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Jun 25, 2015
2 min read

Do I really need yet another form of social media? Yes. No. Maybe.

Probably. This whole artists' face existing behind their canvas thing is just not for me.

Ever since my 100th day on earth (돌) the power of the pen awed me- the fact that I was leaving a trace on this beautiful planet, whether it be lead on paper, chalk on bitumen, aligning shells on the shore, the arrow through the heart on the school tree, teen tumblr, several moleskines, all the cab selfies (#uflie), signing the tip on the five-star michelin's Hekman instead etc.

See? I'm really not a real artist- I mean, I love chilling as much as basquiat and warhol but unlike them let social cues disguise me for the most part (except we really shan't put definitions in stone and shall discuss this definition in the future). And the times have changed so much that anwering "what do you do?" with "I am an artist." is a little bit pretentious rather than courageous (I would KNOW, I am a 90s baby). So I'm just hansel so hot right now gretel with my breadcrumbs of binary numbers. 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 o O oOOooooh!

Because while a thousand words do not and cannot explain a picture, a picture does not and cannot explain a thousand words either. Theoretically yes, realistically no. (For evidence, sit in front of MoMA and watch the faces of people leaving after seeing BOTH PICTURE AND DESCRIPTION). Plus, there's always something to talk about. The problem is most people just never know who the right people are to talk to. So in that sense I think blogging is adequate.. in the senses of promoting expression. Especially if art's value resonates within the artist's message, persona and historical context. Blogging might not even be enough.

So I decided to put things out there, and you decide to audit or not. Perks of technology: If you are uninterested in the things the "blogger" is saying, you can exit the whole spatial context and never have to face them again. Imagine doing that in real life. Unacceptable unless you're basquiat or warhol.

anyway... blogging is just a giant instagram where double-posting is the norm and where you can use all your witty captions at once without having to kill any babies, right?

I was thinking: every interesting conversation should have a really? or a wow! in it, and ending my first month living in my dream city (le duh #nyc) seems to be both. No? Wow, really?

So commemorating my life in New York, here are my #instaworthy photos that I just didn't risk the double post by not posting at all:

Caption: Did you know humans built that? And in every window there is at least one human inhabitant, with a life as or almost as complex as yours and mine. WOW.