Dear Pick Pocketer

GOD YOU ARE SO AWESOME I WISH I CAN CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR EXCELLENT STRATEGY!

COOL! THANKS FOR STEALING ALL MY HARD EARN MONEY YOU BITCH.

Ah well.
So it happened, the one thing that I didn't think would. The one thing that I thought I could out smart, but obviously not.
Some lucky person has a good 700rmb in their pocket now and not me.

AFTER I JUST GOT MONEY OUT OF MY ACCOUNT BECAUSE MY DEBIT CARD WILL EXPIRE IN LIKE 2 DAYS.

The one time I don't keep an eye on my money, is when looking at books, and of course the one time i get pick pocketed is the one time that I leave the house after holing myself in for many days.
And then the one time I DO PUT MY MONEY IN MY WALLET is the one time that I get money taken out of it, that is not me.

So after I realized that my wallet had been taken out of my coat pocket I told Zhang Jing and some lady started pointing towards who she thought was the person who stole my money.
Of course the lady who did see it was MUTE. Even better. Lol.
So the mute lady pulled me towards the people who had my wallet, and of course they were just two girls who just picked up my wallet from the ground. Luckily none of my credit cards or anything got stolen, just the solid CASH MONIEZ.

-_-'

Lesson number one learned, never, ever, ever, leave your wallet unattended. If you put it in your coat pocket, make sure you have your hand on it at all times. (Which is usually something I do, but not this time.)

My apologies

Ahh, sorry there hasn't been any outside pictures.
You see, I'm in extreme animation mode now, for those of you who understand animation timing, this is my schedule:

Animation shit to do:
40 seconds a week
Week: 6 seconds a day
or 8 seconds a day
Animation done in: 2 months
Inking and coloring: 1 month
Backgrounds during the 3 months on "off times"
Sound and composing: 2 weeks in the states.

My room is a mess and I haven't left my dorm in 4 days.
My sleep schedule is wayyy more fucked up then it is at MCAD.
I go to bed around 7-10 am and then get up around 4-7pm.
This is the worse. I mean, I have trouble sleeping anyway, but it's not ass backwards like this. Lol.

I wish I can just take a train to Shanghai and leave for 2 days. (I can it's only an hour or so away.) But the light table calls and the frames won't animate themselves.

If I get caught up this week I am leaving. Lol. Or maybe I'll just bring my light table along to the hotel or something. -_-'

Censorship

Here's a huge difference between America and China.

You must, must, must keep your mouth shut about any sort of China issue.
No matter how much anger and pain you a feeling about the country you just don't talk about it.
Because unlike America you can't freely speak about how much you "Hate your country".
There are different set of rules.
You get punished by the government if you do say things like that.
Or even taking pictures, that is not a tourist site, which is what I have been doing. Obviously I'm not going to stop taking pictures, but I could get in a lot of trouble.

But I cannot say anymore about it. So let's leave it at that.

Animation is on the wayyyy.

So yesterday I holed myself in my apartment and animate.
...Which is not a very healthy thing to do, but whatevs. (I guess it doesn't help that my school also delivers food to your apt...Haaa)

The capture stand in my school is very hard to use because the upperclassmen don't really wanna take the time to let you use the computer that has the capture stand. And I don't wanna run up and down the stairs for fuckin... 3 seconds of animation, and a pencil test that I can't use on my MAC computer.

So I made my own capture stand. LOL. Check it.





I'm also using a demo version of iStopmotion which only lasts for 5 days.
And all of my pencil tests say, "Captured with a demo version of Bionx iStopmotion"
But it's pretty good! they are quality pencil tests. Lol.

Awesomeee.

WTF is this fruit?

All my life I have seen this fruit in various calenders and pictures in asian super markets in the states. I have never, ever seen one in actual life. I don't know what it's called in English or Chinese. I just know it's a fruit that grows in China.

So today I went to go get some more paper so I could animate more.
I decided to finally try it.
I asked the fruit man how to eat it and he just laughed at me and said, "here let me open it for you." and all you do is peel the skin and eat it.

I took one small bite and it didn't taste very good, (seeing as I just brushed my teeth before i left the apt) it's kind of like any rule with some fruit, don't eat it after you brush your teeth, it will taste weird.
But after I actually bit into the fruit, it was pretty tasty. The consistency of a kiwi and the taste of...well nothing really. It was just kind of sweet.

At least I found out wtf it was. Took me 20 damn years but I finally ate it.
I'll probably by more of it, it's pretty cheap...Might as well eat it while I'm here. Hahhaa.

Haggling

Awh shitttt.
Today was so awesome.
Me and my friend Angelina went downtown and decided to wander around and go shopping!
So we went on the bus and probably got really close to where our destination was but there was this HORRIBLE HORRIBLE traffic jam. So we just got off and decided to walk like everyone else:



Ah we get to this park area and there's A BILLION PEOPLE THERE. Omg I can't even explain, it's so damn crowded, but Hangzhou is a very "tourist" place, I can understand why though, it's a beautiful city.




So a lot of people had their wedding today or something and they were doing a photoshoot, Lolzzzz.



LOL


My friend Angelina <3












We went to a Papa John's. You guys don't even know how happy I was to eat some American food. Lololol. It tastes okay, I think it's missing the MSG. LOL. For some reason the pizza actually looked neon yellow. wtf.



I wish I knew what he was writing.






Okay on this street it is called, "The Night Market" because it is filled with people who are selling their shit on the street. You can get fake Louis Vuttion purses, to shoes, clothes, jewelry, make up, toys anything bascially.



But of course you have to haggle like crazy.
I was not very good the first time and spent 30rmb on this cheap (but cute) little shirt.
Oh the currency is 1 USD is 6 RMB.

So the 2nd time I saw these really cute boots and the lady wanted 180rmb for them.
I was like, "Man, 180 rmb is a lot of money, I'll give you 50 bucks for it."
She then tells me that, "You know I'm closing soon and so is everyone else, how about I'll give them to you for 160"
I told her that was still too much and said, "50" once again.
She took out her calculator and punched in a number and handed it to me. (This is how they deal with haggling, through a calc...I dunno why.) It read 130.
I then punched in "50" once again and handed it back to her.
She looked at me and said, "oh I have to make a living little lady, how about I'll give it to you for..." typed in the number once again and it read, "100"
I laughed and told her, "50"
And she goes, "Okay the lowest I'll go is 80"
And then I was like, "well go right ahead, I'll just look at some other places and come back okay?"
That's when things got a little around my price. She then said, "Ohhh don't do that okay, here 65 dollars that's it."
and then I said, "60" She then responded, "65, come on, it's only 5 bucks more." and I said, "Oh plz 60 is only 5 bucks less." So then she agreed on 60 and that was that. Lol. So in terms of USD the boots were around 8 bucks.
IT'S SO INTENSE. So if you ever go to China guys, NEVER give them full price if you're going to markets like this...Always demand half of whatever they are offering or lower.

So then I got some tights, (some lady asked 65 bucks and i got it down to 12 lol)
And I got some really cute PJ's (other lady asked for 75 and i got it down to 30)



Ahhhhh cute cute.
<3 It was an awesome day/experience.

Chinese PBR

China has the most amazing fruit. It's so fresh and sweet. I'm eating a pineapple on a stick that is carved like this all around China. It's only a buck for the thing. AWESOMEEE. Why doesn't the Minnesota State Fair just have fruit on a stick (That's not fried) instead?!?!?

Soo, in China there isn't a variety of beers like there is in the US.
I miss the fact that I can choose the various isles of beer.

However, I was looking at some beers that my school has. (Yes, the student store sells beerz, cigs and you know snack foods.) and one of the cans seemed rather familiar.
and I looked at the fine print and it was the all known font and color of PBR:


LOLZ So, this is the tall boy can of PBR, it's called "Blue Lion" here.
It tastes pretty much like PBR. I'm not really understanding the alcohol percentage here. It's either 8% or 3.5% Lol.

Ahh Awesome.

The air is oh so thick

So thick that you can cut it with a knife and then eat the air.
Lol, but I suppose you wouldn't want to eat the air here, it's really gross.
When I step out of my building to go to school I can't even breathe. It's horrible.

The camera is not lying, for realz




I just liked this shot. It's from where I live, on the 6th floor.


There has been a lot of construction lately around my school, so there are a lot of cranes and what not,
I was walking back to my apt from my school and at that time I didn't think I needed my camera because I was just doing work at the studio. (So I very much regret that I didnt take my camera at the time.)
So I see these people on the street in this giant puddle and I thought they were just rinsing their feet in the puddle?
But as I got a lot closer they had a bunch of buckets and flashlights and they were yelling, "THERE'S ONE!" and caught whatever it was they were catching.
I thought they were catching frogs, which is pretty common, they just hang around sometimes. Lol. But it ended up being little fishies in the puddle.
How the fuck does a bunch of fish get in a puddle in this road?


There's fish moving, but it got blurred...Sorry bout that.

And a dead fishie


God China you're so strange.

On another note I made some illustrations for Leggerz and Nate.

For Legz:


And for Nataroo:
Titled: Japan Boats


Also Shark Report2, check it out guys it's amazing.