“The Real Driving Simulation”

The Past lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables

Racing is in my blood.
My father was a race car driver. My uncle was a race car driver. My brother just built a race car.
I raced midget cars when I was 5 years old. I crashed them too. I was only 5. I promptly received a red license when I was 19, and promptly lost it at 20.

There’s no escaping my history or my fate.

(Music courtesy of The Chemical Brothers and Masahiro Andoh.)

This Is Why I Need Art (or “Look It Up Yourself”)

 

 

In the film bio, I harp on the fact that “art compliments science” and blah blah blah. But its more than that. For me, their relationship represents two sides of the same coin.

My academic studies so far have been incredibly inspiring and I’m a better person because of them.

 

However, with a focus on sustainable development, my academic efforts were often accompanied by feelings of sheer terror and helplessness of the world I was learning about.

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