Aura

I suddenly woke up in the middle of a very dark and cagey night. Scared. After a cold, bushed February stuffed with several gigantic snowstorms and oh-one-more-bonus-gigantically-gigantic-snowstorm-just-for-you, the sound of midnight rain seemed incomprehensibly monstrous to me. I took an instant shower, fed Tuck & Patti’s scrumptious album Tears of Joy to my auditory hungriness, and began to grill asparaguses with Italian seasonings in order to maintain a civilized relationship with my stomach.

Grilling asparaguses, to me, was an art form.

Straight from Pooh the Bear’s little shoulder, most of my cooking procedures can be roughly summarized as “blab, blab, and blab.” But, grilling asparaguses in the middle of the night, my friend-my muse-and-my-American-augmented-seventh-chord, was my Mass in B Minor and my La Gioconda. It called for concentration. It demanded absolute.

Eating grilled asparaguses, to me, however, was not nearly an art form as expected. It was more like a diminished “blab” in consort with “oh-it-could-use-a-bit-more-garlic-pepper” kind of deal. I possessed the sole and burned aroma of grilled-and-somewhat-over-cooked asparaguses and began to chew on ideas of Aura series.

 

No Comments / Mar 06.10 / Graphics / by Jen-Kuang Chang

Current II

Morning. Wretchedly cloudy. Archiving Current series. Guillermo espresso drink. three cups. Amano artisan chocolate Dos Rios. Two and half bites. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain. Yann Tiersen’s music in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain. Audrey Tautou waitressing in The Two Windmills with Yann Tiersen’s music in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain. Life is suddenly good.

No Comments / Mar 05.10 / Graphics / by Jen-Kuang Chang

York, Nebraska & Chances “R” Restaurant & Lounge

York, Nebraska | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang

I arrived York, Nebraska in a lovely Sunday morning harmonized with concord of well-tempered sunshine, consonant breezes, and a deserted main street inundated in an exquisite fermata of silence. Fred Niblo, I suddenly remembered, was born in this small town more than one century ago in 1874. It was a curious sensation to have scenes from Ben-Hur, a 1925 silent film directed by Niblo and scored by William Axt, gently plucking my mind like flashcards of Rorschach test that almost made sense. Accompanied by this sensation, I unhurriedly walked around the town for one hour before being lured into Chances “R” Restaurant & Lounge for irresistible breaded mushrooms, fried zucchini, and a big glass of root beer float.

 

Chances "R" Restaurant & Lounge | York, Nebraska | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang

No Comments / Mar 05.10 / Travel / by Jen-Kuang Chang

Nodule II

Waking up to my oh-so-dorky-it’s-actually-cool kind of Saturday morning saturated with light snow and serene variations of Arvo Pärt’s “Für Alina” and “Spiegel im Spiegel” from Alina album, I slowly soaked myself into unbounded terrains of generative graphic to continue my unfinished tête-à-tête with Nodule series. As usual, Pärt’s music was benevolent to me, allowing my somnolent soul to be submerged into the deep of musical streams and free my mind to work on one-battalion-of-army-ant kind of generative code.

No Comments / Feb 20.10 / Graphics / by Jen-Kuang Chang

100 Major II-V-I Bebop Lines Single Key Edition

Editing “100 Major II-V-I Bebop Lines Single Key Edition” with tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s classic album Speak No Evil mellifluously sounded in speakers was a stylishly humbling process. I fashioned the active with few transitory thoughts on Occasionalsim, midnight freezing temperature, and an intense minuet of café noir. Minutes were eroded throughout the absorption of Shorter’s brilliance and I oddly decided to search my meekness of life in tonight’s boundless dreamland.

No Comments / Feb 19.10 / Downloads / by Jen-Kuang Chang