Summer Achievement
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
I consider myself being rather adventurous most of the time, in that I have my own little obsessions with the exotics and the unknowns. However, when it comes to art, I have a particular, and in some way, conservative taste. This summer, I have been building up my tolerance and expanding my palate to the myriad of other art forms besides impressionism. It took me quite a journey to take off my color lenses. But I think it's worth a shot. A friend once said, "art, after all, is just a social phenomenon." I think it somewhat makes sense.
EVEN techno.. hmm... hmm?
Hi Matisse.
PARESSEUSE - Bénabar
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Imagine ce qu'elle doit faire et se dit... et puis non
Elle paresse
Au ralenti elle glisse de la cafetière à la fenêtre
Elle aimerait entendre un disque mais il faudrait le mettre
Et rien ne presse
Mademoiselle paresse à Paris
Elle traîne, elle pérégrine
Son altesse caresse aujourd'hui
L'idée d'aller à la piscine
Elle descend dans la rue, il est 16h, elle marche lentement
S'assoit sur un banc pour étudier le chemin le plus long
Le transport le plus lent
Le métro pourquoi pas mais y'a pas de grève en ce moment
Quant au bus il est trop tôt pour être bloqué dans les bouchons
Alors à quoi bon
Le transport qu'elle préfère c'est la balançoire
On bouge d'avant en arrière en prenant du retard
Elle rallonge par le square
C'est la fermeture quand elle arrive au guichet
Elle s'en veut de rater de si peu, à quelques minutes près
Un peu plus elle rentrait
Faut pas compter sur la chance, alors demain elle jure
D'évaluer mieux les distances pour être bien sûr
D'arriver en retard
Sans rien devoir au hasard.
Recent Designs
Monday, August 17, 2009
(in process)
Manual Human Femoral Head Reamer
Human Knee Device
(completed)
Human Femur Device
Human Acetabulum Device
Goat Femur Device
Goat Acetabulum Device
Molds for Injection Molding
Comics Drawing: New Cell-Based Vaccine Production Method
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
This is for my E25 (Biotechnology) final project - yeah, I know, it's a joke. They said we could choose to interview a scientist, or do a demonstration, or a webpage, or a form of art... basically anything that we could potentially justify that it is related to biotechnology... One day, I ran into someone in my dorm who eats 6+ eggs every meal. Suddenly, I got the inspiration for this comics...
The photo on the right was snapped by Dow Jones Newswires’ Jennifer Corbett Dooren, who visited Sanofi-Aventis’s new vaccine plant in Swiftwater, Pa. The new plant is a testament to the efforts to ramp up vaccine manufacturing capacity, not only to produce more annual flu shots, but also to be able to crank out more doses in a hurry the next time a pandemic emerges.
The new plant cost Sanofi $150 million; the company will also upgrade its older vaccine plant, with the help of a $77.4 million federal grant.
Yet the picture is a reminder that, while newer manufacturing technology is emerging, flu vaccine is still mostly made in a months-long process that requires incubation in millions of chicken eggs.
Spurred by warnings of an impending worldwide influenza epidemic, biotechnology companies are racing to develop faster ways to make flu vaccines.
With current vaccine manufacturing methods, it would take six months to create a clinically tested vaccine if a pandemic started today. By that time, the virus could have circled the globe.
Traditional Flu Vaccine Production Process
Flu vaccines are currently grown in eggs, a lengthy process that requires large numbers of embryos. But many companies such as Baxter are developing methods that use cell culture, a technique that could potentially grow vaccines in several weeks, rather than the months necessary for egg-based production. In the cell-culture process, cells are infected with the virus and then grown in tanks, like those used for fermenting beer.
Progress in vaccine technology has been slow because the vaccines do not provide enough economic incentive for manufacturers. In November, the WHO convened an unprecedented closed-door meeting to encourage public-private partnerships and gather financial support. Several countries have agreed to support programs to develop pandemic vaccines.
Last month, WHO has cleared Baxter to create a mock-up swine flu immunization as the outbreak continues. Baxter will now develop the treatment, to be called Celvapan, after the pharmaceutical company was contacted by the WHO about developing a vaccine.
Vero Cell Flu Vaccine Production Process
Baxter’s Vero cell technology uses a well-established cell line originally derived from African green monkey kidney cells in 1962. A continuous cell line has been derived from these cells so that an unlimited supply of cells is available without the requirement of generating additional cells from animals.
To produce a vaccine using Vero cell technology, a frozen vial of seed or starter virus is thawed and then injected into a large bioreactor, where it grows and reproduces. The virus is then harvested from the bioreactor and inactivated. It then undergoes purification and quality testing before it is formulated and filled into vials or syringes. Baxter grows “wild-type,” or natural, virus directly in its Vero cell culture, which reduces production time.
Wild-type virus is important because Baxter can work with the virus as it exists in nature, and create a vaccine with a better fit to the virus circulating in nature, working with a genetically altered strain of the virus.
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Mutilfunction Paintbrush Cleaning Set
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

My final project for a class ME203 (Manufacturing Design) at Stanford (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLHyktiN6tQ). I wanted to make a paintbrush cleaner that can 1) separate paint and turpentine after washing so that the liquid always stays relatively clear; 2) hold paintbrushes of different sizes when they're not in use; 3) hold a roll of paper towel for drying.
Furthermore, besides holding paintbrushes, it can be used for dining as well. The aluminum sink can be used for placing dining wares. The acrylic display disks can be used for umm...bread sticks? or forks and knifes... A soup bowl can be suspended on the swing-like structure. Doesn't that make an awesome meal? Hell yes!
The entire project is made of aluminum, acrylic and polycarbonate which I machined on lathe, mill and laser-camm. Three acrylic disks have holes of different sizes and can slide past each other. 
Cowboys Fringants - Les Etoiles Filantes
Monday, July 28, 2008
Pour te parler de ma vie
Juste comme ca tranquillement
Dans un bar rue St-Denis
J'te raconterai les souvenirs
Bien gravé dans ma mémoire
De cette époque où vieillir
Était encore bien illusoire
Quand j’agacais les p’tites filles
Pas loin des balancoires
Et que mon sac de billes
Devenait un vrai trésor
Et ces hivers enneigés
À construire des igloos
Et rentrer les pieds g’lés
Juste à temps pour Passe-Partout
Mais au bout du ch’min dis-moi c’qui va rester
De la p’tite école et d’la cour de récré ?
Quand les avions en papier ne partent plus au vent
On se dit que l’bon temps passe finalement…
…comme une étoile filante
Si je m’arrete un instant
Pour te parler de la vie
Je constate que bien souvent
On choisit pas, mais on subit
Et que les reves des ti-culs
S’évanouissent ou se refoulent
Dans cette réalité crue
Qui nous embarque dans le moule
La trentaine, la bedaine
Les morveux, l’hypothèque
Les bonheurs et les peines
Les bons coups et les échecs
Travailler, faire d’son mieux
En arracher, s’En sortir
Et espèrer etre heureux un peu avant de mourir
Mais au bout du ch’min dis-moi c’qu’y va rester
De notre p’tit passage dans ce monde effréné ?
Après avoir existé pour gagner du temps
On s’dira que l’on était finalement…
…que des étoiles filantes
Si je m’arrete un instant
Pour te parler de la vie
Juste comme ca tranquillement
Pas loin du Carré St-Louis
C’est qu’avec toi je suis bien
Et que j’ai pu’l’goût de m’en faire
Parce que tsé voir trop loin
C’pas mieux que r’garder en arrière
Malgré les vieilles amertumes
Et les amours qui passent
Les chums qu’on perd dans’ brume
Et les idéaux qui se cassent
La vie s’accroche et renaît
Comme les printemps reviennent
Dans une bouffée d’air frais
Qui apaise les cœurs en peine
Ça fait que si à’ soir t’as envie de rester
Avec moi, la nuit est douce on peut marcher
Et meme si on bien que tout dure rien qu’un temps
J’aimerais ca que tu sois pour un moment…
…mon étoile filante
Mais au bout du ch’min dis-moi c’qui va rester…
Mais au bout du ch’min dis-moi c’qui va rester…
…que des étoiles filantes
Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting
Last day...
My last day at EAP, my art school in Paris. On my way back home, I almost cried. The thought of leaving has been lingering in my mind since last week. And I have been praying for the time to stop and that day never comes... I don't really know why I have this particularly strong affection for this place. Probably it's because of the special crowd who share the same interest with me, probably because of the chance it offered me to be eventually able to discover the other side of myself, probably because of the joy of a greater ability to express my feeling in a brushstroke of jaune or violet, probably because of... chais pas.
Maybe one day I will be back here, and go to an art school in Paris?...
和好友背着画具外出,每遇雅致之处,不是立马举起相机,而是不约而同地翻开画册,用自己的画笔来诠释眼前的景色。绘画将我一步步地推进我的理想小世界。一切热血青年的想法--浪迹天涯。Maybe I should just stick with my BME?...
起床 Wake me up, anyone?
叫我起床实在是太费劲了。为了不让我再次错过今天一大早的火车,我简直动用了全世界各个地方的援助。结果,早上6点,先是父母从中国打电话过来,5分钟后朋友从美国打电话过来扯着脖子在电话里冲我嚷嚷,接着是2个小时后一起坐火车的朋友从巴黎另一个区打来的wake-up call,最后是房东妈妈冲进我的房间把我拽了起来。
哎,想当年“奋战”高考、申请什么的时候,6点起床哪在话下呀。现在这是怎么了?被同化了吗...






