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In & OutPaula 7/2/2009 The China Trip 66/25/2009 The China Trip X6/24/2009 The China Trip 46/17/2009 The China Trip 26/3/2009 THE DAY5/16/2009 A Moveable Season from AvedonThe Spring in NYC is a "moveable feast" in any way!
I.C.P. (International Center of Photography) had a new opening of Avedon's fashion work yesterday evening in midtown. As a milestone of the fashion photography in the US, the photographer had redefined the image of women's beauty, spirit and life style in this country for the past half century. As he also said, his photos had portrayed that how women thought and how women felt by the gestures, the shapes, patterns and the moods.
His fashion and portrait photographs in Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and New Yorker magazine brought a new meaning of art to the staff photographers in media companies.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/13/fashion/20090514-avedon-feature/index.html?ref=fashion#
Photos by Paula
5/11/2009 THE MODEL AS MUSEThe Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a special exhibition from this Wednesday. It focus on iconic fashion models of the 20th century. It also redescribes their roles in projecting and inspiring the fasion of their respective eara, and its influences of fashion art on the life style, art and politics in the society from the 20's of last century to present.
Fashion is more than dress!
Conde Nast brought the editorial model concept to the fashion world.
The trend of high fashion and high street came at early 21st century.
Photos by Paula and HZ
5/7/2009 The Big things and the Small ThingsLet's talk the small things first. On this second rainy day, I was surrounded by an irritable and depressed mood, very low, no reason. During the lunch time, I went to see a friend in other side of the town. I went down the stairs to get into the subway station. Heard a melodious music from a young black guy with a saxophone, suddenly felt a lot of cheerful. A hour later, I went back from another subway station, heard a simple melody from an older white guy with a guitar, felt even happier!
That was not enough. I went to downtown after work, directly walked into Balthazar, one of my favorite bakeries in NYC. It, actually, is a French restaurant with a vintage Montparnasse style. Its tiny bakery is just right in next door and serves the tasty sandwiches, perfect pain au chocolat, Valrhona chocolate bread and authentic French cookies. I had a piece of Galette with walnuts and a cup of latte. If you asked how comparing with the one in Starbucks, I will shoot back with a "What". Anyway, my life was FABULOUS at that moment! PG said to me tonight that you are truly a woman. I said yes, so what!
Ok, let's back to the big things...
5/3/2009 The Swine Flu and "The Shanghai Gesture"What did we know of the swine flu? Here are some fresh info from the US CDCP.
"Dr. Richard Besser, acting chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said swine flu is spreading just as easily as regular winter flu. However, the good news is when we look at this virus right now, we're not seeing some of the things in the virus that have been associated in the past with more severe flu. That's encouraging, but it doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet."
So, what should we do, panic? Of course not, just use the common senses to pretect yourself like you had tried to avoid another flu each winter. I don't usually describe things by big words, but the words from Franklin D. Roosevelt are fit perfectly on our current situation, especially when you saw some media are over done to mislead people. The Roosevelt said that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself!
The photo below was shot at 12:30am of the past Saturday in front of Time Warner building of Columbus Circle. People in NYC still go out to enjoy life as usual. The restaurants and theaters at the night were all fulled with people. Remember that "trying to keep your life normal" were the words we had heard everyday in NYC right after the Sep. 11.
I went to see a broadway show, called The Shanghai Gesture. It's an interesting drama about Shanghai in the early 1920. Photos by Paula 5/2/2009 The MemoryGJ sent me a message yesterday afternoon, which was about WC's company probably prepares for an IPO this year. She asked me whether I know him? I do know him and have watched the company's growth during the past several years, although the industry has been impacted by the economic recession lately, but I know nothing about the IPO plan.
GJ and WC are the alumnis, and WC and I are the former colleagues. GJ's interest of the company's history made me to recall those unforgettable days, which the bunch of young graduates had worked with full of passion to pursuit their dream together.
4/29/2009 A Hot Weekend Without Green4/13/2009 THE STAR4/6/2009 A SAD SAD DAYA famous newspaper in the US, which has been run with over 150 years, may be shot down by its parent company---New York Times because of the economic recession and the transformation of the media industry itself. For me, it's very very sad to hear the news last night. I couldn't describe it in any word and any language!
Working in this great newspaper was my very first job in this country. The paper had opened a great and colorful window to me, it had also changed my entire life in a very unique way! Looking back, I appreciate and remember the every second I had spent there!
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An ancient town L'Aquila in the central Italy, which was founded in the 13th century, had almost been distroyed by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake at the early morning 3:30am on April 6th. The power of a natural disaster has once again shown the fragility of human beings. It reminds me of the earthquake in Sichuan province last year.
Yesterday, there was the Chinese Qing Ming Jie, however the people in Sichuan haven't got a chance to release the real pains from the government!
Pray for all the victims in Sichuan and in L'Aquila!
4/3/2009 AN INSPIRATIONI went to see the first debate of "Speaker Series" at this year. It's called "Speaker Series: The Minds That Move The World". It was fantastic, even better than last year. That is probably why the organizer expanded the event to another two major cities---Boston and Chicago. It's true, like my friend said, "all people" who are with and without brains from North-East of the US were showing up at the night. That was a "party", a "brain-storm" party for sure! PG said to me that those are really your things and your people. I said: you are absolutely right at this time!
Er pushed me to write again, I couldn't find any "lazy-excuse". I took this topic as the first one of a new......
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3/24/2009 WHEN A BAD LUCK HAPPENED TO A GOOD PERSONBroadway was to dim its lights last Thursday in memory of Natasha Richardson, the memeber of Britain's Redgrave acting dynasty who died after a ski accident last week in Quebec.
3/17/2009 The Spring Finally Came!It was the 248th parade of St. Patrick's Day in NYC today. The policemen had blocked the streets very early at this morning. When there was the lunch time, the crowd "had taken up" all the major avenues. It was really hard to recognize those faces of many tourists, but the big green hats and fluffy hair were everywhere! I believe that the tourists of the parade were more than in any other latest years.
Had a business meeting in West-Side of the Fifth Ave at this morning, but it was almost a miracle when I tried to go back to my office, which is located in East-Side of the Ave, during the lunch time. I had tried very hard to "negotiate" with the "Sir" and the Officer. Finally I got a chance to pass the "cordon"!
The weather was sunny bright, the sky was crisp blue. This spring finally came!!!
The Photos by NYTimes
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