Moved
This blog is moved.
It is a very interesting book. You will find why high school teachers cheat. I’ll give 4.2 out of 5 for the super-sharp-eyes of author.
December 21, 2005
November 27, 2005
November 26, 2005
The New Base
我一直奇怪，为什么没有一个庞大的评测网，例如我想买Sony的显示器，我一click就看到关于它的评价。几十个人的观点可能不可靠，那么我们有上百，上千，甚至几十万人的评价，如果有那么多人用的话。这恐怕是比较客观的了。评测的东西应该包罗万有，从一个钉子到航空母舰，到城市，甚至国家。。。如果有几亿人都不认为一个国家好的话，恐怕这国家也好不了去哪了。
November 17, 2005
November 13, 2005
November 12, 2005
November 7, 2005
Why?
“19日，维基百科不知因为什么原因而被中国政府封锁。鉴于以往的经验和这次被封锁后所作的处理工作。我提供一些网站被封的经验给大家。希望能够让更多被封锁的网站解禁。” from: blog.cnblog.org (这个站国内能看到吗？）
I get many helps from
wikipedia
and I know why the riots happened in Paris through wiki.
November 3, 2005
What’s the meaning of…?
What’s (the) meaning of money? I DOUBT. Nov 2, 2005 [shot by SX-70]
October 30, 2005
October 18, 2005
October 9, 2005
5
Rules of the game: Post 5 Weird and Random facts about yourself, then at the end list the names of 5 people who are next in line to do this. Also leave a post on their blog to let these people know.
1/I particularly dislike hard cover books if they are not picture books.
2/I have fetish on women/babies’ hands/feet as I had said before.
3/I love Chinese Calligraphy deeply. The lines excite me a lot.
4/Restroom should have a big window. When I am… I like to read poetry. 
5/I love some notebooks which covers made by real leathers and have very strong smell. I LOVE that. 
Jason should do this. and I’ll try to get Yang finished it as well.
September 20, 2005
Wow…
这几张照片我喜欢的紧，不得不转。
有空找个鬼妹试一试 （不要误会，你们！）。
http://forum.chinapressusa.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=18&ID=1820
September 18, 2005
A Photography Discourse 2
I don’t think we should shoot public photography. Indeed, I like to shoot private photography which I get permission of the subjects.
September 16, 2005
Magnum China 2005
Magnum went to China this year and there are some new photos:
September 15, 2005
An Art Discourse
Sometimes I believe that the end of art is narcissism (some people believe it is nihilism). It doesn’t generate from Freud. It pops up from my mind. I think when a pianist plays music, she plays for herself. When a painter paints picture, he paints for himself. A photographer shoots photos, he shoots for himself. Only the person who participate arts can have the greatest joy or sadness, or ecstasy. It is just like one is in loving with another person.
September 8, 2005
Landscape
I only have two photos to show for the assignment of urban landscape.
I myself don’t think these two photos belong to the category of urban landscape. So, if they are for challenge thing of urban landscape, I might failed. I can only give the name of “landscape”.
All I want to do is to give some expression on minimalism and boredom.
August 26, 2005
Beijing Si He Yuan
I happened to open the book of ‘北京四合院‘， I had a strong impulse that I want to live in it. I have a great psychological comfort when I see these old houses. To seek for these psychological comfort, or peaceful feeling, I am willing to pay most of my asset. But Beijing’ air is serious, I better to live in Yunnan.
August 20, 2005
August 14, 2005
August 8, 2005
Black Monday
Today is a BLACK monday for me. I bought some Baidu.com (code: bidu) and …. Sometimes the will of earning quick money make me even poorer.
I have a little plan to immigrate back to HK.
August 7, 2005
August 6, 2005
August 3, 2005
August 2, 2005
Pola 1
It is color film originally. I duplicated with 20D B/W mode, adjusted the contrast in PS.
July 31, 2005
Shooting Plan 2
Camera: Holga & Polaroid
Film: Two rolls negative for Holga (one is color, another is B/W), 20-30 pieces of instant film for Polar.
Date: Next Week (1 August -7 August)
Objects: Not defined yet
Also I hope I will get time to shoot 2 rolls of B/W with Leica M6 35/f1.4 on next Sat. Mainly on street works.
July 30, 2005
July 24, 2005
Jazz Festival Shoothing
I got there around 6:30pm and stayed for about 3 hours. I took 282 shots. RAW was too big to save, so I switched to large JPG.
All of them are chaotic photos, just have a glance.
Have never seen so many beauties!
Have never heard so much lovely musics! =)
July 19, 2005
July 17, 2005
July 16, 2005
Shenzhen
Have no inspiration of shooting? especially in the “boring” city such as Shenzhen. Not at all, please see the link below. Actually Magnum also takes many shots in Shenzhen as far as I know.
July 12, 2005
Moved
Due to the “unknown reason”, my friends can’t visit here, so I decide to move to:
July 10, 2005
That’s Important to Me
1. “Robert Capa’s ‘Moment of Death’
Published in Life magazine in 1937, Capa’s photograph shows in one instant the sudden and lonely death of an anonymous soldier. The picture shocked readers with its sudden impact. Never before had the public witnessed in such graphic horror a soldier’s moment of death. After an offhandedly made remark by the teasing Capa and weak evidence that the killed soldier appeared alive in subsequent images in Capa’s contact sheet, rumors spread that the picture was either a result of Capa simply shooting blindly and capturing the shot by chance or stage managed for the camera (Knightley, 1976). Luck often helps experienced photographers. Bob Jackson who took the Oswald murder picture and Eddie Adams who captured the Viet Cong soldier’s assassination were startled by the sound of a gunshot and pressed their shutter buttons. Photographic reflexes, a result of years of experience, plus a little luck can produce extraordinary photographs.
Robert Capa was never the kind of photographer who needed to set up his subjects. Capa, who’s motto was, “If your pictures aren’t good, you aren’t close enough,” would have been dismissed had the moment-of-death photograph been the only picture in his portfolio. However, Capa produced many war-time photographs throughout his career. Another famous picture of Capa’s is the grainy and blurred image, caused by a lab assistant’s high drying temperature, of a soldier crawling in the shallow waters of Normandy during the D-Day invasion. He photographed in Spain, China, Israel, and finally in Vietnam, where he was killed when he stepped on a land mine (Rothstein, 1986). Capa consistently produced images with strong emotional impact and high technical expertise. He was not a photographer who needed to fake a photograph in order to enhance his career. ”
Source: Robert Capa
2. “Frank Horvat : So when you have a certain idea about people, you may ask them to take up a posture corresponding to that idea. But how far can this go? Let’s take the example of the falling militia-man, in Capa’s photo. Some people say it was staged.
Marc Riboud : That’s false! Robert Capa wouldn’t cheat!
Frank Horvat : I agree. But allow me to express the theory - if it had been staged, it would only have presented the reality of war, as Capa had indeed observed it. What’s wrong with that?
Marc Riboud : I wouldn’t even called it staging - but cheating.
Frank Horvat : Let’s take another case : the famous photo by Eugene Smith, of the death watch in the Spanish village. To obtain that light, Smith had to place his flashes very carefully, which he couldn’t do without directing those people.
Marc Riboud : It’s true that Eugene was very concerned with lighting. But his intervention was to express the emotion he felt. He didn’t cheat!
Frank Horvat : So let’s suppose Capa had indeed observed a militia-man dying that way, and wished to reconstruct the emotion he felt…
Marc Riboud : No, no and no. In the first place, he didn’t direct his camera at that man because he saw him falling. He wanted to photograph someone jumping over a trench, and it was at that moment the man was hit. Had he wanted to recreate the scene, he couldn’t have made him fall that way. ”
July 6, 2005
July 4, 2005
July 3, 2005
July 1, 2005
Shooting Plan
There is a Jazz Festival in Toronto during 21st - 23rd July. I am going to shoot some photos.
Camera: Leica M6
Lens: 50mm/f2.0
Film: Kodak Tri-X 400
But the scanning is a problem. The lab I used to do my scanning is not so good. The slides, when I view them on my view panel, are super clear, not even a 1Ds MarkII can reach.
June 29, 2005
June 28, 2005
June 26, 2005
Flickr
在Flickr上用Slide Show看大量的黑白照，看看有什么新意和灵感（我也在blogbus上淘，可是没淘到像Lei GAO, Tenth, Jaymiao那样好看的）。结果，灵感没找到，美女淘了几个。版权问题，恕不多上。
Source: Seductress
June 25, 2005
June 23, 2005
June 22, 2005
June 20, 2005
Rollei 3
Rolleiflex 2.8GX, Kodak B/W Trix TXP 320, aperture @ 2.8
These three photos were shot several days ago, and two of them are hosted by Flickr.com
June 19, 2005
June 17, 2005
Capa and Bresson
“Andre (Capa) is a handsome man and Henri appreciates such beauty. He is full of life, and Henri loves life. Chim (another main founder of Magnum) has just bought together the two most antithetical image trappers whom a novelist could never dream up, who contrast on so many levels: structure and movement, culture and nature, water and fire. HCB and Capa strike the magic balance of a waterfall and the rocks. ”
“Capa worked essentially on instinct. Cartier-Bresson’s images were more structured and composed. Capa’s style was extroverted; Cartier-Bresson’s was introverted. ”
“Cartier-Bresson went to India, he said, because of a ‘kick in the pants’ from Capa.”
Capa pushed HCB to shoot some photojournalism photos which I think is very correct. I love HCB’s journalism photos rather than his photos which showing “decisive moment”. Capa, I don’t really enjoy his photos, But I adore this person. He represents kind of passion.
HCB is great, Capa even greater.
June 15, 2005
Magnum photos
I read Magnum’s photos all night long, so many sad stories.
*Sigh*…
“摄影有那么复杂嘛？有那么沉重嘛?”
有的，我确切地说。
June 14, 2005
ALT
Most of ALT’s photographers are using medium-format camera, I am going to pick up my 6X6 again.
I even want to shoot 8X10.
June 13, 2005
June 11, 2005
The Way to Achieve Ecstasy
I envy people who have idols. I think idols worship is not a bad thing, if it is not too much.
I think people who have idols can achieve kind of feeling of ecstasy easily, which it is not easily to achieve in normal life. You can see how happy of those mid-age women when they saw their idols, like Korean star Pei Yongjun (Bae Yong Jun). They are close to crazy. This ecstasy feeling I think is healthy to our human mind, because all we have to deal with are troubles and difficulties in the normal days, we have to find something to release our-self a bit, escape our-self from the reality. Idol worship is kind of cheaper, longer, safer and stronger way to achieve ecstasy compare to love making, drug taking, game addiction etc.
June 9, 2005
June 8, 2005
June 7, 2005
June 6, 2005
Some Thought
What’s the meaning of life? Sartre said, ” Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident.” I agree with him to some extent. I always thought that the meaning of life is to look for our beloved things. But can we find our beloved things? with different kinds of social pressure, one can’t even choose what he wants. What if we don’t have so much pressure? Can we really know what we want? I am not so sure. I believe most of us don’t have a very clear goal to achieve, and from time to time we change it a lot. And at the finally moment, we may find all our efforts are useless.
A man is lonely, until he finds the computer.
June 4, 2005
June 3, 2005
Susan’s View on Photography II
Susan Sontag: … The main interest of the photographer as moralist has been war, poverty, natural catastrophes, accidents—disaster and decay. When photojournalists report that ” there was nothing to photography.” What this usually means is that there was nothing terrible to photography.
Movius: And the scientists?
Susan Sontag: I suppose the main tradition in photography is the one that implies that anything can be interesting if you take a photography of it. It consists in discovering beauty, a beauty that can exist anywhere but is assumed to reside particularly in the random and the banal. Photography conflates the notions of the “beautiful” and the “interesting “. It is a way of aestheticizing the whole world.
From: Conversations with Susan Sontag
Jason’s Europe
The photo has some meaning of impressionism. It recalled me the film of Breathless.
I haven’t been to Europe, really want to stay in Paris for sever months. It said one has to live in Paris longer enough to understand the term of “romantic”.
I get a little feel of it now.
More from:
May 31, 2005
The Last Day
It is the last day of May, we don’t have so many last days. I have to write something.
I am always curious that how Jason can make his works so clearly, my 20D often gets out of focus.
Find a site accidentally to support my view on: unusual angles and not very “white”. Those dramatic effects are always my favorite. And ALTphotos, I thought they are a little bit too “business” and do too much “PS”.
May 30, 2005
May 29, 2005
Few Shots
Had a gathering at Ruby’s place and did some shots of the kids — Seo, Tristan, and Ally (Alex’s daughter):
“孩子们的午后”
–Jason
May 27, 2005
No Respond
It seems there is no respond up to now. But life has to continue…
I did lots of blog search in these two days, and tried to find a very good blog site to stick. Livejournal and Xanga have the same problem there, I don’t real like that environment. How to say, they are just like a crowded beach, but what I want is a quiet cafe, several people there, saying something valuable.
…
May 26, 2005
Several New Options…
There are several new sites here, please help me out to see whether you guy can enter it or not. The first one of course no problem. Actually i would like to stick with “blogbus” but the speed seems unbearable. Furthermore, it seems not work with Mac.
Souce : wikipedia
May 24, 2005
May 18, 2005
Susan’s View on Photography
Someone: Doesn’t this bring us back to your own ambivalence about photography? You’re fascinated by it, but you find it dangerously simple.
Sontag: I don’t think the problem with photography is that it’s too simple but that it’s too imperious a way of seeing. Its balance between being “present” and being “absent” is facile, when generalized as an attitude—-which it is now in our culture. But I’m not against simplicity, as such. There is a dialectical exchange between simplicity and complexity, like the one between self-revelation and self-concealment. The first truth is that every situation is extremely complicated, and that anything one thinks about thereby becomes more complicated. The main mistake people make when thinking about something, whether an historical event or one in their privates lives, is that they don’t see just how complicated it is. The second truth is that one cannot live out all the complexties one perceives, and that to be able to act intelligently, decently, efficiently, and compassionately demands a great deal of simplication. So there are times when one has to forget— repress, transcend—a complex perception that one has.
我尝试翻译这段话：
有人问：这不是将我们带回到你对摄影的矛盾的感情中？你为它着迷，但你又发觉它有一种危险的简单性。
苏珊桑塔：我不认为摄影的问题是它太过简单了。但我认为那是一种很专制的观看方法。它使得那种“在现场”和“不在现场“的平衡变得很容易，当把它一般化为一种态度，这种态度存在于我们的文化中。但我并不反对简单化。这里存在着一种简单与复杂的辩证关系，就像是一个人的自我暴露和自我封闭。第一种真相是每一种情况都是极端复杂的，如果一个人想过任何事，那将会变得更复杂。人们在想及某些事情，无论是历史的事件或是自己的私人生活的时候，犯的主要错误是他们通常看不到事件的复杂性。第二种真相是我们不能够不活在我们所能感知的复杂中，而这种复杂如果要变得很聪明，很高雅，很有效率，很有同情心的话，那需要作很多的简单化。于是很多的时候，当一个人不得不去忘记的时候－－就是去压抑和超越那种复杂的感觉。
翻译得不好，欢迎指正。
各位懂吗？我好像不大懂，半懂不懂的。
不过我同意她说摄影是一种很专制的观看方法。它只能反映事情的很少一部分，真相是不知道的说。但奇怪我们有时也会很欣赏这种“美化的一部分”，正如我们喜欢听到别人的赞美一样，那管别人说的是不是实话，我们都爱听。我想苏珊说的就是这个意思吧。当然老听这种赞美，以为是真的，那就是那种简单的，天真的危险了。不知道我理解的对不对？
May 1, 2005
April 27, 2005
April 26, 2005
First walk out
We took him out to walk today.
Of course, he didn’t walk but just sleeping. He slept very well.
He guy seemingly love to sleep outside, even in a very crowded restaurant.
When we got home, he woke up with dissatisfaction.
April 25, 2005
Alan’s photo
昨天下午Alan也是不好好睡觉，老要吃奶。给他的时候，却不好好吃。
给他姥姥姥爷发了照片，他们都很喜欢Alan肥头大耳的形像，有没有摄影艺术倒不是他们关心的。
我放上来的照片，也是差不多就上了。不会是很讲究摄影艺术的。拿了个数码，更是觉得没有那种仔细推敲的想法。
越照越差也是指日可待了。:D
April 24, 2005
April 22, 2005
4.22
My son slept less than 10 hours today, and cried a lot. That’s made me worry much.
April 20, 2005
Leica Alan II
之一：睡觉
Shot on April 22, 2005
Leica 50mm at f2.0
KODAK ELITE Chrome 400 Film / EL
PS ajusted.
