I must apologize for the lack of posts lately, I have been working like a maniac to finish the extremely technical parts of my sculpture. This includes five circuits that took five days of solid work, sourcing the electronic components, designing and layout, cutting and stripping wire, and soldering. For my project I am using a motor to generate power to light my piece with super bright LED’s, each circuit has a 555 chip (as a clock), and a 10 pin step counter (to make the lights twinkle), a few capacitors and 20 transistors and 40 + resistors all soldered into a board, and around 60 + little jumper wires, the most complex electronic project that I have attempted.
On Thursday while I was working I felt a soft rocking motion, I asked Bruce, “Did you feel that? ” we both noticed the bottles on the bar were moving in unison. We quickly left the studio/bar and stood outside for a few minutes. That night when I turned on the TV there were reports of an Earthquake a 5.7 on the Richter scale.
Bruce has a small army helping him find plastic beverage containers, this is a relief to me, he was relying on me to drink juice and water to keep him supplied, but now he has a bottle army headed up by Ken’s Mother (ken owns our studio a bar called VS talking bar) she is a super passionate about art and has been a immense help to Bruce and I.
One of our favorite restaurants for dinner is a kabob style bbq house, you can point at the food on the skewers. Bruce is a little apprehensive going to restaurants without pictures of the food or something you can point at. Doris our waitress at our bbq restaurant. every time we return for dinner Doris has learned more English and gets better at explaining things. The first few cuts of chicken Bruce and I ordered were not really what we were expecting. Doris now knows the names of the different parts of the animals, so our favorite cut of chicken is “bum”. Food is on skewers then placed in a metal shaft with gears on it, these gears rotate the kabobs stacked horizontally in front of open face burner, really nice machine! (efficient and yummy).Mos burger instead of a wheat bun they use rice formed in a bun shape, I had the kimchi pork burger so freaking good kicks mc d’s ass. Dumplings= LOVE, there is a dumpling store a few doors down from our hotel, the dumplings they are so tasty and served with shredded ginger, soya sauce, and sesame seed oil, soooooo yummy. A restaurant specializing in goose is right across from our Hotel. We ordered goose over bean sprouts and bamboo soup, and a side of rice, yummy fatty goodness oh yeah and shredded ginger very popular here.Our favorite place for lunch is a little stand on a scooter only street they serve Pork breaded cutlet over cabbage and wasabi mayo and a sprinkling of corn.
Paint House studio and gallery
We visited The Painthouse, is a gallery and studio space. Located down a narrow ally in Tainan, The building has been transformed into an arts space over its nine-year history. The entire building is a piece of art featuring many interesting architecture elements, there is a large external structure on the roof. The interior space of the Painthouse has been utilized to the max. The Painthouse has shows every month since 2000. The Paint house serves to unite the arts community. In Taiwan the paint house is quite famous in Taiwan receiving press in many publications.
Ken and his wife took us to many temples and cultural landmarks all over Tainan, Ken showed Bruce and I how to perform rituals and deciphered the meanings of the sculptures and the layout of the temple. Bruce and I burned paper and lit incense and burned special paper bundles
that goose sounds better than the bbq duck congee i had a three am last night.
Dizzy looking at the wires, so many. It must consumed a lot of your energy. Good for you to be in Tainan, because you can get good foods easily there, of course, don’t forget beer.