Aura of Beautiful Taiwan

靈光
作詞：張雨生　作曲：張雨生

我珍藏的記憶　隨風輕撫心靈　我鍾愛的旋律　隨意朗朗行吟
那面泛酡紅的人啊　總是讓我情不自禁
我收覽的美景　閉眼栩栩清晰　我蜷曲的身軀　任暖陽烘曬暈暈
那朱唇白齒的人啊　總是讓我情不自禁

霎時靈光撥弄我心弦　甘美思緒如水瀉
羅網交織出優美側面　擷取這大塊的瞬間

但是窮盡我所擁有　極盡我所能夠　我也沒有把握
去速寫此生在此時此刻的感動　速寫此刻給此心此身的溫柔
速寫此人對此情此景的傾心

如絲如縷的情愛　被精確的 Quantize
至情至性的神采　也被 Digital 取代
那回眸一笑的人啊　依然使我情不自禁

TTT'08 Group Reunion

Les Saisons by Mucha

Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) is most often remembered for the prominent role he played in shaping the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau at the turn of the century. As a struggling and relatively unknown artist of Czech origin living in Paris, Mucha achieved immediate fame when, in December 1894, he accepted a commission to create a poster for one of the greatest actresses of this time, Sarah Bernhardt. Though the printer was apprehensive about submitting Mucha´s final design because of its new unconventional style, Bernhardt loved it and so did the public. ´Le style Mucha´, as Art Nouveau was known in its earliest days, was born. The success of that first poster brought a 6 years contract between Bernhardt and Mucha and in the following years his work for her and others included costumes and stage decorations, designs for magazines and book covers, jewellery and furniture and numerous posters. Mucha returned to Czechoslovakia in 1910, where he dedicated the remainder of his life to the production of a an epic series of 20 paintings depicting the history of the Slav people, the Slav Epic.

Brute-force Cute Cats: Momo & Money

We Swim To Keep Fit

Sisters' Breakfast Store

Who Gonna Hold the End?

Blue-sky Thinking

Help Sen to Select Suitable Equipments

Heart to be led by their hands

Man Power!?

Designing New House

Family Taste

Stars by Chance!

機遇
作詞：趙蔚然　作曲：趙蔚然

你喜歡抬頭看天上的星星嗎？每一顆星星都有一個故事。
在這麼些個星球裡，有一個，我們把他叫做地球的一顆星。
地球上有一個叫做台灣的小島，台灣島上有一個美麗的小鎮。
我要告訴你的，就是這個小鎮上的故事……

像天上繁星　忽現忽隱
像水面帆影　漂流不定
人生的際遇　稍縱即逝
我心嚮往　我心期待　我願追尋

Eyes Will Tell

Panoramic photography

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialised equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio. While there is no formal division between "wide-angle" and "panoramic" photography, "wide angle" normally refers to a type of lens, but this lens type does not necessarily image a panorama. An image made with an ultra wide angle fisheye lenscovering the normal film frame of 1:1.33 is not automatically considered to be a panorama. An image showing a field of view approximating, or greater than, that of the human eye - about 160° by 75° - may be termed panoramic. This generally means it has an aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, the image being at least twice as wide as its height. The resulting images take the form of a wide strip. Some panoramic images have aspect ratios of 4:1 and sometimes 10:1, covering fields of view of up to 360 degrees. Both the aspect ratio and coverage of field are important factors in defining a true panoramic image.

David Chelsea

David Chelsea was born in Portland Oregon in 1959. Educated at the School Of Visual Arts, Parsons Institute and The New York Academy of Art, David has been a commercial artist for over thirty years. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Press, Seattle Weekly, Chicago Tribune, Reader's Digest, Boston Phoenix and Portland Monthly. His celebrity caricatures have decorated the Eight Day Week page in The New York Observer since 1995, and he illustrated the Modern Love column for the New York Times Style section from 2004 to 2008.

A published cartoonist since the age of twelve, David has drawn comics for numerous publications and is the author of the graphic novels David Chelsea In Love, Welcome To The Zone and the how-to book Perspective! For Comic Book Artists, which has become the classic work in its field. Both David Chelsea In Love and Perspective! have recently been translated into French. In recent years David has taken up the challenge devised by Scott McCloud, to draw an entire 24 page comic within 24 hours, a record ten times, and two of these stories have been printed in Top Shelf's collection 24x2. As a natural outgrowth of his comics work, David has been in demand as a storyboard artist, working for advertising clients such as Tyee, Wieden+Kennedy and Hawthorne Direct, and for Whitewater Films on the feature Nearing Grace.

David's work on Perspective! stems from a lifelong interest. He has lectured on the subject at numerous institutions including The University Of Oregon, Pacific Northwest College of Art and Seattles's Gage Academy Of Art. Years ago, David devised his own six point perspective method for painting on spherical objects such as globes and bowling balls, and his spherical paintings are in many private collections. His methods will be explicated in the forthcoming Curvilinear Perspective!, a follow-up to the first book.

David now lives in Portland's historic Irvington's district with his wife Eve, son Benjamin and daughter Rebecca.

Lunch with My Parents

Hey Dude, Let's Go

Pisces's English Group@Starbucks

We Talk About Iron Ladies in Our Relatives

What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, & Marriage

I am a different person than I was four years ago. I'm more optimistic, less judgmental, and have patience to spare. My secret? Not yoga or counseling or “happy” pills. No, my peace of mind comes from observing exotic animal trainers at work teaching sea lions to flip, cougars to walk on leash and baboons to skate board.

For my previous book, I immersed myself in the magical kingdom of the top school for exotic animal trainers. Some time between watching student trainers teach a big cat offer its paw for a nail clipping and a camel to shoot hoops, I had an epiphany: what if I used these training techniques with the human animals in my own life – namely my dear husband Scott. After all, homo sapiens, the highest of the primates, the top of the food chain, are members of the animal kingdom. Trainers showed me that there were universal rules of behavior that cut across species. Why should humans be any different?

So I took the trainers' lessons home. The next time my forgetful husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid car keys, I asked myself, "What would a dolphin trainer do?" The answer was nothing. I had learned that trainers reward the behavior they want and, just as importantly, ignore the behavior they don't. Rather than appease my mate's rising temper by joining in the search, I ignored him. In short order, Scott found his keys and regained his cool. I felt like I should throw him a mackerel.

What started as a goofy experiment had such good results that I kept at it. I began using the training techniques with all the homo sapiens in my life, from my friends to the clerk at the post office. In the world of animal training, I found answers to conundrums of human behavior, such as why I hadn't been able to convince her mother to get a hearing aid. I also found that learning to have more patience and self control from fennec foxes, squirrel monkeys and Harris hawks, made self improvement, for once, engrossing, even fun.

I wrote about my successes for a Modern Love column for the New York Times in June, 2006, My fellow higher primates took note. The column became the most emailed story of the month, and then of 2006. Through the ethers, it even shot around the globe. I did interviews in Spain, Australia, Turkey, and Belgium, among others. In short order I had a book deal. Now after a year of madly writing, thinking, and revising, I hold the book in my hands.

What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage describes my Alice-in-Wonderland experience, how I stumbled into a world where cheetahs walk nicely on leashes, hyenas pirouette on command and baboons skateboard, and left a new person. My story may give you some food for thought, laughs and ways to solve some small problems that aren’t worth a visit to the shrink’s but still nag. Or my tale may change you from head to toe as well.

Tempting Heart

心動了
作詞：姚謙　作曲：伍思凱　編曲：伍思凱

接近一股勇氣成形的時候　往往內心卻最軟弱
完成一個選擇決定的時候　往往心中恐懼最多
我心中有兩個我　常常都在爭鬥
遊走在現實和理想的兩頭　眼看著天都亮了

我和堅強握手　我又和矛盾碰頭　因為有夢就在前頭
想要追逐天際的彩虹　又怕希望終究會落空　心動了　忍不住的我

我和從前分手　我又和冒險碰頭　因為地球不停轉動
癡癡望著你柔柔眼眸　傻傻看著你淺淺笑容　心動了　忍不住的我　心動了

將來你會像現在的我　歷經歡喜悲傷　為了愛瘋狂　為了情神傷
將來你會像現在的我　要作很多選擇　為了夢心動　為矛盾無措

Cat King

Anti-gravity Lean

The effect in the video when Jackson and the dancers lean forward a seemingly impossible distance was achieved using special harnesses with wires and magnets. It was desired to replicate this effect for Jackson's stage show, but it would have been more obvious and cumbersome to use wire harnesses in a live performance. Jackson and his team devised an alternative way to achieve the effect on stage. The props needed for their technique were patented in the United States by Jackson in 1993,^[6] and consist of pegs that rise from the stage at the appropriate moment, and special shoes with ankle supports and cutouts in the heels which can slide over the pegs and be thereby attached to the stage temporarily. These allow the performers to lean without needing to keep their centers of gravity directly over their feet. This patent expired on December 20th, 2005 due to failure to pay its maintenance fee.

Cloudscapes

Sweet-in-Heart Reunion!

Ultrasonic cleaning My Glass

An ultrasonic cleaner, often colloquially referred to as a sonicator, is a cleaning device that uses ultrasound (usually from 15–400 kHz) and an appropriate cleaning solution to clean delicate items. The ultrasound is not effective without the cleaning solution; it enhances the effect of a solution appropriate for the item to be cleaned and the soiling. They are often employed for cleaning of jewelery, lenses and other optical parts, coins, watches, dental and surgical instruments, fountain pens, industrial parts and electronic equipment. In everyday use such devices may be found in use in most jewelry workshops, watchmakers establishments, or in cellular phone repair workshops (where it could be used for cleaning a phone that has been exposed to enough moisture to hinder its operation). After conclusive studies, ultrasonic cleaning system proves to be more effective compared to other cleaning systems used in the medical field.

Spray Irrigation

Jacko in the Clouds

'Michael Jackson' in the Clouds Over NYC

• ARUN KRISTIAN DAS

MYFOXNY.COM - Is Michael Jackson smiling down on the people of New York?

Fox 5 viewers Rolando Rivera and Felicita Diaz-Rivera of the Upper West Side were admiring the amazing light and clouds that emerged after a thunderstorm passed through the tristate.

That is when they noticed that one section of the clouds seemed to take on a familiar face. Rolando took a series of photos (see photo tab), which show a cloud formation coalescing into Michael Jackson's profile -- or maybe not.

Can you see his face? Vote in our Web poll (see poll tab).

Rolando and Felicita saw this scene from the window of their apartment near Amsterdam Avenue and 101st Street.

Perhaps Michael was trying to catch a glimpse at the scores of people gathered at the Apollo Theater in nearby Harlem to pay tribute to the King of Pop, who died suddenly in Los Angeles Thursday.