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Event organized by Elie UKphotography Events at Ferndown, Dorset, UK
Model - Andreia Cardoso - model-mayhem purestorm Personal site
Makeup - Heather Talbot
Hair - Heather Talbot
Wardrobe - Charlotte Lynch - chichichic
Stroby & Camera info
Nikon D300 / Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/5.6 1/160th 55mm iso 200
Elinchrom Quadras (A heads)
Elinchrom RQ ringflash used as main light source
White Vinyl Backdrop
lit with a Nikon SB-800 (flagged for flare) & at about 1/4 power (triggered eli skyport)
Metered using a sekonic Flashmaster L-358
Post edit Photoshop CS5
These small guys (each around 8cm) are part of a much bigger Artwork, which is 60cm x 80cm and composed of many more figurines.
Traveler's Press - Is "What's in My Bag" Really That Interesting?
Yes I switch gears quite often so in any given day you pick, chances are my bag's content can be entirely different. And that is interesting to me and perhaps to many people too. I decided to do "What's in my bag" posts once in a while but the last one was already August 2009, the Seminar Edition. So here you go, what's in my bag in Feb/Mar 2010.
Well click on the photo to go to the Flickr page and see more precise descriptions on the photo, previous gears are shown in this flickr set in case you want to explore more. I was traveling to Tokyo and Korea for business and these were all I needed:
Orobianco pen case, Pentel Tradio pen, Staedtler mechanical pencil, Faber Castell perfect pencil wrapped with black MT tape, Canon F1 50mm/f1.2 camera, Pilot capless fountain pen, mind.Depositor 3 with Maruman Mnemosyne, Shiny handy stamp, Kokuyo kadokeshi eraser, Monogram leather film holder, lip balm wrapped in masking tape, paper clips, book dart etc, USB memory customized with leather cover and closure, Midori brass numbered clips, Name card case with dart flight closure, Midori brass ruler, Midori Traveler's notebook, Passport cover, Midori brass pencil.
Midori/Designphil asked me to show what's in my bag back in Feb when they were planning a "TRAVELER's notebook & company" event in Aoyama. Eventually the photo and my tips to age brass items were included in the Traveler's Press which was being sold at 320 yen at the event. It looks like a very interesting event with limited edition brass pen with Traveler's Notebook logo, charms, wooden stand, calendar, postcards along side with vintage goods such as tin can, match boxes, etc. They even have a coffee bean partner creating a special Traveler's Notebook blend so customers can enjoy a cup of coffee with their notebook after the event. As usual, I wish I were there to experience everything.
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Dans un sentier côtier , ombre portée sur les arbres torturés par les assauts du vent. Logonna . Bretagne nord .
Traveler's Press - Is "What's in My Bag" Really That Interesting?
Yes I switch gears quite often so in any given day you pick, chances are my bag's content can be entirely different. And that is interesting to me and perhaps to many people too. I decided to do "What's in my bag" posts once in a while but the last one was already August 2009, the Seminar Edition. So here you go, what's in my bag in Feb/Mar 2010.
Well click on the photo to go to the Flickr page and see more precise descriptions on the photo, previous gears are shown in this flickr set in case you want to explore more. I was traveling to Tokyo and Korea for business and these were all I needed:
Orobianco pen case, Pentel Tradio pen, Staedtler mechanical pencil, Faber Castell perfect pencil wrapped with black MT tape, Canon F1 50mm/f1.2 camera, Pilot capless fountain pen, mind.Depositor 3 with Maruman Mnemosyne, Shiny handy stamp, Kokuyo kadokeshi eraser, Monogram leather film holder, lip balm wrapped in masking tape, paper clips, book dart etc, USB memory customized with leather cover and closure, Midori brass numbered clips, Name card case with dart flight closure, Midori brass ruler, Midori Traveler's notebook, Passport cover, Midori brass pencil.
Midori/Designphil asked me to show what's in my bag back in Feb when they were planning a "TRAVELER's notebook & company" event in Aoyama. Eventually the photo and my tips to age brass items were included in the Traveler's Press which was being sold at 320 yen at the event. It looks like a very interesting event with limited edition brass pen with Traveler's Notebook logo, charms, wooden stand, calendar, postcards along side with vintage goods such as tin can, match boxes, etc. They even have a coffee bean partner creating a special Traveler's Notebook blend so customers can enjoy a cup of coffee with their notebook after the event. As usual, I wish I were there to experience everything.
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This year marks the third year of an interesting event to be held in city'super and LOG-ON. In this concept cafe (particularly in Festival Walk's LOG-ON), you will find:
Stationery and photography travel gears (19th June - 2nd July 2009): Canon, Fuji, Lomo, Moleskine, Midori, KOLO, MT-tapes, LUXE, Kodomo stamps, Staz-on inpads, etc
Travel Talks: 3 different sessions on 20th June 2009 presented by traveler and photographers. Learn how to steal time and write better on your journal, life hack tricks included. Why a trip to Cambodia changed a portrait photographer's view on life and how a traveler's mindset is different from a tourist's. How imagery and text combined can create lasting memory through photo journaling. Only a few days left for registration!
Mini Game with interesting prizes: Follow the instruction on the postcard and go to Festival Walk LOG-ON store, find the hidden message which is a travel quote written by G.K. Chesterton, write it down and submit. You get a chance to win nice gifts from great brands (check out this Flickr photo and move your mouse over to see what they are)
Stamp your notebook/postcard: Yes stamps, bring your notebook or use our postcard. I've made these icons into self inking stamps for your fun: Moleskine, LCA, Travel Cafe logo, fountain pen. They sort of summarized what this event is all about. Also, Designphil (Midori) in Japan made these two stamps for our event too! They are only available in Hong Kong during this period, so collect them while you can!
And finally, special thanks to Lie Fhung from Ztampf.com allowing me to use her great digital scrapbooking graphics on the postcard and backdrop of the event. More photos coming up after setting up the event.
Enjoy!
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Traveler's Press - Is "What's in My Bag" Really That Interesting?
Yes I switch gears quite often so in any given day you pick, chances are my bag's content can be entirely different. And that is interesting to me and perhaps to many people too. I decided to do "What's in my bag" posts once in a while but the last one was already August 2009, the Seminar Edition. So here you go, what's in my bag in Feb/Mar 2010.
Well click on the photo to go to the Flickr page and see more precise descriptions on the photo, previous gears are shown in this flickr set in case you want to explore more. I was traveling to Tokyo and Korea for business and these were all I needed:
Orobianco pen case, Pentel Tradio pen, Staedtler mechanical pencil, Faber Castell perfect pencil wrapped with black MT tape, Canon F1 50mm/f1.2 camera, Pilot capless fountain pen, mind.Depositor 3 with Maruman Mnemosyne, Shiny handy stamp, Kokuyo kadokeshi eraser, Monogram leather film holder, lip balm wrapped in masking tape, paper clips, book dart etc, USB memory customized with leather cover and closure, Midori brass numbered clips, Name card case with dart flight closure, Midori brass ruler, Midori Traveler's notebook, Passport cover, Midori brass pencil.
Midori/Designphil asked me to show what's in my bag back in Feb when they were planning a "TRAVELER's notebook & company" event in Aoyama. Eventually the photo and my tips to age brass items were included in the Traveler's Press which was being sold at 320 yen at the event. It looks like a very interesting event with limited edition brass pen with Traveler's Notebook logo, charms, wooden stand, calendar, postcards along side with vintage goods such as tin can, match boxes, etc. They even have a coffee bean partner creating a special Traveler's Notebook blend so customers can enjoy a cup of coffee with their notebook after the event. As usual, I wish I were there to experience everything.
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What I don't like about hipster PDA is basically because of poor styling and the ugliness of a binder clip. That's why I created mind.Depositor (currently in version 3) and freely downloadable GTD index card templates. However, after repeated attempts to find ways to group these different cards effectively, I finally settled back to using binder clips, except that I was determined to make them look better.
These GTD tabs were finally made about a month ago borrowing the idea from Clip-rite, a company founded by Janet L who grew up in Brazil and later moved to United States. I met her last year in Japan and admire her can-do attitude. Her patented design is simple yet ingenious, solving everyday problem by combining 2 products into 1 (sticky notes and paper clips). Without infringing her patent, I guess, I modified to replace the paper clips with binder clips for my GTD dream set.
It is dead simple, anybody can do it with just a few pieces of scrap leather, cutter and some binder clips. You decide the size and shape of the leather piece, cut a slit in the middle which should be measured to fit the width of your selected binder clip, or any other types of clip you find pleasing. Then open and insert the binder clip through the slit, its done.
I used alphabet stamps to make impressions on the tabs to create 4 different GTD tabs: Next Actions, Projects, Waiting For and Someday/Maybe. In a more refined version, I added stitches and they do look a lot better.
These GTD tabs not only let me bind piles of index cards in groups, they are also handy for pulling the cards out of a storage case, in my case the mind.Depositor 3. I'm so happy to have done this, solved binding and accessibility of index cards in one step. Do try to do it yourself and let me know how it goes, love to hear your feedbacks!
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Celebrating the Extraordinary
Sharing some secret moments together... My respect to the cheerful supporters young and old at the breaking ceremony of the 8th ASEAN Para Games at Marina Bay Singapore.
Inspired by their acts of community support for the event.
I am not an official photographer. Just happen to cruise by and capture some happy moments of the opening.
The smiles and cheerful volunteers from all age groups light up a wonderful start for the 8th ASEAN Para Games event. One up for Singapore!
Visit aseanparagames2015.com for their latest news and updates
Transition effects from my flickr images created by "singaporeology.com" View it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ7r0T6ChYo
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Times are tough and we have just the salve to fix your need for speed. Darwin Motorcycles, manufacturer of old school cool Bobbers & Choppers, has just completed the 2008 Bikernet / IronWorks Magazine / Brass Balls Bobbers’ Digger and you could win this bad boy… Just logon to www.ironworksmag.com.
It has the best high-performance components and includes everything you need and nothing you don’t.
Each company that got involved with the Brass Balls Bobbers/IronWorks giveaway project provided us with their premium components. For example, D&D Exhaust custom fit three sets of performance pipes in order to get the pipe that hits the horsepower numbers and provides a show quality look. Baker provided us with their first PowerBox transmission and boy does it work sweet. So the digger has all the good stuff and it could be yours to blast to your local watering hole or sit in your den. Chekout www.brassballsbobbers.com.
I will be away from June 28 - July 15 (both days inclusive). While you might see me logon to SL with my super old lappy sometimes but I will not be blogging during this period.
Depending on the volume I have to catch up after returning, I might not be able to blog for some in the month of July and would like to ask for your understanding.
Details of style here! - World of Ai Hienrichs - Vacation, here I come!/
Roland Doré, architecte et sculpteur de pierre landernéen du 17ème siècle, se distingue par la forte expressivité de ses personnages résultant d'une grande maîtrise d'exécution, mais aussi d'une liberté d'inspiration et d'une créativité peu communes à l'époque . Ses œuvres, reconnaissables entre toutes, se rencontrent essentiellement dans le Finistère, en particulier dans le Léon. © glemoigne.
www.flickr.com/photos/glemoigne/sets/72157622183024533/
Logonna-Daoulas, croix de Ruliver, à l'entrée du bourg (atlas Castel 1237).
Southern Strobist Club meet 18th April 2010 @ California Barn, Swanage, UK
Model - Emma Sutton
MUA's Racheal Platt ,Nicola Redman , Kristie Moles
Big thanks to Lotty for supplying all the wonderfull clothes.
Nikon D300 (manual, Srgb) iso 200 f/5.6 1/250th
Lens Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 (DX=62mm (FX=93mm))
Elinchrom Quadra fitted with a 1m Rotalux softbox with diffuser
as main key light to right of model. power adjusted to achieve
an f/5.6 stop. Rotalux also fitted with Gold deflector
SB-800 set behind model within the barn and gridded to give a slight hair light
Lastolite Tri-Flip with sunfire reflector used to add some colour/tone to the models
Face...
All triggered via elinchrom skyport.
Sekonic Flash master L-358 used to take the light measurements....
Post Edit in Photoshop CS4
Many thanks to Howard from Southern strobists for setting the event up and the many models and MUA's for all the hard work & my two team mates Andy & Graham for making the day a buzz.......
Moleskine Trade Show Covering Products for 2011
Today I spent a wonderful morning in a great exhibition space organized by Working Unit (the Moleskine Asia people). This is by far the best Moleskine trade exhibition I've ever visited, I couldn't believe I spent 3.5 hours there. The following video was shot and edited on iPhone so that you can have a quick look at what are to be offered in 2011. Better photos will be uploaded soon.
The most waited for and probably going to be sold most is writing series IMHO. Refillable ABS matte black finished, the roller pen has a special rubberized metal clip for attaching to the cover of your M. It works great for both classic and reporter notebooks. Basically you don't remove the cap from the notebook, just pull the pen out and start writing, no need to worry losing the cap coz it hang on to the cover pretty strongly.
Fine tip at 0.5mm, medium tip at 0.7mm, the refills come in 6 different colors: black, blue, green, red, violet and brown. Its a pity for 0.5mm tip, you only have black and blue color to choose from. I personally love the dark brown color, wish they would make it to 0.5mm as well. If you plan to get a few roller pens with different color refills, there is a way to distinguish between them since each pen comes with 24 adhesive labels with different patterns. There is a spring at the end of the pen barrel so your refill is "springy" when in use, it is supposed to give you a smooth writing experience, but the feature sounds a bit trivial when comparing to typical Japanese writing instruments.
Sold separately is this "3 slip-on grips + pen holder" accessories set. To me it looks bulky to carry 3 already thick pens on a notebook, but it works, not exactly sleek but its functional. I can't help thinking about UNI's StyleFit or Pilot's Colleto which can accommodate 4-5 refills plus mechanical pencil in one single barrel about the same size as this pen. But I guess a Moleskine pen is not interested in competing in that direction, besides it is somewhat cool to accept being simple. Well, back to the pen holder, you simply snap the pens on the grooves that's it. Great to carry 1 pencil and two rollers. I hate the rubber sleeve though, how it destroys the contour of a perfectly matched rectangular round cornered aesthetic. But guess what, you may really need the rubber. Because of the clean barrel design, I have a tendency to constantly re-adjust my pen holding position, up and down, up and down, almost like I couldn't find the correct way to hold the pen, that is until I slipped the rubber on. Try and you'll see what I mean.
The metal roller pen in silver feels solid, a handsome matte grey lacquered brass and aluminum surface looks sharp on black notebooks. As with the ABS roller pens, I wish the cap and clip is a single piece of cast or at least looks like one, that would make an even cleaner signature IMHO.
The "2 pencils + cap + sharpener" set is surprise. The 2B graphite at 3mm diameter is actually very good for sketching, the broad cedar wood body gives you a firm grip even without a rubber sleeve, especially when you hold the pencil sketching horizontally using the lead's widest surface. The sharpener of 12.5mm opening operates smoothly. I assume I can use this pencil until its last inch without much need of a pencil extender.
I've covered the Writing series above. For Reading and Traveling series, which consists of reading glasses, booklight, reading stand, backpacks, tote bags, etc., it takes time to actually use the products in order to give an honest review, besides I don't have them with me, so I'll just give you a surface remark :) They all look handsome and smart. Usability and quality, I can't tell.
Now that Moleskine is venturing away from a pure notebook brand, the concepts encompassing these new categories becomes so much more important, in order not to loose focus. I think the Reading, Writing, Traveling concepts works pretty well together, in addition to Organizing, the brand has a sound approach to expansion. This direction also gives retailers much more opportunities to explore new grounds. The past two years we tried to create box sets for Christmas but the response was, as expected, not encouraging, after all, these box sets were just boxes of notebooks. But now it gets more interesting when new product ranges compliment the notebook category, finally some meaningful box sets came out.
Writing Set: 1 pocket black ruled notebook, 1 ABS roller pen with cap
Drawing Set: 1 pocket black sketchbook, 2 pencils, 1 sharpener, 1 cap
Gourmet Box: 1 recipe journal, 1 wine journal, 20 gourmet notes for food tasting, 20 coaster notes for wine tasting
Gardening Box: 1 gardening journal, 1 gardening pocket, 12 seeds envelopes
Travel Box: 1 travel journal, 2 luggage tags
I'm sure there will be more interesting sets to come in the future.
As for the Organizing series, Peanuts limited edition found its way to the 2012 diaries! Here in Hong Kong, The Little Prince limited edition sold much much more than Peanuts, but I heard that customers in Japan love Peanuts far more than the rest of Asia, which probably explains such addition. 4 SKU will be released, weekly and daily, both in pocket and large size. Cahier also made into the Organizing series, I love these thin diaries, you can be really flexible adding them to your pocket size notebook or simply use it individually.
Finally, Star Wars limited edition! Gee, soon after I posted this photo on twitter, I got quite a number of retweets, proves to be popular :)
We had a great time today in the show, thanks to Arnault and Carlos, the two heads of Working Unit. Always a pleasure for city'supre/LOG-ON to work with these guys and their teams. And somehow in this show, I was being interviewed as a die hard Moleskine fan by Phoenix TV :)
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Monuments historiques: PA00089925
Address entered in the Mérimée database:
Grève (rue de la); General-de-Gaulle (rue du)
29590 Le Faou - France
Insee code of the municipality: 29053
Finistère [29] - Quimper - Brittany
Approximate address taken from GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude):
1 Rue du Général de Gaulle 29590 Le Faou
Protected elements:
Church (cad. 1999 AE 20): registration by decree of June 3, 1932
History:
The church consists of a nave, a wide double transept, a three-sided apse and gables. To the south, a large porch bears the dates of 1593 and 1613. The bell tower, openwork and elongated, is cushioned by a lantern dome and bears the dates of 1629, 1630, 1634 and 1640.
Periods of construction:
16th century, 17th century
The Saint-Sauveur church was rebuilt between 1544 and 1680 but retained the furniture of the previous church. And some parts are graded. In particular the “snakes” baptismal font, made of Kersanton stone, considered to be of exceptional interest, and a magnificent stone pietà. The stained glass windows recounting the legendary foundation of the parish, the altar of the rosary and the medallions illustrating the "joyful, glorious, painful mysteries", the Saint-Antoine altar with turrets, that of the "four women", the panels with angels and the carved wooden candlesticks from the 17th century... The church contains many treasures!
Logonna Stone
Illustrated explanatory panels (made by the Ar Faou association) evoke the history of the church and its heritage The exterior is also very beautiful: the Logonna stone gives the building a golden hue associated with the Kersanton stone for the statuary elements. You can also see beautiful gargoyles. And the porch protects the wooden statues of the 12 apostles. Finally, the steeple is domed, unlike the other pointed steeples. The church is open every day, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and you can get an explanatory booklet for the visit, at the entrance.
Here comes some stationery porns.
Lazy me did went to ISOT 2010, THE most exciting stationery show in the world IMHO, but I didn't post any report as diligently as Mr. Tadashi Tsuchihashi (土橋 正), who is a professional stationery commentator, writer and published several books and maintains a blog called Pen-info.jp.
(name card holder and albums in cassette tapes outlook, by Artemis)
Tsuchihasi san have just posted a 4 pages long report of the show, featuring things he captured in his short visit. While I was featured on page 4, I figured I should've done something here. So I looked at the pictures I took and found a very different approach to the show. I have a feeling that he sees things more widely and pragmatically, while I tend to be emotional and go with the flow. Simply look at the differences I learned a lot.
(Eiffel Tower pen holder for your notebook, by Marks)
(Masking tapes for your scrapbook projects, by Marks)
(Traveler's Notebook diary version with stickers and usage guide, by Designphil)
(Pen style compass and scissors, by RayMay)
Thank you Tsuchihashi san for gifting me the latest book you wrote!
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Pony Brown's Visit to Hong Kong
We had a great time with Pony Brown's president, illustrator and the translator when they visited our Korean Stationery fair and met their fans in Hong Kong. I was particularly happy to be able to chat with as many fans as possible, they all love the postive messages and cuteness of the main character. One of the fan was upsetted by something this very morning, but when she found out Pony Brown's presence and came, she felt way better. That's why we love to bring positive energy and pleasure through these events.
Contrary to many's perception, the person behind this cute character is a tall handsome hard-bodied guy Mr. Oh. You can pretty much see the similarity of him and the character, cool from the outside, bright and positive but sometimes shy within. We were expecting him to just give out signatures on postcards but for each of the fans whom came, he drew something special and worked very hard in details to make every stroke counts. I believe fans were not disappointed, at all!
After the event today, we've brought the Pony Brown team to a seafood restaurant in Lei Yue Mun (鯉魚門) tonight and enjoyed a great time chit chatting. What a lovely evening, nice weather too.
Last year when I visited Seoul, I found out their project with a Korean music instrument brand called Countess. Upon Countess' request they made these lovely Ukulele prototypes! They are finally available in music instrument stores in Korea now. Excited about this cross over with music, Mr. Oh brought along 2 Ukulele so that we can gift them to Pony Brown fans through a small competition.
So far, Pony Brown is the most successful Korean brand we've brought to Hong Kong, I hope in the future we will have a lot more collaborations and bring more happiness, no matter how tiny, to many.
Realizing the hard work Mr. Oh and the team went through.... you know what, for the past few weeks they've only slept for 2 hours every single day, working hard on projects, so we admire a lot of the Korean speed and dedication really..... last night I decided to make personal gift to them, leather jackets for Cricket lighters, embossed with "PONY BROWN" and "city'super stationery" on them. Took me hours to design and made, until 4am, but I'm happy that it was a perfect gift for them. Looking forward to more PONY BROWN stuffs!
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Logonna-Daoulas, sorry, no geotag.
- Où donc avez-vous attrapé toutes ces mycoses ?
- Désolé docteur, un véritable amateur ne révèle pas ses coins à champignons.
Philippe Gelück, Le Chat.
Dédié à Mathgon
Celebrating the Extraordinary
I am good to go without a shooting permit. There will be no fines today... My respect to the cheerful supporters young and old at the breaking ceremony of the 8th ASEAN Para Games at Marina Bay Singapore.
Inspired by their acts of community support for the event.
I am not an official photographer. Just happen to cruise by and capture some happy moments of the opening.
The smiles and cheerful volunteers from all age groups light up a wonderful start for the 8th ASEAN Para Games event. One up for Singapore!
Visit aseanparagames2015.com for their latest news and updates
Transition effects from my flickr images created by "singaporeology.com" View it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ7r0T6ChYo
Logon to singaporeology.com, a NEW Tourism Blog created by a team of Expats living here in Singapore. Fully supported with images from my stream.
PONY BROWN - My Little Friend, Korean Stationery
My lack of post is only the evidence of more amazing stationery adventures coming up, this time Korean stationery. Yes it was crazily busy to implement yet another successful year of Back To School promotion in city'super/LOG-ON, yes there is the preparation of Xmas 2010 and an upcoming new store in Langham Place in November, but all these melt when I was in Seoul last week looking at the innovations from some of the most creative souls in the world.
PONY BROWN is a new Korean stationery brand only started since 2008. The key character which has no name, gained popularity in our Hong Kong market. According to the creative pair Mrs. Lee the owner and Mr. Oh the designer, the name PONY BROWN is not the name of the character at all, it came from Mr. Oh's birth year zodiac as a horse thus PONY and his love of brown color.
I had a great time spent in PONY BROWN's house, a 2 stories tranquil cat heaven in the middle of Seoul. It has all the elements I love right there, great sunlight, woody, quiet and space to think and relax while connectivity is not a problem at all.
As for why the main character has no name, Mr. Oh told me that the idea is to have people loving the character fuse their life and spirit with the character's attitude, to be bright and positive with attitude. The super cute character has a nick name though, since the series is called "My Little Friend", in Korean language fusioning with English, the character is called "Mylipu" (My Little Pu, "Pu" means friend in Korean).
The most popular items we sell at city'super/LOGO-ON of PONY BROWN is their free diary. They have just released some new post-it and diary stickies which will be in Hong Kong market soon. Lastly, we have worked with PONY BROWN to prepare a super attractive Xmas gift set with very nice packaging for the season, stay tuned!
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After secretly injecting my personal interest of photography in our merchandising for the past 4 years, I was finally granted to have such a real section in the new APM LOG-ON store. If I were to propose such section on day 1, it wouldn't be approved, it would be subjected to a series of scrutiny, inquiry, doubts and attacks, eventually became an unfinished project on corporate earth.
I'm thankful even though it takes time for them. But in the process I figured all forces mysteriously working together towards this hidden agenda, mysteriously! Through numerous small projects, vendors getting more mature, customer showing more interests, higher standard is achieved..... I'm intrigued. All these require just one single binding force of good will and aspiration. Well, it is no big achievement but for myself it is rewarding enough.
The Photography retail business on earth is amazingly boring. You want a camera you walk into a camera shop, you want something printed you go to a lab, you want gadgets you go back to a camera shop. There is no CONTENT and sharing in all of them. On the surface, if you go to this Photography section of ours, it can appear all too commercial, composed with brands like Lomography, KOLO, Canon, Fuji Film, Umbra, etc. But look, there are people behind these brands working hard to bring out the fun and aesthetics to everyday lives. What's lacking in this industry is just a place to find and share contents. I'm not saying this very section is in its ultimate form, but it is a start, a very primitive start.
If you remember the "Our Last Polaroids" event last year (community photos here, here, here, here, here, here and here), it is the best memory I got in this journey. The online and offline community worked hand in hand to pull off this 2 week exhibition and gathering. It is the nearest form of the ultimate Photography gathering space in my mind.
Well back to reality. The most appealing thing about this area is that it is not a camera shop or lab. I gathered quite a few things related to analog, film, album, frame, photography, polaroid camera and films, lighters, key chains, instax, lomo, superheadz, prisms, etc. You can say it is a collage in retail form. Again, I'm not proud of its current state yet, I'm only proud of the process. So there's still a lot to do.
BTW, FujiFilm Hong Kong gave us great support recently. They made us this little Instax town display for our new store launch. Very creative use of instax film on paper made figures! How lovely.
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19 photographies ont été chargées, ne vous limitez pas aux 5 premières !
Sur le sillon . La chapelle N-D de Rocamadour ( www.petit-patrimoine.com/fiche-petit-patrimoine.php?id_pp... ) . Construite en grès jaune de Logonna .
Camaret, Presqu'île de Crozon, Finistère, Bretagne, France .
Photographie J-P Leroy, tous droits réservés .
I brought a 2010 diary eventually, despite hundreds of styles we offer in our stores, I couldn't choose one I like so eventually I settled to make my choice regardless of the cover design, just the content. And I love Alife Design's content best, it has a vague resemblance of NAVA Design's font and layout which I also love. Yup, I gave up using Moleskine diary, couldn't find the layout design beauty out of it.
Much the same as how I did a 1Q84 book cover (in progress, book one finished), I used scrap paper bag, butter paper, MT masking tapes, stamps and photos printed on coarse paper to create a collage cover I like. It is durable enough for parts where butter paper is glued onto the surface.
The beauty of a collaged cover is that it ages well :). You don't have to worry too much about protecting its appearance coz you already accepted that battered look as a design. Fixing peeling corners is easy, just stick something no it by tapes.
The problem with Alife Design's diary is that it lacks a bookmark, but this can be easily fixed by gluing a ribbon to the spine. I chose to fix a soft leather strip on the back page which looks more like a real bookmark to me. I looooove this diary ;)
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Celebrating the Extraordinary
Keeping everyone alive with his supply of water... My respect to the cheerful supporters young and old at the breaking ceremony of the 8th ASEAN Para Games at Marina Bay Singapore.
Inspired by their acts of community support for the event.
I am not an official photographer. Just happen to cruise by and capture some happy moments of the opening.
The smiles and cheerful volunteers from all age groups light up a wonderful start for the 8th ASEAN Para Games event.
Visit aseanparagames2015.com for their latest news and updates
Logon to singaporeology.com, a NEW Tourism Blog created by a team of Expats living here in Singapore. Fully supported with images from my stream.
One of the cool thing about KOLO's refillable travel book called Essex is that you can actually archive the thinner refill onto a larger album. This way you will have an album showing selected photos as well as the actual journal you used when you were traveling.
Some of us like to stick everything collected in trip to a thicker journal, write a lot and never miss a thing. This creates bulky books and may not be a good sight on a nice clean shelf. KOLO's Essex however invites you to strip things down to the essentials and keep things simple and elegant, just like the usual KOLO aesthetic which brings out your content (photo and text) while the album itself becomes a nice decor.
Travel/Photo journaling style is really a personal choice. I love to create junks and think back later what really happened. On the other hand, I admire clean looks. Perhaps a lot of small/thin refill notebooks filed into a clean album with selected photos is the solution to satisfy both wishes. I'll explore more.
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Traveler's Press - Is "What's in My Bag" Really That Interesting?
Yes I switch gears quite often so in any given day you pick, chances are my bag's content can be entirely different. And that is interesting to me and perhaps to many people too. I decided to do "What's in my bag" posts once in a while but the last one was already August 2009, the Seminar Edition. So here you go, what's in my bag in Feb/Mar 2010.
Well click on the photo to go to the Flickr page and see more precise descriptions on the photo, previous gears are shown in this flickr set in case you want to explore more. I was traveling to Tokyo and Korea for business and these were all I needed:
Orobianco pen case, Pentel Tradio pen, Staedtler mechanical pencil, Faber Castell perfect pencil wrapped with black MT tape, Canon F1 50mm/f1.2 camera, Pilot capless fountain pen, mind.Depositor 3 with Maruman Mnemosyne, Shiny handy stamp, Kokuyo kadokeshi eraser, Monogram leather film holder, lip balm wrapped in masking tape, paper clips, book dart etc, USB memory customized with leather cover and closure, Midori brass numbered clips, Name card case with dart flight closure, Midori brass ruler, Midori Traveler's notebook, Passport cover, Midori brass pencil.
Midori/Designphil asked me to show what's in my bag back in Feb when they were planning a "TRAVELER's notebook & company" event in Aoyama. Eventually the photo and my tips to age brass items were included in the Traveler's Press which was being sold at 320 yen at the event. It looks like a very interesting event with limited edition brass pen with Traveler's Notebook logo, charms, wooden stand, calendar, postcards along side with vintage goods such as tin can, match boxes, etc. They even have a coffee bean partner creating a special Traveler's Notebook blend so customers can enjoy a cup of coffee with their notebook after the event. As usual, I wish I were there to experience everything.
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I brought a 2010 diary eventually, despite hundreds of styles we offer in our stores, I couldn't choose one I like so eventually I settled to make my choice regardless of the cover design, just the content. And I love Alife Design's content best, it has a vague resemblance of NAVA Design's font and layout which I also love. Yup, I gave up using Moleskine diary, couldn't find the layout design beauty out of it.
Much the same as how I did a 1Q84 book cover (in progress, book one finished), I used scrap paper bag, butter paper, MT masking tapes, stamps and photos printed on coarse paper to create a collage cover I like. It is durable enough for parts where butter paper is glued onto the surface.
The beauty of a collaged cover is that it ages well :). You don't have to worry too much about protecting its appearance coz you already accepted that battered look as a design. Fixing peeling corners is easy, just stick something no it by tapes.
The problem with Alife Design's diary is that it lacks a bookmark, but this can be easily fixed by gluing a ribbon to the spine. I chose to fix a soft leather strip on the back page which looks more like a real bookmark to me. I looooove this diary ;)
More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/collaged-diary-cover-ages-...
Twelve South Book Book for iPhone - now with camera hole and holds a stylus
Twelve South makes amazing products just for Mac, this time the Book Book vintage series has a super nice addition, an iPhone case + Wallet. I love everything about it, except that it doesn't have a camera hole. So I made one myself, pretty easy and straight forward. I also found it convenient to insert a Midori brass pen (which I converted into a stylus in my previous DIY leather/wood case) into the credit card pocket. Here's some photos to share.
Now it is perfectly functional and handsome. I decided however it is not suitable to hold money in it, coz it would be too bulky. So I put only 4 credit cards and two access cards in the pockets, that's the maximum I think it should hold.
For a detailed review, check out this video from iDownloadblog.com
Also check out the Twelve South video of the Book Book for iPhone case.
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An amazing exhibition held in Hiroshima! I absolutely knew nothing about it except that Kamoi (the principle of MT Tapes) forwarded to me these cool images.
Good friend of mine Wang san from Kamoi told me about this great event not long ago and I wasn't able to imagine what is going on until I received these images. Mass customization on a tram in Hiroshima!
And it seems not only a tram was customized but also a waterfront corridor....
and an exhibition space....
and a few more unique stuffs like these Hiroshima Electric Railway tapes :)
Well, I'm hoping to bring this whole thing to Hong Kong and do a Hong Kong Tram show off to the world, what do you think? Excited! Check out more photos of the event here on my flickr set.
BTW, I have to tell you this, there have been a lot of companies in US and Japan in the past year to copy what Kamoi MT Tapes is doing, but they are no match of its quality really. The leader (and the winner of this year's ISOT stationery award in Japan too) is definitely MT Tapes. You will notice of the quality of the glue they use once you tried others.
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The metro marvel, Gurgaon is not only gaining momentum for a gamut of multinational companies, fast life, and classy lifestyle but the town is being raved about the continual growth and development. For an advanced tomorrow, Gurgaon’s new travelling space is glad to turn every day into a nice experience. Rapid Metro is what brings the next level of convenience to those who up down on a regular basis.
It never was this easy to reach office in couple of minutes with no hassle of hiring auto-rickshaw or boarding intercity buses. Not only that! The most annoying part traffic is now kept at bay. The arrival of Rapid Metro in November, 2013 turns out to be a great help for people by Rapid Metro Rail Gurgaon Limited. The system is country’s first fully privately financed metro.
Rapid Metro, Gurgaon promises to connect National Highway-8 and Delhi Metro via Cyber City. So, whether you want to know how to travel in Gurgaon at a cheaper price or looking for Rapid Metro route, this post will help you either way. Rapid Metro covers the following 6 metro stations:
Sikanderpur
DLF Phase II
Vodafone Belvedere Towers
IndusInd Bank Cyber City
Micromax Moulsari Avenue
DLF Phase III
Where to Catch the Metro From
In order to travel in Gurgaon by Metro, you board the train at Huda City Centre (the first station) or at your nearby station.
For Rapid Metro, change at Sikanderpur station and board the train by using the same card or token.
Now follow the aforementioned station structure. Get off at your destination.
How to Reach Cyber Hub
Take the train at Sikanderpur station to IndusInd Bank Cyber City station. Walk and there you go!
How to Reach Ambience Mall
Travel from Sikanderpur station to Moulsari Avenue station, take a walk of 5 minutes. Ambi Mall is right there!
Here, we are listing the benefits and features Rapid Metro comes with, read on.
Statistics say that traffic is one of the major reasons of stress in large cities. Travelling by Rapid Metro keeps you away from traffic. Whether you want to step in Ambience Mall, Cyber Hub or nearby spots, hit your place with no stress of traffic.
Colourful from outside, nicer & cleaner from inside, Rapid Metro provides a better experience. Moreover, you can use Delhi Metro smart card or token for Rapid Metro as well.
There are LCD’s inside the metro.
The Moulsari Avenue Station, particularly at night, offers a nice view of the entire area.
Proper lightening and instructions at metro stations add to the goodness of the system.
Water Camper is available at Sikanderpur and IndusInd Bank Cyber City stations.
Flat fare is just Rs. 20. Thus, Rapid Metro provides you a greatly affordable solution.
For those who love to eat, chat, and sway on every weekend at Ambi, it is the cheapest way to travel to Ambience Mall.
Rapid Metro service starts at 6.05 AM and runs till 12.36 AM. Every next train arrives at the interval of 4 minutes.
For detailed information, please logon to www.rapidmetrogurgaon.com.
Helpful Tips:
In case of any issues, women can reach out the help desk available every rapid metro station.
If you accompany a physically disabled member, take lift. Wheel chair facility is also available.
In emergency, get in touch with driver through ‘press to talk button’ featured inside the coach.
Parking space at metro stations is chargeable.
Have a great experience!
Model - Courtney - purestorm
MUA's - Nicola Redman & Nicola Isles
This was shot using one Studio light fired thru a set of wooden venetian blinds,
and a single reflector used to add some fill light.
Finally, this nice little 135 Twin Lens Reflex plastic camera created from scratch by Superheadz will arrive Hong Kong exclusively at city'super/LOGON in Oct/Nov!
I knew about this from Superheadz since last year and they've been sending prototypes to selected photographers around the world for testing and testing and testing. In addition to their 110 cute cameras, this will make history in the world of toy camera. Drooling to play with it for a long time, finally I received a sample this August. Obviously Superheadz took tremendous effort to make it perfect before they are comfortable giving me a sample to try. I've seen Hiruma san on Tokyo's street talking on the phone in sweat with the manufacturer because of the flood in China back in July, which explains the delay in release.
During this launch, only 3 colors will appear in the market. Black, Orange and Blue. But I've seen other colors in their office back in July, red, brown and yellow. In addition, somewhere on Flickr I saw white too.
The most amazing things I like about BBF is built-in film counter (no more camera backs/adaptors), removable film masks to create sprocket holes effect and square photos, not to mention a hot shoe for flash. Instantly tons of things to play with just like Holga or even more. I'm so glad both LOMO and Superheadz are now deviating their paths further by doing things other than the most popular Holga, differentiating from each other instead of competing with fancy packaging and Holga accessories only. LOMO's new path is with Diana, while Superheadz with 110 cameras and BBF.
The Plastic Lens' Artpunk already has several preview articles about BBF's features here, here and here. Thanks Artpunk!
I've created a "Black Bird Fly" camera and photos Flickr group so if you have photos taken by BBF or photos of your beloved BBF, please go there and share/discuss! I can't wait to see how my photos are developed, will soon share.
More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/black-bird-fly-arrives.html
Check out this IN:SITE article about HOLGA QUEEN as well: courses.washington.edu/insite/wordpress/?p=1310