Archive for February 2010
Nodule II | excerpt | 2010 | Jen-Kuang Chang 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...
More →Archiving photos, taken in a charming afternoon in Aurora, Nebraska, with Theo’s 84% cocoa Single-Origin Ghana Dark Chocolate Bars and Zhang Yimou’s film Raise the Red Lantern elegiacally playing in the background felt more like a protracted arty ritual than a snowy-Sunday-indulgence. Images of Aurora soundlessly composed uninterrupted stories of stillness, while bits of Theo’s heavenly bitterness waltzed my senses, step after step.
More →The Sunken Gardens | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang After few weeks of snow-snow-snow-and-more-snow, I almost forgot how to correctly wake up with sunshine exuberantly licking my frosty cheek. A quick peek outside of the window was enough to ascertain that today was the very first thoroughbred-sunny-day of February. Excited. I geared up. Jumpy like a puppy about to take his first outdoor walk. With Sam Taylor-Wood’s Prelude in...
More →National Roller Skating Museum | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The mystery of the National Roller Skating Museum’s peculiar visiting hours, Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., was solved the second I walked into the building. The primary function of the space, as it appeared, served as the headquarters for the U.S.A. Roller Skating Confederation and the attached museum was essentially a roomful of wonderful roller-skating-things on the back...
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A photo of my Moleskine Plain Notebook / "The legendary notebook of Hemingway, Picasso, Chatwin" / acid-free paper / inside my notebook: a map to find Capt. Jack Sparrow's buried treasures, some Emily Dickinson, and lots of my aimless rambles
More →World’s Largest Time Capsule and Pyramid | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The World’s Largest Time Capsule and Pyramid, located in Seward, Nebraska, was the creation of Harold Keith Davisson. In July 4, 1975, Davisson sealed the original capsule filled with thousands of letters, memorabilia, a new Kawasaki motorcycle, and a new 1975 Chevrolet Vega with the goal “to preserve the present for future generations.” In 1977, officials at...
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