Portrait of a Masterpiece Painted In Oil

I was reviewing an older blog written not too many years ago entitled "It Never Takes A Genius"and I had come across some pictures I had drawn from some digital photos as you see tracing from a picture was my only way out of the ghetto. Indulging at my worst attributes namely thinking about my ethnicity and attempting to make an artistic form in the way of drawing or better still painting in oil was at my door it was my challenge and also my worst subjects namely my ethnicity(Chinese)and art(my drawing became a product of shame and remember to this day I would not admit to who drew a picture of a house when my drawing in school was displayed. I sat in that elementary classroom humiliated by that horrible drawing and would never admit that I drew that monstrosity. Of course if I were a child prodigy excelled at drawing or painting art work I would have gleefully jumped up out of my seat to claim my work at such skillful work of art. These were just two of the things I had not going for me at the time. But I don't feel so bad now as there are many of us who are like this and we can do something about this. Yes I was an ugly duckling who could not draw and the town bullies would call me by racist names and even the nerds would do the same and the prettiest girl in the whole wide world was in my classroom and silently in my heart and in my mind I would ogle her but never tell anyone but my best friend. By the way he wound up winning her heart and beating me up in a gang fight I was mismatched from the beginning and when I lost the fight beaten and gasping for the very life of me I could hear the name calling and the taunts and racial slurs designed to destroy me completely. The funny part about this and yes I do find humor to this story to this day is that the girl I admired with deep passion of the highest order was and is to this day Chinese. She is alive as to this day I think I cannot be absolutely certain but good old Harry Gin the Chinese American who knows every Chinese American I could ever remember…well he would know. And so you ask what is the point of this posting where is this going? I've learned through the internet one can trace to get the main essence of the subject in mind as we were trained in geometry to draw and study lines so I figured why not apply this geometry with which they taught in school to the object in mind needed to be drawn? Anyone can do this it takes no talent and let us face it how many of us can really draw or paint a picture to rival that of the true genius who painted the most recognized portrait of a woman in this world which is of course the Mono Lisa? I did it over a dozen times. Now you try it. Google up or google Portrait of a masterpiece painted in oil which is seven words and what I got were pictures of what appears to be painting of masterpieces done by the various great artists of all time. Do you not see the picture of my mother when you scroll down a bit? And what is the name of that scoundrel who painted that oil painting? Later I can explain. If I can draw then anyone can.

Global Warming

My sources told me it would be hot and this I know for certain the weather forecast can be predicted to a degree enough to make a plan and the plan for me is to seek cover and guard my life from the sun and the hell of any hot summer and summer is without doubt here. As I grow older I thank my lucky stars I am alive for I have seen good able body people younger than I pass on. Of what good am I of knowing anything about the weather to post anything worth your while? We all read from the experts and what they have to say about the weather as we are immensely affected by the weather it is the difference between life or death when life can be so cold or hotter than hell but if lucky enough to be able to survive the elements which prey upon us we can live a full life which is my goal in life. Once a goal in my life was to be like Howard Hughes to be able to be rich and good looking and experienced with the most desirable women that my lifestyle could afford. But come down please I say to myself and one can talk to one's own self when they write a journal and this is precisely what I am doing now. I must come down from the heavens and the stars at least for today I cannot be among the heavens looking up at the clouds and the blue skies for the heat could kill me or at least fry me so bad I look like I was the spokesman for the movie "Towering Infernal" a movie where people got fried from the heat of a fire gone out of control. There is no fun or excitement when coming back from a hobby like tennis or kite flying when the perspiration is flowing and the tan goes far beyond a tan to dry flaking skin. Wear sun screen I warn anyone for the sun can kill more now than I have ever realized as a youngster I never knew it could be this bad. Do as say do not do as I do and I better learn from my own preaching and protect myself. Bill Martin comes to mind and here I go again name dropping. He isn't as famous I don't think as the former New York Yankee manager Billy Martin but nevertheless when I met him on a local radio station I kidded him about his name sounding much like the baseball manager guy. Bill Martin as we all know does the weather reporting and come to think of it I think I will just replace him now and do it myself. All I need now is the page views and the numbers and I might just get the job reporting the weather! But I have not arrived at a conclusion on global warming. Will it destroy the all of us like the atom bomb did to a great number of people of Hiroshima or will we prepare and build better machines with which we can combat the death which stares us in the face? Oh by the way I discussed the differences between the man primarily responsible for the building of the atom bomb and the man who was the father of the nuclear bomb Edward Teller. I say what are the consequences in having the power to kill should we feel guilt when we kill our fellow human beings during war or should we feel a great sense of pride when we can possess a weapon which can kill more people that many of us can imagine? Personally speaking I like the power of technology which has harnessed air conditioning to make us able to survive the killing damage of a long hot summer. You cannot blame me for this certainly not.

When Journalism Becomes Diversified

I'm not your journalist who comes around privileged and cannot be accepted as an American born here in this country I reside in although my uncles and father fought against the axis powers in the second world war. I do not speak for the corporate world but have on occasions exchanged conversations with anglo saxons. When I was on the tennis team way back when the Vietnam War was already down in history in progress or rather being fought as I saw no progress in that war. I was one of the first Chinese playing on a mostly all white tennis team my first year on the tennis team at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland the land of the champion Oakland A's baseball team where they won the World Series many times across the Bay from the five time Super Bowl Forty Niners but at that time didn't happen yet while the white kids spat on me making fun of my ethnicity commenting on how my father looked exactly like Mao Tse Tung the much despised communist dictator and womanizer and anti Christian the world has seen. Being an ethnic minority was not easy and often I would use my last name and hide pretending I was Japanese after all the Japanese made good Hondas and they were popular too. And so Ann Frank hid where she lived in Nazi occupied land never showing herself publicly while I hid my identity and would impersonate a Japanese American. Nevertheless I was a marked man looking over my shoulders for being of the wrong ethnic type among the privilege white race. My underlying message is that a good journalist should be representative from all ethnic backgrounds and not just from the privileged white race. When one cannot see a male Asian face on television in the entertainment industry one might ask where did they go? Just this year I argued before a census taker that the Japanese Americans during the second World War in America were rounded up and put in relocation camps when their names revealed they were Japanese and automatically found guilty by association. Would the American government throw me in jail as they had the Japanese if the motherland of China disagreed with issues in the United States? Although there are very few major league players in tennis with the exception of Michael Chang now retired as a player for some time where are any other players in major league tennis? I wasn't nearly enough of a good player to even think about playing pro but I knew who they and now that I'm turning more of a interest into tennis I see that Brad Gilbert is a commenter for a major television sport show. Tennis still lives for me although I had given it up to concentrate more on chess. But trust me I met him at the tennis courts and my former tennis partner and coach Ed Lopez never wanted to hear how I met up with Brad Gilbert at Davy's Tennis Stadium in Oakland. It was a challenge but I declined his offer to play a match. Back then he was a hot shot twelve year old young man a child prodigy if you ask me because he was good at that age and I knew it but didn't play for money or on bets. But he surprised us all within the local tennis community and became a ranked tennis pro later on in his life. I wrote him a letter a message telling him that China would enter the picture one day and would he be interested in any deals. Of course I was just spinning my wheels as we all are aware that any nation that can excel at the sport of tennis must be from a rich society for there is something to the old saying tennis is a rich man's sport. I will explain later. I've a new tennis racket which is endorsed by Djorkovic the world's number one ranked tennis player. But he doesn't use what he endorses not this Head model one I bought at Costco. Coming up next….what Andre Agassi told me over the air in regards to minority players. What I am driving at is this whole business of the color of our skin with which we as humans sport. There are many stories which attempt to explain the reasoning as to why there is this caste system with humans in regards to why it is thought one particular color to another is a superior human being than another. Yes I have heard of the book "Black Like Me" and no I am not about to call this blog "Yellow Like Me"

Contributions To American Technology and Rocket Scientry

Contributions; Consider the name of an Ah-Tye who I never heard of before until information was sent to me in the form or a list. My father told me when he was alive that all family members with our last name are related. The main stream media types or the professional journalist have not been assigned to cover the story of which engineering types are major contributors worldwide. Little is known about American contributions to the space program with the ethnicity of the Asian community. But in my very own website unless I was dreaming I saw with the credentials of an American scientist with which I followed up with telephone calls to capture a true story not heard much or at all before. One man in my mind can be googled as Warren Ah-Tye. American invention and technological advancement has involved minority ethnic groups not recognized who are prepared to make their presence more known. The American entertainment field is another phase of current events which has not discovered the contributions of the Asian American within the entertainment industry. Consider Jackie Chan of which yes I am a name dropper. Meeting such a celebrity on the air is preferred rather than meeting in person. Yet he has become the Asian stereotypical of what Asian actors are destine for in the martial arts industry. Upon closer examination there are no other roles. Case in point. When prompted if he Jackie Chan desired other roles to play besides martial art roles there were plenty of acting roles but in fields completely foreign to his background. Of the extremely limited number of Asian I was able to ask Jackie Chan a few questions and yes it was his desire to participate in other roles bedsides the roles in martial arts. If his wishes could come true according to what he related to me and the listening audience of KGO radio 810 of San Francisco he would have loved to star with some of Hollywood's super stars. Let me put it bluntly if I may be allowed. Is China a county, a nation which can succeed? Is it still a backward country so far behind the other industrial nations that citizenship is still denied to those particulars such as the Chinese? Once upon a time not that far back in time China was just that. My father knew of Angel Island in the San Francisco area. I cannot cite the exact reasons why the entertainment industry can only find William Hung as the leading star of Hollywood to me it is a phenomenon which I simply cannot explain except when it comes to civil rights Asians I sadly admit are far behind. Besides my father Howard Ah-Tye one of the first male authors of Chinese ethnicity William Hung is also a hero of mine not because he failed at becoming a leading success at the world's rankings of the talent necessary to become a star singer but he was my hero like in the movie Cool Hand Luke where we see the main character resolved to carry on despite all odds were against him to win. United States of America was a sleeping giant when it was attacked by Japan to start World War 11. I think China is another sleeping giant except it does not want war but peace in an environment where it can achieve economic stability not only in it's own backyard but as a player in the world economy.