figuring out how to live a fulfilling creative life
I’m going to make 2022 a Low-Buy Year because I want to be a grown-up! Financial literacy eluded me for the first 20-some years of my life. My parents were immigrants who made ends meet by working hard and being thrifty. They had hawk eyes for a good deal and were champions at couponing. I remember them evaluating whether or not to purchase an item…
Featured Photo by Josh Fu I had a rough time in 2021 –I can count the number of friends and family who passed last year on two hands. Consequently, I dropped off the internet to deal with everything. This resurrective blog post isn’t for lingering in 2021’s events. Instead, I’m moving forward with blasting my 2022 goals for public accountability and documentation. My 2022 goals…
Here’s something that I wasn’t expecting to take away from Eat a Peach by David Chang: a heavy dose of humility and empathy. For the last few months of 2020 I buried myself in a mountain of documentaries and books all about food culture. My good friend, Priscilla Liang from the Two Horny Goats Podcast, added to my ongoing pile with David Chang’s memoir. I…
There’s a subtle beauty in watching my roommate’s flowers deteriorate. I wanted to play with composition in today’s film journal entry, but I got distracted and this rolled into a continuation of where’s my package? I ordered my package back in October 2020 and it’s currently lost in the pandemic ether. Documenting myself constantly being defeated by the delays helps me cope. The contents of the packages…
I think I’ve accidentally made a sensual video for Sunday’s film journal entry? I recorded myself waking up, rolling my wrists, and then proceeding with crawling my fingers over my partner’s shoulder. The backlight from the window drew my eye and I wanted to capture it (plus avoid grainy, noisy footage.) film journal Observations On the Canon EOS R5 MF peaking settings are not available when zebra…
I made jokes about the art of watching water boil last year; I wasn’t kidding. I’m still watching water boil in 2021 and you can look forward to watching water boil in multiple entries of my film journal. film journal Parameters Limitations breed creativity and innovation. I’m going to try to create one film journal entry per day for an entire year. To save myself…
Why, hello there New Year! Welcome back to another day in quarantine! I took some time off to focus on working on a creative project and then for personal reflection. I’ve more or less accepted life in lockdown will continue and it’s impractical to longing for the normalcy of 2019 and earlier. Perhaps, my mind has been digesting all those books that I’ve been reading because I’m…
I’m just chugging along and putting in the hours of practicing filming and this time I recorded myself making a smoothie bowl. A smoothie bowl loaded with protein has been my go-to meal for lunch while working from home because: I’m lazy, I don’t want to cook. This is more of an assemble and chuck into a blender recipe. I’m lazy, I want to consume…
I’m still clocking in my practice hours for filming food content and over the week I noticed a bunch of lonely, browning bananas sitting in our kitchen nook… Ergo make banana bread?! Karen Wang, from the workout squad, kindly shared her classic banana bread recipes with Albert C and me. After getting permission from my roommate to transform her bananas into banana bread, Albert and…
On Amazon Prime Day, I ordered a greatly discounted DJI Osmo Pocket and then immediately returned! Ironically, the week DJI announced the successor to its gimbal camera, the DJI Pocket 2, a week after Prime Day. I’m am grateful for return policies! I wanted to pick up the Osmo Pocket specifically as a gateway to return to producing videos. I saw this specific style of…