Fireworks!

Ughhh and I got sick the next day.... I think I might've caught something that night.

Eye on the Price!

Fellow British Columbian Steve Nash is getting it done with wet hair sticking to his forehead and a swollen right eye (courtesy of San Antonio Spur Tim Duncan). Nash's Phoenix Suns are moving on to the NBA Western Conference Finals after a brilliant performance tonight against their arch enemy Spurs.

I love how he opens his other eye twice as wide as if to make up for the one that's closed. Well he got 4 assists and 10 points after taking an elbow in the face so I guess it worked!

Live from Vancouver, it's Friday Night!

Paul Pierce hit a buzzer-beating, game-winning step back jumper (I've seen him do that a few times before, the exact same shot), my hero Deron Williams led the short-handed Jazz to yet another victory in their series against Denver, and oh by the way the Canucks OWNED the Kings. I'm not much of a hockey guy but I love how this city gets a little crazy when hockey is being played here.

I got a gig today drawing cartoons for a blog, I tried to get a little New Yorker-esque. Go blog!

I'm also trying to start an acoustic guitar / cello duo band. If anyone knows a kick ass cellist let me know. Speaking of Kick Ass, that movie ain't half bad. In fact, it pretty much kicked ass.

Mad with Red!

I made a trip to downtown Vancouver yesterday after Canada clinched gold in men's hockey in an exciting overtime match against the Americans. To the Canadians the men's hockey event in the Olympics is like the hamburger in the happy meal. Needless to say, yesterday afternoon downtown Vancouver was swamped with excited, passionate, (lightly) intoxicated, patriotic hockey fanatics who were eager to show their support by screaming off the top of their lungs and then getting sh*t-faced.

I took a stroll amongst the crowd to inhale some of their enthusiasm for the Great White North and sat down at the back of the public library to make a few drawings -

I've never seen so many red shirts and Canadian flags in my life before.

About every two out of three people were wearing a red Canadian shirt.

This guy was wearing a Vancouver Canucks jersey, too.

Showing homage to our kick-ass goaltender.

This guy is a big fan of Canada.

Experiencing this Olympic phenomena has got me thinking about the life of athletes and stuff about patriotism. Perhaps more thoughts on these two topics later...

Hello Vancouver 2010!

And good-bye. I'm going to be in Taiwan for the next couple of weeks :p

By the way copyrights belong to yours truly.

Teenage crush

UTADA

Waiting outside the Showbox in Seattle.

Some other people in the line. It's kind of interesting to see who they are. I did drawings of those who didn't have the back of their heads facing me.

Empty stage before the show. I got a pretty good spot.

While performing her classic First Love.

*edit 100126: a photo from the show is added. Photohunt! lol

I drove down to Seattle last night to see my teenage crush Utada Hikaru. I've had a crush on her since almost 10 years ago and finally seeing her in person was just surreal, it still hasn't quite sunk in yet. She was literally about 15 feet away from me, and yet for some reason she felt very distant and everything felt very unreal.

Meanwhile, I felt like I've completed something very important. The three-hour drives to and from Seattle made the whole experience feel even more ritualistic than it already is. The reportage drawings were part of it, too - the act of making these drawings solidified the experience and made it in a way more "real". This crush on a person I've never met before made me a fantasizer, or maybe more likely it was the other way around. Either way, now my teenage crush can finally go to sleep now. Closure. mmm. zzzzz.

Ver 2 - Where Art Happens

This is an ongoing project, but I'm so excited I can't wait to share it.