February 2020: Music
(2/7/20) Since the start of the new year, we've been working on a new project to sing, translate, and teach Chinese songs, popular and original. The goal is to produce…
(2/7/20) Since the start of the new year, we've been working on a new project to sing, translate, and teach Chinese songs, popular and original. The goal is to produce…
Overview Quick summary: I started officially learning Japanese in 2017 when I memorized the Japanese alphabets (hiragana and katakana) in a couple weeks over the summer. I then took about…
Overview Quick summary: I've been learning Chinese on and off, both officially and on my own, with varying degrees of seriousness, for 10+ years. At my current level, I can…
In December, I will be using Lynda.com to teach myself Photoshop. I had some experience with it a decade ago (most of my school friends were artists), but it's been…
What I Do in the In-Between Months Although November is not an even-numbered month, and I'm not planning to do an official art or music project this month, I decided…
Art (2D, Design, and Video) Follow Lynda videos Photoshop InDesign After Effects (focus on kinetic typography, type animation) Go through RDE course Mimic one fav artist's portfolio Draw a bunch…
I have been learning Chinese off and on for many years, but rarely with much seriousness. Most of it was watching shows and absorbing semi-passively. But in the last few…
My journey with Japanese began in the summer of 2017, when I first used JapanesePod101's free Youtube series to teach myself hiragana and katakana. But actually, the seeds were probably…
Here, I keep a running list of resources (mostly online, but also books) that continually inspire, or that I return to over and over for learning art, music, and languages.…