Flo(at)

It’s almost the end of the semester….Physical self recently floats more rapidly than my virtual self, meaning I have to be more realistic on my physical world working on my own businesses and taking care the things that I is “more relevant” to me (it’s actually a really redundant term, since nothing [or everything] is really relevant to one).

Sometimes I feel life is like a magic orb. When business hits, everything suddenly get sucked by that orb, and my concentrations and attention all get sucked into that orb. I found myself inside, and the flow surrounds me is really fast — too fast to feel though. Outside the orb I saw everyone, calm and smoothly moving from phase to phase, point to point. I have remembered that I called that serenes, maybe not…

Sometimes I am really confused by the two different flows in the orb and outside the orb. Like sometimes I meet a no solution math question…Every formula and equation look so right, but answer never comes out. —that to me is like the nature of reality, the more you think, the more confusing it becomes!

……Life is linear, time is linear, and facts are linear. These principles make me crave for balances, the balances for the restless mind, and unsettled internal flows. “You are so confused…” I sometimes hear it from the deepest core of my body.

Confusion sounds like the wrong world to describe my state, but that’s the closest word that describes it…maybe it’s not confusion at all…

The flow inside myself is still chaotic, but to find the true peacefulness, I must close my eyes, shut my ears and walk steadily.

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep riding” — Einstein.

Project 4 – Final (google map)

— Day 2 (Feb. 20th) —

It’s really interesting to do something to deal with Wu Xing, but the related researches are endless. From the type of geography, elevations to different representations of directions (north, south, east, and wests). I was sure people will get bored easily. So I went for more brainstorming….

I was really interested in dreams. It has been called “the subconscious reality”, maybe because of its property that partially represents one’s life. And I think it will be interesting to make a comparison between physical reality and my subconscious reality.

So I listed out the dream I had. Some of them are quite strange, and I could not find a certain physical space for it, but I locate it with the feeling I had when I was dreaming. I did some searches on Flickr, to find matching places for my dreams.

There were just too many dreams that I had and still remember vividly, but I just listed out the dreams that I remember most. It’s in my google map here:

Subconsciousness v.s Dreams

Project 5 – Mobile Game Presentation

Our photo-tagging presentaion:

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dc4wh2x6_0hbmjr9hj

Project 4 – Ideation & Explorations (pt.1)

— February 19th —

Google Map seems more like a way to “lay out” information, the potential under information is “comparison” and “evolving”. Comparison though, seems more interesting to show. Two ideas in my mind, both have something to deal with supernatural (or mysterious..) genres.

1. Wu Xing (or Quintessence)— Wu Xing is a Chinese philosophy to describe phenomena, and to show different relationships between things. It is a practice in many fields such as Feng shui, astrology, traditional Chinese medicine, music, military strategy and martial arts. It is really broad so I was just thinking about showing different geography and their “Five Cardinal Points”. just draw out different stars on Google Map. It was quite boring, but quite interesting research~

So in geography. The five elements of Wu Xing will be located at:

• Water — North — Black Tortoise — Black
• Fire — South —Vermilion Bird — Red
• Wood — East — Azure Dragon — Green
• Metal — West — White Tiger — White
• Earth — Zenith — Yellow Qilin — Yellow

And the geography of China for example:

• The east is close to the ocean, and the weather is humid, ideal for trees (wood) to grow. View from the world map, it usually shows green.
• The South is close to the equator, it is usually hot (fire), the color is red.
• The Zenith of China is the Loess Plateau, full of yellow earth.
• The West is mostly deserts, and mines (metals). The deserts are famous for their white sand.
• The North of China is famous for its black soil. A lot of ice (water), cold weather.

The idea of Wu Xing really matches China’s geography, but it doesn’t really match with every part of the world though….

Asalato practice pattern

Ah……haven’t played asalato for so long. Really need to go and have some time practice. It’s a small instrument and can play whenever. Seems like long time not touching with a thing will generate some inspirations~~~