Archive for March 2010
Aura II | excerpt | 2010 | Jen-Kuang Chang 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...
More →Current II | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang 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...
More →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...
More →Downtown | Wymore, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang I drove into the downtown area of Wymore, Nebraska in a sun-baked Sunday morning. The town, one of several beautiful small towns on U.S. Route 77 marked in my travel planner, was extremely quiet. Only few residents gathering in front of town’s only grocery store can be seen in the laid-back streets shrouded with an uninterruptable atmosphere of peacefulness....
More →Nebraska Statehood Memorial | Lincoln, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The Thomas P. Kennard House, a structure designated by the State Legislature as the Nebraska Statehood Memorial in 1965, was one of three masonries designed by John K. Winchell of Chicago in 1869 for members of the Capital Commission. The Commission, established to select a new state capital location with Governor David Butler, Auditor John Gillespie, and...
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