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

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.

 

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

Wymore, Nebraska

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. I parked in front of the Wymore Welsh Heritage Centre and was very much charmed by the wonderful history of this small town.

Wymore, the “Welsh Capitol of the Great Plains,” was found on April 7, 1881 on land donated by Sam Wymore. Immigrants from Wales settled in this railroad town in the late 19th century and the town’s Welsh tradition was preserved in archives and documents in the Wymore Welsh Heritage Centre.

No Comments / Mar 04.10 / Travel / by Jen-Kuang Chang

Thomas P. Kennard House | Nebraska Statehood Memorial

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 Secretary of State Thomas P. Kennard serving as members of Commission, selected the present site on July 29, 1867. The Kennard House, featuring Italianate domestic architectural design, is the only standing structure of three masonries and is considered as the oldest house within the original plat of Lincoln, Nebraska.

No Comments / Mar 01.10 / 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