{"id":230,"date":"2020-01-01T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T00:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2020-03-28T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T01:22:14","slug":"chronicles-2019-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2020\/01\/01\/chronicles-2019-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles: 2019 Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ended up not doing a whole lot of art this quarter! I spent most of my time planning for next year and hanging out with friends and family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visited Seattle for a work retreat! We visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/bloedelreserve.org\/\">Bloedel Reserve<\/a>, which was a lovely, quiet place to take a nature walk.<\/li>\n<li>Flew down to Austin, TX for <a href=\"https:\/\/cscw.acm.org\/2020\/\">CSCW 2020<\/a>! A lot of the papers were about how machine learning and people (can) work together. Some interesting presentations\/papers I saw:\n<ul>\n<li>Opening Keynote: <a href=\"https:\/\/pair.withgoogle.com\/\">Participatory Machine Learning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3359305\">Deconstructing Creativity: Non-Linear Processes and Fluid Roles in Contemporary Music and Dance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3359301\">Discrimination through optimization: How Facebook\u2019s ad delivery can lead to biased outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3359152\">The Principles and Limits of Algorithm-in-the-Loop Decision Making<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Did some reviewing for <a href=\"https:\/\/chi2020.acm.org\/\">CHI 2020<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It feels like the previous year&#8217;s winners of the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.adobe.com\/scholarship\/\">Adobe Women-in-Technology Scholarship and Fellowship<\/a> just got announced, but it&#8217;s already time to review applications for this year, so I did a bunch of that!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finished Inktober! Sort of! I started late because of some work travel, and ended up not doing the first week of drawings. But anyway, here are some of my favorites: <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/188218387233\/inktober-2019-day-8-frail-starting-a-bit-late\">Frail<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/188433625938\/inktober-2019-day-18-misfit-its-the-lancer-fan\">Misfit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/188486927578\/inktober-2019-day-20-tread-day-in-the-sun-for\">Tread<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/188543398533\/inktober-2019-day-23-ancient-one-of-my-first\">Ancient<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/188569292063\/inktober-2019-day-24-dizzy-the-dizziness\">Dizzy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/188644492788\/inktober-2019-day-27-coat-taking-a-break\">Coat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/188656455060\/inktober-2019-day-28-ride-when-i-got-a-horse-for\">Ride<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/188703642493\/inktober-2019-day-30-catch-a-bit-of-a-random\">Catch<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/188861747673\/jojostory-jojostory-heres-a-little-preview\">the piece I contributed<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/gokigen-na-chou-zine.tumblr.com\/\">Gokigen na Chou Digimon Adventure zine<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>I finally put up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/727713586\/ffxiv-warrior-of-light-nametag-custom?ref=shop_home_active_8&amp;crt=1\">my FFXIV name tags in my Etsy store<\/a>! Why did it take me a whole month to list it? Because I convinced myself I was going to take nicer photos&#8230; and then I didn&#8217;t \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/jojostoryart\/\">My Etsy store<\/a> did well this year: I had 42% more orders than last year (!!!). That is <em>wild<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Went on a big trip to Korea and Japan with my fiance and his family! Some notable stuff we did:\n<ul>\n<li>Korea\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/altdif.com\/\">ALTDIF Tea Bar<\/a> &#8212; we had a mixed tea drink tasting course that was amazing! Each of the drinks was themed after a contemporary Korean literature book that the mixers liked.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leesle.kr\/\">Leesle<\/a> &#8212; totally by chance, I happened to see a shop that sold modern hanbok clothes meant for everyday wear and I went and bought a few pieces! I had been following the brand on Instagram for a while, but hadn&#8217;t realized they had a shop near where we were sightseeing!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreanfolk.co.kr\/multi\/english\/\">Korean Folk Village<\/a> &#8212; we were there off-season and so it was awkwardly empty, but we had a lot of fun watching the various performances and walking around the village.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freemarket.or.kr\/?page_id=4485\">Hongdae Free Market<\/a> &#8212; it&#8217;s like an outdoor artist alley with local artists selling handmade crafts and artwork!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Japan\n<ul>\n<li>Kanazawa &#8212; we took the Shinkansen down to a quiet, pretty city called Kanazawa and stayed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sainoniwa-hotel.jp\/en\">this lovely hotel<\/a> that had its own bathhouse and provided <em>massage chairs<\/em> in the rooms! Like, <em>what<\/em>? This was also where I had the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sainoniwa-hotel.jp\/en\">best curry I have ever, ever eaten<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Visited the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokemoncenter-online.com\/cafe\/?id=access\">Pokemon Cafe<\/a> in Ginza!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokemoncenter-online.com\/cafe\/?id=access\">Team Lab Planets<\/a> &#8212; I&#8217;m not even sure how to describe this place; maybe an immersive, interactive art museum? The first stop in the museum is a locker room where you can borrow shorts if you&#8217;re wearing clothes that make it hard to wade through water! Definitely worth a visit, though I think it&#8217;s a temporary museum.<\/li>\n<li>Nintendo Store &#8211; visited the new store in Shibuya PARCO, and somehow managed to avoid the 5+ hour line to get in by getting up early to nab a ticket that guaranteed that we would enter the store at a specific time! I bought&#8230; a lot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>My fiance and I are starting wedding planning! It&#8217;s&#8230; a lot. How can something be so exciting and so frustrating at the same time? \ud83d\ude05<\/li>\n<li>Visited my family in Seattle for Christmas! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jojostoryart\/status\/1209902224417050624\">My nephew informed my mother than Santa isn&#8217;t real.<\/a> We also went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnb.org\/nutcracker\/\">Nutcracker<\/a> altogether &#8212; it was my niece and nephew&#8217;s first time going to a live theatre performance and they had a great time \ud83d\ude0a<\/li>\n<li>Anime: Evangelion (my friend and I marathoned the whole series in one day because neither of us had watched it, and our brains melted), Dr. Stone (weird story, but kinda charming! I&#8217;ll watch the second season when it comes out.)<\/li>\n<li>Games: Link&#8217;s Awakening (a sweet, cute game), Pokemon Shield (enjoyed the spectacle of the battles and the characters!), FFXIV (slowly leveling my RDM, it&#8217;s at 75 now. The new NieR raids are very exciting!), FFVIII (finally finished it &#8212; after all these years, I was very surprised at how much I didn&#8217;t know about the story)\n<ul>\n<li>Board games: <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/280131\/moon-base\">Moon Base<\/a>, which we picked up in Japan! It&#8217;s a little like 3D checkers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Books: Persepolis (I read it because I was able to get my book club at work to read it :D)<\/li>\n<li>Podcasts: The Adventure Zone: Graduation (really loving it so far &#8212; Travis has improved so much as a DM!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Ended up not doing a whole lot of art this quarter! I spent most of my time planning for next year and hanging out with friends and family. Academic Visited Seattle for a work retreat! We visited the Bloedel Reserve, which was a lovely, quiet place to take a nature walk. Flew down to Austin,&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2020\/01\/01\/chronicles-2019-autumn\/\"> <strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}