YaChin You (yous)

My Bipartisanship (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:31:53 -0800

Bonster and Bonster find themselves on a Bipartisanship sailing towards democracy and a brighter future. A little bit of screwing on the way don't hurt, either.

Unmanned Drone (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:20:31 -0800

The use of unmanned drones in various wars against terrorists has sprouted tremendous controversy. While governments evaluate the effectiveness of these drones, activist groups around the world have been suggesting new possibilities using women piloted aerial vehicles over unmanned drones. Experts predict that the use of WPAVs will reduce international conflicts by 94% in the end of year 2019.

Nothing Disturbs Me (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:18:51 -0800

Nothing, nothing at all disturbs me. I'm above all this.

Julie, This Is Our Country (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:02:23 -0700

Click link to listen to music that goes with this image: http://www.yachinyou.com/2011/07/julie-this-is-our-country/ I was in a fighting troupe on a mission to defeat evil creatures like zombies, vampires and such. We were in somewhere like a basement full of small, dark rooms where evil creatures hide and ready to attack. In one of the rooms, my troupe mate, Julie, who in real life is my coworker, got attacked and bitten by a vampire. She would soon turn into one of them. Frantically we dragged Julie out of the basement and checked on her wounds. Her face was pale and her heart was beating slower and slower. Some of the troupe mates started to weep. I scooched in closer to her body, put her head onto my lap and placed my left hand close to her mouth. I said, “guys, I have an idea. Julie, go ahead and suck my blood. My fresh blood will flow into your body, and your toxic blood will flow into mine. I will harness the power of the sun to cleanse my body and turn the toxic blood into clean blood again for both of us. Let me be your blood transfusion. I can save you.” I held up one arm to receive the power of the sun while Julie cycles out her toxic blood into my body. Seeing Julie was doing well, I finally looked up and paid some attention to our surrounding. Lo and behold, we were in a building situated in the middle of the ocean. Looking out, I saw the waves of the sea gleaming underneath the sun and hitting against the glass windows, whales, dolphins and mermaids playing and splashing at the surface of the sea. I could see miles and miles away where the sea and the sky meet. Sensing Julie’s body turning warmer on my lap, I said in a whisper, “Julie, this is our country. We live together with all creatures of the ocean. We are one. Isn’t this amazing? I think you are going to be okay.”

WHITEOUT -- My Happiness (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:03:00 -0700

My submission for the Whiteout collaboration. See sketches: http://www.yachinyou.com/2011/06/whiteout-submission-for-society6/ This was an interesting challenge for me since the Whiteout zine is going to be printed only in black and white. If you've seen my other works, they are mostly in seizure inducing colors. I signed up early but contemplated this idea for a very long time. I could've just made what I usually make and put it in black and white, but the idea of whiteout actually resonates with this other philosophical idea that I happened to be thinking about at that time. It is our personal responsibility to figure out what makes us happy and what our goals in life are. I recently found that when I feel the most "happy" there really isn't much emotions at all. Instead it's a very large calmness and a sense of focus. I don't really feel or think much during these moments, I just sorta "be." There's nothing. But there's everything. It's a very interesting feeling. I guess you can call it whiteout, or you can call it blackout. You can call it anything. So how do I design "nothing" and "everything"!? Should I just submit a white image!? I think that works in galleries but might not work very well online. *chuckle* So I tried to break down the process of approaching this space. Whenever I think about this space, I feel a strong sense of my own physical presence, which I use to construct the sense of ego and interact with the outside world. I envision my head and my face, and try to take it apart. And it slowly pixilates, slides away and fades. Then I recite this short verse that you see on the image to myself. It stops thoughts; it stops ups and downs; it stops worries; it stops giddiness; it stops everything. And then I start to see everything. I don't know if I've conveyed this space successfully in the image, but I tried :)

Post Apocalyptic Feast (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:55:02 -0700

Click here to view large image with details: http://www.helloyous.com/latest/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/paf_web_2016.jpg Oh heaven, how do I even begin to describe this picture? It all happened in this one night, after I closed my eyes and drifted to the sweet dreamland. Wait, except it wasn’t sweet. It was rather creepy. I was at this giant block party, where there are lots of people feasting on all sorts of food. All of a sudden, a Hell’s Angels motorcycle team rode in and started throwing trash everywhere. They said, “Let’s see how long these people can keep eating with all this trash around, hahaha!” I turned my head around and realized that this half rotted zombie woman with widening eyes and drooling mouth is swinging a large garden spade right towards my waist. I jumped back instinctively, dodged this strike and stepped to the side to avoid her subsequent attacks. “Phew,” I thought, “Thank god I take martial arts lessons.” I snuck in when she had an opening and took the spade from her. With a mighty swing I hacked her in half. Blood splatting all over the place. After I woke up from the absurd adventure there was this question lingering on my mind, “Indeed. How long can we keep having the party with all this trash around!?”

Held (On the Train) (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:24:40 -0700

In this dream, I was on a train driving by a beach on a beautiful sunny day. Sitting beside me was a stranger. A big stranger. A big stranger with claws. And furry. Yet I was not afraid. I sat sliding comfortably into his lap and fell asleep. Everything made sense. Oh how this stranger feels like my blanket. This really was a wonderful trip going who knows where.

Naked in London (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:50:00 -0700

This may be one of the funniest images I’ve ever made and I had so much fun! In this dream, I was frolicking, naked, in a big and beautiful British garden where there were trees, flowers, grass and butterflies. The air was warm and the wind felt gentle and soothing against my skin. I ran around and thought, I’m in London! I gotta call Richard (who is a designer friend), I think he’s still in London! Then I encountered the biggest rabbit I’ve ever seen. It felt like he was Peter Rabbit. I was so excited I rushed forward to give him a giant hug. He was so big he didn’t move at all despite my momentum. I hugged him even more tightly and try to shake him. Then I started to climb up his giant body. That’s about how much I can remember after I woke up. The most memorable thing was the sense of a warm and beautiful British garden.

Dancing with Transformer Neptune (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:32:20 -0700

Listen to the theme song and see a large version of the image here: http://www.helloyous.com/latest/2011/05/dancing-with-transformer-neptune/ This is the first time that I made something with this much details, effect and shading, kind of like a video game matt painting. I usually do very flat and saturated images and don’t really like that style, but for this picture to come to life, like in my dream, lighting, texture and effects were needed. Psychologically I never left my school years in Taiwan. 90% of my dreams I’m in one of the three: elementary school, junior high or senior high, and hang out with friends who I got to know from then. Sometimes current people show up, but very rarely and/or in the backgrounds. The girl in the picture is my elementary school best friend. In this dream, we were hanging out in an old church. It ‘s not any church but church of the god of the ocean. It was dark in the church, with faint streams of light coming through the stained glass windows. She was dancing giddily with the ocean god Neptune dressed as Transformer. She was so small, he was so huge and not moving very much. She was having so much fun and totally absorbed with herself. There’s a background music playing, it is Chopin’s Nocturne Op 9 No 2 in E. Flat Major. It was near the end of the song, she was spinning and asking me to take a picture of her and the Neptune Transformer. I was fumbling with the camera and because it was dark in the church, all the pictures I took were blurry. She said, come on, Bonny, take a picture, the song is almost over!

Never To Be Aligned (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:52:51 -0700

I have alignment anxiety. The left side of my body is slightly bigger than my right side. Everything, my eye, my arm, my breast, my leg are all a tiny bit bigger on the left side. In this dream, my left leg has grown so much bigger than my right. I thought of my yoga teacher Marianne, the posture expert Esther Gokhale, my martial arts teacher Brent. They say to me, “You need to work on your balance.” I thought, “Death be upon me! My left leg has grown so much bigger than my right! How am I ever to be ALIGNED!?”

School Of Terror (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:36:16 -0700

This was a short dream. I mean, it was one of those dreams that you know all the context and mood after only a couple of scenes and then you move on to a completely different dream after. In this dream, I was in a school where terror rules. If you violate a rule, a part of you would become pig-like. When you turn into a pig completely, you will be slaughtered and served as a warning to other students. At the time when I dreamed this dream, I was mentally exploring what are the effective ways of teaching and learning. Besides drawing, I also take classes in improv theater, martial arts, yoga and in a way my work environment is like a classroom as well where I learn things every time I go. I’m addicted to learning, but sometimes I do get tired of people telling me what to do. I also have low confidence issue so I never like telling people what to do or teach. Arguing makes me sad and tired; unless the situation concerns my personal integrity I rather let others have their way and I come back to my own drawings, where nobody ever tells me what to do. But, there are rules in every game, right? You can’t even play without learning the rules. Break out of the school or get turned into pigs? You have to answer that for yourself.

I Can Still Sleep (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:29:10 -0700

In this dream, I was in an old haunted house. I knew it was haunted, I was scared, cold and sweaty. There was this eerie darkness looming in the atmosphere. But I was supposed to be having fun. There were friends and we were running up and down the house, some kind of group weekend trip. I got the room on the 2nd floor, where there was a window from which you can see trees on the street. Someone’s coming, I knew it, I’m going to see her face appearing at the window in just a second. I wanted to shout but I couldn’t hear my own voice. I ran to the room next to mine, tried to warn others that this house is “not clean.” One of my female friends was lying down on the wooden floor to sleep. I wanted to stop her and wake her up. She said, don’t worry, I can sleep in a haunted house alone. And she closed her eyes peacefully.

Trip to Mexico (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:45:40 -0700

I had a dream. In this dream, I were to married a young Mexican guy who is a complete stranger to me. I felt desperate, moreover I don't speak much Spanish. I thought, fine, maybe he's a fine guy, we'll wait and see. We came home to his house. It was a big house with an atrium and several floors above. He said, wait here, then went to a room downstairs. Apparently there are tenants who live in his building. He went into one of the rooms and started to yell at the people in there. I sneaked over and took a peek. He was yelling at this fat man who was throwing up lots of spiders, as depicted in the picture. My Mexican husband shouted, you owe me three hundred dollars fat ass! The poor fat man was badly abused and all he could do was throwing up spiders. Then I went into another dream. In this dream I was still in Mexico. I was taking a road trip on a bus, during which I got to know an ugly bear. This bear had a crush on me, but I felt like being mean to him so I wrote him a very mean letter. That felt quite good for some reason. It was a strange night full of strange dreams indeed.

Portal to Home (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:31:25 -0800

This is part of the Unobtainable Sceneries project that I've been focusing on for the past month. The imagery comes from a scene from a weird dream of mine. I was in a serene forest with trees full of yellowing leaves. It was silent except for the strong wind that was blowing my hair and the leaves. I was intrigued by this scenery yet restless, looking around to find the way home.

Unlikely animal of the Arctic melt (For Sale)

YaChin You (yous) — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:12:11 -0800

Due to climate change, scientists are now concerned about the growing prospect of interbreeding, such as polar bears mating with grizzly bears, that could result in unlikely animal combinations, such as this one. This particular specie of sea creature has yet to be verified or named by the scientists, but from my naive artist's point of view, it could be a hybrid of arctic sea snakes and psychedelic-colored sea sponges from the tropics.