So Let’s Try This Again – Singapore Update

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View from double decker SBS bus

I am studying at a 2-year program on Animation and Digital Arts at NYU Tsich Asia in Singapore.  I think that about sums up my life from August 2008 to the present (pre-Christmas December 2008). 

Despite not having…updated this blog for an ENORMOUS amount of time, since Sept. 2007.  What can I say – life eats up your time, although I do find typing out my thoughts and projects on a blog very satisfying.  I’ll continue to make lame attempts at udpates where I can.

Singapore is a beautiful country, a big change from a cooler, seasonal climate to a thickly topical one, with the musk of the sea in the air and the brisk, clean and efficient way of life of modern Asia.

A Singapore Sky

View from my HDB flat.

Bugis Junction shopping center

Below are some pictures of the school itself, or at least where I spend most of my time eating.

The UnCommons kitchen

View from the UnCommons (the cafeteria) at NYU Tisch Asia.

 Living and studying in a new country, on the cusp of struggle to find my place in the industry or elsewhere is a stressful and frightening trial, but a necessary one.  I’ve met some wonderful people here, but inside and outside of school, but still I spend some of my time tied to a dual-screen computer working out some highly technical kink as I struggle to get my skills up to snuff with what I will need to survive in such a rapidly evolving field.

I did attend Siggraph Asia 2008 in Singpore, which was both daunting and a great experience – and a cold, hard wake up call to my future looming before me.

Speaking of computer and work, let mw share with you some of the fruits of my labor.  PLEASE watch these with YouTube’s new high quality option to get the full experience.  Some of them look like total hell without it.

And some pictures.

I’ve always been a lot better with posted pictures as oppossed to writing lengthy entries.  I’ve already spent far too  much of my life in front of a computer these past few months, and now that I am visiting home at my family’s place back in the icy depths of Michigan, it is time to take a break from the matrix and TV, pour a cup of hot, hot coffee and enjoy reality for a while.

Well, at least until the next Dirty Jobs or Mythbusters is on.  Oh Discovery channel, how I have missed you!

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