Harry Potter Comics
Before my website got hacked, I had a section for all my drawings, sketches and doodles. I also had a comics section with a few Harry Potter comics I made. They’re not serious and just silly comics I made when doodling one day. Anyway, I’m adding them again to my blog while I continue to figure out a new design and how to reimplement my art section of the website. Hope you like these!
Harry Potter Comic 01
Harry Potter Comic 02
Harry Potter Comic 03
Laundry Day
Laundry Day
The fifth in the Classic Comic Series of statues has been released. This time it’s another Uncle Scrooge statue called Laundry Day, which is based off the cover of Uncle Scrooge comic #5. I still haven’t picked up the previous Scrooge statue, Cash Register Concerto, or the fourth release (Comic Book Companions). I’d like to pick up both Scrooge statues to add to the other Donald and Uncle Scrooge statues I have, but need to save up some funds first for the wedding and house in the future. But maybe I can use some money I earn from selling things on eBay?
5번재 옛날 만화책 시리즈의 동상이 나왔다. Uncle Scrooge 동상인데 Laundry Day라고 부른다. 지난 Uncle Scrooge 동상과 4번재 옛날 만화책 시리즈 동상도 아직 안 샀다. Uncle Scrooge 동상 둘다 사고 싶은데 먼저 결혼 돈과 앞으로 집 돈을 벌어야한다. 그런데 어떤 물건을 eBay로 팔면 그 받을 돈으로 동상을 살수있지?
Disney prints
When we were at Disneyworld, we checked out many of the shops in the parks, and one of my favorite shops was The Art of Disney in Downtown Disney. I bought two posters there, and finally got around to putting them in the frames I bought at IKEA. I like the old style Disney posters, and wanted to buy more, but they were somewhat expensive. I like these two the best!
우리가 디즈니월드에 있었을때 여러 가게에 많이 들어가봤는데 내 제일 좋아하는 가게가 다운타운 디즈니에 있는 더 아트 어브 디즈니 가게였다. 거기에 내가 포스터 2개 샀는데 드디어 오늘 IKEA에 샀던 액자에 넣었다. 내가 이런 옛날 스타일을 아주 좋아하니까 더 많이 사고 싶었지만 좀 비싸서 사지 않았다. 이 포스터들이 제일 좋다!
Enchanted Tiki Room
Jungle Cruise
Cats! (and ducks)
I saw these cats yesterday on eBay yesterday and really wanted to buy them. After showing them to Yunjoo, she said they would go great with the wooden ducks I bought, so I decided to buy them. I really like the shape and style of them!
어제 eBay에 있는 고양이들을 봤는데 아주 많이 사고 싶었다. 윤주에게 보여줬는데 윤주가 아주 예뻐! 그리고 너 오리와 같이 있으면 더 예쁘다고 해서 내가 샀다 ㅋㅋ 그 고양이 모습과 스타일이 아주 좋다!
Metal Cats
Wooden Ducks
Lots of happenings
It’s been a while since I last posted on my blog. I’ve been fairly busy with things. I’ll see if I can cover everything without being too lengthy:
Christmas 2011
My girlfriend, Yunjoo, visited from Korea! She stayed with me at my parents house and enjoyed Christmas with the family. It was a lot of fun and she really enjoyed the holidays as well as the family. After Christmas, we went on a trip to Las Vegas, Utah, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco, Sacramento, and then back to Washington. It was fun, but tiring, and we both got sick. We did some more local touristy things and made a lot of Korean food together that we and my parents enjoyed a lot.
Disney World 2012
While Yunjoo was still here in the US, we, my parents, one of my brothers and his family, and also my sister and her family took a week trip to Disney World! It was a lot of fun! Though with all the walking all over the four parks, our feet and legs got very tired and near the end we were pretty exhausted. Everyone but Yunjoo and myself got sick around the last day, and suffered during the week after we got back home.
no more ie6 (or ie7)
This week (and some of last) I’ve been helping my girlfriend convert her portfolio site to WordPress. It’s been pretty easy except for getting things to look and work right in ie6 (and sometimes ie7). she dislikes ie6 as much as I do, but since this is a Korean website, she says ie6 needs to be supported. There are a lot of people in Korea that still use ie6 to view the internet. Anyway, I added a transparent png fix that makes ie6 display png’s with transparency and opacity display correctly. She wanted to use this for the web design project she’s working on for the government over there, but I warned her that overuse can bog things down or cause weird errors. Then I told her (half-jokingly) that the Korean government website should have a notification message prompting users to upgrade their browsers. She laughed, but then explained that there are many poor people with old computers that can’t run newer browsers very well, as well as older people who don’t know how to install/update their web browsers. I can understand this, but from a web coding point-of-view, I still wish ie6 and ie7 could be done away with. And for those of you who may not know much about web development, there are many new and cool developments in what browsers can do now. But older browsers like ie6 and ie7 are unable to do any of these new things without additional plugins, hacks, etc. ie8 and ie9 are better, but still don’t fully support CSS3 as well as other browsers like firefox, chrome and safari do.
Microsoft has recently (i forgot when exactly, maybe a year ago?) stopped supporting ie6 and is trying to get the world to upgrade their browsers. They even have a site dedicated to “moving the world off Internet Explorer 6.” It has a map showing the percentage of usage in different countries. Right now, only 1.3% of the US uses ie6. I wonder how many of those people are just developers testing the browser? hehe. Over 25% of China still uses ie6, while 7.9% of the world still uses ie6.
I’ve disliked ie6 and ie7 for some time now, but have still tried to support it making my sites work in those browsers. But now with learning jQuery, and wanting to use CSS3 a lot more, I’ve decided people will just have to upgrade or use a different browser to see everything.
Ok, enough ranting XD
11-11-11
It’s Veteran’s Day today here in the US and Pepero Day in Korea (though technically it was yesterday in Korea). I actually forgot when Veteran’s Day was…. but remembered Pepero Day, and made a simple minimal-style poster which turned out pretty good.
I’ve been working on a new mock sci-fi movie poster as well as helping my girlfriend convert her portfolio site to WordPress. Hopefully both of those will be finished soon. I also am planning on a couple of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World minimal-style movie posters.
Various updates
Been working on my website for the past few days. I’m trying to make a portfolio using WordPress’s Custom Post Types. It’s slowly coming together, but has been pretty difficult trying to get certain things to work right. I’m still at a loss to get pagination to work right.
Anyway, I’ve been back from my Korea trip for a few weeks now. I’m looking for some work, but mainly something small to work on during the next couple of months. My girlfriend will be coming to the US for a couple of months in December and we’ve already planned some trips that probably wouldn’t be possible if I had a full-time job now. So I’m looking around for any small web project (or any sort of doable project) I can get my hands on. I did do a small project for an old co-worker; it’s a tribute to Steve Jobs website that searches through twitter for mentions of Steve Jobs. It turned out good, but was somewhat difficult getting it all together since it is hosted on blogger.com.
I’ve also been working on some new posters lately. Actually, I’ve found designing poster designs to be very fun. I really like minimal/retro/atomic style designs, and have a lot of ideas of new posters I want to make. I’m also looking for a good site to go through if anyone is interested in buying prints. You can buy them on Deviant Art now, but I’m thinking the prices might be high… I’ve thought about selling through Etsy too, but still need to find a place to get them printed first… Any suggestions? I’ve seen Zazzle, imagekind, iprintfromhome, and Poster Brain. Poster Brain is good with 36″ x 24″ poster prints for only $20.
I’ll be working on updating/fixing my website more, as well as making more designs in the coming days 
Website hacked…
So i recently got back from a two month trip to Korea only to find out someone decided to hack my website and use it to mail credit card spam out to various people… I was able to get rid of the bad files, but all my own files were lost (except the database was still fine). So i still have all my blog posts, but the images are missing… I’ve been wanting to work on a redesign for some time now, and now is as good as ever. For now i’m using a free portfolio theme (Portfolium) and will probably base my new theme off of it.
I’ll slowly be re-adding all my art/design stuff as well as some new things i’ve been working on!
Back in Korea!
I’m back in Korea! for a couple months on vacation. It feels like I’ve only been gone from here a month or so, even though it’s been close to a year. I haven’t been back to the area that I lived at before to see if it has changed any, but will be going to visit there sometime soon.
I’m staying at my girlfriend’s house with her and her mom in their extra room which is next to the main house. it’s an older house, but it is nice. her mom has been feeding me lots of very tasty Korean food. it’s been fun so far, but a little difficult talking with her mom. she uses a lot of words i don’t know and she has an accent i’m not used to. so even if i hear some words i already know, i get confused hehe.
my girlfriend, Yunjoo (as well as her mom), is very nice and kind. she is still learning English, so we mainly communicate in a mix of 70% Korean and 30% English. it’s been good practice for both of us both in speaking/listening and in writing/reading. we’re both very patient, and understand when we both make mistakes in talking. actually, our personalities are so extremely similar, it’s like we’re able to read each others’ minds. anyway, she has been helping me to get everything set up so i can get my toe fixed (a piece of broken toe bone has caused my big toe to grow funny…) and also to get lasik eye surgery. I had to go in to get my toe checked the other day, and her mom helped go with me. it was nice, since I don’t know Korean well enough to speak about medical things with Korean doctors hehe.
today and yesterday there has been a huge amount of rain here. over 400mm in Seoul! (which is about the average amount for a year here). there has been flooding all over the place too. Things are fine here at the house i’m staying at, but it’s becoming dangerous to go outside because of flooded streets. some subway areas have been shut off too. hopefully the rain will stop soon and I’ll be able to go visit friends out here in Korea. I did get to see some people I knew from church last Sunday which was nice.
I’ll try to get some pictures up soon
In California
Recently arrived in California last friday and got to see some friends over the weekend. Now I’m at my aunt’s house and will be visiting some relatives. It’s nice here and the weather is good, but the grass pollen is pretty high so I’ve had an endless runny nose, and a fair amount of sneezing…
I’m hoping to see the new Pirates movie this week though
Moved to Utah
After living in California for a while, driving back and forth over the Bay Bridge to San Francisco, and after living in the very crowded city of Seoul, Korea, I decided I wanted to try living in a place that’s a bit more peaceful. A friend of mine in Utah suggested that Utah was very quiet and peaceful. I also discovered there are a lot of technical companies there too which would (hopefully) provide some good job leads. I had been trying to figure out where to go after returning from Korea in terms of a job and where to live, and the thought of Utah stuck in the back of my mind after hearing about it from my friend. One of my brother’s lives there, and I had only visited there a few times and never thought I’d go live there, but things change over time, and I went ahead and moved out here last week.
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