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Don’t grab the time

June 9th, 2010 by windmaomao

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(a render lately of my current table and room, 80% finished :) )

Haven’t been updated this site for a while, wasn’t really busy, but trying to enjoy life a bit more than used to be.

What I’ve been searching for the cure of my heart made some progress lately. I’ve been told that everyone has some sort of battle to face in their regular life. Don’t know if this is universal, since I know one or two person who doesn’t take anything personal in any circumstances. I admire them, and I’m glad I can find them as my friend so that I know there’re some other life style in this world that is inspiring and rewarding.

However for me, I found I need to let go certain type of brief that built on in early stage of my life. By watching how seriously other people take personal what they’re looking for, you feel pity for them. That’s right. Nothing is really important at the current moment. You don’t have to give up your brief, it’s just that you have to be ok to know that you can’t fulfill your brief at the current moment. And that’s ok. You still can stay in this moment and enjoy being in this moment to take a look at how badly you aren’t fulfilling this brief. It’s not big deal. You want to have it, however you’re not getting it. It’s ok, maybe tomorrow you’re getting it, or maybe not. Not important, be happy with the feeling that you’re not having something. And enjoy that :)

What makes me this call is mostly due to the brief that I think everything might be in tune with certain type of time frame which is out of control by human. You don’t have the right to choose what’s now, but you can enjoy being what’s now, I don’t know who got the right to choose what’s now for me, but obviously it can’t be me :)

Hope above helps.

Fang

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Less serious

April 27th, 2010 by windmaomao

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(this render is inspired by an old post of mine )

Did anyone tell you being too serious isn’t a good thing ? More or less, it reflects you probably has narrow understanding and respect for the nature. Daoist says the three type of things that you can get most serious about are money, power and self. However, he states none of them are important to you, and he even states that paying too much attention to them are actually harmful to you.

Natural is at its own harmony, forces that are too strong tends to destroy things instead of grow with them. In singing, powerful vocal doesn’t come with strong push of sound, instead it’s build with comfortable breath flow that is only required for that pitch :) Same thing should be with everyday’s life. Thoughts and actions can be just effortless while the impact could be profound.

While thinking about profound effect, you don’t have to put too much thoughts and paying too much attention on them. They have their own harmony, once you find them, you’ll be there. The search is effortless if you know where to look for. And while you are under tension, most likely you’ll look in the wrong direction. With angry and agitate thoughts, hardly you can go anywhere afterwards.

An easy approach is to look down on things, none of them are as important as you being alive and breathing. Money, power and yourself won’t give you life and air. They are only one type of million things in this universe. So think about more about the raw motivation of life, ex. to see, to feel. You can achieve them any time you want, with any people around. Most of important, you do them effortless as you learning how to walk. Nobody asks you to walk perfect while most of us turn out to be very good walker :)

Fang

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Free

March 24th, 2010 by windmaomao

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(This rendering is a draft of apartment similar to what I lived before, only a bit more stylish :)

Regrets,
Fear,
or
Free,

Well, I chose free. Let me write this article. Really, free my hand to write it. Just let me write it so I can be free.

Freedom isn’t something that you ask for it. Once you’re with it, you know it’s something that emerges from deeper inside of your heart. You know your heart has no boundary, and you don’t need assertion from others, you know where you go though you don’t have a map.

It’s something you let it happen without too much reasoning. Unwillingness kills your tiny bit of sense that follows the freedom path. Loose it when you don’t know where you’re going, so you can go without knowing it. Fighting for freedom isn’t necessary since nothing in this world can actually bounds you to be who you are. You created yourself, and you can improve yourself to be whoever you want to be. However the answer lies deeper in your heart, only when you let it go, it’ll show you the way.

Irony as it sounds, freedom isn’t something you can fight for, it’s something you allow yourself to acquire, same as happiness. Just let it happen and and you can let it happen now.

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Appreciation

March 11th, 2010 by windmaomao

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(A simple concepture illustration designed for an introduction article on QPlot.org which just launched couple days ago. I put a bit variation on this one )

As usual, this place documents lots of my thoughts and growth to where I believe to be freedom, of my heart, at least. And today’s topic is about appreciation, especially the appreciation of the present, the things around you, and the thing you are doing right now.

We might have ambition, and things that we want to do to make ourselves stand out of crowd, or things to do that can benefit our future. But I start to realize that the most precious thing happened everyday is what I am doing. Think it a moment that how amazing that I can do what I’m doing, ex. surfing the web, and writing this article. What if tomorrow I won’t be able to do what I’m doing, which lights up what I’m doing right away :)

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” This is what Einstein says about focusing on the present, you just can’t ride two horses at the same time, or you are just not appreciating the presence of any of them. From appreciation, not only you acknowledges their existence, but also you demonstrates naturally the compatibility between you and them.

Focus on the present, focus on what you’re doing, be happy what you’re doing at the moment, and appreciate cherish the chance that you can do it. The longer you persists, the better it gets ;)

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Being generous

March 2nd, 2010 by windmaomao

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(Messed around the new design in Modo, pretty sexy, eh :)

Definition of generous |ˈjenərəs|: 1) (of a person) showing a readiness to give more of something, as money or time, than is strictly necessary or expected : she was generous with her money. 2) showing kindness toward others . 3) (of a thing) larger or more plentiful than is usual or necessary

Well the definition says it all. Today is about being generous, don’t be a pampered boy/girl. Be generous to yourself, and be generous to others. There’s no that much things to corner yourself into tiny bit of gains here and there. God damn it, the world is so big to explore and don’t be a timid person not want to see the world, nor want to led by others to see the world.

When you are having trouble, when you are looking for help, just think a moment to yourself, damn, this is not a big deal at all, come on, I can do it, there’s no much hurt any way, god damn it. What a tiny bit of sh**y that I need help with. Please forgive me, I’m grown up already, let me indulge in the world instead. Instead of being pampered, let me be generous now.

Go explorer everyday, be adventure, and be generous.

Haha.

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Breath, how hard can it be ?

March 1st, 2010 by windmaomao

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(above picture is modeled and rendered in Maya as a tumor vessel shot)

Funny as it sounds, I start to realize that I have a bad habit of breathing, especially when I am in the middle of some thinking process. My breath is interrupted and stopped in the middle, so that I’m actually holding my breath, and then it goes back to the beginning of the cycle of the breathing so that I am only breathing out half of the air that supposed to be breathed in. Another way of saying it is that I only finish half of the cycle of the breathing, instead of full cycle, therefore only process half of the air.

How bad can it be other than a dumb observation ? Well, I have to tell you, this interferes with my relaxing system. By holding your breath, I didn’t let my muscles finish the full cycle of breath, therefore the final sense of relax isn’t delivered to the body. Therefore after one and one of these half cycle breath, your body becomes more tense.

What cause it, if you ask. I guess, it’s the anxiety factor and the thoughts that triggers it, when you are thinking about something, because the uncertainty it brings, it makes you suspicious of the condition that you are in, so you’re afraid of doing a full cycle breath, because you sensed there might be something dangerous ahead of you. So the cycle is interrupted by this thoughts.

What can I do about it ? Well, once you are in the mood of comfort, you’ll let it go, and go back to your full cycle of breath naturally. If you can’t, like a habbit I had right now, you need to adjust the way of thinking.

Whatever you are doing, important or not, right or wrong, you need to do it affirmatively. Since anyway you are gonna do it, even the result might turn out to be wrong, you can correct it and when you do the wrong thing, you still could do it affirmatively. Finish the full cycle, lift, and put it down, just finish the full cycle without doubt. Anyway you’ll do it, do it with confidence. Only after you finish this cycle, then you start the next, no rush.

Fang

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Feel the expected

February 23rd, 2010 by windmaomao

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(The above illustration draft, co-authored with Zhengquan Kuang lately, is designed for a novel that talks about lots of ancient tombs and treasure hunters.)

Well, this post is not about how we made this model. Instead, let me start with something else.

You might look for things to be done in the way you like. However, unless you were taught to do this from childhood, you somehow need to look for ways to achieve this after you grow up. Or you just have to be angry of nothing is working the way you wanted all the time ;) which doesn’t sounds pretty. Nobody wants to work with a man who needs anger management.

Ok, so you started to explorer what you want. Tried once, you failed, it was’t what you wanted, then second time, you were encouraged to do it again, and you got a bit better, but it was still not what your dream lies. Somehow your expectations starts to bite you in the ass that you just can’t make yourself try it again, mostly because the fear starts to kick in naturally. “You’re wasting your time, your talent doesn’t lie here, come on, put time on where you supposed to be.” Your dads’ voice annoys you since you’re not get approved by doing what you failed doing. Once is ok, twice is alright, third time you are scared, fourth time you know you’re not gonna make it.

The more you want it might just increase the chance you fail. As irony as it sounds, it’s inevitable. You failed even before luck starts to play any roles here. You failed. Sooner or later, this feeling of defeated will carry on till you realize it’s time to face this beast before you can do anything constructive.

This is what this post is about, my two cents of dealing with fear. Once you realize the existence of the fear, try fill your heart with the feeling you already grasped the thing you want, and how you gonna taste it or play with it after you get it. Don’t fall into the trap of constantly thinking about what if you can’t make it. It’s dead circle, you’re not gonna make it if you continue this circle. Be creative to jump out of this never ending circle.

Second, try to diverse your attention to things around you, people, buildings, flowers, anything. Get to know more about them, what they do, what they’re happy for and what they’re unhappy for, and get involved with your surroundings other than the thoughts that you want to achieve tiny bit of something for yourself.

In a word, merge your interests in people and the world around you, get interested, get involved, and then your imagination will lead you to wherever you want peacefully ;)

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When it comes, it comes

January 30th, 2010 by windmaomao

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(The above modeling is done by following a modo tutorial step by step, pretty awesome huh :)

Just realize most of things probably doesn’t need extra force to accelerate. It happens when the time is right, and the reason why it happens might just because all the piece that makes the thing happen are all ready. To find out all the pieces and make each one ready takes effort and persistence.

No need to piss off things not going on the right direction. Things get out of shape or out of order naturally all the time. No need to get personal about that. It’s not you or anybody else fault. When it happens, you just need to fix it if you would love to. But do realize, to get them back in order takes effort.

Depending on your expectation on how things should go, your effort could be high. But no get anxious. You just need to manage as much as you can to get to where you want. If the goal is a bit hard to reach, lower your expectation. You only have that much of time every day, and most of important, you only have that much of energy to put on the things you like most. Do your best.

When high expectation is increased on certain aspect, you need to realize that more effort needs to be spent on that subject, therefore other expectations need to be adjust to accommodate the situation. No anxious or stress needs to be raised if you’re aware of this. Things you want won’t fall upon sky naturally, only shit happens every second. You just have to manage through. That’s all.

Don’t wait for the things to happen, redistribute your expectations, put more effort on things you like most. Get close to the sh** thing and clean them up one after one right after they happen. Remember you are just managing through. It’s not for baby, it’s a battleground. Bullet hurts you, but no need to cry, it’s not personal, just pull it off and continue :) Everyday gonna be like this, until

When it comes, it comes.

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“Your desire to be unique is unoriginal.”

December 4th, 2009 by windmaomao

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Very very intriguing thoughts, isn’t it ?

Take it easy, nothing is really important than anything else, don’t make minor issue big like no tomorrow, we’re all human, nothing to be shamed if we have some emotional issue.

If you really feel overwhelmed, just don’t think about what you are thinking about, dodge the bullet for a while, and don’t worry, if he comes back, you can dodge it again. Sooner or later, you’ll find dodging it isn’t very hard, then we can start to slice it little by litte. First learn how to get out, and we can get in whenever we want, isn’t it ?

Fang

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Under water

November 14th, 2009 by windmaomao

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a simple under water rendering, mushroom kind creatures, need some bubble and other plants :)

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Focus diversifier

November 5th, 2009 by windmaomao

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Focus and concentration is good in terms of getting things done. But in the long run, life is such a balance that too focusing on one aspect of life is more often an excuse. An excuse for not moving your life to the direction you want.

Same as stock, life should be focus diversified as well. Not only your brain doesn’t have to be stressful at the same spot every day, but also life should be full of aspect, and if one way is closed or hard to reach, just turn to the other side, or take a peek at least.

Don’t focus on yourself, nor your partner. You’ll destroy what you want, if you focus too much on the result instead of being interested at the real thing. So diversify your focus. Take a look from another aspect. If you can’t contributing to the world this way, try another way. There must be something that the world might need from you.

Learn to co-operate with your environment and see the possible way to contribute.

Cheers.

Notes: above picture is tumor rendered in a canvas :)

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Vessel topology modeling

November 4th, 2009 by windmaomao

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Topology modeling picture, look like interior structure of a modern apartment, isn’t it ?

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Vessel texture, experiment I

October 29th, 2009 by windmaomao

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vessel texture experiment, well, this is close, but I need a bit transparent and a bit illumines, stay tuned :)

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Volume visualization, experiment I

October 28th, 2009 by windmaomao

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figured out a way to turn volume data into 3D without using contour plot. And the method can be extended into realistic slicing since the data is truly 3D volume. This pictures shows a demo of using this method. Sweet, hmm :)

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Vessel in segments

October 5th, 2009 by windmaomao

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here’s another shot of rendering in black and white, pretty sexy, hah :)

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