Even nowadays we can ask AI to help us sketch illustrations, we still have to draw ourselves. Not because we are talents but the road to unleash creativity can bring us the state of well being.
Alvin Cheng is an illustrator who focuses on urban sketching and bird view iPad illustrations of places. He also stresses the relationship between creativity, craft and well being, especially under the information/digital age.
I have visited Crystal Palace Park many times. This time, I needed to show my new friend around. Although I am already familiar with the park and its history, there were still new discoveries during the revisit.
Bethlem Museum of Mind is located in Bethlem Royal Hospital, which is believed to be the world's first psychiatric hospital. The hospital is still running, while the museum shows the change in the treatment of patients over 800 years, including the therapy through art creation since the 19th century.
This month will mark my 5-year subscription to Strava. As a person who doesn't really love subscriptions, I tried to keep the number as low as possible. If I pay, the service must be essential or strongly recommended.
I will continue the subscription and I am going to discuss how the service benefits me.
It was the first time for me to watch Icelandic movie. When the Light Breaks is only 82 minutes long, which talks about the grief of a group of young people after their (boy)friend died in an explosion in a tunnel, when he (Diddi) was heading to the airport flying west to break up with his current girlfriend, Klana, so that he can continue his relationship with another girl he really loves, Una.
Last Friday, I ran for 32km, breaking the previous three records of 30 and 31km which were done in 2022 and 2023.
Some of us have already built our own database when we can google anything we want. With the introduction of AI, we are not only able to find the answers from AI, but the app can also save our conversations and information with titles automatically generated for looking back afterwards just in case.
I sometimes think, will we no longer need note taking apps?
Since coming to the UK for my new life, I have been following Serpentine Pavilion every year. If you don’t know what it is, it is a meanwhile public space designed by the architects invited by Serpentine Gallery. Available usually between June and October.