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Five more updates from my 24 hours challengeFive more updates from my 24 hours challenge!
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 8:16PM / Standard Entry
-CHALLENGE: To paint twenty four facebook friends portraits in twenty four hours-
10th hour, 7:55 am... I like "Like this" click on facebook. It takes only a second but the simple click can make me happy. :)
Speir !!!! Yes, hopefully we can see you next year! So much to catch up. Are you back in east coast? You inspired me to do monochromatic painting... sort of... I wanted to try... sometimes it was so hard to draw free hand and painting with water color, fighting with heavy eye lids...
I was so sleepy at this point, but your facebook photo gave me such a warm feeling. And thank you for sending me "Of course!!!! :) good luck!! message. You kept me awake and helped me keep going during my peek time :))
It was so awesome chatting with you. So wired I used all my energy talking with you! as usual... hahah so inspiring and fun catching up with you my princess! we gotta go back to NY and order our usual Doncacino!! wait a second... I saw a comment on the facebook, "Are you back in NY?"
4 am- talking to Gabriela was my amazing moment. So much we shared in NY as a roommate. How could I know that you were in Israel!! I really treasure those days and many memories we shared. It was so nice to see your photos. Saudades de ti ! bjs
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Three more updates from my 24 hours challenge!
Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 9:16PM / Standard Entry
-CHALLENGE: To paint twenty four facebook friends portraits in twenty four hours-
3:09 am- The fifth hour of this challenge, my target was Jiekai ! I had a part in his feature film, which he directed few months ago. It was a wonderful experience working in Singapore and meeting many great people there. Wait a second.... I chatted with him online, and he was working on the post production. He was editing the end credits part. It was so strange typing to him while he was editing. Wow... I thought nobody would be awake from my time zone. 3am...
Zining chan!, 2 am I have so much to catch up with her!! Haven't seen her since I was 17? You were still pregnant that night! And now, you delivered a beautiful baby! Wow, so strange to keep finding out my high school friends are now having babies! So fast status change in facebook. 
Cliff.. I haven't seen him for so long since my college graduation? , but so nice to see the updates of his current projects. I chat with him online for a little bit, and I asked him if I can paint him for this project. And he said "absolutely.." A story teller - photographer Cliff always has many inspirational works going. http://www.cliftonhenri.com/artiststatement.htm
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24/24
Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 9:57PM / Standard Entry
-CHALLENGE: To paint twenty four facebook friends portraits in twenty four hours-
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My best friend from college changed her profile photo and posted on her status, “ Just took this 2 min's ago. I'm in labor right now, literally!! Here comes my little girl! “ I congratulated her on the phone when she told me the news about her second baby. However, I was not ready to receive this news. It went by so quickly and I didn’t have much chance to share the process and ask her how things are going before this day has come… The most shocking fact was, I found out her big day online, on facebook!!!
No matter how much you care about your friend, the communication between friends become less and less possible when you have so much things going on in your present life. Since moving to Hong Kong, all my friends are not only living so far away, but they are living in different time zones and in different culture. I realized how occupied I was with my own world.
I do not use all the functions in facebook. Half of the time, I have no ideas what to do when I receive things from other people. There are pokes, flowers, wishes, quizes…etc. The list will go on. But because of this instance, I became so curious and wondered what facebook is to me, and what facebook is becoming in our modern life.
So, here comes 24 hours / 24 portraits challenge! I decided to challenge myself with painting 24 portraits of my facebook friends to reconnect with them in different level than usual beyond our time difference. I wanted to take some time to visit them and “facepaint” them through “facebook”. It was just like a marathon… challenge to accomplish, for whatever reasons and towards undefined goal if there is any.
Starting from Oct 2nd 10:00 pm to Oct 3rd 10:00 pm, the time I spent on painting and while I was communicating with friends through facebook, became something very unforgettable.
The first portrait was my friend who left her last comment on my wall. Then the selection of my friends came rather natural. I chose friends who I chat with on facebook chat line during the 24 hours of my challenge. Then I chose some friends who left the comments on my wall during that period. I wanted to respond naturally to my action through facebook. Why do people run marathon? Why do I paint? I don’t know. But my friends were all very supportive with the idea.
Being up all day all night, and the next day… the challenge was also how to stay awake and finish each portrait in good one hour each… However, since I was talking with some of them online while I was working on these painting, I felt some strange energy and high excitement from talking with friends which I haven’t seen for a long time or I would never see during my normal hours. These were my selected photo portrait from their profiles, but they were definitely something more. I received their support while I was painting them. Which was very unexplainable… warm feeling. I explained this to one of my friend, and he said, “Its just like a fasting. Bring people together for doing what is challenging to ones ability.” Many of these friends were my long time friend from high school or college...even my childhood.
I wanted to reconnect with friends that you only see on little square on the corner of your friends list on facebook. I wanted to feel their presence a little bit more. As much as I was against and hesitated to join the facebook in the beginning, I felt that facebook is becoming a part of my communication tool with my friends. Constantly getting new information, adding more friends, uploading some photos, I have no idea where this is going to go in the future. However, I felt little homey feeling, having a few minutes of my day opening my facebook page dropping a line to my long lost friends.
Hopefully I can find some space in Hong Kong and/or have facebook gallery opening to share all my 24 paintings!!
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Sneak peak! from 3rd Annual Art Exhibition 2009
Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009 12:52PM / Standard Entry
Air. We can't live without it; it completes the atmosphere; it is freedom, expression, room to move, space to breathe, openness, an aura - air.Art.It revitalizes the mind and heart; it is visual to our humanity. It is freedom, imagination, space to think, to feel - art.A I R is the 3rd Annual Art Exhibition at Yew Chung International School, Hong Kong. The exhibition explores the unique concept of an artist-in-residence working in a school setting, showcasing the methods in which three working artist inspire and collaborate with students from a broad range of age groups. Sequential Artist Gabe Ostley, Illustrator Emily Eldridge, and Performing Artist and painter Haruka Ashida Ostley share the ways in which they utilize their specialized fields of study to work alongside students on projects that encourage learning as well as beautify the school environment.Gabe Ostley, Emily Eldridge, Haruka Ashida OstleyArtist-in-Residence
The exhibition is packed with fun and collaborative work, which Gabe, Emily and I worked through out the year. :) And here are some of my personal work displayed at the end of the exhibition space. 
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Walking in Singapore, Botanical Garden and etc..
Thursday, Jul 2, 2009 12:29AM / Standard Entry
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