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| Sunday, 22-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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SanYa Vacation
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| Saturday, 21-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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THE FLIGHT DELAYED TILL MY BIRTHDAY
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| Friday, 20-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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Yuyin Garden
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Yuyin Garden was built in 1867, Qing Dynasty, when emperor Tongzhi reigned over the country. The former owner of the garden was Wu Min, a successful candidate in the imperial examination at the provincial level in the Qing Dynasty.
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| Thursday, 19-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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ARATA ISOZAKI
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Arata Isozaki was born in 1931 in Oita, Japan. He is one of several Japanese architects that have become internationally known for their outstanding architecture. He attended Tokyo University and later worked and studied under Kenzo Tange. In 1963 he opened his own practice in Oita, Japan. Most of his work has been completed in Japan though he has ventured into other cultures.
His boldness of form and color, his inventiveness and careful detailing have become a Isozaki trademark. Like other architects of Japan his spiritually powerful works are culturally influenced. His designs offer subtle irony and often have a definite sense of humor. In an attempt to integrate an imported culture, the west, with traditional beliefs, the ease, his buildings have a connection to the past but are not overcome by this trait. The use of these cultural elements often appear as metaphors that take form of poetics.
His use of simple geometric forms provide a clear structural system and a high level of industrial craftsmanship in detail. He often uses the cube and the grid in minimalist fashions; his work is not arrogant it is simple yet bold. The barrel vaulted roof/ceiling is an Isozaki mainstay. He constructs masses juxtaposed with voids and softens hard edges with curves. He designs with an image in mind, a metaphor that is then transposed into a clean, colorful, pure and cerebral geometry.
Through the use selected materials, textures, colors, and attractive forms his buildings have a strong visual composition that contrast and accents elegantly. He has said, architecture is an architects manipulation of forms."The use of light, forms, and volumes of space may be abstract at times and an abstraction of you mind at others. His works seem to have an underlying meaning, the works are lively and inviting. The interior spaces are very minimalist, the bare essentials and nothing more. A purist composition that offers neutral space to comprehend.
Arata Isozaki designs are very sophisticated and detailed with great care. He sees architecture as a play of pure forms simultaneously containing economic, functional, technical, and a variety of other solutions. His contemporary style of architecture has brought him to the forefront of not only Japanese architecture but into the light of international architecture.
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| Wednesday, 18-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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"ASIAN FIELD" EXHIBITION
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Asian Field exhibition tour is an immense sculptural installation by the eminent British artist Antony Gormley, organised by the British Council. The making of this project actually started in January 03. From Jan 18-22, 200,000 hand sized clay figures were made, under the guidance of the artist, by almost 400 people of all ages from the Huadu District in the north-east of Guangzhou.
Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950, where he still lives and works. He came to prominence with a series of life-size figure sculptures which were moulded from his own body and clad in lead. He later introduced cast-iron and the groupings and configurations were realised on an increasingly enlarged and dramatic scale. He does not consider himself a figurative artist, but views his sculptures as vehicles for universal themes related to the human condition. He has exhibited widely in Britain and abroad and his work is represented in public collections throughout the world. He has undertaken numerous major commissions including, perhaps the best known public sculpture in Great Britain, The Angel of the North, a vast winged figure in Corten steel standing 20 metres high with a wing span of 50 metres. He won the prestigious Turner Prize presented at the Tate Gallery, London in 1994.
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| Tuesday, 17-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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GIFTS AGAIN,THANKS A LOT
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Old 120 camera from Siu
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Camera bag from Shally
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Design book from LB
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| Monday, 16-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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I BELIEVE I CAN FLY
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| Saturday, 14-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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NAN KUN HILL
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| Wednesday, 11-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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MY BIRTHDAY IS AUG 22, BUT I GOT SOME GIFTS TODAY,HAHAH
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TOMMY PERFUME from Cherry and Bryan
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BMW F1 CAP from my sister and her husband
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| Tuesday, 10-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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THE DAY IS SO HOT. AND THE SWIMMING POOL IS CLOSED FOR CLEANING.
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