Heartful: Korean Culture Night @ UC Davis [Clara C, Dumbfoundead, & DJ Zo]

5.25.2011 Heartful: Korean Culture Night @ UC Davis

This was Hansori (Korean Drumming Club @ UC Davis)'s last performance... ever.
Most likely the club will die unless some sort of miracle happens in this quarter or over the summer... Highly unlikely.
The performance went well- everyone was great! I love you guys!

Clara C, Dumbfoundead, and DJ Zo were the special performers of the night. Mickey Cho, MK Modern, Fong Tran, Ben and the Shooting Stars also performed. Seriously, everyone performed very well. We all had a fun night! GREAT JOB, EVERYONE!

After the show, I was able to meet all the guests. hahaha... For those who don't know, I'm a huge fan of Dumbfoundead and DJ Zo since 2009. I drew fanart for them and made a personal fan letter for Dumbfoundead. They seemed to really like my drawings! I had an awesome time. It was a very memorable moment for me.


Hansori <3


The beginning of our performance.


Dumbfoundead & DJ Zo


Learning with Mr. Dumb.


Dumbfoundead & DJ Zo posing with my fanart!


DJ Zo, HT, & Dumbfoundead <3!

SoulCollage Workshop

5.22.2011

For those of you who don't know, I plan on becoming a registered art therapist some day.

During fall and winter quarter, I used to intern at the UC Davis Medical Center as a Child Life volunteer. For the second quarter, I was able to work beside the art therapist, Hannah. After I finished my internship, I still kept in touch with her and she recently gave me the opportunity to do a private workshop with her with my friend (who is also interested in art therapy) and to help volunteer a booth with her. The private "workshop" was to get us prepared for the SoulCollage booth at the Cancer Survivors' Picnic in Sacramento on June 4th.

I have never done SoulCollage before so it was a new and interesting experience for me.
For more information on SoulCollage, please go to the official website: http://www.soulcollage.com/
It's a form of art therapy but also seen as a form of spiritual healing. From my experience, I found it very therapeutic, calming, and fun. You also get to find more about yourself through the process and while viewing other people's cards. I like to think of it as a very friendly free-form "outlet." It was also the first time I ever made a collage... hahaha.

I'm very excited to volunteer at the booth! I'll make another post about it afterwards!

Here's a photo of the two SoulCollage cards I made.
My "Source" & "Community" cards


Source Card - "...representations of individual realities represents the many..."
Community Card - "This is the part of the deck for people you know- friends and family. You may also make cards for people you want in your life- people you admire and whose energy you wish to have present."

I don't think SoulCollage is for everyone, but it's another great way to find yourself artistically.

old news i forgot to mention...

This is old news that I forgot to post about.

A photo of my COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS costume, photo title: ROBOT ATTACK I, is featured in deviantART’s photography news: HALLOWEEN AND HUMOR! under "4. What? Don you have money for a costume??? ok.. Wear a BOX!" (2009)

http://news.deviantart.com/article/95022/

http://ht.deviantart.com/art/ROBOT-ATTACK-I-42573477

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I haven't updated my COTD FAN website... I'm sorry about that. I actually want to re-do all of my websites. Hopefully, that'll happen some time this year...

sharing some love for your ears

I just discovered these awesome websites.
If you like to listen to surreal and chill things, then you'll definitely like this.

http://youarelistening.to/sanfrancisco

http://www.rainymood.com/

I especially love RainyMood.com- it goes great with almost any music track.

Enjoy! <3.

Hansori's last Picnic Day performance

For those of you who don't know, I'm part of Hansori (한소리)- Korean Drumming [사물놀이/samulnori] Club at UC Davis. I can play the 북/buk and the 장구/janggu.

This is most likely Hansori's last active year... I'm proud to be in this club since my freshman year of college. The majority of the club will be graduating or going back to Korea (some of them are international students) and the members who will be staying do not know how to play all the instruments... I had a good run with you guys! <3

[Davis Picnic Day 4.16.2011]
Here's a video of part of our Davis Picnic Day performance:
(I'm playing 장구/janggu in this video.)



Here's a photo of all of us:


Great job, everyone! <3!!!!!