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For Those Beautiful Souls,

may them rest in peace and for those survived, God give them strong will to live and change the world.

Philippines hostage ended

Going to Seoul with a heavy heart and restlessness.

 

Harder Than Making a Leather Case

So my son is going to primary school one year from now, we have to prepare his profile showing off to various schools soon.  Believe me, it is harder than doing my own resume, harder than making a leather case for my camera.

(The above photo went into Flickr Explore on 21st Aug 2010)

But I do enjoy looking at all his drawings all over again, reminds me of great times we spent together making up stories and putting them in drawings.

 

Pilot Hand Writing

 

 

 

ISOT 2010 - Tokyo Stationery Show

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!

Leica CL Custom Leather Case

There is no replacement of film photography, some of my best photos were taken with film cameras and I often give them good clothes.

For poor men wanting to own a Leica, Leica CL is the cheapest choice.  This treasure can't be perfect without a case I tailor made for it particularly.  Glad that I got some scrap white leather from a leather craft class I joined, the leather case design is after certain sport car paint pattern.

The snaps behind also act as good grip for a compact camera.  Happy about it, tiny pleasure but that's the essence of life.

LOMO Girl Inside Diana Flash Unit

One of my Diana flash bulb burned, so I had to change the circuit board inside the good one to my favorite black one.  After disassembled both flash units, I found loom girls inside them, great attention to details LOMO!

Back to School 2010 - best stuffs in town

After months of preparation, we now present you Back To School 2010!

Everything simulated on computer became real to the exact measurement, thanks to my great teammates, store colleagues and friendly partners like Apple Computer, Japanese stationery brands and Korean partners.  To get a glimpse of what categories we offer, check out this Back To School 2010 leaflet downloadable in PDF (and soon as an iPad app!)

This year's big hit is of course Apple Computer's great teacher/student offer, Chocolate Rain's brand new Fatina USB memory and accessories, smoothest pens in the world, Korean stationery and our famous Put Together A5 personalized notebook system.

Check out these demonstrations from UNI and Pentel competing with each other to be the smoothest pen in the world.  UNI's test platform allows you to pick any other brands' pen to compete with Jetstream racing down the slide, the time it takes for the pens to finish the race is displayed in the monitor behind.  This platform is going to be in our Times Square only for a week's time then it will be sent to France for another event.

 

Check out the Flickr set of Back To School 2010 for some highlight photos.  In the mean time, here's some amazing offers in the fair:

• Apple Computer in Times Square, Festival Walk and New Town Plaza promotion.  Exclusive free cases for computer purchase, teacher/student price, citibank installment plan
• Chocolate Rain new range of products including cloth changing Fatina USB memory sticks and iPhone cases
• iPad and iPhone 4 cases show down
• 4 major Korean stationery brands: Indigo, Antenna Shop, Magic Soup, Pony Brown
• Toy Story booth where loads of USB gadgets and stationery products
• and more.....

Alvin Reborn

Thanks to Festival Walk LOG-ON store colleague sending me this valuable banner after the event!

2 Days in Macau, 3 Families, 5 Camera Personalities to Take Care

Wow I had a great time the last weekend in Macau, 3 families and kids.  The 4-5 year-olds are classmates, all one-kid families, so you can imagine how the kids love this short summer retreat.

I enjoyed myself too taking along with me 5 cameras and had some fun shooting.  Panasonic GF1, Leica CL, Canon F1, Ricoh auto half, Fujifilm Instax 210.

Yes 5 cameras this time.  I had to give each camera an assignment and it was real fun, like working with 5 different persons each get his/her own task but you have to manage them.

Panasonic GF1 being the only digital one was used by my wife mostly, for video and snap shots with kids.  Leica CL was for well thought of shots, the Summicron-C lens on it was being switched to the GF1 for shallow DOF mood shots once in a while.

Canon F1 was used to capture dreamy bokeh.  Richo auto half was to create color contrasting pairs (like the photos you see in this post).  Fujifilm Instax 210 was to offer the kids a real instant photo they can touch.

 

Clockwork Banana's Photo Time

Lately I've been working so over clocked things start to loose meaning, you know Back To School 2010 is coming….. Well, to save myself from insanity, I turned to look at my cameras, I mean really look at them, I wouldn't say caressing but its close.  Tonight I just had to take a pack film shot no matter what.