arttik.com Blog

update 2- it’s back up now but I am in the process of rebuildling it from ground up, so please be a bit patient while things are being added back.
update 1- Installing new version. going to be a while before it’s back up.

Looking back at all my old pictures, I have come to make two decisions.

First, I will need to “upgrade” the pictures. Many of the pictures shown are quite small. They were small because back then people were using smaller screens. Nowadays, people have much larger screens. The beautiful objects of the photographs deserve to have a much bigger “presentation area”. ;-)

Second, I have ostensibly avoided putting up pictures with “people” in them. Namely, my family and friends (and myself). That’s because my previous websites were used as a portfolio to design companies/clients. I wanted to really separate between “personal” and “business” sides of my work.

Nowaydays tho, that’s hardly relevant because I dont’ work in design or at least I don’t plan to use my site to sell myself.

So look forward to a mass influx of pictures of me and my family and friends! :D

A out

Update: Due to restructuring, the following links no longer work.

For once I made good on my promise to deliver. I have now added some pictures from my old site back to Arttik Gallery. Unfortunately, at this moment none of them has any caption. Here’s a list

- Events – The Stills
- Events – Interpol
- Events – Radiohead

- Travels – Europe 1999
- Travels – Hong Kong
- Travels – Seattle – Bellevue Community College
- Travels – Seattle – U of Washington

- Fine Art – Drawings
- Fine Art – Paintings
- Fine Art – Digital Graphics

Anyway, off I go to watch a film, as part of my first HK International Film Fest outing. It’s called Le Pressentiment, (English title: Premonition).

I finally finished the preliminary filtering of all my pictures from my spring Euro trip! From the locations of Hamburg, Cologne, Heidelberg, Black Forest, Dresden, Prague, Paris, London, and Berlin, there are roughly 850 pictures I have rated 3 stars or above (3 stars meaning, they are worth presenting).

The next step would be further filtering and fine tuning each individual picture. And last step would be to come up with captions for them. This might be a bit more involving since it’ll require me to actually look up on my various guidebooks and travel docs. But I imagine it’ll be quite fun because it’ll force me to think back to where I was and what I was doing then.

On another note… please excuse all the comments spam in my gallery. The gallery software has a less-than-stellar commentary management interface. in other words, i can only delete one spam commentary at a time. I need to look into it.

Gotta go now, ciao!

Just a quickie on what’s currently “in development”-

At the moment I am finishing up on the pictures from my Europe trip for Arttik Gallery -

The following groups are done-

• Hamburg
• cologne
• Heidelberg
• Nuremberg
• Dresden

What’s left-

• Prague (half way done)
• London
• Paris
• Berlin

I will post them all at once as soon as I am done with the rest.