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grandmother, a math/computer science teacher, has most often been described
as aristocratic. Before emigrating from China at 16, she was a famous concert
pianist. People would attend her performances just to see what she was wearing. We have so much in common. We buy the same Elsa Peretti jewelry, own the same digital cameras, the same PDA's, and for a while had the same hairstyle. She is 75 and drives a 350Z. People are constantly trying to drag race with her at stoplights. But she just takes her time.
When I was twelve, she became my mentor and began guiding research on my five-year science fair project. It started with an article she showed me on Spirolaterals by Martin Gardner. I wanted to discover something that no one else had. I had a plan. I figured that a twelve year old had a lot of free time while rocket scientists are quite busy working on important things. Therefore, I could choose something very unimportant and obscure to work on, something that scientists were unconcerned with. Then, by the lone fact that I would devote a large amount of time to the problem, I would be able to make the discovery. |
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Me The best is yet to come! |
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2005, the TODAY SHOW- you can see me next on the TODAY SHOW, Thurs. morning at 9:35.
www.iHeartSwitch.com- I guest star on the first episode of iHeartSwitch, a do-it-yourself show that uses fashion to help girls become interested in technology. I helped to launch the site because interesting girls in science is a cause that I really believe in.
seamless- Mit's fashion show (see below).
as always, your questions, comments and concerns
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Runway Reflections Some thoughts on how Project Runway has changed my life |
A death threat: I got my first death threat email. I found it sort of humorous. I can't actually afford a body guard on my measly just-graduated-from-college salary. So I put my death threat in my scrap book with all of my other "fanmail." I'm tempted to report them, but I feel as though the threatener was probably 12.
My first celebrity siting:
A lady recognized me from Project Runway in the grocery store. As I've learned
from watching the show, I'm not very good at concealing my facial expressions.
I was really surprised that she recognized me, and I must have had an astonished
look on my face. I think she was afraid she had freaked me out; she apologized
a few times and then left. So after I got over my shock, I found her and gave
her a button.
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Process tra la la la la, random stuff here. I'm so excited, I've just started my new freelance job. |
Perhaps you are having those thoughts about a certain button. Well, said button started out as a sketch. The sketch was then scanned into the computer and traced in Adobe Illustrator to become a vector image. The image was emailed to http://www.busybeaver.net/ for mass production. Finally they fund their way to the homes of lovely people.
Could you have created a button for less? Probably not. Even if you are a whiz with the computer it would still take you at least 15 min. to scan, "vectorize" your FASHION NERD sketch, and email it to busybeaver. And if you are that great at illustrator you probably make way more than $8 an hour (if you aren't, you should probably find a different job, hee hee). Therefore the FASHION NERD button would cost more than $2 to self-produce, making it a good buy.
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pictured from Seamless V.1 (clockwise): Media Lab Lego Learning Laboratory a.k.a. dressing room, Closer by Alison Lewis (who shortly after joined forces with me to create iHeartSwitch), DJ, Emily Albinski and I prepping roommate JungIn You in our inflatable dress for photos by Kate Kunath... we never would have dreamed where the photos would end up!
Will you be attending Seamless?... Your Questions, Comments, and Concerns.
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I
told my little brother that a product is 80% presentation, prompting him
to wrapped our presents like so. He is the true technologist of our family,
and actually attends MIT… unlike some people (me). When he was younger
he was quite the artist. But now he refuses to pick up a pencil for anything
but math equations. I think eventually he will return to art since he spends
an insane amount of time creating 3-d models on Autodesk Inventor.
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Though I received many Barbies as b-day/x-mas gifts, I never played with them. I preferred 6"x3"x1" building blocks. I loved to try different configurations to see which would allow me to build the tallest tower (my record: 4'8"). However, I did make lots of clothing out of felt for trolls. Maybe that's why I chose that giant felted piece of eyelet red wool. |
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In my average daily
stroll with glasses, I attract catcalls from about 1-3 degenerate men
and the occasional sexual harassment of "accidental" inappropriate
touching. In a day around the city all dolled up with contacts, make-up
and heels, I get rubber-neckers, 5-8 catcalls from men who are practically
sober, and at least one guy who tries to speak to me in Spanish (I don't
know why people think I look Hispanic). Now as a disclaimer I must state
that I am not that attractive and that I live in a city brimming with
models who should be absorbing all of the attention of the degenerate
and practically sober men. I think that I fall into the more approachable
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What A Friend! A while back, I had told Lrand that according to the forums, I am the less attractive Asian. Upon seeing the Project Runway 2 subway posters (shown below), LRand writes in her journal that she has taken it upon herself to do the following: " I've gone to work vandalizing as many of those posters as I can with "HOTTT!" and arrows pointing to Di. Hoping to start a graffiti dialogue or something. Yeah." What a great friend! |
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Compulsive Disorder A bit inconvenient, but oh-so-aesthetically pleasing |
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PROJECT
RUNWAY II Andrae
Gonzalo, 32 :: Los Angeles, CA |
your comments, questions, thoughts, and concerns
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| 27OCT | Design
Monkey What is good design? And why I am it's bitch. |
How do you explain good design? I lay in bed at night with my "good design" stuffed animal (a well proportioned monkey who's head, body and legs have a 1:1 ratio, and his arms have a 1.5:1 ratio to his body) reading my "good design" magazine (ID magazine). And ID magazine is indeed the ultimate all around good design magazine. I was flipping through it on the subway and some man was like, "what magazine is that, it is so colorful and pretty." I'm such a sucker for the aesthetically pleasing. But does it come down to being a mathematical ratio? Even matching colors are mathematically related on a color scale. Or just something eye catching. Or is it the mathematical ratio that makes things eye-catching? Well, we'll find out when someone writes a program to replace graphic designers.
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