tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42329719950270680562011-07-30T12:22:50.381-07:00The process of being me through words and photos.Lien X Tonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10956459978593671259noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4232971995027068056.post-65903067243927519422010-02-10T22:34:00.000-08:002010-02-10T22:48:42.808-08:00<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S3OlefPES5I/AAAAAAAAADE/zCh4c074ehc/s200/DSCF0062.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436871118365674386" /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S3OlfsBm-DI/AAAAAAAAADU/3nkrzNbbJrg/s1600-h/DSCF0048.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S3OlfsBm-DI/AAAAAAAAADU/3nkrzNbbJrg/s200/DSCF0048.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436871138978756658" /></a><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S3OldrqVxdI/AAAAAAAAAC8/quEyGk2_MK4/s200/DSCF0024.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436871104521422290" /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S3OlfJzi8xI/AAAAAAAAADM/zuy6nsPuXRo/s1600-h/DSCF0086.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S3OlfJzi8xI/AAAAAAAAADM/zuy6nsPuXRo/s200/DSCF0086.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436871129792967442" /></a><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4232971995027068056-6590306724392751942?l=lienxtong.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lien X Tonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10956459978593671259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4232971995027068056.post-36350057961180359782010-02-05T07:10:00.000-08:002010-02-06T11:10:25.524-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">The Origin of Species</span>//Women's SS2010</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I am currently working on my thesis collection to be completed in May 2010. The source for my inspirati<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">on is ever evolving but currently I have discovered a go-to-guide for all things that excite me-Ernst Haeckle's, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Art Forms in Nature</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(image from google images)</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 200px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2xDo1iOpcI/AAAAAAAAACA/m5ZPGW2cr7U/s200/art_forms_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434793219173819842" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This book is filled with pages on end featuring work that marries science with art. Haeckle was the German scientist who</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"> "maintained that art as well as science could unearth the underlying truths of nature". He traveled far and wide with a microscope, sketchpad, and watercolors discovering and illustrating his findings. To read more about his biography and view his lithograph plates, I found this <a href="http://mblwhoilibrary.mbl.edu/exhibits/haeckel/intro.html">source</a> which I think repres</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">ents him well. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>From the images found in the book as well as a few other limited images found on the internet, I put together a Concept board to get my thoughts and ideas flowing. This board is photoshopped from about 15-20 different images-mostly scans from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Art Forms in Nature</span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 157px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2xJPYSH65I/AAAAAAAAACI/5uAXSHLDTAk/s200/CONCEPT_THESIS.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434799378894678930" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In my body of work, I hope to take Haeckel's studies as a guide to creating sculptural form through the creation of textiles and the manipulation of it thereafter. Combining techniques of machine knitting, hand knitting (which I just learned today</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">!), felting, scrunching, pulling, distressing, heating, dyeing and also through the use of other nonconventional materials and processes will flourish surfaces made to react with the body.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">The beginnings...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2xKu8mQuoI/AAAAAAAAACo/HrLrO172PxM/s200/DSCF2074.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434801020730391170" /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2xKveXkKHI/AAAAAAAAACw/jE4nRs3ZJ8g/s200/DSCF2073.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434801029795555442" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2xKtNq_d2I/AAAAAAAAACQ/e7vd6sENqxs/s200/DSCF2046.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434800990953895778" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2xKt4nMVtI/AAAAAAAAACY/xENH5cj6Tq8/s200/DSCF2054.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434801002480686802" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2xKuXcBixI/AAAAAAAAACg/_0kS3TOt3NY/s200/DSCF2076.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434801010755341074" /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>These are images from my "home studio" aka a corner nook of my bedroom in my attic apartment. But here's a peek at my main squeeze via VIDEO===> <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ohsolien#p/a/u/1/PPMgRHHtuUo">Lien X Tong // Studio Video Tour</a>.</span></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4232971995027068056-3635005796118035978?l=lienxtong.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lien X Tonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10956459978593671259noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4232971995027068056.post-31139357293081996752010-02-04T18:26:00.000-08:002010-02-04T18:38:21.532-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new';">A sneak peak....</span></span><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2uDSQa48rI/AAAAAAAAAA4/HsqyqOxymzE/s200/DSCF4607.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434581725021270706" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2uDSl0NfBI/AAAAAAAAABA/24o86zT2NSc/s200/DSCF3988.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434581730764618770" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2uD5Truj7I/AAAAAAAAABg/kgzJlYFTFQ0/s200/Photo+24.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434582395912097714" /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2uDTFLcOvI/AAAAAAAAABI/0vM-GN75x00/s200/DSCF4539.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434581739183553266" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2uDTsM-chI/AAAAAAAAABQ/AiC6FTpdQHw/s200/l2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434581749658972690" /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2uDT2VfdlI/AAAAAAAAABY/t7yxr3yCQ_o/s1600-h/l25.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PasteLvdYbc/S2uDT2VfdlI/AAAAAAAAABY/t7yxr3yCQ_o/s200/l25.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434581752379045458" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new';">Genetic Mutation</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new';"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new';">FW 2009</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new';">: A works in progress. Collection photos will be up soon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new';"><a href="www.lienxtong.com">www.lienxtong.com</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4232971995027068056-3113935729308199675?l=lienxtong.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lien X Tonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10956459978593671259noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4232971995027068056.post-74649838756643165352010-02-02T12:23:00.000-08:002010-02-02T12:31:06.369-08:00So a little something about me according to Urban Dictionary.com:<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:Verdana;font-size:9px;"><table id="entries" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; "><tbody><tr style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><td class="word" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">lien</span></td><td class="tools" id="tools_1049403" style=" text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; line-height: 20px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="status"><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lien#" onclick="Thumbs.userClickedUp(1049403); return false" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">60</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> up</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lien#" onclick="Thumbs.userClickedDown(1049403); return false" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">71</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> down</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="thumbs"><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lien#" id="thumbs_up_1049403" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img alt="love it" src="http://static0.urbandictionary.com/images/thumbsup.gif?1265079280" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; padding-left: 3px; " /> </span></a><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lien#" id="thumbs_down_1049403" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img alt="hate it" src="http://static2.urbandictionary.com/images/thumbsdown.gif?1265079280" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; padding-left: 3px; " /></span></a></span><span class="favorite" style="margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; "></span></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><br /><br /><br /></td><td class="text" colspan="2" id="entry_1049403" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding-right: 15px; line-height: 1.8; padding-bottom: 10px; "><div class="zazzle_links" style="color: rgb(237, 101, 35); "></div><div class="definition">a little girl who likes to eat cracker oout of the ground. she likes to be original and can beat everyone up with a single fling of her boogers.</div><div class="example" style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; ">ex. *flickk* awwwww that guy over there just died -.-</div></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And I must tell you that it is extremely accurate.</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4232971995027068056-7464983875664316535?l=lienxtong.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lien X Tonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10956459978593671259noreply@blogger.com3