Paintings

Lightning at Sea

Georgia O'Keeffe

american psycho

Matthew Byers

the last laugh

Matthew Byers

Books

Burning Bright "炽焰燃烧"

Ron Rash

Flowers for Algernon "献给阿尔吉侬的花束"

Daniel Keyes

Stories of Your Life and Others "你一生的故事"

Ted Chiang

Movies

So Long, My Son "地久天长"

Xiaoshuai Wang "王小帅"

B for Busy "爱情神话"

Yihui Shao "邵艺辉"

La La Land "爱乐之城"

Damien Chazelle

Arrival "降临"

Denis Villeneuve

Comrades, Almost a Love Story "甜蜜蜜"

Peter Chan "陈可辛"

Lust, Caution "色‧戒"

Ang Lee "李安"

Eat Drink Man Woman "飲食男女"

Ang Lee "李安"

Shows

The Closer

Dave Chappelle

Blocks

Neal Brennan

Look at You

Taylor Tomlinson

TV Shows

The White Lotus, Season 2

Mike White

Quotes

为有牺牲多壮志，敢教日月换新天。
—毛泽东

Bitter sacrifice strengthens bold resolve. Which dares to make sun and moon shine in new skies.
—Translation by Foreign Languages Press

文变染乎世情，兴废系乎时序。
—刘勰

Literature evolves with society, it goes up and down with the time.
—Translation by Yongsheng Cheng

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.
—Duke Ellington

Empathy is not gay. Empathy is not Black. Empathy is bi-sexual. It must go both ways.
—Dave Chappelle

My request of reviewers is to try to imagine the darkness before the spark.
—Michael J. Black

It is especially nice when the things we regard as beautiful are also regarded by other people as useful.
—Donald Knuth

The unexamined life is not worth living.
—Plato

The Arts I love