Editor’s note: This post is in Chinese only.
這幾天返早班，下班後都不太想立即回家，而是想到處逛逛，在咖啡店裏寫Blog、消磨時光。
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Category Archives: Style
Lomography: Capturing daily life with style
My very first Lomography prints
On April, Lomography Hong Kong held a roadshow for the first time at Times Square. I have long been interested joining as a Lomographer since it’s product seen at CitySuper stores and the interest is further fueled with Instagram – the iPhone app and an Internet community sharing “lomo” like photos.
This exhibition gave me an opportunity to learn more about the Lomography community in Hong Kong and has landed me the first Lomo camera: The Lomo LC-A+. It’s a top-of-line Lomo camera at the time I purchased, now replaced by the flagship Lomo LC-Wide.
The Lomo LC-A+ camera is created in honor the very original Russian made Lomo LC-A camera debuted in 1984. With the camera, it’s most important feature is the Russian made lens, as subsequent models are with lens made in China (this might not view as a big deal to many, but it does has differences in terms of picture texture); besides the lens, it uses 35mm film, with 4-step focus selection, fully-automatic exposure detection and multiple exposure. Photos taken with this camera are famous for it’s slightly-dark-and-blurry edges and unexpected color textures.
I’ve chosen this camera over the other likes including the Diana-F or Sprocket Rocket because of: 1. It’s smaller size; 2. Ease of use; 3. the Multiple Exposure feature; 4. The ability to install an instant-back for instant photos; 5. and in terms of art I will have the unexpected colors for every pictures I took with this camera.
The Lomo LC-A+ camera is come packaged with a nice wooden “crate”, along with a very-thick Lomo LC-A+ book, cable release, and two rolls of 35mm film. Here’s some unboxing photos of my camera:
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Talking back to Lomography, what is it? In the world nowadays when almost everything’s being dominated by digital, people including me starting to miss the heritages: just like when people now wanted to preserve old buildings; that’s no exception to photos and that’s what Lomography’s all about – fronting the analogue film photography and it’s “unexpected” nature when taking photos. And there has “Ten Golden Rules” of Lomography:
- Take your camera everywhere you go
- Use it any time – day and night
- Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it
- Try the shot from the hip
- Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible
- Don’t think (william firebrace)
- Be fast
- You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film
- Afterwards either
- Don’t worry about any rules
To know more Lomography, visit the website www.lomography.com
At the mean time, view my first roll of photos taken with the LC-A+ here at Facebook.
#DailyFact: Chris is an Apple maniac.
Posted at KnowMoreChris.com, blog of Chris.
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As I mentioned on a previous blog post, I’m kinda Apple (not the fruit one but the one with a bite) maniac. It’s not just for it’s great design and the cool looking, but I’m loving it’s ease of use – the design with everything peace of mind. When you touch it (say like an iPod touch), you’ll feel it’s shaped right for your hand, the buttons are positioned handy to use. Then turn it on, it’s the polished interface that makes so indulging for you to touch or to manipulate. Every part of each Apple product is almost perfect.
This feeling is not just on me, but as with many other Apple fans around the world.
Home Improvement
Problem: Getting more and more CDs and so need a new space to settle my growing library.
Today is the time for me to fulfill my long-time-plan of improving my room. As a music lover, I purchase new music and CD regularly (like 3 times a month!). That really makes storing the CDs a problem for me. Of course, I’ve imported the music digitally and so you may think I can dump all those physical CDs to trash. If this is true – Why physical CDs are still alive for you to buy? Things still exist are always for a reason: 1. For those oldies who can’t afford or no idea to use digital music; 2. To show off your music tastes; 3. For kinda home decor; 4. Keeping a good memory for yourself; Sure the first reason is not for me, but the rest are really true to myself.
Straight to the main topic of this post: To overcome my problem, I’ve decided to purchase the IKEA “Lerberg” CD/DVD racks, fix them on to a wall in my room that-really-useless-before. It’s really a simple design: some metal frames, smartly uses the wall to help to rack CDs in.
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I Like… IKEA and MUJI
My room's filled with IKEA and MUJI stuffs, like the wardrobe and the hanging calendar pictured.
This time I would like to share about the two lifestyle brands I liked most – Sweden’s IKEA and Japan’s MUJI.
I consider myself as a minimalist. Through in my lifestyle I often causes things into a mess, but I do have a mind to tidy things up regularly. And these two brands’ products are just perfectly matched my needs.
IKEA logo from Wikipedia.
Let me talk about IKEA first. Inheriting the love of the brand from my dad, most furniture of my home is purchased from IKEA. It’s famous for it’s Swedish heritage: that is the minimal but functional design, while it’s always good to look at for the products’ lifetime – they never look like outdated.
IKEA has also making world class design furnitures more affortable then ever.
Even I’m not buying anything, I’m still enjoy hanging out at IKEA stores just to waste time but enriching my tastes on style.
MUJI logo from Wikipedia.
Then is MUJI, the Japanese brand Hong Kongers has been loved since it’s introduction in Hong Kong since 1991. Me and most people of Hong Kong love it’s wide range minimalist products: from stationery to couches. We loved it’s design features no brands and the use of natual colours – Acrylic and wood.
I Like… Hunting apparel
This week has been driving myself nuts…
I’ve decided to do a change on my style but it’s a bit of struggle on which path of fashion I should go. It’s so frustrating for me. Even my friends are all frustrated too, they’ve been thought very hard to help me, but I’m just can’t get it… don’t have the braveness to try.
Anyway… Let me share where I usually shop my apparel at.
H&M
H&M is my favourite. It’s affordable and it’s up-to-date. I think it’s items are easy to match. When it open it’s first store in Hong Kong in 2007, I was immediately got obsessed into it. Now I wear H&M for work daily.
American Apparel
Moving into the online world. I also sometime do hunt for apparels online at American Apparel. It’s famous for it’s US-made cotton fabric, especially on Tees. Most of it’s clothing items are plain but colourful, but I will just can’t get everything on my body dressed in American Apparel… coz’ it’s also too gay-themed. I shopped their Tees, accessories and even undies!
Threadless.com
This one is also online but absolutely my most favourite one. This is Threadless.com, based at Chicago, USA. It sells community-designed Tees and Hoodies. New designs come out every week and it’s affordable, so there’s always something new for you to discover. I usually shop from them in summer and shop multiple times – 3 Tees each time… coz’ I really love them!
100% Thanks my best-friends worked so hard to transform this fashion nerd like me…
I Like… The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
Today’s topic I’m gonna to share one of the most influential movie franchise of all time – The Matrix.
I’ve some “strange” preferences when choosing which movie to watch, I always prefer to watch theoretical, philosophical and religious themed films, the other examples of mine are: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Japanese anime franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion…
To be honest, like most people, I was originally really attracted to watch this film because I liked Keanu Reeves and its futuristic theme. But once I watch it, up to the end of the first film, I’ve found many unanswered questions: What The Matrix actually is? What’s Zion? Why Neo (Keanu Reeves) is being chosen as “The One”? and What’s that scrolling green texts? And that’s the time I began obsessed in the digital world, nonetheless I would watch the following 2 films and The Animatrix to have a better understanding the theories.
The music of the Matrix is also noteworthy. The soundtrack has brought several Electro big names to the mainstream: Rob Dougan, Juno Reactor, P.O.D., Rage Against the Machine and Marilyn Manson.
Juno Reactor – Navras
Rage Against the Machine – Wake Up
The Matrix as I’m – The Hope for a new world.
I Like… Philippe Starck
Welcome to the twenty-ten. As mentioned in my last post, I will share what I like on anything. Starting from this post, I will share 23 items on anything I like, right up to my 23rd birthday on May 17. I hope these pieces of puzzles could let everyone to know more about me when they become a full picture on my birthday. Anyway remember stay tuned to my blog to get the next piece of puzzle every 6 days.
The first up is the designer I liked most, Philippe Starck. (www.starck.com).
http://www.starck.com
I really forgotten when I was first to know about him, that might be at the time I bought the first watch designed by Starck. I am impressed by his minimalist design that really match in my lifestyle – willing to be clean and neat, through maintaining that neatness is another problem.
My StARCK watches at a glance.
StARCK
Philippe Starck is a French designer, who is designing for almost everything, from as little as a toothbrush to as big as a hotel. There’s already lots of his work in Hong Kong, like the JIA boutique hotel at Causeway Bay (which is the first hotel designed by Starck!), and The Felix bar and restaurant right at the top level of The Peninsula Hotel. He has given a talk at TED.com about the inspirations behind his impressive design works, check it out because he’s really a funny French man.
To know more about Philippe Starck and his works, visit www.starck.com.
