By the way, update the About page.
About the Author#
I am a designer. If you can open this page, you must have seen my portfolio. I am an INFJ introverted male, who enjoys reading, writing, raising fish, drawing, and various electronic products.
Currently, my work mainly involves two aspects:
- Business operations for my own company.
- Personal projects.
For the business part, it's all about getting paid and getting things done, purely for the sake of making a living. Most of the things I do in this area won't be included in my portfolio. Although they are done by me, they involve clients and colleagues, so I don't consider them as my own designs. They are not artworks, but products. The few that I will include in my portfolio are the ones that I feel relatively good about and worth putting more effort into. Some of these projects are related to fields that I am interested in, some align with the aesthetic taste of the clients, and some provide a certain level of challenge to my abilities, which catches my attention.
To be honest, since 2019, I haven't really worried about not having clients coming to me for business. Maybe because of this, I relaxed a bit during that period and had a procrastination mentality. Another important reason is that commercial design products are essentially the result of negotiations, and negotiations are ultimately an art of compromise. I still have a long way to go in mastering this art.
But fortunately, I didn't waste this period of relaxation.
In my work, I deal with computers all day long. I am naturally interested in computers themselves and often secretly feel happy that I can live in a great era with computers. So, I immerse myself in various interesting things related to computers.
Just like skating on an endless dark ice lake without wearing ice skates. From setting up a personal server, DIY NAS, to building my first truly personal website, I slowly experience the simplicity and elegance of controlling a computer using only commands and shortcuts (because as a designer, I have always used a mouse and a drawing tablet, and I feel that using them is a bit clumsy). There is an indescribable pleasure in this process. This brings me to the second aspect, personal projects.
About this Site#
This site is one of my personal projects. I have been thinking about it for a long time and have always wanted to have my own container on the internet.
The content in this container is my publicly accessible spiritual world.
The main means of creating this spiritual world is CG art. The entire creative process is also a spiritual experiment, so let's call it the "CG Art Lab".
Tools are Extensions of Human Limbs#
There is a saying that "tools are extensions of human limbs". For example, a fan is an extension of the hand, a wheel is an extension of the legs, and a telephone is an extension of the mouth and ears. By extension, it seems that a computer is an extension of the human brain. I have also written an article called "How to Build a Second Brain", in which I roughly discuss how I view digital note-taking as a tool. In fact, from a broad perspective, whether it's design, writing, or coding, it's all about how to use the computer as a tool to create and understand better, to become familiar with it, and to make it more obedient and capable.
Computers are designed by the smartest people on this planet. It is difficult for ordinary people like me to truly adapt the computer to ourselves, and we often don't know where to start. In this regard, I have a set of underlying logic: find the exact problem, improve my own skills to match the tools I want to use.
Finding the exact problem is easy, but finding the exact problem is relatively difficult. Since it took a lot of time and effort to find them, it is valuable to record these problems, including the process of solving them.
Writing is Thinking Itself#
In the past, whenever I encountered a problem, whether it was searching for a shortcut or building a Hackintosh, I never thought about documenting these processes. First, I thought it was troublesome, and second, I thought that technology updates so quickly that these methods might become outdated in a short period of time. Now, I realize that I was completely wrong.
Although these techniques and methods are all "skills", this kind of thinking does not conform to the "way".
I have decided to honestly record these processes. After all, they belong to my own creations, skills, experiences, and thoughts. The journey is always taken slowly by oneself, and publishing them publicly is more about letting these contents pass my own scrutiny.
Let's talk about whether you like it or not.