Snowday Update

Ohh man!! I havent seen snow like this in Seattle for about ten years! So you know I had to take it as a golden oppurtunity to do some urban snowboarding on Beacon Hill with Jelani..Drove up to Mclellan and ran into some friends who were already a step ahead of us along with the rest of the neighborhood. Gotta love the south end for that! People brought out their inner tubes, stole garbage can lids, and ripped up real estate signs to get their sled on

I cant believe how many people are dumb enough to be driving too! i mean when else are you really going to call in for a snow day? shit…

after that, met up with the homies on Graham and had a snowball fight for like three hours, then people had to get there daily dose of church..thats when me and conrado decided to cut out

i was stranded!!!! man jelani left me on graham and i thought someone else had driven their car to graham but everybody walked! wtf!!!! so we started walking back to conrados crib..which is like 2.5 miles away

yeah thats not so bad but its hella far in snowboard boots!! and hella bus’s were crapped out on the road, like 5 on the walk back..looked like a scene from I Am Legend or something

cut down columbia street and decided to get some pho (energy booster)

i hate pho (and im vietnamese)

finally got to conrados, watched some tv, drank some heineken, and ate some pancit!! (never too full for filipino food)

woke up..ate some more pancit and then headed out on our quest to salvation

waited at the bus stop on ranier, two bus’s passed because they were full, then finally got on the third bus, got off jackson and departed

ive been trying to get my ninja with taking purely candid photos of strangers, although i do try to balance what is moral and immoral about it..at the end of the day, im taking a picture they never knew had existed and most likely will never see..and hopefully when they do, theyll call me and hire me for a job

then kicked it solo in chinatown and finally caught the 150 back to my lair

i wish i had more interesting stuff to say but im just trying to enjoy the snow as much as possible right now

my hands were freezing their hairs off taking flicks so i stopped with that although im trying to take some more shots to mess with on photoshop over break

hope you’re enjoying the snow as much as i am

Metro Bus

Metro Bus

Following People

Following People

Chinatown

Chinatown

Chinatown

Ranier

Conrado

Snow Girl

Guy

Ranier

Ranier

Happiness

Fergison

Pho!!

Ranier

Metro

ive also gotten more into these motion pics

Trees

More at: www.flickr.com/canhsolo

“lets just kick it!”

woke up, played fight night, hit up vincent, vincent came over, drove to jefferson cc, met up with oscar and j-ar, drove to beacon hill shells (best deli in the city), grabbed gizards, garlic drummettes, and arizona ice tea, drove to jensens, kicked it, hot boxed the car, went to the mall, instead of going to the mall we went back to shells, drove to red apple (few blocks down!), drove to mlk, lost joe’s car, drove along mlk til we hit skyway, drove around skyway, drove to my house, tried to play fight night but brother was playing it, finally got to the mall, hot boxed the car again, j-ar bought some gifts, walked around while everyone else in the party was “at church”, left the mall, and finally got dropped off at home…today was reminiscent of last summer, didnt matter where you were going or what you were doing as long as you had good people with you…and gas is hella cheaper..

oscars car

oscars car

im kind of digging these photos i took out the window in motion alot ranier ave

ranier ave

ranier ave

ranier ave

pretty boy j-ar

ranier ave

thats oscar, dope barber..but is he holding a gun? i dont know..i dont know.. :\

oscars pueto rican and he took this

oscars puerto rican and j-ar took this

and look at what j-ar left me on my camera..

thanks dude

ps,

i dont smoke

Today…

ive been at home all weekend catching up on naruto..i finally finished today

ive been playing alot of video games too

it seems like whenever im on a break, i take it as a full on opportunity to transform into an anime-watching, korean music listening, video game playing, top ramen fiending bum..aka me in middle school ): (i need to change this now!!!)

but i wasnt totally lazy today

i went for a walk out in the snow (what was left) with my camera hoping to find the allentown sasquatch that had been spotted earlier this week

but i was left with these black and white photos of what i like to take pictures of on my spare time (mailboxes, fences, and roads..im hoping to start a magazine called  “mailboxes, fences, and roads” one day)

Snow

Snow

Snow

Snow

Snow

Snow

and yes for being super asian!!

SUPERAZN

SUPERAZN

Buddha just copped a Louis Vuitton polar bear fur coat with the matching beanie

and as always, check out all of the photos i took on my flickr site:

www.flickr.com/canhsolo

ps

www.canhsolo.com will be up and running before break ends! i promise!!

CS4 and LR2

lovin’ it

here are a few photos i re-tweeked through the new software

although i couldve done these with cs3 and lr1

the workflow is much faster and smoother with the upgrade

is it worth it?

well shit..from cs3, no..cs2..yes

i hear cs5 will be 64-bit for mac os x

that will be worth it

The Physics

The Physics

The Physics

The Real Barneys

Writing Professor

Gray Sheeps

Sixth floor, room 603, this is where my morning starts. Early mornings never worked that well for me, well unless it involves sleeping in. Room 603 is my foundations class, where I will have to establish myself as an artist through clusters of fundamental art theory and practice. Nobody likes re-learning the basics, especially at an art college, were all obsessed with how we are way (wayyyyyy) passed that. Before the semester began, we were told to forget everything we were taught in high school art; fortunate for me, I never paid much attention to my art classes. Something made the class way too formal for learning, art that is.

How can you teach someone to be a good artist? You can’t. You can teach people how to draw good lines and good circles, even great lines and circles, but lines and circles don’t make art. Just like letters and punctuations don’t make a poem. That’s what the entire art department symbolizes to me, that you can teach us all of the technique in the world, and we can still manage to turn it into crap and that too, is art, if we say it is. The sixth floor’s walls display student artwork from classes regularly. It feeds us, the students, inspiration. Good art or bad art, its still food; just like how writers progress from reading and writing, visual artists progress by looking and drawing, which in my opinion, is far easier than what writers have to do.

When I first came to Cornish, one of my biggest hesitations about the school was the “artsy-ness” factor. Yes, it’s a real word; it means, “to be self-consciously artistic.” Its fine to be artsy in high school, there are maybe a handful of students who claim themselves as artists. But now take those students and multiply them by one hundred. Scary right? Okay maybe not scary, but weird, really weird. I consider myself a pretty normal kid in my world; okay so not normal, but average. See where I’m going here? Artists are like the black sheep at school; we stand out in a crowd of white sheep. But Cornish is like the black sheep pasture; taking all of the black sheep from the field and sticking them together in one building. I was worried at first; I don’t like to represent myself as an artist, especially not a conceptual one. I’ve never been the most social type, but I do know I’m getting there.

The willingness to unite under a bond of what we share as common interests connects the student body at Cornish and perhaps our major may be the only thing we have in common. This is the design floor, this is where the design students play and over at Kerry Hall, that’s where the music and dance students play. “You dance? That’s cool, I do art.” I haven’t been enrolled long enough to experience the collaborations between the other departments, so I don’t know what’s going on with the other students. I’m a freshman; it’s supposed to be like that, well in high school at least.

personal ads here

what would your personal ad look like? HEDGE SQUAD! i wanna hear yours. and yours and yours. i don’t care if you’re single, taken, undecided, etc. it’s for fun haha here’s mines:

hi. i’m tin. i can shot gun beers and i like to hug people all the time. i love the smell of the ocean as the sun sets and the feel of snow when you wipe out snowboarding. i keep my itunes super organized and make faces when i try new foods even if i like it. i stand in the rain just to test my jackets waterproofness and can tone people’s voices out when i don’t want to listen. i have a quirky shoe and label obsession that i can’t get enough of. i like trying new things even if i suck or even if it’s a near death experience. i’m looking for hands that fit with mines and a gaze that makes me giggle from across the room. must like to dance and be able to laugh at themselves and not take themselves so damn seriously. if you like long walks with no destination, live music, making sculptures out of ordinary items, and not afraid to take me sky diving one day, i wanna meet you!

-t