20080427

CoCoNut@NTU


Dragon Boat@Xiao-Bi-Tan


六月初要有三場划龍舟比賽, 這是在小碧潭的練習場

20080424

品冠漂流到台大 石頭飆吉他

品冠不僅會唱情歌,原來也是木吉他高手,昨天他從台大展開「吉他社漂流之旅」,五月天吉他手石頭特別站台支持,兩人受訪時有一隻蝴蝶不斷在他們頭上飛舞,彷彿也被兩人的吉他功力所吸引。

昨天品冠帶著李宗盛幫他量身訂做,價值15萬的木吉他和台大吉他社學生交流,他和石頭以木吉他與電吉他合作新歌「漂流」,彼此默契十足。品冠還驕傲透露,之前他在上海演唱會上彈奏佛朗明哥吉他後,五月天怪獸還特別向他討教呢!

品冠很希望忙完「那些女孩教我的事」專輯宣傳後,能有一、兩個月的時間到西班牙,好好琢磨佛朗明哥吉他。

(文/陳慧玲 圖/王文麟)

20080422

CloneClouds


Bike 2 NTU

Sentiment

Introduction To Jazz: A Course of Lectures

中央走道第四排綠外套就是小弟我...很愉快的十周~

簡介:因應於2006、2007年講堂課程名額爆滿的成功與熱烈迴響,加上本會於專業爵士樂推廣講座的企劃與執行能力,我們希望再度結合謝啟彬與張凱雅獨 樹一格的互動爵士樂講座,與功學社音樂中心合辦付費場次,規劃深入淺出之聆賞入門講堂,涵蓋爵士樂之各項基本元素及歷史源流、門派風格等,並邀請樂手樂團 至講堂中親身示範,俾使愛樂者於夏日即將到來之多場爵士音樂會中,不但得到感性上的滿足,尚有知性上的充實,課程結束全勤者更將頒發結業證書 。

舉辦方式:每星期四晚上7點至9點,假復興南路功學社大樓12樓音樂廳舉行十場講座,收費方式將採優惠價格套票方式處理,報名者需全程參與,課程結束全勤者將頒發結業證書。即日起開始報名,額滿為止不再增設人數。

20080415

電腦音樂與音訊技術研討會

電腦音樂與音訊技術研討會(WOCMAT2008)又來囉!今年將由國立台南藝術大學應用音樂系主辦,就讓我們拭目以待專門於藝術領域的教授學者們和擅長於高科技領域的教授學者們,將會擦出什麼新火花呢?機會難得!一年只有一次!錯過就要等到明年了!
由於報名人次有限,欲報名速從,以免向隅!
詳情請上官方網站,將有更詳細的資料。
官方網站:http://dijkstra.csie.ncu.edu.tw/wocmat2008/index.php

20080413

TTT07 Intern@CTS

下面列出的作品有些是幫忙拍攝, 有些是幫忙後製, 不過還有部分遺漏的沒找到, 現在看這些短片還真是有種莫名的感動...*.* 原來生命參與的連結, 需要時空來慢慢琢磨
1. 名流水岸慢食藝術館
2. 台南大億麗緻美食饗宴
3. 芯園民宿
4. 真情民宿
5. 烏來風景區
6. 烏來雲仙樂園
7. 烏來活力村
8. 映像休閒會館
9. 藺草文化館

Duck@Tao-Yuan

20080326

第三屆公共電視國際兒童影展

第三屆公共電視國際兒童影展 數位互動裝置展 本週開展囉

Magic Garden 魔法花園
3.28-4.8 本週五下午兩點有記者會 週六下午有 特別魔法企劃

每日 10am-9pm @敦南誠品B2展覽廳 免費入場*館內請勿飲食*

什麼是互動藝術呢? 會不會很艱澀難懂 ?還是都是一堆電腦跟一堆接線?
只有宅男能理解嗎?


這次Magic Garden數位互動裝置展 將打破各位的迷思
讓小朋友也能輕鬆上手enjoy在互動的數位影音世界中


當電影與音樂走入了數位世代,
從小玩wii、睜眼就看HDTV的九年級生,他們該如何從0與1中慢慢茁壯成長,
他們長大後可能會收集BB Call當成古董寶貝拍賣
他們長大後可能會帶著 能無限上網的硬碟去上畫畫課
我們不能告訴他們 科技將如何演進
但能給他們一個環境,讓他們知道,
科技與藝術/科技與生活/科技與五感之間 的緊密連結+無限可能

希望來的一百個小朋友裡,能有一個不再做千篇一律的科展題目
希望來的一百個大朋友裡,能有一個不再將遙控器當作唯一的互動工具

請你 睜大眼,張開耳,穿著你的平底鞋 來到 Magic Garden



Magic Garden相關訊息 請見 光音伺見 in點.台灣
<http://www.clicktaiwan.com.tw/twlog/blog.do?userId=outeract

兒童影展相關訊息 請見官網
<http://www.tictff.org.tw/

20080311

My Niece@NTU

My niece (My sister's daughter, but without consanguinity) with her family visit our school for azalea festival. I remember that I was working for illusion exhibition in our library last year. This time we both play soccer according to HER rules: she could kick the ball in any direction where I could merely chase. Finally, I lose the game. After that, she transfer her focus on these two little ducks, touching, pursuing, and frightening. Oops! I guess they are exhaustive, too.

20080306

Hon-Lu-Di Journey

This almost 20-degree steep road exhausts me to the death. However, I realize that the muscle trained by swimming and biking are two different groups. Honestly, I stop and push my bicycle about 6 times, where David Lin has brought me drink from the destination. I think this temple is a nice place for me, short but difficult. Most important of all, this place owns an amazing perspective around Taipei city, especially the night view. At the end of this journey, we visited the elder female in the mountain climbing club, who also works in Pfizer, where my cousin Catherine Lee is at the pretty high position. The world is so small as you explore deeper.



20080217

TerryWu@Somebody

PROFILE
In Ximen, intersected with Sining South Road and Tattoo street, Somebody catches passengers' eyes by her remarkably white. Somebody is a place carried with colorful dreams and wholehearted passions. Founded by the design team 26Creative 貳拾陸巷 in autumn 2007, the stylist Francis and her friends decorate this two-floor space with diverse and creative artifacts. Not merely a simple store, this "shelter" also represents as a Gallery for stylish handicrafts and graffiti; a Shop for gifts and unique souvenir; a Café for tastes both in Fashion and Nostalgia; a Studio for designers' endless and cherished desires.

FEATURES
Shop at the 2F demonstrates various high-quality and distinguishing handworks, with mostly black-and-white patterns and vivid cartoons. Any surfaces you can perceive, Design is omnipresent! Upon smooth window; along bent umbrella; even on soft pillow; and so forth. Numerous surprises often happen on tiny and unexpected areas. Be curious, you will be satisfied with your own exploring and imagination.

Café at the 3F unfolds a flexible room by montaging sets of school tables and chairs. Suddenly, a gigantic table gives you illusion being in childhood again; or just acts as Alice in her adventures in wonderland, only 10-inch-high when drinking the magic liquid. Anyway, visitors all feel happy to be childish at this very moment.

Friendly staffs in Somebody supply me coffees and handmade cookies in thoughtful services, sometimes when luckily, the special not listing on menu will be served. Among tasted beverages during the past 4 days, my favorite is "Hot Cocoa with Marshmallow". This chocolate impresses me by its charming appearance, tender touch, and mellow tastes. What I recall is the happiness of the movie "The Holiday (2006)", father Graham satisfy her two lovely daughters with "Hot Cocoa with Marshmallow", in responses of their adorable smiles.




EXPERIENCES
Just after Chinese new year vacation (2/13~2/17), TerryWu visits Somebody with my three friends and my mother, respectively. We mutually share our own feelings and memories. Actually, we do have a great time there.
Last but not the least, come Somebody, you are extremely welcomed!

P.S. Hours 13:00-22:00 || Closed on Mondays.

20080120

Kiyomizu-dera

It is definitely one of the best known sights of Kyoto, with its stage on the half of the mountain dating back to 798. (as wikipedia say) The popular Japanese expression "to jump off the stage at Kiyomizu" is the equivalent of the English expression "to take the plunge". I think the height here is pretty high for everyone, thus it must be difficult to build. This site is also the longest duration we visit in Kyoto, about almost 3 hours.
After arriving the san-nen-zaka, we have to climb through a village filled with slopes and stairs. Then we could see the the main gate in front of us, and pay the ticket about 400 yen for entrance fee. Here firstly we could see the famous site, Torii of Jishu-jinja, a matchmaking shrine. We could see the lovestones and make a wish for matchmaking.
And the we could go through this huge stage step by step to see its various faces in different directions and distances.
Finally, we could see the Otowa-no-taki, the waterfall where visitors drink for health, longevity, and success in studies.

With Prof. Tsuhan Chen (CMU)

Prof. Tsuhan Chen (from CMU, also graduated from NTU since 1987) gives the first Keynote Speech titled "Unsupervised Discovery of Objects and Object Hierarchy in Video: Content Extraction Made Easy" at MMM 2008. After that, we three members from NTU talk with him.

Finally, we reference the abstract from his talk here:

Based on the bag-of-words representation, statistical models have recently become a popular approach to object discovery, i.e., extracting the "object of interest" from a set of images in a completely unsupervised manner. In this talk, we will outline this approach and extend it from still images to motion videos. We will propose a novel spatial-temporal framework that applies statistical models to both appearance modeling and motion modeling. The spatial and temporal models are integrated so that motion ambiguities can be resolved by appearance, and appearance ambiguities can be resolved by motion. In addition, with statistical modeling we can extract hierarchical relationships among objects, completely driven by data without any manual labeling. This framework finds application in video retrieval (e.g., for YouTube or Google Video) and video surveillance.

20080119

Just Asking The Girl Where to Go

I think it may be my personal habit to ask cute girl where I should head for even the target is just presented. That's the cleverest way to socialize with them and could be well treated as a foreigner. Besides, you could always see tiny and special local product everywhere you go in Japan, for saving money and space, I always buy them in the last minutes.

Back of Geisha

When I was naive to see this world, I always think Geisha is just a dancing girl with thick make-up. However, since I really contact with them in the MMM 2008's banquet, I found that Japanese tradition has its own splendid, just like other traditions, Sumo, Gagaku, and Tea ceremony.

Today, the traditional make-up of the apprentice geisha is one of their most recognizable characteristics, though established geisha generally only wear full white face makeup characteristic of maiko during special performances.

The traditional makeup of an apprentice geisha features a thick white base with red lipstick and red and black accents around the eyes and eyebrows. Originally the white base mask was made with lead, but after the discovery that it poisoned the skin and caused terrible skin and back problems for the older geisha towards the end of the Meiji Era, it was replaced with rice powder.

The application of makeup is hard to perfect and is a time-consuming process. Makeup is applied before dressing to avoid dirtying the kimono. First, a wax or oil substance, called bintsuke-abura, is applied to the skin. Next, white powder is mixed with water into a paste and applied with a bamboo brush starting from the neck, up. The white makeup covers the face, neck, and chest, with two or three unwhitened areas (forming a "W" or "V" shape, usually a traditional "W" shape) left on the nape, to accentuate this traditionally erotic area, and a line of bare skin around the hairline, which creates the illusion of a mask.