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Jayshing Edison Talent Show

Tonight is Jayshing’s talent show. They are the last one to perform, so we stayed till almost 8:30pm. Jayshing and other girls in the group did great. I liked Jayshing’s voice.

In the evening, I was working at Alder on my Emerging Technology final project. Jayling and Jayshing were chatting around me…

Jayshing: I am going to college and study for a doctorate.

Jayling: Really? Do you know if you are a doctorate, you have to write at least 30 pages of a paper…

Jayshing: …


I just kept my head down, writing my MAX patch, pretending I did not hear it at all.

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Giant Dipper Premiere

Giant Dipper was premiered last night at FMO concert. Everything went well. Audience seemed liked it. I am happy that I can pulled it together. It was very hard. I almost gave it up three weeks ago. Not enough sleep, piles of gradings and projects… and still going on. But it’s all good.

Thinking about my next project… Some video/picture and MAX?

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Giant Dipper – Kid’s Version!!

Have been working on this composition “Giant Dipper” throughout the whole term. The outcome is cool. It will be premiere this Saturday in FMO concert

While I was practice the performance last weekend, Jayling and Jayling got inspired, and did an improvisation with it on Gametrak.

Very cute. I wish I could perform like that…

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Lovely Breakfast by Jayshing

Yesterday morning, Jayshing insisted we can not go down stairs in the morning until after 7am, cause she wanted to give us a surprise. She managed her self woke up 6am with the iPhone alarm, preparing a nice breakfast for me and Jeff; that was not easy commitment for a nine years old girl. Then she was so sleepy and went back to bed again. She is just such a sweetheart. 

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A Week of Snow break

Such a strange week of snow days.LCC closed down for almost entire week; UO for three and half days. We lost power for today. It was not too bad. On Wednesday night, we all stayed in the backroom, while Jeff turned on the all four burners on our gas stove, trying to heat up the living room and little bit. Standing outside on front porch in the early morning, overwhelmed with the peacefulness and calmness, the whole world seemed stopped for a second, only the air is whispering to each other. 風雨中的寧靜

Jayling and Jayshing were happy with the no schools day for sure; and I was able to work hours and hours on my Giant Dipper composition. Not sure if Jeff get something he wanted being done. One good thing is that we were all slept in for a few mornings, regardless of power shortage.

Blanton House
One thing fun you can do in a snow day…
Trying to stay warm.

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Style transfer

Style transfer is the topic of this week in Emerging Technology class. We explored the Google Seedbank. Some interesting pictures came out while I experienced using the application.

Colin suggested a book :surveillance capitalism.

“Once we searched Google, but now Google searches us. Once we thought of digital services as free, but now surveillance capitalists think of us as free.”

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Romeo & Juliet

Watched Romeo and Juliet play tonight at Corvallis. Even though Jayshing and Jeff are feeling sick all day, I am glad we still made it to the show and watched the whole play. It was more than 3 hours long, from 8pm to 11:15 pm. Jayshing did a great job staying the whole night.

First time watch Shakespeare play. Can’t understand most of what they said. But luckily I knew the story. It is almost like a comedy.

ON the way home, Jayling was asking when can they start the singing lesson again. I think she liked the show a lot and wanted to start learn singing for theater play again.

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Emerging Technology Project

Presented our first project for the Emerging Technology class.

Using the AIY kit that provided by Colin at the beginning of this term, detecting the faces count, then feeding that data into MAX patch I wrote to generate a set of drum patterns, then route that data to another two computers though OSC (Open Sound Control) to create some images using Processing software. We finally did it. It has been very challenge to work on this project. None of my team members, including me, knows how to do the coding. But we did it. I can see this basic idea can be a seed, then to develop further to a possible installation.

Enjoy very much the class.

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Sunday morning – Week 6

Jayshing woke up sick and crying in the morning. She is feeling bad headache, lag cramps. I gave her some Children Benadryl. She is sleeping now. I hope it will be just a small flu.

We celebrated our Chinese New Year last night, finally. Had a hot pot for dinner, and 發紅包給小孩子們. Eugene is not really celebrate any Chinese New Year, but we did something to recognize it, at least. We had a great dinner, chatting with the girls and it was warm family dinner. I hope someday soon I cam take Jayling and Jayshing back to Taiwan for a real Chinese New Year.

After dinner, we were planning to have a family movie night, but the girls can not decide which movie to watch. It ended up — Jayling and Jeff went back to the room reading books ; Jayshing and I were watching “Family Monster” from Netflix. She enjoyed the movie. I am glad I can spent sometime with her.

It is almost 10am already. Feeling anxious that there are so many to do..School grading, my homework, girls homework, classes prep, house cleaning, meal planning for the day and coming week, Alder house prep, cleaning back rooms, kids playroom, my studio setup again (it got messed up from yesterday’s moving (king size bad to Alder house), laundry…. Well, make a list and just moving forward step by step… I guess.

I will just stack everything unfinished to tomorrow.

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Giant Dipper

Working title for my next Data-Driven composition.

It is finally get going a little bit on this piece. For a while, I was kind of stuck and not really getting any energy to write something good. But today, after the lesson, I finally feel move forward a little bit, step by step. This will be a challenge two weeks coming ahead. I really want to make it to the FMO concert, but also don’t want to present it as a “practice” one. It got to be professional and something I feel worth to perform in the public.

The seed inside you is the magic key to the sole of your music. You got to fell it deep enough to make it coming out from you, and only you. What is this little 3 minutes recording mean to me? How do I transform it to another form of art and take the audience stepping into the magic?

Challenge.