Looking Over Hanako’s Artistic Self Online https://hanako-h.com For the last peer review of the semester, I got the chance to look over a very artistic and aesthetically pleasing site created by Hanako. I was very impressed with the landing page alone as it starred Hanako herself edited into a background that did not look choppy but very well blended. As you scroll through the home page you can tell that…
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Featured Artist of the Week This week I’ll be introducing the global girl group, XG, who is under the entertainment production company called XGALX. The company focuses on uniting these young women with bold creativity, dynamic energy, and a strong iconic voice to be able to spread messages on a global scale all over the world. From their website, the girl group is all about becoming a group that can…
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Art sits at the intersection of technology, representation, and influence. This includes literature, film, music, media, visual and graphic arts and are all crucial in storytelling and bearing narratives. Once technologies are related to artificial intelligence (AI), they have a strong impact in the creative field of art (Cetinic, 2022, p. 1). Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous as it makes inroads into the arts. While art is widely considered…
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Metro Vancouver is home to lots of different cultures with a variety of food options available across the cities in the lower Mainland. Ranging from Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean to Middle-Eastern, Indian, and French cuisine, there are a ton of good eats to grab within the city how but what about finding Filipino cuisine? Filipino cuisine is typically more oriented towards a family party style of huge portions that reflect…
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After being a Simon Fraser University student for nearly four years, it took me that long to finally attend my first SFU sporting event at Burnaby Mountain. I had the pleasure of attending the Red Leafs volleyball game against the Seattle Pacific Falcons on November 2, 2023. I’m familiar with the rules of volleyball since I’ve played during my high school days, and being a spectator for the first time…
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The Weekly Grain of Malt presents a stop motion animation of a Smiski unboxing from different series. Please enjoy the curious little glow in the dark creatures as they make way to their new home. Smiskis are based from Japan and are blind boxes featuring six Smiski styles following a theme, plus a secret rare Smiski. The boxes come packaged randomly and all the joy comes from guessing which one…
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This week’s content post is centered around Bianca Bustamante and her achievement in the racing league due to my recent interest in her and F1 itself. I had learnt about Bustamante through TikTok when her videos randomly appeared on my for you page and for F1, I’ve known about the racing league for awhile but never truly delved into it. I decided to make a news article type of style…
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The 18-year-old Filipina racer Bianca Bustamante makes history as she is the first female to join McLaren’s F1 Driver Development programme. Understanding F1 AcademyF1 Academy is a new racing championship introduced in 2023 with a focus on promoting and preparing young women to eventually compete in higher levels of competition – including Formula 1. The Academy is an innovative launch for a female series of motor sport drivers who compete…
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I recently had the chance to visit South Korea for the first time by myself and I thought I would do terrible in understanding a foreign country’s subway system but I managed to do just fine! Compared to Vancouver’s transit map, South Korea’s transit map is a lot more complex than the millennium and production-way line Vancouverites are used to seeing. Looking at the overall map of the Seoul subway…
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