BRIDES- a good movie

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Brides
Review by Margaret Pomeranz

Opening the Greek Film Festival this year was a film called Brides. It’s about a ship full of women from many areas in Eastern Europe who are travelling to America to an unknown destiny in 1922.Centre to the story is Niki from the island of Samothrace played so subtely and beautifully by Victoria Haralabidou who is replacing her younger sister as a bride for a tailor in Chicago.

She’s a seamstress and on board the ship she meets photographer Norman Harris, (Damian Lewis), who’s returning to his home country after failing as a war correspondent in Turkey.

But this film is about the many women who leave their home country either willingly or unwillingly and the traps into which many may fall.

This melodrama and I love melodramas is really beautifully performed, it’s heartfelt and tense and romantic. Steve Berkoff plays a Georgian who is actually preying on these women for his own nefarious business. He could have been grotesque, he is in fact, but he’s believable.

p/s: a good movie with the understanding of different country culture n poverty, but the length of movie should be more tense!! a little bit boring!!

the acting of the NIKI n her luv to NORMAN seems not really there yet!! but it is a good story as well!!

ppl cant choose the thing they like as there are alot of things need to be considered each time. NIKI cant be with NORMAN at the end as she choose to keep her promise n marry to a strangers.

So, if u got chance to choose, n u have choose the best, it is really good n great n appreciate wat u have!!!

COZ NO EVERYONE CAN CHOOSE!!

sejima

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

客家擂茶

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

在粤东部分客家人聚居的山区，流行着吃擂茶的习俗。那西西唆唆的擂茶声，唱才响一首古老的民歌。擂茶钵代代相传，让这首古老的民歌，一直唱道今天。
凡有客人到家，就用花生、油麻、香菜等擂茶，配以雪白的爆米花为客人接风洗尘，在拘礼品尝之间，便增进了友谊。
凡姑娘出嫁之前，接受了喜糖的邻居，必定要擂一钵香擂茶请姑娘吃，表达祝贺之意，并作饯行，让乡谊久久难忘。
凡到了夏天，气候炎热，人们流汗过多，不思饮食，精明的农家主妇便煮擂茶为午餐。劳动过后已饥肠辘辘，此时端起茶碗，吃烙熟的番薯片或芋头片，或配以白米饭，大嚼豪饮，喉咙顺畅，可口可胃，回肠荡气，令人精神焕发，忘了一身疲劳。
凡正月初七，用七样蔬菜泡成的擂茶，叫“七样菜茶”。过正月十五元宵节，用十五样蔬菜泡成的擂茶叫“十五样茶”。
擂茶的主要工具是擂茶棍（用质坚的山油茶树做成），还要油一只带螺纹的擂茶钵。
擂茶的配料为：先将花生、油麻、香茶叶、园香、金不换、苦苈芯等擂成末后泡开水，然后炒些萝卜干、芥蓝菜、大蒜、葱、荞头、黄豆、白菜等，再配些虾米、咸稣花生仁、白米饭等，吃起来鲜、香、咸、涩、甘、辣、酸，生活的滋味样样俱全。擂茶滋养了客家人，个个都豪爽剽悍，聪明能干。

chiho aoshima

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Chiho Aoshima

Chiho Aoshima is a CG artist who creates her unique and extraordinary world through manipulation of Bezier curves, a feature of the computer software Illustrator. She constructs her works with such elements as bodily fluids, reptiles, insects, and old, concrete buildings. Her works are audaciously enlarged and printed by heavy-duty printers, not only onto papers but also onto leather and plastic surfaces, giving her works the sense of transcendence of both art and illustration.

link

Andrew Moore Photographic

Friday, August 25, 2006

Abandoned Missile Base, Skripleva's Island Far East


Cigarette_sellers-Chekhov_Street-Yalta

Huh?

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Huh?
Originally uploaded by rajbrades.

Oh...so this is what Chinese Vampired look like

Flight 001 Exclusive Items

Flight 001 is a travel merchandise boutique designed in the style of a Pan-Am era first class airline cabin. The stock just about everything you need to travel in style, from Tepper Jackson passport cases to Hideo Wakamatsu carry-ons, from in-flight CD compilations to their own exclusive storage merchandise. I took some pictures during a recent visit to the new Chicago store.


Expand-A SeriesA lot of their merchandise focuses on getting the most into your luggage. The Expand-A-Bags come in many sizes and uses, all collapsible with sharp, utilitarian diagrams for your re-folding needs. I found the Expand-A-Bowl and Expand-A-Carrier especially amusing:



http://mocoloco.com/archives/003001.php#more

Romi and Joo lee

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Happen surfing to livingarts malaysia.com juz now.
Viewing into the gallery of the acting studio in KLPAC , having came across with this romi and joo lee show last time when we wen there to do our acoustic assignment.
SO enjoyable with their acting and songs...........appreciate the director to let us to have a look it.



the actress is really pretty and cute!

city of biscuits

City of Biscuits
At Selfridges in London. In the work of Chinese artist Song Dong, thousands of biscuits and sweets are being used to create an edible city. After completion it will be, well, eaten. The work is meant to criticize the (cookie-cutter?) sameness of Asia's new cities, the confectionary quality of their showpiece buildings?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4733304.stm

Lyon, 11 September 2005

Lyon, 11 September 2005
Originally uploaded by man_is_cargo.

public art in Lyon, with naked body

与一个朋友的对话

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

對。。。當初我做工，常被人欺負。因爲我新，也容易相信人， 過後告訴自己一定要走的更遠， 堅持去面對就不會難倒了

有一种感觉，不用再逃了

別拿人做比較，要就先勝過自己。別人今天好也未必將來比你好。堅持拿到你畢業證書和文憑。那是你步入社會的鑰匙。 才做比較也不遲。。。。

你好象遇到过很多事晴，让你成长了

if worry a lot ur family lagi worry u cos they worry u cant afford to face the pressure, let them feel u are able to do better...dun bother troubling just go ahead

呀！i like architecture, but cant afford to own it，就好像，爱一个人，可是不能拥有它一样

p/s: 谢谢你！！ 给了我很多劝告！我明白！！

our site model

Sunday, August 20, 2006

our site model


my model

fifteen restless nights

Fifteen Restless Nights
15 Restless Nights is an image/text/sound collaborative art installation of a map-like journey across the night-time landscape of Canada.
Fifteen large-scale, high-resolution images of individual unmade beds, reconstructed from photographs gathered over nights spent in motel rooms across Canada, will be reproduced on vinyl geotrans, and realized as black and white electro-microscopic images incorporating text fragments based on individual anonymous experiences men and women have had in motel rooms across Canada.
An original jazz piece based on the theme of long night highways between cities will be integrated with the fragmented telling of fifteen original texts, recorded as spoken word in French and English.

four season center for performing arts

one of the culture plan by the toronto
link

Transformation of malaysia traditional games of batu seremban into a new look

Is these games can be recognise as a global game? Does it reach a global level?
It has different names but it also have same action.
1.Batu Seremban or Batu Tujuh (seven stones) in Malaysia
2. Jacks in Australia and New Zealand
3. Knucklebones in Egypt and in Europe
4. Otedama in Japan

Can we recognise Batu Seremban as one of Malaysian Cultural Identity, althought it has similarity with other traditional games in other country?
a link from nurul rahman

a big garfield at the curve cineplex

Saturday, August 19, 2006

thanks to my dearest housemate............. they took a photo of me in front of the cinema.
there is a notive there write:"dont touch me, i m sleeping"

one day Seremban trip-the colourful part of Seremban

Discover a place where got this kind of playful things

A coourful and decoractive door

long staircase behind the hotel

A red colourful fruits get behind the bazaar

One day trip, See the colouful part of seremban.
A very relax trip to the site, looking and talk to the people there.
Accidentally get to the same cafe that dat day went to eat breakfast with rabbit.
Taking the KTM, going through all the different towns, seeing all the people move in and move out.......
Thanks to dear oddy to accompany me to go to Seremban.

RMIT

An interesting website to visit, with all very nice projects list

http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/People/rhyde.php

leveson street

Friday, August 18, 2006

link

cassandra complex

Background

Cassandra Complex was established in 1999 with a view to extend architectural expression into a wider public realm. Through extending awareness and proffering new ideas, Cassandra Complex has taken a greater than normal responsibility within the culture of architecture and our media drenched society. These exercises have been undertaken in Europe and Australia.

寻找建筑师的。。。。

所有今天的建筑师，早应抛开任何对于业主与合作者的抱怨，这本不是一个不成功的建筑的缘起。如果一位建筑师，能将一颗心全部融入建筑之中，必然是一个成果的结果。因为，一颗心包容了一个生命的全部世界。合作，长长短短是一段友谊，无论与甲方或是其他一起共事的人们都是一种缘分。一次次用心地去试图彼此互相理解和包容正是合作的前提，当所有的努力宣告失败后，你还是去无休止的妥协去完成一件不包含你情感的作品。对于建筑师，只能称作唯利是图。社会环境是问题的土壤，我们常常无法做我们喜欢的事情，就像我们常常无法去爱一个我们真正想爱的人。但我们一定要有能力不去做你不想做的事情，这是做人的秉性。失去了它，是无法为人们进行创造性活动的。 建筑行业 我始终坚信一个个的个人灵性创造的


建筑是给人用的，建筑学是研究怎么让人用得好，用的舒服，用的安全，建筑不是建筑师的，而是人们的

Introduce a new discovered blog

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Space and Culture is a cross-disciplinary journal of cultural studies that fosters the publication of reflections on a wide range of socio-spatial arenas

http://spaceandculture.org/2005_01_01_archive.php#110597031034851642

today crit and the last group work

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Again, today crit by lecturers again.
The process seem very fast, she only wan to know about ideas.
today the indonesia ppl come to our studio to visit us, it seem surprise to see them, but our students explain to them wat actually is going on in the studio third year.
I feel very unhappy last few days, maybe too disappointed with the site model.
It actually is a group work of thing, but it ends like nobody cares about it.
When ask other group members to come to help as well, they oways use excuses to escape. It seems very disappointed to see the group work become like this. Nobody even want to ask about it..............
The next day, moving the site model to the studio, again, i saw nobody wants to giving a hand to it......What is the problems to the group? i suddenly feel dat everyone dun k dun k character very annoying.But, i understood dat, it is the model leader problems as well, he dint even want to take the responsibility at all. Why our group become like this?
A simple task in the class let me see more clearly that: There are thousand of faces in the class, everybody holds one, patient in everyting no only in architecture, but in the relationship with others as well, be patient on everyhting.................

Akari series, Isamu Noguchi

a series of tangloon exhibited......at website http://homepage.mac.com/hayashu/aka/bodye.html

Attention

Sunday, August 13, 2006

I m going to separate my personal blog with architecture blog.
Recently, this blog dint allow me to upload photos.
so, i decided to open up a new blog under my name as well.
http://phayung2.blogspot.com (this blog will be more to architecture and garfield)
http://phayung.blogspot.com( this blog will be more to my personal life )

Pedestrian Levitation

Saturday, August 12, 2006

The creation of the work is based on the movement of pedestrians on a pedestrian crossing in public space. Some pedestrians walk only on the sidewalk and use the pedestrian crossing for crossing the street, other pedestrians freely make shortcuts on the formally imposed trafic situation.

Pedestrian Levitation.net is an artwork in public space that reflects on this movement. It visualises the real movement of people, and adds a virtual movement based on the assumption that the mind of people is not subject to gravity or any other physical limitations.Irregular white triangles are applied on the sidewalk- for the real movement, and up onto a high empty wall for the virtual movement.

The work creates a graphical layer above existing architecture that acts as a interface towards movement of thought. The work flows from the pavement up to the wall of a building or buildings. It creates a visual motion: when you walk into the work, your visual senses are pulled to the directions of the triangles.

link

可怜的星期六

无所事事又一天，现在是晚上十点十二分。
刚刚做完，buddy的礼物，好梦幻的包装！！
好像每个星期的weekends， 都是这样，无所事事！！
明天就是我好buddy的毕业典礼，时间过得很快，又是一年了！！
阿柒的一年会不会比别人长？昨天，才买了新年回家的机票，好贵，要三百多块。
听妈妈说，家里的miu miu生病了，看了很多次的医生，才恢复它昔日的活泼。好可怜的家伙！
原本朋友要来找我的，可是她又怕烦着我，所以没来了。
姐姐这个九月要来，听seminar！希望能meet他！！！
我脚上的伤口，越来越不妥，一直出脓，好可怕！

interesting graphic design

http://www.graphic-exchange.com/glinks.htm

Goals for the Millennium projects

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the world's time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions-income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion-while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. They are also basic human rights-the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter, and security.


Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education

Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

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Your Hidden City Winner: Best Natural/Urban Overlap 1

Friday, August 11, 2006

I rode the A Train to the end of the line from Times Square. It's amazing that the same train that goes through the middle of one of the world's busiest cities also rides along a quiet, lonely beach. These houses sit on poles, suspended over the calm waters of Jamaica Bay.
You never think of it, but this is New York.Winner: Tropolism Hidden City Contest - Best Natural/Urban Overlap

KENZO KUMA

a facade architects, the use of bamboo, light structures as the external wall............

Z58 Shanghai

Camron has just been appointed by the Zhongtai, China’s leading lighting specialists, to handle international media relations for the opening of its new Shanghai headquarters designed by acclaimed Japanese Architect Kengo Kuma.
This is an exciting project for Camron and is our first client in the region. The four story building in the historical French Concession is an oasis of calm in the frenetic hustle of high rise Shanghai and is despite its small size a world class building.
In keeping with Kengo Kuma’s architectural philosophy the building is an exercise in subtlety. Adapting the existing building, a 19 Century Watch factory, Kengo Kuma has created a real dialogue between the building and its surroundings. The building will house an exhibition and cultural space on the first floor, with ever changing exhibitions and events. A lighting showroom and offices occupy the second and third floors.
However, it is the top floor that will truly amaze. Amongst a landscape of moving water sit two beautifully appointed rooms by Kengo Kuma. Add to that, a gym, library, wine cellar, a cigar bar and a 24 hour concierge and you have a unique travel experience. These rooms are available to those travellers in search of something truly memorable from November.
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cute IT house

A fun website to play.................
choose the outfit for ur it house.
llink

The CUBE i like

“We have made many big openings in the facades to create different daylight situations inside the building. The position of the windows are defined by the interior programs. By varying the ceiling heights each floor has a very different atmosphere.”SANAA

The design, a cuboid structural shell, picks up the basic functional and effective idea used by the original Zollverein architects Schupp and Kremmer.The oversized cube, which measures 35 meters by 35 meters and is 35 meters high, reflects the dimensions of the Zollverein mine

“Our aim was to achieve transparency in the concrete structure.”SANAA

SANAA