Visual Thoughts

[shwupeng]

Sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

[shwupeng]

Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?” Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. - Timothy Leary

[shwupeng]

“That’s one of the great things about music. You sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”

- Dave Grohl

[shwupeng]

When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went, ‘Wow. That’s amazing!’ And I said, ‘Oh no, but I’m not any good at any of them.’

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.’

- Kurt Vonnegut

[shwupeng]

Singapore weather. (at Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHFVog7nqOUf9W2oedFMpfAUDumnDWSzf_hNHg0/?igshid=1ryept31fo793

[shwupeng]

Support, front and back.

[shwupeng]

[shwupeng]

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s a good novel—that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having met a new face, crossed a street we never crossed before. But it’s very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness - introduction

[shwupeng]

This is the eye-catching Kuggen in Gothenburg, Sweden. Kuggen means ‘the cog’ and I guess it’s self-explanatory. The Internet explained that the building’s facade has six shades of red and two shades of green. I may have overdone this a little. . On a somewhat half-related note, I’ve been into Swedish author, Fredrik Backman’s books in 2018. Please read his novels if you have the chance. They are funny and they touch a lot about the human heart. . Could have spent another few months correcting this colouring piece but I’ve decided to give it a rest. I may come back to it for the sky. Need more practice with background colouring. Swipe for WIP peeks. . #colour #colouring #colouringpencils #colourpencils #fabercastell #polychromos #polychromospencils #kuggen #swedishbuilding #gothenburg #göteborg #sweden #fantasticstructures #fantasticstructurescolouringbook #stevemcdonald #shupscolour

[shwupeng]

That quiet.

[shwupeng]

Cheesy trunks. Happy monthsary.

[shwupeng]

When I become an old person, I'll give condescending stares to everyone. May need to borrow a grey beard. #kyoto #kyotosubway (at Jūjō Station (Kintetsu))

[shwupeng]

Bus rides. Best time to reflect.

[shwupeng]

Let's run away, you and I. Let's run to a place where we can be you and I. #hipster #shot #and #a #hippy #caption #justdrankguinnessanditsnottoobad (at Armenian Street)

[shwupeng]

With this image, I suppose I've to insert some befitting motivational quote about life being a journey or the road is long and fraught with bouts of loneliness... Whichever the case, this was taken in #Penang and our driver called us champs because we could eat non-stop. It was marvellous. Life wasn't lonely and the journey was short. Thanks for the good times, y'all.

[shwupeng]

This cat has heterochromia.

[swordofomens]

Good Omens Four Riders by Aviv Or 

[neil-gaiman]

Astonishingly close to the characters in my head. Although Pollution’s hair was lighter…