Tomorrow Today is the Stanley Warmup Races. It’s Buddha’s birthday, so in Cantonese tradition we scare away the ghosts in the water so we can swim in peace (We need to invent another holiday to scare away the pollution!). Check out Sunday’s race featuring Fair Dinkum, the spectators (my sister, Curious Doodles and Diskgrunt) as well as a special image from the leader of the Fireman’s team: Sunny. I have a higher respect for the Sunny and the firemen, not just because they can pull of crazy pink speedos but because there was recently a fire in my building and they had a quick response time of about 3 minutes to get there. Amazing! Props to the Hong Kong Fire Department. Click here if you’d like to be firesafe in Hong Kong.

A new book today jumped onto my wishlist – more like my “I’m going to pick up a copy tomorrow” list. What to cook and how to cook it is a beginner’s book for cooking from scratch. I not only salivated over the beautiful photography by Angela Moore but marveled at the simplicity of how the images and words made a recipe come to life in such a simple way. A simple way that my brain understands such that I will actually cook yummy stuff. The video below will introduce to the book. Also check out this very cool peek into the book by the publisher Phaidon.

Here’s an animation used to help visualize a talk by Sir Ken Robinson about reforming education, or at least adapting it to the modern age. Very cool and worth the 12 minutes.

En route from Seattle back to Hong Kong, I’m sharing the results of the SNAAP study because I am working in an arts capacity (photographer + music professional) and certainly doing very interesting things (I live in Hong Kong, got to hang with Chase Jarvis, shot the New York Winter Jazz Fest early this year, shot the album cover for Noughts & Exes, [a HK band]) and enjoying life a lot, but things could be more stable and even more creative if I had better business and adminstrative skills.

See the full study here and check out this very relevant and necessary rant essay about succeeding as an artist.

This is a tune I’ve been jamming to recently and performed tonight as a medley (just the chorus) at Puku Cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam. It’s just a reminder to pursue your passions and if in doubt, get off your butt and go create, rhyme, converse, paint, draw, photograph, beatbox, scratch – basically feel alive and awake.

Chengdu, China has killer pandas. Well, it used to anyway – dynasties ago. Today, they’re endangered and most of them are relatively domesticated. If you went into the area where they’re kept in Chengdu, they’d probably ignore you and keep eating Bamboo. They like Bamboo. Very much.

Yesterday (well, 1:30am for me) Chase Jarvis introduced a new way to democratize creativity and education through creativeLIVE – with a revamp to the 1-year old site and big endorsement from Chase, aspiring artists will be able to view some of the top professionals in their field give lessons, broadcast for free. It’s quite an interesting business model. For more info, check out the video below: