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I found Chicago in the machine shop

things around the machine shop that vaguely resemble chicago landmarks - Sears (Willis) Tower, Marina Towers, Two Prudential Plaza, Buckingham Fountain, Pritzker Pavilion Millennium Park

Yeah, that’s right, Frank Gehry. I found your Pritzker Pavilion in the dumpster.

Posted in Architecture RE:lapse, comics and tagged architecture, chicago, cnc, machine shop on 2014 Aug 07 by MJ Kwan. 1 Comment

ta-YA ta-YA, yakadakadaka yump yump, BOOM, yum pum pum.

They say music is a universal language, so no translation necessary, right?

schumann piano quartet ensemble rehearsal with steven houser

I love our ensemble.

Posted in comics, MJ's Favorites and tagged chicago school of violin making, language, music on 2014 Aug 04 by MJ Kwan. Leave a comment

Stages of Grief, told with scrapers

I’m in the middle of arching my second violin. I laid out my scrapers and they arranged themselves like this:

happy scraper set, arching scrapers, glue scraper

My bench neighbor looked over at me playing tangrams with my scrapers and all he had to say was: “You’re retarded.”

denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance of having to resharpen your scrapers

Posted in comics, fetal violin, MJ's Favorites and tagged diagram, inanimate object, scrapers, sharpening, tools, violin making on 2014 Jul 31 by MJ Kwan. Leave a comment

Train of Thought Pictionary #1

Let’s play a little game.

Train of thought pictionary #1

Got it?? #6 might have required a little reverse engineering, but that wasn’t so hard, was it? Where will MJ’s nonsensical train of thought take you next?

Posted in comics and tagged brain-teaser, cnc, game, machine shop, music, pictionary, pop culture reference, puzzle, quiz, train of thought on 2014 Jul 28 by MJ Kwan. Leave a comment

Reverse culture shock: FOP

It’s now been a year since I moved back to Amerrrca from my other Motherland. To celebrate that wonderful wonderful day, I shall share with yall a dramatized flashback to my first 10 minutes Fresh Off the Plane.

reverse culture shock, fresh off the plane. china to america

Posted in Architecture RE:lapse, comics, MJ's Favorites, Now I know I'm ABC and tagged america, china, flashback, reverse culture shock on 2014 Jul 24 by MJ Kwan. 2 Comments

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