Huimeng Yu

YU:


I’m a pre-physics major, California-certified lawyer whose interests span a wide range. Feel free to explore my site, and see if we vibe




Languages

Mandarin / English:  ●●●●●
Japanese:                    ●●● (JPLT N2)
French:                         ●●● (DALF C1)
Arabic:                          ◐

French-learning journey (mostly notes on comedies + cuisine)

Digital

Art 


watercolors: 2014-15
My art journey started at 4, when I purely enjoyed brushing on paper. In primary school, I experimented with different mediums—from traditional Chinese painting to watercolor—before eventually setting myself on oil painting training.

Easy to tell, I never understood Cézanne when I painted his works at 10, but singling out the purple tint in a swan’s neck, indulging in Vermeer’s gray sky rather than the blue-sky cliché, using nails as a palette, and the ever-lingering scent of turpentine remain evergreen in my memory and ingrained in my life.

Photography 

Japan (2022)   A rail-fan (鉄道ファン)'s solo trip
Beijing (2016)   Roots
Peru (2022)  People carved by moutains
Morocco (2018)   The thrill for exoticism is just another form of boredom in a glass room
Life-long: 一期一会 (Ichi-go, Ichi-e)

Personal Animation Project  (Blender)

BGM: Beachhouse - Blue bird



Digital 

While designing my previous website version, I experimented with Blender and Three.js to implement my original ideas. I used Blender for modeling and animation, and Three.js for the interactive web experience. Please click on the following videos to check them out

Blender + Three.js 
BGM: Suchmos - Stay tune
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As a non-programmer who finds front-end work especially laborious, I initially decided to leave my website hosting and building to Cargo. However, as a friend put it: a website never truly feels yours when it’s hosted on platforms like WordPress or Cargo. In line with my own dilemma, where the “trustees” of my digital intellectual property have become monopolies over my privacy and autonomy — I decided to do the work myself from scratch.

The process wasn’t particularly exciting, and the result is not satisfying for a perfectionist’s OCD, but I’m still glad I made this choice and will always be on the way to making it better : )