I haven't updated this blog the past two weeks because I was busy with my doctorate dissertation. The week that led to the dissertation were spent mostly in my dimly-lit room or my lab in Waseda University. It was a repetitive cycle of writing, researching, drinking lots of black coffee. The topic was something I have been familiar with for the past four years (It's an expansion of my Masters' Thesis), so it's not as difficult as I have worried. But there were still a lot of things to write. Exactly a week ago, on a Friday afternoon, I managed to turn in my dissertation. Whatever happens next is beyond my control. Having not slept for the past 48 hours, I was tired when it all ended. Saturday was a day I chose to recharge my energies. There was nothing else I planned to do except staying on my bed. While doing that, I read on The Playlist about a documentary called PERSISTENCE OF VISION , a documentary about animator Richard Williams' 30-year-long work on his
