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About a week ago two girls hosting a TV show Culture Matters on ICS interrupted us while we where painting and asked if they could set up a time and place to film us painting. We agreed to last saturday and so that afternoon, everyone met up around 12 at Moganshan rd. We decided on yellows and oranges with a greenish bucket fill for the background. While we painted the girls along with a cameraman was filming us and interviewing the people walking by to get there impression.
Hong Kong Transport - Trucks
The Hong Kong Truck Culture
The number of Trucks, Vans* and Special Purpose Vehicles (Light, Medium & Heavy) registered + licenced in Hong Kong seems to fluctuate between 120,000 - 125,000 vehicles and presumably new trucks registered are offset by old trucks being retired or sold over the border in China.
*Vans are classified as Light Goods Vehicles and are not shown in this album
In Hong Kong Trucks are classified as GOODS VEHICLES By the Transport Department - see below
☛Light Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight not exceeding 5.5 tonnes.
☛Medium Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 5.5 tonnes but not exceeding 24 tonnes.
☛Heavy Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 24 tonnes but not exceeding 38 tonnes.
The major truck types you tend to see in urban areas are trucks carrying construction materials or waste, dump trucks, concrete mixers and all sizes of delivery trucks... outside of the urban areas it is container trucks and large trucks carrying construction materials.
The following brands of Trucks can be seen on the streets of Hong Kong and include:-
Beiben ✚ Bell ✚ CAMC ✚ CNHTC ✚ DAF ✚ Dennis ✚ Dong Feng ✚ FAW ✚ Fuso ✚ Foton ✚ Ford ✚ Hino ✚ Howo ✚ Hyundai ✚ Isuzu ✚ Iveco ✚ JAC ✚ Kato ✚ KIA ✚ Liebherr ✚ MAN ✚ Mercedes Benz ✚ Mitsubishi ✚ Nissan ✚ Renault ✚ Scania ✚ Shacman ✚ Sinotruk ✚ Suzuki ✚ Toyota ✚ UD ✚ Volvo ✚ Zoomlion
Hong Kong is a brand conscious place even for trucks (!) hence the popularity of the European brands, Scania and Man are very popular and even the older trucks look the business and they are utterly reliable.
Isuzu is the market leader in terms of sale volume for all types of trucks.
(Source - The Transport Department, Hong Kong Government)
☛.... and if you want to read about my views on Hong Kong, then go to my blog, link below
✚ www.j3consultantshongkong.com/j3c-blog
☛ Photography is simply a hobby for me, I do NOT sell my images and all of my images can be FREELY downloaded from this site in the original upload image size or 5 other sizes, please note that you DO NOT have to ask for permission to download and use any of my images!
Luxembourg is the European City of Culture for 2007. To celebrate it they commissioned artwork and animations from "local" artists. I used to be local, and my family still lives there, so I kinda count.
The stag is the animal they chose to represent the event. Why, I do not know.
Hong Kong Transport - Trucks
The Hong Kong Truck Culture
The number of Trucks, Vans* and Special Purpose Vehicles (Light, Medium & Heavy) registered + licenced in Hong Kong seems to fluctuate between 120,000 - 125,000 vehicles and presumably new trucks registered are offset by old trucks being retired or sold over the border in China.
*Vans are classified as Light Goods Vehicles and are not shown in this album
In Hong Kong Trucks are classified as GOODS VEHICLES By the Transport Department - see below
☛Light Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight not exceeding 5.5 tonnes.
☛Medium Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 5.5 tonnes but not exceeding 24 tonnes.
☛Heavy Goods Vehicles - Goods vehicles of permitted gross vehicle weight exceeding 24 tonnes but not exceeding 38 tonnes.
The major truck types you tend to see in urban areas are trucks carrying construction materials or waste, dump trucks, concrete mixers and all sizes of delivery trucks... outside of the urban areas it is container trucks and large trucks carrying construction materials.
The following brands of Trucks can be seen on the streets of Hong Kong and include:-
Beiben ✚ Bell ✚ CAMC ✚ CNHTC ✚ DAF ✚ Dennis ✚ Dong Feng ✚ FAW ✚ Fuso ✚ Foton ✚ Ford ✚ Hino ✚ Howo ✚ Hyundai ✚ Isuzu ✚ Iveco ✚ JAC ✚ Kato ✚ KIA ✚ Liebherr ✚ MAN ✚ Mercedes Benz ✚ Mitsubishi ✚ Nissan ✚ Renault ✚ Scania ✚ Shacman ✚ Sinotruk ✚ Suzuki ✚ Toyota ✚ UD ✚ Volvo ✚ Zoomlion
Hong Kong is a brand conscious place even for trucks (!) hence the popularity of the European brands, Scania and Man are very popular and even the older trucks look the business and they are utterly reliable.
Isuzu is the market leader in terms of sale volume for all types of trucks.
(Source - The Transport Department, Hong Kong Government)
☛.... and if you want to read about my views on Hong Kong, then go to my blog, link below
✚ www.j3consultantshongkong.com/j3c-blog
☛ Photography is simply a hobby for me, I do NOT sell my images and all of my images can be FREELY downloaded from this site in the original upload image size or 5 other sizes, please note that you DO NOT have to ask for permission to download and use any of my images!
Mirrors are everywhere in Japan. These are at the end of my street.
On the same day not far away a town was flooded. It was raining very hard and dark, even thou it was taken sometime during the morning.
Maurice Leblanc
Born November 11, 1864, in Rouen, France was part of Italian descent, and of a mother who came from an old Norman family.
Maurice Leblanc, in full Maurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc, (born Dec. 11, 1864, Rouen, France—died Nov. 6, 1941, Paris), French author and journalist, known as the creator of Arsène Lupin, French gentleman-thief. Leblanc abandoned his law studies to become a pulp crime writer. Commissioned in 1905 to write a crime story for the French periodical Je sais tout, he created “L’Arrestation d’Arsène Lupin” (“The Arrest of Arsène Lupin”) Lupin was a forerunner of Simon Templar (the Saint) and other Robin Hoods of modern crime.
He had studied law, but abandoned that for a career in writing. He initially wrote for various periodicals, with “Une Femme” being his first published work in 1887. He gained fame in France and abroad after starting his Arsène Lupin series of novels. Lupin was a gentleman-thief who was a master of disguise and made his first appearance in 1905 in “L’arrestation d’Arséne Lupin”. In 1908 LeBlanc pitted Lupin against Sherlock Holmes in “Arsène Lupin Versus Holmlock Shears”. Leblanc would eventually produce 20 volumes worth of Lupin’s adventures.
“L’Arrestation d’Arsène Lupin” (“The Arrest of Arsène Lupin) in Je sais tout (July 15, 1905). In this story, he introduced for the first time his extraordinary creation, Arsène Lupin. The story proved popular, and other stories about Arsène Lupin followed during 1906-1907. These stories were then collected to make up the first volume of the series, Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur (1907; The Exploits of Arsène Lupin, 1907; also known as The Seven of Hearts and The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar). Leblanc now devoted himself almost entirely to recording the adventures of his criminal-hero, who appeared in twenty novels or collections of short stories, the last of the series appearing in 1941. When not engaged in the art of writing, Leblanc read the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Honoré de Balzac, played chess, and cycled through the countryside. A photograph of Leblanc, taken perhaps when he was in his forties, discloses a not unhandsome face with dark gimletlike eyes, a prominent Roman nose, a mouth largely concealed by a scraggly handlebar mustache, and a strong chin. Altogether he appears more Italian than French.
Movies Arsene Lupin, The Adventures of Arsene Lupin, The Castle of Cagliostro, Arsene Lupin Returns, Yo soy tu padre
Books Arsene Lupin – Gentlema, The Hollow Needle, 813, The Crystal Stopper, The Eight Strokes of the Clock
Similar People Gaston Leroux, Monkey Punch, Francis de Croisset, Georgette Leblanc, Andre‑Paul Duchateau
Influences
The character Arsène Lupin III, the protagonist of the Japanese manga Lupin III beginning in 1967, was written as the grandson of Arsène Lupin, though without permission from Leblanc’s estate. This was later the source of a lawsuit, though the copyright on Leblanc’s work has since expired. When the anime version was broadcast in France, the character was renamed Edgar, le détective cambrioleur (“Edgar, the Burglar Detective”). The authors of the various Lupin III properties drew on Leblanc’s novels as inspiration; notably, the film The Castle of Cagliostro was loosely based on La Comtesse de Cagliostro (The Countess of Cagliostro).
James Ensor - 1860-1949.
Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerp, Belgium):
Ensor's States of Imagination.
Ensor's adventure with etching starts in 1886. He is 26 years old then, at the height of his career. During the following years, he is completely taken by the art of etching. He creates over 130 prints. Befriended artists and master-printers teach him the intricacies of the art.
Work of James Ensor - The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889.
Among Friends.
Exposition at MSK Ghent (Belgium).
Artist: Louis Dubois.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Dubois_(painter)
Para quem não sabe ontem de noite venho a falecer um grande artista da cultura do stencil , TONY PERES .
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Para mim é acho que para muitos que usam o flickr como um meio de mostrar o seus stencil , ele foi uma grande pessoa sempre elogiando e dando dicas a todos .
Não tenho mais o que falar só tenho a agradecer (mesmo nem o conhecendo ) pela sua arte e por todos as conversar e trocas de experiencia pela net .
Fique bem meu amigo aonde voce estiver _ eu sei que vai estar bem , e eu estarei rezando para que sua familia tenha força nesta hora tão dificil .
OBS .Esses dois trabalhos a cima foi uma troca que nós fizemos a algum tempo atrás .
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For those who can not come last night and died a great artist of the culture of the stencil, TONY PERES.
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For me it is I think for many who use flickr as a means of showing your stencil, it was a great person always praising and giving tips to everyone.
I have more to say I am very grateful (even knowing neither) for its art and all the talk and exchange experience on the net.
Stay well my friend where you are _ I know you'll be fine, and I'll be praying that his family has strength at this difficult time.
OBS. These two works to the top was an exchange that we made some time ago.
"A photo series where she employs food as a motif to represent different cultures and lifestyles. Her photographs show models wearing her handmade edible jewelry while explosively showered in an assortment of foods and drinks all captured with high-speed photography. Exploring Cambodia, Singapore, Italy and many other countries, specific food items correspond to the daily meals of their cultures and lifestyles. Some photographs depict food items more lavish, and others are simple and meager, indicating the colossal gaps in the standards of living between countries. She makes the unique choice of working with edible items such as orange juice, fruit loops, honey baked ham, red chili and much more. Her work process is even more peculiar, hand throwing food, and popping balloons and squirting water guns filled with drinks. Evidently she does this to achieve a refreshing representation of these social inequalities that viewers can gain cultural insight from, and compare poverty-stricken meals with those more luxuriant, without being smothered by the solemn truth traditionally presented in photojournalism. "
Mural composed of various items by Ben Fearnley exhibit at ArtScience Museum during Sneakertopia : Step into Street Culture.
My winter uniform this year. Overalls. Thermal or long-sleeve t. Christmas socks. Converse. Sometimes a hat. Hoodie or Harley jacket. Grwwwl!
It's been one of those years.
CULTURE SHOCK 2011
Press Release
For immediate release
- Completed floor plan and SLURL will be released at a later date –
Modavia is pleased to announce sponsorship of the first annual "Culture Shock" event (May 1st - May 22nd) which aims to be a large and important event for Second Life fashion culture. It is brought to you by CHIC Management (www.chic-management.com) and sponsored by Modavia Productions who will be providing exclusive coverage of many of the new designs available at the event on this blog - www.modaviafashionmarketing.com/wordpress - in the lead up to, and for the duration of the event.
174 Store spaces will be available for the showcasing of products, including a mandatory minimum of 3 new and exclusive items each - contributing 50 - 100% of their profit to charity.
There will be regular sets of music in the second and third week of the event and on the opening day.
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Médecins Sans Frontières (commonly referred to as " Doctors Without Borders ") is an independent humanitarian medical aid organisation. They are committed to providing medical aid where it is most needed, regardless of race, religion, politics or gender and also to raising awareness of the plight of the people receiving help.
Registered charity number: 1026588
Website: www.msf.org/
The organisers have permission from Médecins Sans Frontières for this event.
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The brands currently confirmed to present new and exclusive products at the Culture Shock venue are:
{ what next }, Indyra Originals, Kyoot, Addict, Peqe, .44 Caliber / Djinn & Tonic, Justb, Milk Motion, So Many Styles, Penned, Izzie's, Awesome Blossom, Osakki, Cheeky Pea, COOL Beans, Mannequin, NARDCOTIX, Bliss Couture, *Les Petits Détails*, Plume, MUISM, Para Designs, Razorblade Jacket, !tarnished, LOULOU&CO, Ducknipple, Glam Affair, Morantique, Boudoir, KMADD, Ugly Duck, Studio Sidhe, Donna Flora, Insatiable Fashions, Son!a, MAGNIFIQUE Poses, Exile, My Precious, U&R DOGS, Rotten Defiance, Miao, La Petite Morte, Frooti, StoRin, The Secret Store, croire, Acid & Mala, Long Awkward Pose, Magoa, Azul, G Field, Laciecakes, (Elate!), LG Concept, :::LiNe:::, Just a Pose, Indie Rose, *elymode*, Connors, SySy's, Ricielli, Lika Ruby, Somnia, WTG, NLimbo Poses, SHIKI, MonS, *** Just You Jewels ***, Fall Out, TART, CheerNo, Tee*fy, Intrigue Co, KIM Bodysuits, Urbanista, Lassitude & Ennui, Fishy Strawberry, Dead Carrot, Ladies Who Lunch, je suis, NuDoLu, TASTY, Sassy Kitty Designs, * RezIpsa Loc *, T Junction, Bottle Bird, Di's Opera, ORTA, POSEUR, Hucci, *BOOM* Clothing, Mudhoney, Berries Inc, Gawk!, [sYs], Mustache, Ilaya, Pink Fuel, Alexohol, Bliensen + MaiTai, Onyx Wear, Kletva, Reckless Warehouse, Sn@tch, NSD, Fashionity, Vero Modero, Vive9, Candydoll, *TuttiFrutti*, Heartsick, [-iPoke-], Baffle, BAIASTICE, [ m ], RIDDLE, Diesel Works Poses & Animations, Lapointe & Bastchild, Ingenue, Caroline's Jewelry, Mayden Couture, NADAS, paper.doll, SHAG, Lazybum, Gizza Creations, CnS Emotion, The Sea Hole, Adore&Abhor, Samsara, Frozen Panty, sur+, no.07, *~*HopScotch*~*, e! Eclectic Apparel and Accessories, Nemesis, ORION, DeetaleZ, Nyte'N'Day, MIAMAI, L`Abel, YS&YS, House of Fox, Raw House, *REALE*, Vilada, Mango, Mango! , CHANTKARE, Posies, Gems & Kisses, Leverocci, PIDDIDLE, JeSyLiLO, Purrfect 10, Nzuri, Posh, Adorkable, Whippet & Buck, ATOMIC, Thistles., Grixdale, Cashmere, Style by Kira, Ploom, Bent, Malt, KUNGLERS, Niven Collection, Slutcookie, mocha, SIGMA Jewels, Mr Poet, Absolution and Boho.