Personal News Vending Machine

Liping just had stewed egg

The project originates from a personal keen on portrait painting, an obsession with human features, structure, and contours, and capturing the present moment. To once again serve, celebrate, and establish the "present," personal mini-news such as "Susan just had a burger on King's Day" is collected and published, with the text incorporated into the portrait painting, even altering the original shape of the portrait. The personal news vending machine releases minute news that intersects authoritative news media and social network posts. It doesn't care about where the president visited or the latest breakthroughs in the space station but rather what someone in the community just ate and with whom, formally announcing it with the machine's cold, mechanical facade, conveying the message that "this is also important." The project aims to initiate a cute community-wide playing pretend between the formal and the everyday, the authoritative and the street-level, the rational and the emotional.