Tycho's Nova

Iris took this

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Time

2011-06-19T08:48:00.001-07:00

A friend of mine just turned 40.
"How is being 40?"
"Afraid"
"Why?"
"Because it's so real."
"What's real?"
"Time. You have only one chance."

Science Fiction project 3

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Science Fiction project 2

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Science Fiction project 1

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Gwen 3

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Gwen 2

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Gwen 1

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the mysterious name: Maya

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Maya. 1. my favorite Japanese friend
Maya 2. the mother of Buddha
Maya 3. the main character of a peculiar happening

Soo in wonder land.

2009-02-14T16:55:00.000-08:00

Yana: It's you.
Me: I look like someone who doesn't know how to use camera. Where is it, anyway?
Yana: You are in wonder land.
Me: What the hell am I doing there?
Yana: You're taking photo! You're in wonder land, what else you gonna do?

untitled

2008-09-08T17:44:00.000-07:00

Lena.

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What does the city dream? (3)

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What does the city dream? (2)

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What does the city dream? (1)

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Bye, I had a good time there...

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This is LA

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SCI-Arc

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Every Wednesday, I visit SCI-Arc.

Downtown LA

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Douglas' room

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I learned a lot from him. I like his indifferent demeanor.

The shadow of light, downtown LA

2008-07-26T20:57:00.000-07:00

April in 2008

Lena in my future place

2008-07-26T20:55:00.001-07:00

Anime Convention! Giant Robot rumble!!!!

2008-07-05T21:46:00.000-07:00

Don't misunderstand me. I love Voltron. However, it should be Eva 01 who wins. I know the pilot is extremely annoying. But truth is truth. It is Eva 01 that survives at the end of the world. Right?

I've been totally forgotten how much I loved Anime.
I've been totally forgotten why I decided to make films.
It is always Anime that brings me where I am now.

I forgot my passion for a while.
Now, I am back.
Thanks, this is what I truly need.

Balanced?

2008-07-03T16:02:00.000-07:00

This afternoon, it was hot in my tiny studio apartment. It's been a while to get out of this room since I hurt my arm from that night. I was furious. Well, more like I was lost. Everything was just lost. I felt betrayed. I felt stupid. I felt hurt. And I had to write something that I really didn't want to write.

No progress for three hours since this morning.

All right, whatever.
I went out with my arm bandaged.
Outside.
I felt better but...I didn't walk to the north. I didn't want to remember that night.
I just needed Caffein. Iced one. Strong one.

So, I went to Starbucks on Wilshire.
A young Hispanic employee smiles at every customer. He looked happy. He looked young.
I used to be like that. Damn it.

When I was about to order my Latte,
the young employee looked at me.

"Well, first thing first. Are you OK?"

He didn't smile any more, serious.
I used to tell people I just fell down. I didn't want to explain. I didn't want to remember that night. However, this early twenty something boy's sincere eyes had something to soothe me.

Yes, I needed to hear "Are you OK?" from someone. Because I was not OK.

I still gazed at him and told him,
"I got mugged."

Loud music filled the store.

"What did you say? Lugged?"

"No, mugged. Someone tried to rob me."

I watched this young man looking down. I couldn't see his face.

"Where was it?"

"Here, I mean this area. Anyway, I wanna have a tall ice latte with non fat milk."

He didn't expect my answer. Well, it was you who asked.

"OK. Anyway, the coffee is on the house.
(still looks down but when he looks at me)
Where was it, exactly? I live here."

"******"

"Who was it?"

"Young Hispanic."

"I'll look around. I promise. I live here for 23 years....and I can't let..."

I walked out with my free coffee.

Unexpected kindness from a stranger made me a little emotional. I didn't know that I was eager to have this warmth from someone. This year has been just too tough for me to stand. However, why didn't I realize I'm still surrounded by marvelous people?

Thanks...
Yana. Jennifer. Victoria. Hryung. Lena. Tiff. Sean from Starbucks.
And all the "hot" firefighters that night, especially the one who escorted me on my way back. I really wanted to ask...
"Thank you. (pause) Do you have a girlfriend?"

Now, it's balanced. Well, maybe plus.

Jellyfish space ship

2008-06-05T16:28:00.000-07:00

Oak said,
"...the black hazy "window" around
it...It makes me feel like I'm in a spaceship too.
I'm looking out from the other spaceship."

Absoluteness

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I believe "absoluteness" is approachable, not obtainable.

It's pretty sad to say-
Damn it.

How I met Ssandro.

2008-03-10T00:02:00.000-07:00

I never talked to him, neither did he.

But one lazy afternoon in Tallahassee,
Trapped at a tiny editing room, which didn't have any single window,
I sighed and...said to myself..."Desire are already memories."

"That's from Invisible Cities."
I turned and saw he was there.

Yes, that's how we became friends.
We didn't have to say more. That's what I needed for friend.

Invisible Cities.

When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city.
Finally he comes to Isidora,
a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells,
where perfect telescopes and violins are made,
where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a thrid,
where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors.
He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference. The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age.
In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he seated in a row with them.

Desires are already memories.

William Butler Yeats

2008-03-09T23:55:00.000-07:00

It was when I just turned 20 years old that I first found this poem.
"Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love."
I couldn't sleep and I still can't sleep.

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
-------------William Butler Yeats

I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
Nor likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before
Nor law, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death

the best Cappuccino...maybe?

2008-03-06T01:18:00.000-08:00

I used to go to Insomnia Cafe every night.
I showed up around 10 pm,
walked to the counter
and ordered "a single Cappuccino with non-fat milk."
That was my night routine.

On one night, as always,
I stepped to the counter to order.
The waiter was busy with doing something else, as if he didn't see me.

I knew his name. He remembered my name.

I waited. I had enough time to kill.
A few more seconds passed. He turned and I said...
"Hot chocolate, please"

You should have seen his face at the moment.
A mixture of something came over his face.
Yeah, he already extracted the espresso for my Cappuccino.

Waiting for my hot chocolate,
I was looking at the espresso.

It could have been the best Cappuccino in the world that I didn't take.

Blue T. Bear

2008-01-26T17:02:00.000-08:00

"Would you take care of my bear?"
She asked me when she came to my apartment on the last night. Her eyes were all in tears.
"I will come back."
"When?"
"I don't know...."
"But...well, I don't like any doll. I'm grown-up now."
Then she gave me a long, sad gaze.
"If I don't leave him here, I might not come back forever."

This is why I took the blue bear.

And...she never came back.

Lena in blue-

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What? I still can't hear you.

Where evening becomes night.

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7days from 7AM to 7PM

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Dejavu

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I was just 18 years old

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when I first saw "Bagdad Cafe". At a very tiny, dark video room in south Korea.

What does the white tree dream?

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Bagdad Cafe

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I've been dreaming of Bagdad Cafe.

Lena in Fashion District

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Fashion District

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Winter in 2008

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In her studio

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2008

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at Insomnia Cafe

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Lena in wonderland

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The lost child in yellow

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The black shoes

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The first child asked...

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Why does your love fade away?

The loved one..

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The shining first child...

She was loved for the first time but his love didn't last long.

Impulse Traveller

2007-03-25T22:22:00.000-07:00

From 9tales project

In memory of Las Vegas

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Soojung and Joonyoung.

Thank you for giving me this wonderful memory.

Blue Door

2007-02-19T21:18:00.000-08:00

My love, Downtown LA,

2006 summer..

A boy left the door closed.
Is it right? Maybe it was a girl that closed the door. It doesn't matter who did it.

Again Yana..

2006-10-25T15:19:00.000-07:00

I still think that you look better with your strai
ght hair. BTW, I think it's time for me to take pictures of cute boys.

Red hair Yana in front of the blue door-

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Jeanie

2006-10-02T03:10:00.000-07:00

On the way back from Tycho's Nova screening at Moca in La Jolla.

the white sky, broken

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Who did it?

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What I did

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for this show was taking about 400 pictures.

about Soo

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In the middle of 1980, a girl was standing in front of a poster, mesmerized. The poster was so beautiful that the girl couldn't move. Well, it was not just beautiful. It felt like something sacred. It was the poster of Super Dimension Fortress Macross.

Twenty years later, the girl, now a grown-up, finds herself to make movies. She never thought that she would be a filmmaker. Her love was always animation but tonight, when she watches her movies again with a cup of hot tea, she realizes that they all resemble the poster.

Becoming Yana 3

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For some reason, she likes this picture.. I might not understand woman very well.

Becoming Yana 2

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San Francisco ..again

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Frame, frame and frame...

San Francisco

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a city of cables in the sky.

smile just as bright as the light

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On April the first. Ture or false?

To become Yana.

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Can you feel it? It is a long and sensitive process.

Yana in her white room

2006-03-23T08:53:00.000-08:00

It's another Friday afternoon. The light was fading away.

Pensacola

2005-12-28T20:42:00.000-08:00

What did I.... do on my holidays?

A guy in his room.

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in his own room.

Then, what is his pay-off?

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It's the relationship with the person...I'm here.

-from the conversation that I had with her. Thank you, Bev..

Beauty itself is..

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strong....and vulnerable.

Our present makes an offering of our past.

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Especially a good one.

Invisible bus stop

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Tired?

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Door to the magic world

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She didn't open the door.

Gillian

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The sound of her name, Gillian, talks to me..It's like a magic.

Autumn and fall

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a girl in black

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It's a winter in Florida

in the frame

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she is ..

the apple store building in NY

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layers..it's NY.

Chanel in New York

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a delicate balance.

the moment.

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the moment.

One afternoon.

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On one afternoon,
she was trying different earings in her room. I was sitting on the floor and watching the afternoon's light, thinking that I was happy.

a girl and a station.

2005-12-28T01:26:00.000-08:00

A girl who doesn't seem to fit for Tallahassee has just arrived at this small strange town.

Nicole in All saints cafe..

2005-12-28T01:19:00.000-08:00

All saints cafe and my first actress, Nicole.

The first one is always special.

New York in October

2005-12-28T00:58:00.000-08:00

New York reminds me of my city, Seoul. I am dreaming of my old city in this strange city.

This is Soo's messy room.

2005-12-22T15:24:00.000-08:00

Hi, everybody. Welcome to this messy room.