pingyima website is launched!

I've been glued to my chair in front of the computer for the past two days. Alas, the new website is almost done! I have not assigned a domain name to it yet but for new it's linked to my real estate website http://www.pingsun.com/. Here is the URL to the site directly: http://www.pingsun.com/pingyima. Before settling at the name pingyima which means Aunti Ping in Chinese (my American name as called by my two world's best nephews aged between 2-4 years old), I thought about keeping the same name as Ping Art Loft or Ping Loft I used before. But pingyima sounds more interesting as with yo yo ma, not that we are faintly related or whatever. So far, I'm happy with the design I came up with. It's colorful and playful, not zen as I originally intended to do. I still have to find space somewhere on the site to put the following mission statement:

We can not guarantee our things are the cheapest but we guarantee every one of them is original, one and only, and worth every penny of it. If our "things" appear a little inexpensive to some people, get over it. Suck it up. You only live once. We are responsible for any missing shipments but we are not responsible for your medical bills from banging against the wall if you miss out your buying opportunity. As all the pieces exhibited at pingyima site are the one and only originals, they are sold on the first come and first serve basis.

The goal of pingyima is..nothing, zero, nada. The paintings exhibited at pingyima site are either produced by myself or purchased from the artists directly by me for own satisfaction. The site is launched for the same purpose or the purposeless. Rather than a caricature, the Asian paintings presented at pingyima often leave some elements to the viewers' imagination. In fact, professional painters who produce realistic versions of their subject are not always as highly regarded as the scholar painters (or literati) who paint for their own satisfaction in a more "spiritual" style. Especially, in today's widely available photo technology era, this oriental art form is more and more appreciated. Yeah, I've done just about enough self-promoting by now. As you can see, that self-promoting effort is also evident in the twitter and facebook link on pingyima site. The twitter link is not working because I have not signed up on twitter, but I will, someday. The facebook link has the upcoming event announcement so far, but there will be more to come. I'm not exactly in the twitter and facebook generation. Remember the good old days when we used to try so hard hiding that little book we call diary that records every little happenings in our daily life, so hard as to sometimes draw symbols and create our own language so that in case the diary was found, it would not be understood by others. Now you publicize your diary. Go twitter. Remember the good old days we used to collect stamps. Now we collect friends. Go facebook. Sorry my twitter and facebook members, I don't mean to sound sarcastic because I'm one of you - the facebook and twitter people myself. It's just that life itself becomes an open book with the shift of the changing culture and technology. We follow the next thing like sunflowers turning towards the sun: no exposure is over exposure for individuals as well as businesses. Monks no longer need to seek solitude in the high mountains meditating for years. They get people pay to sit with them in group power meditation. Time has definitely changed. If you want to go with the time, and if it's for the good-spirited sharing and connecting, and best of all making a few bucks while doing it, why not. With that, pingyima website is launched.