Sock Portrait
Not long ago we posted a story about artist Hong Yi’s Coffee Stain Portrait of Jay Chou. Well, she’s finished a new project and it’s just as amazing as the last.
This portrait of famous Chinese Film Director, Zhang Yimou was made with bamboo sticks, pins, and socks. (<—I know you love that oxford comma).
Yi (a.k.a. RED) says she was inspired by an old residental alleyway where she saw bamboo sticks poking out of windows with laundry hanging onto them, waving in the air. For her, the beauty was in seeing something so traditional in a modern, pumping city like Shanghi.
And because many of Zhang’s movies (House of Flying Daggers, Hero, art director for Beijing Olympics) highlight the beauty of the Chinese culture through the use of bamboo fields, and traditional dress, she choose her materials accordingly.
*Hong Yi’s website
*For more on the project, visit Oh I see Red!, where we picked up this great story.
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don’t just have career or academic goals. set goals to give you a balanced, succesful life. balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order. there’s no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. there’s no fun in driving if your back hurts.
shopping is not enjoyable if you’re full of tensions.
life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. if the marble fslls, there’s no point coming first. same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.
one thing about nurtuting the spark - don’t take life seriously. life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. we are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. if we are lucky, we may last another 50 years, and 50years is just 2500 weekends. do we really need to get so worked up?
it is ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work. enjoy your friends, fall in love, have little fights with your loved ones. we are people, not programmed devices.
don’t be too serious, be sincere.
— Chetan Bhagat
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