Surrey Gallery Review

Surrey Art Installation

ball’in…

Not too long ago I attended a gallery exhibit at the surrey art gallery. The exhibit that was being displayed was a sound installation. It was quite a errie and sensual experience. The layout of the exhibit was about 30 single speakers placed around in a large circle formation and the audience was to be in the center of the speakers. Each speaker had a voice of its own forming a simulation of 30 people with their own voice. Voices range from adults to children with highs and lows of a large diversity.

Overall it was a pretty eyeopening expereince, never have i had experience something that stimulate hearing.

There was another installation that fairly intreasting. It involves the audience as part of the installation. A video capturing device films your movements on camera and displays it over 100 little screens. Each screen has a split second delay.

Loved it and am anticipating where they will take this next.

Confessionals- ‘Thou Shall Not Kill’

Confessionals- King Midas

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Mr.Game(Murat/Patrick)

The Cell Game goes like this;

The player receives a location of a checkpoint, and in that checkpoints he finds these riddles. When he solves the riddles, he calls the answer in to the Administrator, and receives the next checkpoint if the answer is correct. Once he has solved all the riddles, he receives the location of Termination Point, where he must make a choice after the experiences he has had. Either way at the end of the game, he gets doughnuts, but at the end, will he choose to enter the room, which he was cautioned not to?

The concept of this game, is reminiscing childhood and childhood fears. Does man fear what he does not know, or is it the other way around? Who is more frightened of life, an adult or a child? 

To view this game, go to Google.com/maps  and sign in  as

mtursan

password:

carbine1

and enjoy… 

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Better Luck next time. (A day in the life of Justin Yu)

“So I’m at the gas station at King Edward + Oak St. I get out of my car and proceed to the inside of the store to pay cash so I can pump my gas. Duh.

On my way there, theres this middle aged woman and her daughter in her Honda odyssey and they are backing into the gas pump station directly across from mine. I don’t pay much attention to them but I realize I am directly walking behind her car to get to the cashier as she shifts gears from drive to reverse.

Not wanting to get run over, I quickly walk past her and proceed to pay the cashier and walk back to my car.

On the way out, I notice the woman glaring at me. I glare back and make a funny face at her (sticking my tongue out and whatnot). Yes, I realize this is rather immature but hey life is about having fun.

She replies with

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(please refer to the image at the bottom of the page, my lack of internet skillz is quite apparent)

I reply to her with a great big smile on my face and continue glaring into her beautiful eyes.

She rolls down her window and gives me a great big “Fuck you! Next time I’ll just run you over!”

I am rather intrigued at this point and tell her that it would be a stupid idea as I it would probably end up with a law suit and that she should invest in anger management courses.

She then yells at me “Blame it on my menopause asshole!”

I reply to her “OH great, another woman blaming her problems on her vagina”

At this point, she really is quite angry and swearing uncontrollably. I still have a great big smile on my face.

I finish pumping my gas and as I leave I give them a friendly wave.

I think it’s so incredibly absurd that people let something so small (such as my walking behind their car as they begin to reverse) accumulate into something that can irritate them so much.

Obviously she’s going to think about this for the remainder of the day (or maybe longer) and tell everyone how big of an asshole I am.

Whatever the case, this woman fails epically.

So the next time you know you are getting angry or are about to, make sure the thing that is working you over is worth it. *hint nothing is worth getting angry over.

Don’t meddle around with shit like this.”

What not to do?

Here is my first debut segment of “What Not To Do”.

What should you definitively not do? Have a wisdom teeth removal surgery without anesthetics. And on a side note try not to have four wisdom teeth removed in one procedure… it really isn’t all rainbows and sunshine.
While you ponder on what great big Idiot I am…remember if you have a choice always go with the anesthetic surgery. Unless that is you enjoy taking memoriable photos of the event like so.

Boy was that a fun day.

Cheers.

Patrick.

I never was good with maps.

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Denim 101

Well for me at least.. and it’s great news for you because its fashion 101 right now.

I’m bored and I’m guessing you are too since you’re reading this.

So jeans are the ‘next’ thing. Well they already are the next thing. Quality ones though, not some run of the mill old navy ass shit that you can buy for $40 or under. And if you’re wearing some of those, take them off right now. I don’t care where you are, rip em off your legs and prance around in your undies.

There are a lot of companies that produce quality jeans but the majority of them are from Japan. Japanese people are crazy.. in a good way.. and their fashion sense is even more insane. However, this sometimes can be a bad thing. Especially, some of their sexual fetishes.. but we’ll leave that for another discussion.

High quality denim usually is made of Selvage/Selvedge denim. It took me a while to figure out what ’selvage’ meant and heres a definition.

“selvedge is usually denim done on vintage tight looms which the denim cloth is made in smaller sheets. a process which is more time consuming and expensive and makes a better product. gap jeans and old navy jeans are done as cheap as possible and the denim wears out really fast or stretches or both. really bargain basement stuff. the dye they use is low quality…everything on it is mad so you break them in 10-14 months”

So uhh.. in a nutshell, it’s where some underpaid individual sits in front of a sewing machine all day and makes you nice jeans! I’m assuming that higher quality denim will make for longer lasting jeans.

Another commonly used term in high quality denim is whether the pair of jeans is raw or not. This simply means if a pair of jeans were put through a wash or left ‘raw’. The benefits of having a ‘raw’ pair of jeans is that the longer you wear it without washing it, the jeans will actually crease where all your legs/waist move. After the first wash, which should be at least 6 months later, you’ll see all your personally made creases and ‘honeycomb’ marks behind your knees. Its like having the perfect pair of jeans made JUST for you! How special is that?

One disturbing thing about raw denim is that you technically should wear them without washing and any cleaning of any sort for at least 6 months. Think of all the shit that will get on them within that time period. From the fecal matter to urine stains.. I think they’ll be an automatic deterrent for any member of the opposite sex and for that matter.. the same sex. Obviously I’m not talking about myself, I have great body hygeine!

So theres your fashion lesson for the day.. now if you’ve made it this far, here’s my good news!

I recently recieved a pair of selvage denim but the waist was 2 inches too large for me. I read up somewhere that you can shrink denim by letting it soak in the washer for 20-25 minutes and then washing it normally and finally putting it in the dryer on high heat. So I had nothing to lose as I didn’t want loose fitting jeans and went ahead with the process..

The result? A pair of great fitting jeans. So thats it folks.. thanks for reading my mindless blabber when I could’ve cut to the chase and summed it up in one sentence. However, do take a look at the photos I took.

Hope you enjoyed wasting your time.

and I’m sure some of you don’t realize this but its freaking hard to take a picture of yourself when theres nothing to prop your camera up on and when you’re in such a confined area… i could only get an ass shot where I wanted a full leg shot..

Notice the selvage/selvedge/self-edge strip

Before wash…

After wash.. not much of a difference..

well you can’t see the difference but i feel it in my waist!

brand new pair of nudie baggy bjorns.. these jeans are just… fantastic!

Another pair of jeans that were slightly too big but now a perfect fit.

Post # 2

So it snowed like a B*tch over the weekend I spend parts of my weekend sliding around my driveway. It was the best kinda fun you can get. Free fun. I also finalized the look of my panorama project. It is a shot of LA’s beach strip.

click here

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And a heres a new design for the love stoned valentine event. They didn’t really like the original….me neither…

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Argh.

So Im pretty much behind in almost everything Im trying to get caught up on these days. Lets hope this goes in a better direction. I got to watch Cloverfield over the weekend and I must admit it did not fail to impress after the who hype of the mystery creature… thing. I also check out a conferance by the director J.J. Abrams “The mystery box” http://youtube.com/watch?v=vpjVgF5JDq8

Have a look, it talks about what boosted his drive to create such great mystery films and series.

Ive also completed the poster for the up comming Valentines NightClub event

Nothing great but some comments would be great. LoveStoned