This weekend definitely became a stroll down memory lane.
Watching a live performance by none other than the great Duke Ellington Orchestra. Opening the piano and playing (or attempting to play) one of the Mozart sonatas I once knew like the back of my band.
These acts reminded me of the person I once was. My musicals roots I seemed to have gradually shed as I took on the new chapter that was college.
Now that chapter is nearing its end, and as eventful and altogether wholesome as it was, this weekend reminded me that there was more to me than what I had become over the span of these recent years.
With that being said, it’s time to pick up those pieces of my past and embrace them once more.
Go to more concerts and plays. Brush the dust off the black-and-white keys and maybe even the curvaceous brass horn that defined a good chunk of my life.
I realize my level of appreciation for classical or jazz music (even musicals) isn’t shared by many that I know. And if there are others, they seem to have forgotten or shed those roots too. Probably more factors as to why I seem to have lost myself in the college experience.
But I suppose an inclination to these things are what makes me different. Whether that may or may not be a good thing doesn’t really matter anymore, if ever at all.
My roomie Erin Wu (@ewu0909) and our homegirls @bayoko and @livingstreamofconsciousness put out a concept video of Ciara’s “Body Party”.
My Body, My Part(y)
featuring Michelle Lin & Alisa Oko Okamoto
filmed & edited by Brian An Phan
shot at Calvin Cheng’s Loft
[Unmasking objectification]
“What is our part in this?
Subject? Object?
What part does my body play?
Who profits from this part(y)?
What part does it play for me?”
- Alisa Okamoto
“Commanding sexuality for oneself. We can own and love our own body, regardless of how men choose to personify us.”
- Michelle Lin
Nobody’s, but your own.
No body, but your own.
Your body, embrace it. By all means,
It’s nobody’s,
But your own, so own it.
Em-body-meant.
- Michelle VoJust a fun vid that brought us back together ^^
Aww I love these girls! Check out my friends! :]
Anywhere.
GOOD LUCK ON FINALS, FRIENDS! Here is a poster for you!
Finals Week Spring ‘13: Strive. Survive. Seek. Succeed.
I have really talented friends. Check out his work!
I feel our lives are constantly ebbing and flowing relative to our gains or losses, whether they be great or small.
And in each round, we all have to deal with the hands we’re dealt, good or bad. There’s no way around it.
However, even if it’s a losing hand, a little bluff of confidence, faith, and determination is sometimes all you need to get that upper edge.
And that may well be the most important strategy you’ll ever need to know.
