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- [Wong Ping] Growing up
in a city like Hong Kong,

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we all live in a high-rise building.

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We're inside a box.

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(people chattering)

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Living in a big city,

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it creates certain amount of isolation.

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I always wonder how people
engage to each other.

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15 years ago, that was when
I started to make animation.

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So, I have a day job in a
broadcast station in Hong Kong.

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I feel so trapped, depressed,

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so I found that my mind fly
away when I was at work.

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So I started to think about scenario

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or funny situations, random stuff,

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and I would write it in a blog back home.

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One day, I opened the software,

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and then I tried to just
drawing color shape,

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and then I feel really good about it.

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And then I found out, oh,
I can create animation

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I couldn't believe.

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I think that was the click.

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I have the urge to create.

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Animation as a media give me the freedom.

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It's almost like a candy
wrapping paper for people.

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Just easier to swallow.

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(door closing)

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(foreign language)

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I can say more terrible stuff.

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Or evil thinking.

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I can even like put more
personal stuff there.

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So this one is basically talk about,

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like Elephant become a monk

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because she couldn't find dates,

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she hates her single eyelid.

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But since K-pop is popular
now, it's like a trend.

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But she already did the
surgery for double eyelid.

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So that was like a lesson I want to give,

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like you're ugly at this time

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but in different time,
you'll be the trend.

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(wonky music)

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In the fables, I try to
do everything in one frame

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to tell a story without
any transitional editing,

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no scenes cut.

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I try to use this as a
new challenge to myself.

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(foreign language)

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The scenario is just like a container.

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I can pretty much use any scenario

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to make this hundred observation
fit in this storyline.

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I think just in general,

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I need material or story.

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Events, accident, chaotic
situation on the street.

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By the time I really have
to write solid story,

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I would just look back.

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The one thing I feel difficult
to write during the pandemic,

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is that I don't find differences
in people across the world.

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I feel like I lost the power of writing.

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Where's the differences?

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During the pandemic,

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everyone using Zoom a lot.

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I think maybe I can just use
Zoom to make a mockumentary.

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I'm more interested in
stepping on the line

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rather than crossing it,

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because stepping on it is more provoking.

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I create this legendary figure,

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the quickest man who can make panda hard.

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I think it's the toughest job
because they want to extinct.

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They don't want to have baby anymore.

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They don't enjoy orgasm.

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So this was in my head.

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I have to make a laboratory to do that.

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In my work,

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there's quite a lot of
erotic or sexual elements.

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That was only my container.

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That's not the topic I want to tell.

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Why I enjoy and explore desire quite often

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is because we have to make choice.

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In bed, people can be more honest

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to review the other side of themselves.

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We are facing our true
selves more than ever.

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Look at that one.

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This.

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So smooth.

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Wow, wow, wow.

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Poor lobster.

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See, they're fighting.

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I just need someone to bring up questions,

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'cause question can bring
me to different places.

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Because of Covid,

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I realized more that I need
strangers conversation.

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When I work alone in the studio,

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I kind of feeling like I was trapped.

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I have to force myself
to find inspiration.

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I want the inspiration to
bump into me, like come to me.

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I think maybe I can just try
to have like a small shop

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and just put myself out there.

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I don't even want to put
the price tag on each thing,

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so I force the people to talk to me.

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It's like forcing them
to give me inspiration.

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Right next to this crazy cat lady.

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This is a cute one though.

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So that's pretty much me this month,

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unpacking, moving.

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I haven't started yet

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but I feel excited to write
a story for each item.

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I don't have to put so much
effort to look for inspiration

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but now the inspiration is,
every day it's out there.

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Look at this arm.

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I like it.

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It's almost like dancing with this guy.

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I love it.

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I'm looking forward.

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Since I only settle for like few weeks.

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Everything is in the name
of making better work.

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I think.

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I hope.

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(whimsical music)