About Value

Discovery the value of life I was introduced to a small foreign company by a friend in July last year, and I decided to leave my job after six months to start my freelance career. I hope to devote more time to the fields I am interested in, such as art, film, music, and computer, and to enrich my knowledge by exploring new fields. When I was in college, I liked to tinker with computers, and after I graduated, I worked in the IT company. When I first started to work, my knowledge was very narrow and I stayed in my area of expertise. Later on, I slowly came into contact with many colleagues and friends, and my thoughts also changed, so I started to contact with cross-field, play photography, learn painting, and I remember the most impressed by the fact that in the year of 2017, I took my half-year salary to buy DJI Inspire 2 professional kit, which is about 50k RMB. The motivation to learn all comes from interest, at first I didn’t think I needed to learn a lot of photography, but I found out that I was shooting without any rules and regulations, so I started to learn about photography knowledge, and then I came into contact with film. Looking back at what I did before, I realized that people really need to lose some sense to do what they want to do. The value of life is to do what you want to do, let go of it, even if you are alone, Even if you fail in the end, your life is complete, because you have come out of your own life, rather than living in the maze designed by others. I would like to use two things to describe the importance of exploring the value of life. ...

February 25, 2023 · 6 min · alexchen

AI Is Not AI

OpenAI ChatGPT Reference DeepMind Reference InstructGPT Reference The most talked about topic I’ve seen on Twitter lately is ChatGPT, and many people are raving about it. For a creator to use AI in their creative process to quickly prototype their work is certainly a great thing in the business world. chatGPT can add inspiration to screenwriters, give problem solvers ideas, and give translators help with more accurate language translations. So does ChatGPT count as AI in the true sense of the word, i.e. does it pass the Turing test. Although we don’t know the answer, we can be sure that ChatGPT must have collected huge amount of Internet data for model training, and the parameters of the final model are amazingly huge. ...

December 7, 2022 · 4 min · alexchen

What Is More Important Than Life

In September I purchased a Lop rabbit that was only two months old 🐰 and by taking good care of it, it made me feel that nothing is more important than life, especially when the rabbit was sick, my wife and I went through various information channels to find out how to treat rabbit diseases. A small life may cost more than 200 RMB at the mall, but the joy it brings us should not be measured in money. Life in nature is as small as an insect ant 🐜 and as large as a predatory lion 🦁️, they are all made up of one of the most basic units, which is the cell. Why a bunch of cells come together to produce life, and a life with free consciousness, is perhaps the complexity of the entire universe plays a role, where the system evolves over time under the action of a simple set of rules, eventually presenting a highly complex structure of living organisms. For human beings, we have a brain that is incomparable to other beings, and it is the ability to learn and create that makes us stand on this blue planet, which is also a gift of life to us humans, and we need to be in awe of every little life that grows on Earth, because every cell that grows in these beings uses the same The laws of nature. Each living thing is a different branch of the same tree of life, yet they all have the same roots. The fear of life allows us to understand the true meaning of life. ...

October 4, 2022 · 2 min · alexchen

Storytelling and Emotion

July 30, 2022 · 0 min · alexchen

The Invisible Art the Legends of Movie Matte Painting Book

I finally got the book I wanted to buy four years ago on ebay, The Invisible Art, because it is an extremely rare book and most foreign used bookstores do not support direct shipping to China, so I waited for a long time looking for an opportunity to buy a newer copy of The Invisible Art, and finally I found a merchant on ebay who sent the book to China through a forwarding center in the US. The reason for buying this book is that I wanted to build my own world view. Although this book is mainly about Matte Painting in film production, just as we sit in the cinema and watch a movie, we do not feel that there is such a group of artists behind the scenes serving the story of the movie, our thoughts are moving forward with the story. Similarly, in other fields, after we use technology to complete the whole, we should let the user or the admirer feel the art itself, not the technique, the technique is to serve the art, through learning Matte Painting, we always need to remember that Matte Painting is to serve the story, when leaving the story behind to express your ideas through gorgeous technology, no one can understand you, because the viewer has already seen you in the work, he already knows this is a gorgeous special effect. Do some thinking divergence, like playing music, at first we focus on the technique, and finally the musicality, we want the music to tell the story, this time we have to learn the Invisible Art technique, to let the listener be attracted to your music, not as a spectator to listen to your performance, great Matte Painting work is all about creating physically realistic scenes. The same of good musician is to let you understand the meaning of each note, Invisible Art is about taking every detail to the extreme and then building a magnificent world in which every sculptural detail of the artist is hidden, which is why I created invisibleart.pro. To learn a field, you first have to like it, and then you explore the details in it. ...

July 11, 2022 · 2 min · alexchen