Artist studio

Neighbor artist in a brewery, also the owner of the backyard.

Backyard Structure

Structure engineers finished their part of the drawing, and the backyard is submitted to the city today. Cannot wait for plan checkers to mark up the set and give it back to me. Bring it on! Plan check correction is a tedious process, but my craftsmanship fires not only for model making but also for C.D. sets. By the end of summer, I might be able to pull building permit for two projects: second floor addition and the backyard.

Also entertained by the engineer's drawings. They didn't seem as intense as I thought before, because I gave architectural drawings to engineers.








architect's drawing








engineer's drawing


プロジェクトが着々と進んでいます。以前 模型の写真 をのせた Deck の Structure Engineer による図面があがってきたのでロサンゼルス市に無事提出しました。お役所はこの釘が３㎝短いだの、敷地境界からもう30cm離さなきゃいけないだの、信じられないくらい煩わしいけど、望むところです。もしかしたら夏休み終わりまでに、２つもプロジェクトの許可をもらえるかもしれない。学生のうちに責任のある仕事をするチャンスがあると自信になる。やっぱり手には職だと思う。

Stapleton Pool House

UrbanRock is working on a Public Art project in Stapleton, Denver. A courtyard decoration at a small public pool house. Using the same technique that an artist, Teresita Fernandez used for her Cloud Cover in Seattle, we are proposing saturated colored images on existing glasses that face the courtyard. A layer of film is laminated between two sheets of 20"x8" glass.







Cloud Cover by Teresita Fernandez


Here I am, supposed to produce nice three images. Those show three different status of water: solid, liquid, and vapor.


















The thing is, since I used downloaded who-knows-whose images for those quick presentation collages, if we get the project, we have to take our own pictures. hmmm... little worried about that.

4th of July

4th of July at Hollywood Bowl. In these family holidays, international students end up getting together. More than the concert itself (good old western music), I was looking forward the fireworks. They saved the excitement 'til the last minutes. A fun night out.

Daniella with kimono

A Photo shoot with Daniella in her backyard.

I knew it red kimono looks great on her! I only wish I had better skill to put it on... took us while to figure it out. You have to leave some room at back of her neck, but the front shouldn't start opening up. A lot of tips you have to follow to make kimono look sexy. Daniella is a good model, but I wasn't a good photographer. I fell in love with her poses too often to keep going.






















Then we went to see Ratatouille with Daniella still in her kimono. Laughed till I cried. I think I enjoyed the movie more, because David and Daniella have been hanging out around me with their pet rats. I keep finding little piles of snacks all over my room since the last time they came over. (Photoshop works by Daniella)