brushie . on the move: July 2009

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Inhabitat

Inhabitat - A Green Design Blog, Sustainable Design Blog, Future-forward design for the world you inhabit - your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home.

This website was recommended by a friend who is in industrial design. There are a lot interesting studies and projects in the website, do check it out! - www.inhabitat.com

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

气候暖化将导致海平面上升

（巴黎法新电）英国布里斯托尔大学的一份气象报告预测，地球气候暖化结果，将会导致地球海平面上升，淹没沿海低洼地区，不过，这不会如一些科学家所说的，在2010年上升好几公尺，最新的估计是最高上升82公分。专家警告，如果这个新的估计是正确的，那么，许多低洼和三角洲地区还是要面对严重的洪水灾害。(路透社)

Everyday...we 'contribute' to this through traveling, eating, watching, drinking, washing, buying...

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

山寨版

hahahahaha...
真儸命

中国很流行什么山寨版..想不到还真的有这个组合,叫1306

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全民最大党那一班..

Monday, July 27, 2009

Sandwiches

from insanewiches.com

this makes me think of you, FLY... the green green soup...
when are u giving birth?

Parents, pls dont do this to your children

- -"

Sunday, July 26, 2009

R.I.P Yasmin Ahmad

"On Thursday, July 23rd 2009, Yasmin suffered a stroke and collapsed while attending a meeting with Datuk Siti Nurhaliza and her husband Datuk Seri Khalid Mohamad Jiwa, and Media Prima representatives for an undisclosed project, here at Sri Pentas, TV3.

She was rushed to the Damansara Specialist Hospital ED where she underwent a neurosurgery procedure to reduce the swelling in her brain. The operation was success but her conditions remained critical but stable.

Bernama quoted her brother-in-law, Datuk Dr Zakaria Zahari, as saying that Yasmin had suffered a stroke and hemorrhaging in the brain.

On Saturday , July 24th 2009, less than 48 hours after the surgery, Yasmin Ahmad succumbed to her injury and was pronounced dead at 11:25PM"

好可惜..

Saturday, July 25, 2009

识做识趣

是识做就唔好再做咁多动作
是识趣就闪开行远D

I ordered Madame butterfly

以前经过Bugis的时候都会对这建筑物感到好奇..

外形是NY旧式建筑物的风格
入口的广场和里面的art deco却充满了欧洲和
一些些中华的风味

一直都觉得它好像Batman电影里的
Gotham City,
Batman就站在最顶的地方遥望着这个城市

From wiki:
Parkview Square was designed by American Consultant James Adams, together with DP Architects of Singapore. It was built at a cost of SGD$87.93 million.

It was built as the last major project enterprised by the late Mr. C. S. Hwang, a Taiwanese tycoon chairman of Chyau Fwu Group. As his last project, he wanted it "imposing and monumental, yet stylish and elegant".
The office space on each floor is columnless so it can be reconfigured according to the tenant's wish. Although it is a modern building, having been completed in 2002, it is specially designed in the classic Art Deco style, following New York City 1929 Chanin Building as an inspiration. The exterior surface of the building is clad in brown Granite, bronze, lacquer, and glass.

The lobby is also designed mainly in the Art Deco style and features a 15m-high ceiling with handcrafted details. The bar in the lobby of the building has a unique 3-storey high wine chiller. The open plaza of Parkview Square is reminiscent of Piazza San Marco in Venice, with sculptures and statues surrounding the open plaza. There are many bronze effigies of some of the most famous figures in world history, including Sun Yat-sen, Abraham Lincoln, Salvador Dalí, Mozart, Chopin, Isaac Newton, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein.

The building also has widespread use of motifs, sculptures, and ornamentation. The building is "guarded" by eight gigantic fiberglass statues of men holding a light ball in their hands, four of them standing on each broad side of the building's crown. Another example is the gargoyles decorating the building’s exterior, which are said to be hand-crafted. In the center of the plaza is a statue of a golden bird. On the pedestal is written a Chinese poem:
黄鹤楼
故国旧有黄鹤楼
北望神州几千秋
黄鹤展翅飞万里
伟哉狮城见鹤楼

The bar at the lobby

因为SR和LX的生日, 我们去lobby的这一间bar(Divine)喝酒聊天
我比较逊只喝mocktail..ha

(不好意思, SR不在照片里:P)

附送一张给芋头

去年去香港的时候一直想买Lomo相机
但理智战胜了一切
所以只能用software制造出来

Monday, July 20, 2009

没有太空漫步且又不太成功的致敬

很多天前同事和我分享了这一个在瑞典, 斯德哥尔举办的一个致敬活动..

台湾街舞团体也跟着在网路上发起几场的[快閃BeatIt紀念麥可傑克森]活動..

可是..感觉都不对的....去看热闹的人似乎比较多

这类的活动..应该是: "突然间发生...周围的人都不知道发生什么事"的那种..

糟透的一场..人这么拥挤怎么跳? 数拍子还数得大声过音乐 - -"

八挂是..小猪,盧廣仲&陳琦真也有去
2:30后..被记者猛拍的那个就是小猪

还有摄影师的complain

比较好的

太空漫步

Site: www.youtube.com/nasatelevision

记得十多岁看这部电影的时候, 当时的心情是有点小激动的..

一直都觉得这些在宇航局工作, 从事太空及天文研究的人都太神奇, 太厉害了

还有那些在指挥/控制区的工作人员..

他们穿着白上衣, 黑領带, 戴着黑框眼睛形象实在很鲜明

记得那时候看完了Apollo13, 还小小迷了Kevin Bacon一下..哈

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Feeling fat lately...?

看着看着...
LX, 突然又想起了你在orientation..那超经典的舞蹈..哈哈哈

Friday, July 17, 2009

模仿, 抄袭, 复古还是致敬

在80年代..很多华人歌手都向西洋或日本歌手取经, 甚至是翻译他们的歌曲..

曹西平 - 撒旦天使

bass的主旋律几乎一模一样.. 歌名好像和Thriller又有点......

舞蹈员的舞步也似曾相识

(那五颜六色的紧身裤真是经典...)

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流行服装一向反复轮回,要所谓致敬或复古就要加入很多的改良和创意

80年代的大垫肩上衣真的很有特色

前阵子兴起的大垫肩外套似乎是向80年代的服装'致敬'

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

你有gothere, 我有3Dmap

去年去香港前找资料的时候, 发现了它. 最近好像又被热烈讨论了..

全球首个三维仿真城市，由杭州阿拉丁信息科技有限公司开发.

好靓好劲啊~

Website: hongkong.edushi.com

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另一家也在发展3D City Models的公司: ComputaMaps
Website: computamaps.com

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Driving home today :)

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Will u buy this book to teach ur children ABC?

abc3dbook.com

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

人心怎么了？

2009年7月5日20时左右，新疆乌鲁木齐市发生严重暴力事件。一些人在乌鲁木齐市人民广场等
多处非法聚集、打砸抢烧。截至6日晚22时，事件已造成156人死亡，1080人受伤；260多辆
汽车被烧被砸，其中11辆是警车。
- 联合早报

7月5日20时左右，新疆乌鲁木齐市发生了严重的打砸抢烧暴力事件，这一事件的幕后黑手是
宗教极端分子热比娅和以她为首的世维会，支持他们的是宗教极端势力、民族分裂势力和
国际恐怖势力。那么热比娅到底是什么人？世维会是什么样的组织？支持他们的势力又目的
何在呢？- CCTV

又是所谓的宗教分子..
宗教应该是教人向上, 向善的！

为何会发生暴乱？
新疆发生打砸抢烧暴力犯罪事件
CCTV专题报导

相信

为何常常都不愿意去相信人家说的话
一定是谎言的吗？

为何不去相信或给予信任的机会？

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Another 18 Chefs

New outlet at Yishun

Who is Eighteen Chefs?

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Book Stores on the mountain

今天有个朋友突然心血来潮想去安祥山走走,

我也跟着去了..

这里一带有蛮多有个性的小店, 同时也是创意人的基地 (Asylum也在这里)

走着走着就来到了这间书店...

Polymath & Crust

No. 86 Club Street

- they only stocks non-fiction titles here

Photos of the store on Flickr

在书店的三楼有个小展览

“[Wunderkammer: or, Cabinet of Curiosities] is Polymath & Crust’s debut exhibition featuring preservations of curious specimens from nature and how they relate to
the grotesque by way of human interpretation. Inspired by the scientific revolution
of the Renaissance where perspectives were re-examined through dissections and observations of the natural world, the show intermingles science and art by
re-examining our consciousness of nature, the exotic and the grotesque.”
- plussixfive.com

一个蛮奇妙的展览 (27 Jun - 17 Jul 2009)

Stomach of an Australian Sea Monster? (right pic)

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Polymath & Crust其实是Books Actually的sister bookshop

Books Actually

No. 5 Ann Siang Road

- an independent bookshop specialising in Literature

Books Actually是个让人喜爱的小书店

纯白的墙壁和书橱

少了商业书店的一板一眼

却多了几分的艺术气息

Friday, July 3, 2009

Transformers 2. Revenge of the Terminator & LOTR

剧本不好也就算了(通常第二集一定会酱)
CG不够第一集细也都算了(第二集比较赶)

Transformers is supposed to be from Machine to Machine
(Robot to Car, Robot to Jet)
NOT Machine to Human!! (That's Terminator already!)

Transformers 2 在最后的20分钟用了大量的慢镜头,特写和景深(depth of field)来突现情感
Sam快要死的时候,还灵魂出窍见到六大元老
这拍摄手法真是熟口熟面.. 是嘛..LOTR对不对?

I really love Transformers but Transformers 2 真的是...有点令人失望