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Watching this Robotic movement reminded me my third year study in Inter 3 at AA School. We spend a whole year on creating a robotic retail environment at Selfridge department store…….at that time, just any robotic movement would excit us!..this too..I recommend this inventor should use this Robot to make a proposal to his partner;)..I hope my robot can be realised one day;)
It is absolutely great!…I have just added a plug in for my wordpress blog. It is really easy to install and post Youtube video in your blog. Unlike the Youtube own website, you have to register as user then put your blog address into your user account etc. It is so complicated process …oh, you also need to get a unique ID…something when you register in wordpress blog……..anyway…that is all crap!…..
then the worst thing, when you add Youtube video from Youtube website into your blog; the Title of post will appear inside your blog content not actually on the title line……that make the post without title….consequently, you can not find your post in the ‘latest post’ Category…….it will appear a blank space…..if you edit the post and put an title into it….the Youtube link will not work anymore……. (Comparing previous post and this post, you will understand what I meant.)
anyway,anyway………….all the crap has gone now…….
I highly recommend you to install plug in developed by Paul Bain .(Click it)
Very sorry, this weekend I have been horrible busy at many things…..many posts I will update them soon ………be patient;)…..the best comes last!……
‘Lava to Make Nanotubes’, this News I got from Nano Techonology news e-mail is dedicated to my last year classmate Tom Tong who is doing research project about Volcanoes in Mount Etna, Italy. It is very interesting to think how they use lava for nano technology. Here is the link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070206100526.htm ……………
‘Before I stepped into the new Wembley Stadium, my opinion was that Munich was the best stadium in the world. But now I have seen this, It is like a new dimension. This stadium has a capacity of 90,000, but in Munich the capacity is 66,000. It is quite a big difference.’
- Franz Beckenbauer
Finally, it is worthy working for HOK Sports 
…get advantage !….a couple of free tickets for the First Opening of Wembley Stadium. I toke my little nephew (my sister’s son 2.5ys old) to the event. To see previous my site visit to Wembley Stadium, please see previous post ‘Wembley Arch’ on Feb 07. more photos 阅读全文Read_more Continue reading ‘Wembley Stadium Community Day’
Post has been moved and combined with this previous post ‘As Much As You Like’ for GIL2007 on 18th Feb 07. Post is password protected, it is about me and Andrew Pok’s collaboration installation project proposal for Get It Louder 2007 (GIL07) exhibition in China. Above image is the installation for final venue(page5) and there are other audience participation processes involved as well in previous two venues. If you are interested on the project, you can contact me for viewing the post.
Breaking News!!!!!
Frei Otto will play no more part in the design of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, after it emerged that the Serpentine Gallery needed more time to develop the architect’s ideas.The pavilion, in Kensington Gardens, London, will now be designed by Icelandic artist Ólafur Elíasson in collaboration with Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen of Snøhetta who has designed .
Below information from http://en.wikipedia.org/
Ólafur Elíasson (born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish/Icelandic artist, famous in the UK for his exhibition The Weather Project at the Tate Modern, London, in 2003. That same year, he also represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale.
Snøhetta is an international architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design office based in Oslo, Norway and New York City. It was founded in 1989 by Craig Dykers and Kjetil Thorsen.
News adding on 30th March from AJ
The AJ has uncovered the first details and images of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (see above for an artist’s impression of the new pavilion).
Today, I have received an e-mail from Hanoi Conference Committee and they informed me my ‘Reef Surface Mobile Islands’ research paper’s abstract was accepted! I have to finish full paper before 20th of April……..well, this gonna be a real hardcore for me……writing is the weakest part of my study although I am not lacking of imagination;)…….when I was in second year at AA, I even wrote down to my GS tutor…..Please punish me to draw thousands sketches rather than writing thousands words……….any way, hopefully it will be another dream holiday as well as meeting with research fellows/scholars or other experts on other fields.
International Conference on Sustainable Architectural Design and Urban Planning
Hanoi Architectural University, May 15-16, 2007, Hanoi, Vietnam
See http://www.asiasustainabilitynet.upc.edu/callforpapers.html 阅读全文Read_more Continue reading ‘Abstract accepted by Hanoi Conference’
In normal circumstance, I don’t like to meet big organisation as I always believe it is not efficient once the organisation is big. Because it will easily become bureaucracy and without specific direction. I prefer keeping a small circle and cluster which have interest on certain subjects. However, since I know Li Hua quite well and she recommended a meeting with WACA (WORLD ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE ARCHITECTS). So I will try to think and make an anmendment of my prejudgement. Li Hua who is Phd Candidate at AA School has bring out all our old friends in London to have a dinner in Yang Cheng restaurant. Quote from Li Hua’s e-mail: WACA is thinking to set up a branch in the
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Awakening – Classical Composition
This is absolutely awakening music as his title written. Just woke up this morning, by chance I click this music Youtube……the music sings my heart……I have quite a few guitar collection in China before I came to London. Unfortunately, I didn’t bring them with me. I haven’t listened such a good guitar music for ages. He deserves more applause. A great composer as well!
It is so disappointed that Olafur Eliasson’s Lecture at AA today (9th March) was cancelled and have no idea when it will happen. Even more disappointed is the new AA website. It is so difficult to find things although it puts all information in one page. In the old version AA website, it is so straight forward that just click lectures you will see all previous and coming events……………I don’t understand why they don’t put a notice to website telling people lecture has been cancelled………I have to ask Antonia to confirm it because the weekly event list is simply printed out another speaker for tonight’s artist talk without explanation. below is copy from website under ‘course daily’ tag. 阅读全文Read_more
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Tonight, I have just discovered a great event about Chinese Films in
Bellow are the film listings which will be showed. Categories have been defined into ‘Shanghai in the 1930s’, ‘China on the brink of change’, ‘Action,melodrama and realism in the three chinas’, ‘Focus on Zhang Yimou’, ‘Fifth generation (directors)’, ‘Sixth generation’,'Beijing Film Academy’,'The movies of Xie Fei’, ‘The movies of Maggie Cheung’. ‘Cinema China Education’.I will try to find the chinese name to match the english titles. One thing is shame is it seems co-artistic directors Mark Cousins forgot about Macao and only seeing mainland of China, Hongkong and Taiwan as the China he meant the three Chinas…….a bit bizarre…sure he will be received some political complains;);)….
1. The Arch (1970) 董夫人 ; Director: Cecile Tang 唐书璇 Shu Shuen Tong.
2. BFA Shorts and Animations; An exclusive selection of some of the best recent films from
3. Black Snow (1990) 本命年; Director: 谢飞 Fei Xie
4. Centre Stage (1992/The Actress) 阮玲玉 ; Director: 关锦鹏 Stanley Kwan
5. A City of Sadness(1989) 悲情城市; Director: 侯孝贤 Hsiao-hsien Hou
6. Crows and Sparrows(1949) 乌鸦与麻雀; Director: 郑君里 Junli Zheng
7. Curse of the Golden Flower(2006/ The City of Golden Armor) 满城尽带黄金甲; Director: 张艺谋 Yimou Zhang
8. Distance(2006) 远离; Director: 卫铁 Tie Wei
9. Goddess(1934) 神女; Director: 吴永刚 Yonggang Wu
10.Hero (2002) 英雄; Director: 张艺谋 Yimou Zhang
11. HHH – A Portrait of Hou Hsaio-Hsien (1997) 侯孝贤画像; Director: 奥利维耶·阿萨亚斯 Olivier Assayas
12. In the Mood for Love(2000) 花样年华; Director: 王家卫 Kar Wai Wong
13. Ju Dou(1990)菊豆; Director: Director: 张艺谋 Yimou Zhang
14. The King of Masks(1996)变脸; Director: 吴天明 Wu Tianming
15. The Love Eterne(1963)梁山伯与祝英台; Director: 李翰祥 Han Hsiang Li
16. One-Armed Swordsman(1967) 独臂刀; Director: 张彻 Cheh Chang
17. Raise the Red Lantern(1991) 大红灯笼高高挂; Director: 张艺谋 Yimou Zhang
18. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles(2005) 千里走单骑; Director: 张艺谋 Yimou Zhang
19. Spring in a Small Town (1948)小城之春; Director: 费穆 Mu Fei
20. A Touch of Zen (1948) 侠女; Director: 胡金铨 King Hu
21. Two Stage Sisters(1965) 舞台姐妹; Director: 谢晋 Jin Xie
22. Unknown Pleasures(2002) 任逍遥; Director: 贾樟柯 Jia Zhangke
23. Uproar in Heaven(1965) 大闹天宫; Directors: 万籁鸣 Laiming Wan / 唐澄 Cheng Tang
24. Vive L’Amour(1994)爱情万岁; Director: 蔡明亮 Ming-liang Tsai
25. The Wedding Banquet(1993) 喜宴; Director: 李安 Ang Lee
26. Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (1993/ Woman Sesame Oil Maker) 香魂女; Director: 谢飞 Fei Xie
27. Yellow Earth(1984) 黄土地; Director: 凯歌 Kaige Chen
‘Uproar in Heaven’ ‘大闹天宫’
It is so great that they gonna show ‘Uproar in Heaven’ ‘大闹天宫’- the best of Chinese animation movie. (also it is the first feature animation in color in Chinese film history.) While I was searching for the images, I have found out a Swedish guy got very inspired by the film (he saw the film when he was 6ys old.) Quote from his comment bellowing, see http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=621 for more…………..To know more about Monkey King click http://www.chinasprout.com/html/monkeyking.html ‘To be frank, I don’t remember that much of the story itself, I was only 6 years old, but it was very exciting and I remember the heroic monkey with the staff which he could make small and put in his ear.’
Me too, all the children have seen the film will have the same dream to become the king of Monkey. There are no culture-barriers for magic! Human loves magic and miracle! (Photos from http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/cinema-china/FILMS.html#arch#arch) I wonder nowadays where this legacy has gone for Chinese children….Santa Claus?………the magic touch feeling by Santa Claus to western children is equivalent to the Monkey King’s to Chinese children. The cartoon feature just so lovely. I would love to see it again.
We met again in Chinatown for a friday night dinning……..Walter, James, Peter, Kent and some of their halves….after dinner, we went Curzon Soho’s basement bar for a drink……….and James brought out a Dunhill paper cigarette pack which he bought in Hongkong airport free duty shop………it is absolutely Eye Cataching……a simplicial and smart design…….using a little smart geometric trick……I love it….I always like the simple design just a little twist;) to make something magic……here is the good example….not Over-designed……
The smart is: there is a piece of folded back paper working as a ‘hinge’ not only to support the opening but also it makes the top cover bounces a little bit to close up. (Semiautomatic;) It is mainly due to the fold is not simply following straight line but bending it a little bit. So when it closes, it will force to bounce a bit. What a smart design!…absolutely, it matches John Maeda’s new book ‘The Laws of Simplicity’ .
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I went for Mutsuro Sasaki’s lecture at AA tonight. ….will write more thought here later….
Bellowing photos from http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9080
Above: Florence New Station by Arata Isozaki. (Structural engineer Mutsuro Sasaki)
Below: Florence New Station winning proposal by Norman Foster.
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/default.aspx?entryId=459§ion=eventsArchive
Mutsuro Sasaki
Mutsuro Sasaki is a pioneering Japanese structural engineer who has helped shape contemporary Japanese architecture. The success of his approach can be seen in many award-winning projects, the most notable perhaps being Toyo Ito’s Sendai Mediatheque of 2000 for which Sasaki and Ito were jointly awarded the prize for built work from the Architectural Institute of Japan.
This lecture precedes the opening of an exhibition of his work in the AA Gallery on next day. The AA exhibition will detail four projects; Island City Central Park and the Kakamigahara project with Toyo Ito, and the Qatar Education City Convention Centre and Florence New Station with Arata Isozaki. The AA exhibition – the first showing of his work in the UK – will be accompanied by an AA Publication entitled Morphogenesis of Flux Structure.
This morning, I have read a really funny interview and absolutely felt the same way as interviewer Robert Sutton has described. see Metro 1st March, 2007. Sometimes it is so easily to become ‘Asshole’ rather than victim(you don’t even realise it); for instance, if a Supervisor is an ‘Asshole’ then the ‘Asshole’ attitude like a virus soon spreads out following company’s hierarchy to the bottom of workers. It depends on how you control your sentiment being effected by ‘asshole bully’. I have witnessed many ‘Assholes’ and also myself being asshole;) sometimes;);) ………阅读全文Read_more Continue reading ‘No Asshole Rule!’
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