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A month ago, I found two sketches from eight years ago. They were finished but uncolored. I took a little time of my evening brushing them with some watercolor. The above sketch is from the Court Street of downtown Athens, Ohio. And the one below is of the Baker Center of Ohio University at Athens.
It gave me a sentimental feeling to look at these sketches.

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My being a scholar takes me places. It gives me opportunities to meet people in various places. To be in most beautiful places in the world. To get to know men and women with wonderful hearts. To see beautiful faces of many children. To learn to give and to be given. To love and be loved in return.

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Let’s take a look at the drawing I made (while listening to Janet Napolitano’s lecture) a couple days ago. What kind of drawing is it? What did I draw?
pens?
hands?

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Day 7 of Seven: Draw Your Days!
bicycle. good meeting. cleaning up. drawing blood. closing my account. enjoying the friday. grilled steak + bean salad. one fine friday. the end. fine!

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Day 6 of Seven: Draw Your Days!
A visit of an architect friend. Immersed in the organic architecture.
Nature. Maze. Triangle.
Human scale. Timeless.
Taliesin. Frank Llyod Wright.

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Day 5 of Seven: Draws Your Day!
it’s a holiday. morning coffee. miso soup, crab dumpling and edamame for lunch. commenting grad students’ papers. writing my own paper. cycling around the neighborhood. more writing. grilled mackerel and baked acorn squash for dinner. a calm veteran’s day. a quiet wednesday.
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Day 4 of Seven: Draw Your Days!
cycling. leading e-lunch seminar. grabbing a late coffee. teaching senior seminar. finishing some paperwork. teaching graduate seminar. a little evening guitar serenade. what a flocky tuesday — meeting more than 80 people today.

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Day 3 of Seven: Draw Your Days!
sipping a morning coffee. a doc visit. working on my blog paper. reading grad students’ papers. picking up a dress. getting a happy email-news. munching a rangginang (rice cracker snack) from cimahi. meeting an old friend from jakarta.
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notes on participatory culture (2)
Social networking platforms have turned interactivity between individuals into relational and relational into participation. Through this participation, not by formalized membership, community is formed.
Using blogs and social network sites such as Facebook, the Seven initiator called individuals not to only ‘join’ …

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Here is another work submitted to “Seven: Draw Your Days!”

morning coffee with bailey and kahlua. squid bean sprout rice for lunch. having ears pierced after waiting for 15 years. some quiet night with two instruments. another lazy Sunday.
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notes on participatory culture (1):
As mentioned earlier, as a new media researcher, I thought it’s important to occasionally be engaged in a sort of activities emerged in new media sphere, in addition to observing/researching what’s happening. That’s why I am blogging and (now) participating in some activities such as Seven: Draw Your …

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this is part of “SEVEN: Draw Your Days!”
one of my attempts to actively participate in participatory culture — instead of just ‘observing and researching’ it…
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