I didn't do shit today.

Ahhh, that's okay because I made a new friend instead. Her name is Momo (Well, nickname) <3
All day long we just chilled in restaurants and ate food, drank coffee, ate more food and talked about, well many things!
It was good times.
I needed a break from the studio and animation, except I have a lot to do tonight. :/

This is a very cute, cute coffee shop in our little town. Ha.









Cute, what a relaxing day! <3

In the paper papezz

Ah, yes so I had an article written about me in the school newspaper! Check it:


Except they spelled my chinese name wrong and mispelled MCAD. Lol. (they really didn't edit it, which is a shame...)
Ah well. The interview basically said that I'm from America and I go to school at MCAD, they asked me why I came to China for animation instead of Japan and I said I wasn't into anime or really japanese animation, (though, that's a lie. Lol I dunno why they write it that way) and that I wanted to see what chinese schools were like. Or something in the lines of that?
They asked if the schooling was good here and I said it was very different from the school in America and that China's animation isn't as good as the one in America but it's okay because things are getting better.
Asked if it was easy to adjust here and I just talked about food. Lol. Like usual.
Asked why I came to China and i told them I wanted to travel and see the world while I'm in school because I dunno when the next time I can travel is, I also said that I am all about experiences and stories and I just wanted to experience everything!

That was basically the interview, it was very general, but it's still sweet to be in the school paper. Lol.

This is How I Feel as of Now

Books and Tea

I'm really happy that I can walk around the streets of China and get offered to buy some tea. Not to mention some art books for discounted price.

I think i'm getting sick, but the tea lady said that this tea that I bought will help cure me in no time. Gahhhahaha. (rather, the tea is to wash out all the poison in the body. ) So fresh and beautiful. <3

Early Birthday Lolz and no sleep.

My day started off with a walk cycle....Only because I haven't slept yet, so I had to keep animating.
But then I stopped around 8 and decided to go eat breakfast and chill for the morning, and then ink some animation frames. -_-'










Everything is better in the morning.

So I then went to the studio and worked on more animation and went to class, however I fell asleep and when I woke up there was only 3 people in the class. 0.o So I went back to the studio and I forgot we were moving a bunch of things...So I helped my friends (including my mentor) move to their new studio downstairs.



So these are the kids I hang out, (Along with A Lang who is not pictured, but he was the kid who went to Shanghai with me.) Kid on the left is Da Wong, the girl is Xiao Cao and the older guy is my mentor, Wei lao shi!

Soooo then my friends wanted to make me a early birthday dinner!! I was so happy! And we made it at A Lang's house. it was amazing.


Our mentor joined us, it was sweet, and he bought all the food and A Lang cooked everything!!! Gahhh, I am so grateful!




Also we had to wash all of our veggies and pots in the bathroom sink. Lolololol









So they put a candle in the rice cooker and lit it...(since i couldn't eat cake) and was like, "you have to blow out the candle and make a wish!!!" and I was like, "uhmmmm, but.." because I expected them to sing happy birthday before hand but then I just blew out the candle and when it got pitch black in the room they started singing it. It was super cute and out of order. Lol.





Lolol good times. <3

New light table

Wellll.
I got a new light table because I couldn't wait anymore. They don't have 120 watt lightbulbs. How lame.

So here it is, the huge ass light table that causes me pain when I animate.(lots of splinters) Physical pain...And emotional. Ha.



Fuck you China, you don't want me to animate but I'm gonna do it and prove you wrong.

Shanghai (Extreme photo post)

Welllppp, seeing as my light table broke I decided to not do anything today and just hang out in Shanghai. It was pretty fun!
It started out with leaving at 6 am in the morning to catch a bus to the train station which takes an hour because we had to get off the bus to catch ANOTHER BUS and then get tickets to the train to Shanghai.
Except there were no seating on the bus OR on the train. So we had to stand the whole time...for like 3 hours. ugahhalkljdf Not to mention, Ah Lang didn't sleep and I slept for an hour. -_-'




So then we went on the lightrail and had to stand more. Lol. And we finally got to the one part of the city in Shanghai. I don't remember what it's called...Lol. But it's a pretty sweet place. It reminds me of Cali and Chicago put together, but everything is Chinese. It's very western...




We then decided to go to the Shanghai Art Museum and today was our lucky day because it was free. (Today is a special holiday called Qing Ming Ge, which is a holiday to respect the loved ones who have passed away and sweep the graves and make everything nice and pretty, but people usually just have it as a day off too.)

There was this artist being exhibited named, Bei Zhengjiu? Or maybe that was like a book. wtf. I can't tell. Lol, anyway he was very into these sunflowers it was kind of sweet.




There was some calligrapher there in the calligraphy room and just pumping out these writings...I wish I knew what they said. *Sigh* This is as far as I get with Chinese calligraphy, unless I some how get really lucky and understand every word written. Which is highly unlikely.


And some other things that was in the next room. This artist takes a lot of well known works and remakes them, they are pretty sweet up close and it's all collage.

This one is kind of interesting because I recognized it as this fabric...painting? that my grandmother had and I would see it everyday when I was little and I would look at it and not like the way the horses were because the legs didn't look right. So I then saw this remake on the wall and I asked my friend Ah Lang if it was a famous painting, and it wasss. It was exciting guys...-_-'


Anyway we walked around more:

My friend Ah Lang



LOL WTF IS THIS?!








This woman was so amazing...







Well isn't this funny?












Funny story about this dude. He was watching me take pictures and was like, "Hey! Take a picture of me!" so I did it, and then he was like, "Are you Chinese? You sure don't act Chinese, taking all those pictures. Are you from America?" And then I was like, "uhh no no, just hanging out, taking pictures...that I like..hahaha." Lol anyway he kept making fun of me, it was great.



Anyway, So we went to this exhibition that my friend's professor was in, his name is Shao Wenhuan and he has the most amazing photographs, it's the kind you have to see it in person because he uses mixed media so you won't be able to see it in my photos. It was a duo show with another photographer named Hans Wilschut. But I was rather disappointed at this dude because there wasn't...Much of anything in his work except that it was large format and they were night. ...kayy...









The Artist himself. (My friend's old professor he use to study under)


This is the other artist Hans Wilschut:


And the artist:


So afterwards we went to other contemporary art galleries which I was really excited about and then went to a coffee shop...And finally sat down. You see all these pictures, I have NOT sat down at all from 6am-5pm. It was horrible, I'm usually all up for walking but I was not wearing the right shoes and they were wet.
We talked to Ah Lang's friends for awhile and they were really awesome! All graduated and going for their master's degree. Or they already have a job. So I exchanged numbers with a few of them and then we all went to the train station together to get back to Hangzhou.