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http://www.jinjoohwang.com/6/ ” ‘Not to find...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:50:00 -0700

http://www.jinjoohwang.com/6/

” ‘Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance- nothing more,’ says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. ‘But to lose oneself in a city- as one loses oneself in a forest- that calls for quite a different schooling.’ To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychical state achievable through geography.” -Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a snow-storm, even by day, one will come out upon a well-known road and yet find it impossible to tell which way leads to the village. Though he knows that he has travelled it a thousand times, he cannot recognize a feature in it, but it is as strange to him as if it were a road in Siberia. By night, of course, the perplexity is infinitely greater. In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round — for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost — do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” -Henry David Thoreau: Walden

"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby..."

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:14:14 -0700

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”

- Albert Einstein

The most beloved of my favorite colors, found in the deserts of...

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:02:07 -0700

The most beloved of my favorite colors, found in the deserts of Saudi Arabia.
http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery2006/view.php%3Fid=21.html

In science and art combined are what I believe to be the most beautiful things

toothpastefordinner.comLol. I know this old comic is supposed to...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:14:00 -0700

toothpastefordinner.com

Lol. I know this old comic is supposed to make fun of early birds, but I can’t help but see it the other way as well (true loser/loner in me)
…
WHY has this thought not occurred to me before?!?!?!?!?!?!?!???? Am I really that plain stupid?!?! -_-.
I genuinely enjoyed waking up ever so slowly to go grocery shopping alone before drawing class (the one time I ever did wake up extremely early).. so then why has it never occured to me that I could actually enjoy that every day? ugh sigh Lol

Better late than never :) aha

haha look at how round my face got. it’s so...

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:15:00 -0700

haha look at how round my face got. it’s so funny

http://clazzone.livejournal.com/18322.html

http://clazzone.livejournal.com/17546.htmlThis is my dream...

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:45:00 -0700

http://clazzone.livejournal.com/17546.html
This is my dream world! Endless clouds upon clouds under the entire open and empty sky
Kind of just floating along

SIGHthis week is going to suck

Tue, 12 May 2009 06:19:00 -0700

SIGH
this week is going to suck

right before I butchered it. Poor Norah3 hours, Prismacolor...

Tue, 12 May 2009 06:17:00 -0700

right before I butchered it. Poor Norah
3 hours, Prismacolor Nupastel
1/6th of my drawing final

I just wrote the second-longest e-mail of my life.. to my foundation advisor. In 613 words. Sigh,...

Tue, 05 May 2009 17:51:06 -0700

I just wrote the second-longest e-mail of my life.. to my foundation advisor. In 613 words. Sigh, the longest e-mail I’ve ever written was to my mom.. in 1,695 words. Both of these in a sitting, each.
WHYY for my life can’t I write my papers this easily?! lol

I finally bought my first moleskine sketchbook. yayaya it’s trend-whore time

Blonde Redhead- Silently Silently, I wish to sail into your...

Sat, 02 May 2009 00:04:00 -0700

Blonde Redhead- Silently

Silently, I wish to sail into your port
I am your sailor
Quietly, I drop my weight into your sea
I drop my anchor
I sway in your waves, I sing in your sleep
I stay ‘till I’m in your life

I realize now you’re not to be blamed, my love
You didn’t choose your name, my love
You never crossed the seven seas
I realize now you’re not to be blamed, my love
You didn’t choose your name, my love
You never crossed the seven seas

Oh, sweet creature
I know exactly how you feel
Your clock is ticking, tick tack tick tack
Your heart is beating, tum tum tum tum tum

Silently, I wish to sail into your port
I am your sailor
Quietly, I drop my weight into your sea
I drop my anchor

I realize now you’re not to be blamed, my love
You didn’t choose your name, my love
You die a little in my arm
I realize now you’re not to be blamed, my love
We didn’t choose your name, my love
We never crossed the seven seas
I realize now you die a little in my arm
Before you even taste my love
We never crossed the seven seas
I realize now you’re not to be blame, my love
You didn’t choose your name, my love
You die a little in my arm
I, I realize now

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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:02:00 -0700

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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:59:00 -0700

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charcoal+kneaded eraser10 minutesI am very proud of this!

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:34:00 -0700

charcoal+kneaded eraser
10 minutes
I am very proud of this!

F MY LIFEEE! It’s a staph infection :’(And I’m on medication, again.Can all these...

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:54:25 -0800

F MY LIFEEE! It’s a staph infection :’(
And I’m on medication, again.
Can all these weird, uncool, unnecessary things STOP HAPPENING TO ME PLEASE

AUGHHHH my stupid bug bite from a couple of days ago, still...

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:23:00 -0800

AUGHHHH my stupid bug bite from a couple of days ago, still there and growing. It hurts and I can’t bend my arm without it burning up. The pink area is warm and the red nipple-thing is HOT. sigh. Just wanted to say that I cut myself off from any and all communication (jk) on accident again by leaving my cellphone at church and having a lame laptop that won’t turn on.. again. I set up an appointment with GeniusBar at the Apple store on 5th Ave, though, for.. midnight!!!! now how cool is that

writing my 2nd CRW paper of the morning

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:02:32 -0800

Art that seemed eminently worth defending ten years ago, as a minority or adversary taste, no longer seems defensible today, because the ethical and cultural issues it raises have become serious, even dangerous, in a way they were not then. The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocuous ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

-Susan Sontag: Fascinating Fascism
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/33dTexts/SontagFascinFascism75.htm

I love school. I love my classes. I love the readings we’re assigned.
Okay I would quote many many more passages from this book, but I’d basically be pasting a whole quarter of it. Please read!!

http://thisisindexed.com/2009/02/thanks-for-thathahahaha...

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:24:00 -0800

http://thisisindexed.com/2009/02/thanks-for-that
hahahaha they’re always awesome. I love them, they’re treasures forever

Why does everyone think that I’m an only child?? It’s weird to think that everyone who...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:24:53 -0800

Why does everyone think that I’m an only child?? It’s weird to think that everyone who asks me gets so surprised when I tell them that I have two younger brothers haha

The one time in the past couple of weeks that I decide that I actually want to talk to people on...

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:37:23 -0800

The one time in the past couple of weeks that I decide that I actually want to talk to people on AIM, I fall asleep only 15 minutes after going online. ….. My bed is too comfy!!! One of the many things that are both a blessing and a curse in my life hahaha