Call it the seven-year itch. In as many years in this city, I'm finally making a go at a dedicated space. DIA/PROJECTS will serve primarily as my studio, and be a semi-public contemporary arts space with a library and archive, and a planned framework for a series of personally selected and commissioned artworks by visiting artists produced in Ho Chi Minh City.
6 meters wide. 20 meters long. 3 meter high ceilings, sunshine-o-plenty and a nice breeze.
Curators will no longer have to bear looking at drying undergarments in my room. No more meetings in noisy coffee shops. Yessir! I'm going to have my very own studio, and if you're wondering, i can barely afford it. I'll be working on getting the space into shape during Tet and will hopefully be inviting guests over by March.
v. 1. To catch a cold, to be ill (because of a sudden change in the weather, too much sun, etc.); bị cảm nhẹ to catch a slight cold; bị cảm lạnh to catch a chill; bị cảm nắng to get a sunstroke. 2. To feel; cảm thấy đau ở tay to feel a pain in one's arm; ở đây cũng cảm thấy thoải mái như ở nhà to feel comfortable here as at home. 3. To be moved, to be affected; điệu hát làm cảm được người nghe the tune moved the audience.
Cảm is an anthology project to collect written and visual works that convey the range of human emotions. The list of feelings will be drawn from the Feelings Inventory produced by The Center for Nonviolent Communication, which lists about 300 different feelings, though we will be using the Vietnamese vocabulary rather than English (think of this as a glorified flash card).
<[link]> The first release of my poems. Limited edition hard copies. UNLIMITED FREE DOWNLOADS! ;) Be a homie, tell a homie. Holla.
bảo.thiên.ngô, Arts Commissioner Chair United Vietnamese Student Associations of Northern California Please consider the environment before printing emails.
I had a pleasant dream that there was a contest to see the best trailer attachment for a big rig, and that I was a judge. I chose the one that unfolded into a clubbing dance floor. The dance floor was a putting green; when it opened, it was like a Maui country club with palm trees. There was a dance crew waiting inside wearing silver suits or silver bikini-top skirts dancing to something like an upbeat boogie nights kind of music. Somehow one of the walls elevated into a balcony decorated with Mondrian-style wall. It was pretty weird but cool.
This year's family Christmas party had NO VEGETABLES. We all actually missed eating veggies. That was bad coordination, hahaha.
Starting dabbling with Google Adwords. I noticed when I searched "Vietnamese shirts" in Google, my website didn't even make it to the top 20 results. Sadness. That means I'll need to hire an SEO specialist to help improve our rankings. In the meantime I'll try out this Google Adwords to see how it fares. So far I had our first clickthrough today, something on the order of 2% (1 out of every 50 ad views actually clicks). This is just based on English words. I don't know about Vietnamese searches yet.
On a related note, when I checked to see top Google searches that involved the word "Vietnamese", I saw "Vietnamese brides" with around 300 searches per month. That is very disturbing.
