I'm graduating, you are graduating, and we are graduating.
Don't say good bye. This moment will be our commencement for the life.

I will miss you guys.

Senior students

Ten Ways To Improve

Your Multimedia Production Right Now.

I wish I could know before.

http://mediastorm.org/blog/?p=709

India Kitchen

It tastes real INDIA! My India friends invited me and offered authentic India food.
It was my first time to eat home style India food. My friends said that both downtown India restaurants are modified. We called 'Americanized.' I can't stop eating NAAN!
It reminds me of movie 'Slumdog Millionaire.' haha...

Rings for Bulls

I just got back from Korea ,and I am still trying to get out of jet lag.
I went to 2009 Bull ring festival during the last weekend.I wish I could stay more there to get more personal picture story. I wish I could stay more with my family and friends.
It's already 7'o clock in the morning. I might go to school directly. I miss you guys. :)

one day/25 hours/newsroom

25hours/artist/life

group 01

These are my outtakes of a teenage thing. I visited to Mile's place on last Friday, but I couldn't stay longer...

Frank

Frank Stack is a painter.
Here's some works he did.
www.frankstackart.com

Coffee

I needed a coffee break, so I met a person who had a coffee break on Thursday afternoon.

the first sequence assiginment

In order to make a good sequence, what do I need? It was the first question popped up from my head after watching some photos by Elliot Erwitt. The first step was to bring a good idea. This was the hardest part for me, so it took a forever to kick off real shooting.

Recently, I am getting interested in playing with a video, so I want to make something new like a mixture of a still photography and a video. Professor David showed MPW in 71 seconds which were made for 2008 Missouri Photo Workshop. I was inspired by this work, so I decided to try this type of sequence.

I got an idea from a Missourian newsroom. Since I was a reporter less than one month ago, I don’t feel being an alien in a newsroom. Actually, I feel like I need to go to a budget meeting every morning. While I was working on a newsroom, there was a sad new that Sunday Missourian won’t be printed out anymore because of a budget matter since this February. I was predicting that it will happen soon, but I still don’t want to accept this fact.

I think it warns me again that this is a time to capture the moment how a newsroom goes through in 2009. So, I made a theme, ‘25 hours in a newsroom of 2009.’

I still need to shoot more photos to make a perfect sequence because I mostly focused on a movement of images rather than taking an emotion shot. Here’s some photos I got. I’m welcomed to have any opinion from you guys.

the last day of January

I am not sure whether you can't figure out this image or not. It may seems two light bulbs in a dark studio. I am trying to look at the sky at least once a day, but usually I miss it. Anyway, it was a pretty bright night. I found a beautiful crescent and a following star or may be a satellite in the sky. It sounds stupid, but I still wish for the moon.


Today, I wish I won't wait tomorrow's sky without looking at today's sky.

Bird by Bird, Word by Word

I prefer to read slowly word by word.
This type of habit usually allows me to have a moment. During this moment, I apply myself into a plot, but not always, and it happens when I read a book, 'Bird by Bird.'

While reading this book, I'm so ashamed and I want to hide myself like a bride at the start of wedding 10 minutes before. The sudden thought was popped up from my head, especially when I read this part, "writing a novel is like driving a car night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way," from E. L. Doctorow.

I made the biggest mistake while taking a picture story of a victim of domestic violence during a last semester. First, I made a main story even before meeting with her. I forced her into my plot thinking about how I could make a better story within a due date. But, we both felt something uncomfortable feeling between us later on, and she didn't answer my call anymore.

Why do you want to take a picture?
This basic question I used to answer became the most difficult question I've ever had.
I forget the moment I used to catch because I want to make one well done image at one time.

Okay....
Start with shitty first drafts. That's all I need to do now.

Gentleman

Mr. Kid Bars turned 40 this year. When asked the secret of Kid's old age, Grindler joked that he doesn't drink alcohol and doesn't smoke, but said lots of love and attention help keep him in great condition.


I can say that he is absolutely a gentle guy.

coming back from winter sleep

This is my last semester and my last moment in Columbia.
I want to share the moment with you.