Time is making a fool of me. Because I don’t have enough of it. Not for me (I need a hair cut), not for my parents (I’m sorry, again, for my flakiness in correspondances at times), not for my hobbies (like my last post was two months ago), and not for the string of photos I have yet to polish from a month long venture island hopping Thailand (and I’m already preparing for my next off island adventure..). But efficient I have been in my many, many, many projects and undertakings.

And with little time to write, I needed at least to publish photos from this past weekend. This is the Shih Chien University (實踐大學) graduate fashion show. The student designers spent a year working towards this show. It was the most visually stunning and eclectic creativity in fashion I’ve ever seen first hand. Had I known exactly the extremities in which this event entailed, I would have been on the other side of the lens from the get go. Though my purpose here was to….model. An inch of make up between me and the view finder.

The only photos I took of my two favorite looks.

Sway took this photo of one group on the runway.

My make up and hair, photo by Sway.

This is a praise to my friend Optimist, another product of my lost time. He is a friend that I met in Taipei who has since left to San Francisco. Rather, ‘the Bay’. This is a person whom when I met I immediately identified as interesting (a quality I deem scarce in people), and I met him at a time where I was having a difficult time distinguishing between real and surreal. He unknowingly enlightened me on dynamics outside of the frenzied life I was caught up with in my first few months in Taipei. This person is an artist who spent his time in Taiwan painting his social, cultural, and geographical observations in an OPTIMISTS visualization. Though his works are limited to the streets and galleries abroad (if only one day on the web), here is an illustration that depicts his virtuosity.

His upcoming show is called THE BAY TO TAIPEI and it takes place in San Fransico this Friday April 16th, 2010 at 7hPM. Now, I only hope, he will again casually stumble upon my blog and take this honorable mention as a push to showcase to those hidden behind the imaginary walls of the world wide web.

He also said this, saying it reminded him of how he was feeling, which reminded me of how I was feeling, which I’m sure will you mind you of how you have at some time or another, felt. “The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth all sensation is already a memory.” – A quote from Kafka on the Shore by Murakami (quoted from Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory)… a novel overloaded with insightful literary excerpts. A MUST READ, along with ALL his others.

I am looking for more time.