I expect them to never show up. So when they do, I get happy. When I decided to meet someone I found on an online personal, I expect that they will look nothing like what they describe to be. When they in fact are somewhat decent, I am happy. It may sound absolutely crazy to live life this way, but I have found this to be a very good life hack to maintain happiness. In the worst case scenario I will just be indifferent. Indifferent is ok because I will at least not feel upset about it. Feeling upset is hazardous to the soul.",[16,11153,11154,11157],{},[3768,11155,11156],{},"Ensure that people know that I am imperfect."," I identify what I am not good at: time management, tidy organization of physical space, etc, and I make sure that when I do anything which require those specific skill sets that I work with someone who can cover those. I will not work on any project which does not have a good project manager. I am thankful that I have worked with many excellent project managers \u002F personal assistants who know how to work with crazy people like me while not trying to micro-manage everything. I report progress through daily and if necessarily through hourly reports because I cannot estimate time it takes to complete anything. Though I've also wised up somewhat—by following the principle of “under promise, over deliver”, when I think that things will take 1 week to do, I tell them that it would take 4 weeks to complete. Usually it works out to be around 3 weeks. Knowing this is helpful. By working in an agile fashion, it is good for me and it is good for others. This is also my preference when working in teams.",[16,11159,11160,11162],{},[3768,11161,11030],{}," I have a tendency to over-commit. When clients ask me if I can do something within an unrealistically short period of time, I used to agree to them and as a result also drove myself to death—literally. The stress was so high that I had contemplated killing myself. The crazy thing was that since I was a perfectionist then, I decided to postpone suicide because I could not see myself having a tomb with something like “SML, the one who did not finish an XYZ project.” I also considered the possibility that no one would show up to my funeral because I somehow messed up their project. Yes I know that this is all very funny but somehow crazies have their crazy ways to cope with life. These days I just say no. I tell people to go find someone else for things which I think will kill me. Interestingly they usually stay with me because usually when I was given unrealistic requests like that it was because they could not find any humans to do it and I am usually their last hope. Wishful thinking is a common attribute among humans. Humans are just weird.",[16,11164,11165,11168],{},[3768,11166,11167],{},"Be thankful."," A lot of people that I have met feel “entitled” to things because they have done something else. I promote the idea of “zero expectations” and so I am thankful to those who have done anything—no matter how small—for me. A lot of people have the philosophy that just because someone work at their company, they can slave-drive their employees as bots. Don't do that. Humans are not capable of sustaining high levels of pressure. Since I maintain zero-expectations from others, I am thankful when people have completed the tasks as requested and as promised. It works out ok.",[16,11170,11171,11174],{},[3768,11172,11173],{},"Be independent."," Zero expectations require that I be independent, so I utilize every opportunity to learn new things and skills. I also spend much time researching productivity tools which would help me cope with my deficiencies better. I utilize hashtags e.g. #sml2do for things I need to do. Using unique but consistent hashtags allow me to then use Google to then track things which are not yet completed. I make sure that there are always multiple point of entries of the same todo lists.",[16,11176,11177,11180],{},[3768,11178,11179],{},"Be forgiving."," Mastership of zero expectations remove the need to forgive because I will never be upset. But although I don't seem human to most, I am in fact human. Attaining zero expectations has been a difficult journey, and I suspect that it will be a life long journey. So until I am able to reach my goal (which is probably never because perfection does not exist), I remind myself to be forgiving. If I wish that others be more understanding to my own imperfection then I need to be forgiving.",[16,11182,11183,11184,11189],{},"I am writing these thoughts down because ",[452,11185,11188],{"href":11186,"rel":11187},"https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002FMrJamesReeves",[456],"Mr James Reeves"," suggested to me that I should write more. I’d like to thank him for his suggestion. It does seem that writing it out eases the pain somewhat.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":11191},[],{"published":11193},"2012-12-01","Delete perfection and have zero expectations",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fperfection",{"title":11051,"description":11194},[591],"blog\u002Fperfection",[1927,591,590],"11ewWBBY9PbNyjWjQR-ZUCrez8FSdmonLZMF4BzUdxI",{"id":11203,"title":11204,"author":7,"body":11205,"date":11374,"description":71,"extension":69,"frame":70,"img_height":71,"img_src":11209,"img_width":71,"meta":11376,"navigation":74,"path":11377,"seo":11378,"series":11379,"stem":11380,"tags":11381,"__hash__":11382},"pages\u002Fblog\u002Flife-rpg.md","Life is an RPG game",{"type":9,"value":11206,"toc":11362},[11207,11210,11214,11217,11220,11224,11227,11230,11234,11237,11240,11244,11247,11250,11253,11257,11260,11263,11266,11269,11272,11275,11279,11282,11285,11289,11292,11295,11298,11302,11305,11308,11311,11314,11318,11321,11327,11330,11333,11339,11345,11348,11352,11359],[6897,11208],{":height":6899,":width":6899,"alt":11204,"src":11209},"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fphil\u002Flife-is-an-rpg-game-2023.png",[137,11211,11213],{"id":11212},"_1-exploration","1. Exploration",[16,11215,11216],{},"In RPG, you start with a character in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by fog of war. You are unsure what your goal is, and you scout out + explore territories around you on the unexplored map to uncover tasks and missions until you find your ultimate goal.",[16,11218,11219],{},"In life, you were born somewhere on a little planet called Earth, unsure of your life's purpose, and you travel around to different places and examine different cultures, in an attempt to find reasons and purposes to make yourself useful to the world at large.",[137,11221,11223],{"id":11222},"_2-attributes","2. Attributes",[16,11225,11226],{},"When you start an RPG game, you typically start with some kind of points which you can assign to different specialties. If you don't know the game, you can either choose a specific character class or allow the AI to randomly generate one for you using equal amount of attributes.",[16,11228,11229],{},"In life, everybody gets the same amount of genes, where different combinations of these determine your character, charisma, physique and personality. They are not randomly assigned, and are governed by the laws of nature, which is highly dependent on the genetic make-up of your parents and ancestors.",[137,11231,11233],{"id":11232},"_3-acquisition","3. Acquisition",[16,11235,11236],{},"In your journey as an RPG character, you explore dungeons, collect golds, acquire skills, find treasure items, fight dragons + demons along the way, and receive experience points for your various random tasks.",[16,11238,11239],{},"In life, you earn an income, acquire knowledge through education, discover useful gadgets and appliances that make your life more livable, conquer challenges and receive experience from every mundane and exciting interaction with the world around you.",[137,11241,11243],{"id":11242},"_4-medication","4. Medication",[16,11245,11246],{},"In an RPG, there are many different kinds of magical potions. Some help you regain your health points, some enchant you with special abilities, some last for a long time and some give you short-term effects. Some create very positive impact on your character but will have a negative impact after its use.",[16,11248,11249],{},"If you find enough of these, they help you perform various tasks that your character does not normally possess. If you are not fortunate to find them but have enough gold, you can purchase them at a dealership in a nearby city.",[16,11251,11252],{},"In life, these magical potions exist in the form of medication. Some help you fight diseases, some help you sleep, some imbue you with special abilities that last for a short while until its effect dies out. Some have severe side effects if your body is not compatible with them. If you cannot find natural herbal substitutes, you can always pay your way and get it from a local pharmacy.",[137,11254,11256],{"id":11255},"_5-specialization","5. Specialization",[16,11258,11259],{},"Over time, you figure out what you're good at, and assign experience points to different lines of specialties, until you become a highly skilled fighter, wizard, druid, ranger, cleric or a combination of two or more of the above.",[16,11261,11262],{},"Good game engines like BioWare's Neverwinter Nights do not apply a lot of penalties to your decision to have different specialties. You are also not stuck with the character class that you originally picked.",[16,11264,11265],{},"When you past a certain point in life, you receive recognitions, honors and awards for your contribution to different communities in the form of degrees, publications, certificates of commendation and Nobel prizes.",[16,11267,11268],{},"Based on your experience, you decide to become a an artist, a banker, a designer, an engineer, an entrepreneur, an information architect, a professor, a public relations magnet, a scientist, a strategist or a writer. You can make a career out of a single category, but you can also choose to combine different skill-sets and work on multiple competencies.",[16,11270,11271],{},"Life places some penalties if you decide to have multiple skills, as you have to work multiple-times as hard to keep track of the happenings among all the industries, but if you are willing to devote the time, you can certainly be successful and become an expert in all of them.",[16,11273,11274],{},"Midway through your life, if you decide that a particular profession is not right for you, you can choose to move onto something else. You will have to work hard to start from scratch, but you are certainly not tied to the decisions in your personal history.",[137,11276,11278],{"id":11277},"_6-life-death","6. Life + Death",[16,11280,11281],{},"In RPG, you try hard to maintain your health points, because if it dwindles beyond absolute zero, you will hit game-over, and you have to start all over again. You might not understand the whole purpose of the game even though you have spent nights and days trying to figure it out, but you stick along because the adventures you are going through are interesting enough and you are having fun.",[16,11283,11284],{},"In life, you aspire to live, because you are never really certain where you will be going after death. You are also not sure if you will really get a second chance. Things that happen around you are sometimes positive and sometimes negative, but they are often interesting enough to keep you going, and the negative impacts you pick up along your journey are negligible when placed against the big picture.",[137,11286,11288],{"id":11287},"_7-relationships","7. Relationships",[16,11290,11291],{},"In a MMORPG (massively multi-player online role playing game), game play gets a bit complex, because human players are much more complex than the AI which you might be able to figure out. If you could not, you can always cheat by getting the game guide.",[16,11293,11294],{},"Because of the added complexity, you have to be mindful of relationships with other characters and try hard to maintain healthy friendships. If your believes align with others, you can form guilds and conquer the universe together. You can also contribute your skills and services for others in return for favors or monetary exchange.",[16,11296,11297],{},"Life is full of its complexities, and you have to be mindful of not just human relationships, but also human-computer relationships and computer-computer interactions. Through your various conscious or subconscious decisions, you make friends and you gain enemies. Based on your career choices or interests, you form groups, clubs or societies based on your profession or your passion. You can volunteer your talents to charitable organizations, or you can sell them as services and create business entities.",[137,11299,11301],{"id":11300},"conclusion","Conclusion",[16,11303,11304],{},"When we examine the similarities, it becomes apparent that RPG is really a simulation of life. It has a D+D setting, but it bears no difference with simulation games like SimCity--a computer game which allows you to be the urban planner for a city. Many gaming industry experts doubt the success of The Sims by Will Wright when it was introduced, because they could not understand why anyone would want to live in a virtual reality of reality, but the fantabulous sales figures prove the critics wrong. If an RPG can do well because it simulates life, a game which simulates life can only do better.",[16,11306,11307],{},"The awareness of life simulation has also created real-life economy for some, who spend much of their time creating clothings, entertainment opportunities and all kinds of products and services to allow Sims to live a better life, not quite unlike folks who find and sell unique items from RPGs on eBay for a profit.",[16,11309,11310],{},"Will is currently working on his next big project called Spore. It is a MMORPG where participants advance their species from a single cell organism to a highly complex animal race through evolutionary mutation. After you reach your goal to conquer your planet, you then get to discover the nearby planets and eventually attempt to conquer the universe either through force or diplomacy.",[16,11312,11313],{},"It has received a lot of PR when it was first revealed at the E3 in 2005. You can find various video demos on YouTube charting its development, and I look forward to its release.",[137,11315,11317],{"id":11316},"notes-2023","Notes 2023",[16,11319,11320],{},"When I wrote this back in 2007, I mainly wanted to compare the similarities, but it did not give a very good conclusion. Fifteen years later, as i now actually worked in gaming (how unexpected), and I will expand on it as they come to me, or maybe write a new blog post soon.",[16,11322,11323,11326],{},[3768,11324,11325],{},"Try new things."," We’re usually open to trying new things inside an open-world game, because often that opens up new possibilities and story lines. Once you realized that life is also a game and that it doesn’t have any rules, then you know that you should always try new things and explore them.",[16,11328,11329],{},"All these “rules” about life about what you should or should not do are not in fact rules — you believe them purely because you were taught to follow them. There are no rules in life. Live it the way you want. Create your own path.",[16,11331,11332],{},"I have a life philosophy of trying everything once — I believe that if I don’t try them myself then I can’t truly form a good opinion about them. Obviously, don’t do anything where there are enough evidence to suggest that it will lead down a very bad path. Avoid things that you are not certain if it’s absolutely safe to do.",[16,11334,11335,11338],{},[3768,11336,11337],{},"Take risks."," If you’re willing to take the risks and try new things, then you may realize new dimensions in life that you didn’t know was possible before.",[16,11340,11341,11344],{},[3768,11342,11343],{},"Live life as you would play a game."," If you’re an avid gamer, you can simply apply your ways of playing an RPG game to your life. If you follow those same principles that got you to the top of the leaderboard in a game, then you’ll likely also be successful in life, or at least be able to live life to the fullest.",[16,11346,11347],{},"Remember — there are no rules. You make your own journey. Where you ended up is entirely up to you. You are the only person who decides everything. Now it’s your move.",[137,11349,11351],{"id":11350},"feedback","Feedback",[16,11353,11354,11355,11358],{},"Please reach out to me on ",[452,11356,7514],{"href":7512,"rel":11357},[456]," if you can think of other things that you could draw parallel to with life.",[16,11360,11361],{},"I think that it’s definitely time for an update.",{"title":63,"searchDepth":64,"depth":64,"links":11363},[11364,11365,11366,11367,11368,11369,11370,11371,11372,11373],{"id":11212,"depth":64,"text":11213},{"id":11222,"depth":64,"text":11223},{"id":11232,"depth":64,"text":11233},{"id":11242,"depth":64,"text":11243},{"id":11255,"depth":64,"text":11256},{"id":11277,"depth":64,"text":11278},{"id":11287,"depth":64,"text":11288},{"id":11300,"depth":64,"text":11301},{"id":11316,"depth":64,"text":11317},{"id":11350,"depth":64,"text":11351},{"published":11375},"2007-06-08",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Flife-rpg",{"title":11204,"description":71},[591],"blog\u002Flife-rpg",[1927,591,590],"21K_bqk8GDosiMGLlr413QT8BAApCKMXAGK_gNvb4gA",1793208660104]