⚙️ hardware hacker + developer + designer 🔨 creator of the flip grip 🔄 i make music 🎹 learning to art / animate!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ✍️ twitch pard'ner 🎵 he/him
Parasite is such a profoundly personal film for me, not just as a Korean, but as someone who at one point grew up in not-too-different circumstances than the ones in the film. Here comes a thread about representation, and how pride and poverty coexist in Korean culture. 1/13
For those wondering how I’m playing two pianicas at once, here’s the secret: a little 3D printed dual mouthpiece that I designed myself! Here’s another video of it in action with some Kirby music.
As someone who lost my mother at a young age, I see her everywhere. I see her in my friend’s parents, I see her in my aunts, in my sister, in my mother-in-law, I see her in the ajumma in the checkout line, and in the restaurant lady who always smiles. I see her everywhere. (1/9)
It was a very rainy thanksgiving weekend. Perfect weather for staying inside and recording a cover of one of my favorite tunes, the Rainy Day theme from Animal Crossing. Enjoy! 🌧
That's my
#RepresentationMatters
story about Parasite, and why it's one of my favorite films of all time. Congrats to Bong Joon-ho, Lee Ha-jun, Cho Won-woo, Han Jin-won, Kwak Sin-ae, Yang Jin-mo and everyone else involved! You've given Koreans a reason to be proud. 📽️ 13/13
This picture represents so much to me. Downwell was the first game that came to mind when I was first approached about the Flip Grip. It fills me with pride and joy that we get to finally enjoy this game with physical controls using a tool that I worked so hard to create. (1/4)
Even in our most desititute circumstances, my dad would speak in very regal tones like the dad in Parasite, especially at the beginning. It’s difficult to describe, but it’s almost as if every Korean dad talks like a king in their own house. Or basement. Or attic. 8/13
I remember sitting in the theater with my jaw on the floor (like everyone in the audience), but not because of the shocking things that were happening on-screen. I couldn’t believe that I was watching a film that was encapsulating the uniqueness of Korean pride in poverty. 10/13
One of my favorite songs of this summer, Drivin’ by K.K. Slider. I love the chords in this one, they took quite a while to figure out. I’m already nostalgic for the days of everyone playing New Horizons together.
It wasn’t until learning more about Korea’s history, that I began to understand the unique relationship that the Korean nation has with poverty. I’m no historian, but it was only in recent decades through rapid industrialization that Korea became as tech-savvy as it is now. 5/13
My mother passed away when I was in elementary school. After that, my dad and I struggled emotionally and financially. There was a period of a couple years where we didn’t have anywhere to live, and so we lived with other families who were kind enough to take us in. 2/13
I never imagined I would see these themes represented in the media, much less in such a widely acclaimed film. Of course, these themes are not just unique to Koreans. Pride and poverty are global conditions, which may help explain why Parasite has had such universal appeal. 12/13
I remember trying to fall asleep on the floors of complete strangers’ bedrooms in a sleeping bag. (The floor was fine. It was probably my dad snoring next to me.) At one point, we even lived in the attic of a church, which was an upgrade since we lived there on our own. 3/13
Any first generation Korean millennial will tell you that their parents have all kinds of stories about being poor. Growing up, I passed off my dad's stories as mostly a gimmick to get me to not be picky about food or study hard or whatever. 4/13
That being said, my dad (a very humble, compassionate, hard-working person) instilled in me three values growing up: 1. Humility 2. Helping Others 3. Working hard. But a fourth value that underpinned all of those was a deep sense of pride to be Korean. 7/13
I think this can be attributed to how powerful the sense of pride in Korean culture is, even in the midst even in poverty or in the midst of great adversity. This theme flows throughout the whole film and I think it explains much of what motivates the Kim family’s actions. 9/13
In spite of all their history of oppressive poverty, I feel that it’s pretty well known Koreans are a notoriously proud people, always taking every opportunity to boast about other Korean’s accomplishments as if they were related. My dad did that a LOT. 6/13
Obviously my dad and I never did anything as crazy as in Parasite. And of course the film shows these themes in a fantastical extreme. But in its subtler moments, Parasite represented parts of my story on-screen. 11/13
This is a total dream come true. Downwell was the first game that came to mind when I started developing the Flip Grip almost two years ago. Today I unboxed the physical edition of Downwell which comes bundled with a special red Flip Grip by
@moppin_
's request. (1/4)
PSA: It’s happened… Someone on Amazon has stolen and made a bad copy of the Flip Grip design, didn’t even try to change the name or anything. ONLY purchase authentic Flip Grip from
@Fangamer
, you can tell it’s authentic because cute Flippy on the back :) ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES
It's been almost a year since I finished my AC:NH Korean Restaurant. Revisiting it for AAPI Heritage Month! I gotta get back to AC now that we have those extra design slots...
Here’s another rough cover using that dual pianica mouthpiece. This time we’re taking a trip to Yoshi’s Island. Thanks everyone for all the kind words for the last video. And hello to all the new followers!
@heyphilsummers
I owe everything I am to him. He's the most amazing person I have ever met. Here he is after I sent him to Korea a couple weeks ago for eye surgery.
We had a fun stream yesterday writing Town Tunes for people! Here's me playing along with a Dire Dire Docks town tune that we slapped together yesterday!
I recently learned that I can take the native sound files from SNES games and isolate the channels to create a fun drum track to play along to. Here’s a jam on Donkey Kong Country that I had a ton of fun with!
a very slow corridors of time (vgm challenge
#16
: 16-bit) I'm not skilled enough to play the main corridors of time riff at the same time as the melody, so I just slow the whole thing down and call it smooth jazz ¯\_(ツ)_/¯