just as babies born and children grow, buildings are built and age. from drawing plans to construction permits, buildings go through a significant amount of planning. the overall process with construction accumulate much time and sweat within them, and once built, more sweating is put into its maintanance and the different stories that happen inside them. but eventually they grow old, such as this large population in hong kong. for the most part, people can’t see them from below, as the daily life involves mostly fancy store-fronts and window displays.
April 28, 2010
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April 22, 2010
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i’m not quite sure where i learned that fish have terrible memory, or maybe it just depends on the variety and fish type. yet, according to the palais de la découverte science museum’s report, goldfish can be trained to recognize and to react to light signals of different colors and have a memory span of at least three months. they are capable of distinguishing shapes, colors and sounds. these trainings can be done through feeding, where they adapt to colors and can learn tricks.
April 17, 2010
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as spring struggles to kick in, i find myself in little reminders of joy in the cold. that’s the beauty of balance, where everything has it’s advantages and disadvantages. in this cycle we live, we are soon to enter spring and summer, and we complain about the heat again (depending on where you are). the hard part is taking it from the bright side: just be happy, take the good side of it. the characters shown here are 快樂.. happiness.
April 6, 2010
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so many kinds of mushrooms there are, and such little amounts of them i actually know about. rootless and seedless, fungi spreads in dark and moist places. like everything in life though, there is a variety of them in which some are consumable, some are consumable in a different way like some that glow in the dark and some others can be fatal. either way, just the healthy ones come in so many shapes, sizes, colors, and so many benefits, from proteins to vitamins to such amazing tastes. lucky for me, china is the world’s largest exporter of mushrooms, which i am enjoying so much of.
April 1, 2010
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flowers the way i see them are little reminders of uniqueness in beauty and attraction. like mirrors of our lives modelled in a fast pace and a more fragile state. within these remarkably well designed structures, one can microscopically compare and argue that even though they can be all as beautiful, there are none that are exactly the same. and within our nature, there will always be some that are more special than others.
happy birthday francesca!
March 31, 2010
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motivation. where do we find it? what do we do with it? when can we use it? how do we make the best of it..?
what about other factors such as inspiration, time, or opportunity?
March 27, 2010
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this tropical orange fruit of bittersweet tastes hides within these large leafs. some sort of a shield, containing some kind of sticky or slimy pigments to confuse you (at least the first few times). are we meant to be eating this? somehow, i just think that such battiers might be a design to keep the fruit from being eaten?
March 19, 2010
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just like people, there are different kinds of everything. here, there, anyhere, and everywhere. as people migrate from different places too, trade has migrated different types of goods throughout the world. howeever, just as these miniature pumpkins, we can see how everything adapts to their environment and the conditions these undergo.
March 13, 2010
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beyond the touristy areas of the world heritage site of pingyao is a contrast of lifestyle compared to the everyday life in the old west. the low season hits hard in this streets as winter kicks in, finding myself and my small group to be the only people that actually stand aliens in the cold streets. looking deeper into the alleys i was able to find where the rest of the locals hid and sheltered from the cold.
March 9, 2010
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i’m not sure, but it didn’t seem as the common sunflower we tend to see. the inner florets appear to be darker and larger in a messy way. they might be dry, but since this took place in one of the largest flower markets in china, i thought it could have been a different kind too. the petals are lighter and the “golden” interconnecting spriral is not that obvious. by different kind and taking in account that the flower comes from a massive wholesale market, i just meant to think of the bio-genetical engineering aspects of it. food for thought.
happy birthday brittney!
