lemonkid

My 30th was my best, though I'm not sure it would actually qualify as most memorable.At least as far as specific memories go, though I've seen pictures. Mostly, it was because a lot of people came, we had a dinner then bar crawl. At one point, I was standing on the bar of my local speaking. It was nice.

Seriously? I'm all about entertainment value this week.

Where on earth did you end up doing on the weekend ?

Yesterday I read the National Geographic Magazine issue of Inside The Dragon, and could not put it down. I've always wanted to visit China, but was unaware just how much I really wanted to go until now. It had many amazing stories and the photography was beautiful. I do a lot of traveling myself and wish you only the best. I'm so excited for you! Good Luck, take many pictures, keep a detailed journal and report back!

Good stuff. Will do. Later.

Yeah, I left about 1am-ish and couldn't find you to say goodbye. I figured you were on a roll and doing fine though.

But you have to admit..you do drink beer well .Yeah i unfortunately could'nt find where AC/DC lane was, i asked my Melb.friends and they only kinda sorta knew where it was and well i wasnt about to go lurking around dark alleys at night for the fun of it.
Im sure when that goal your after makes itself known you will surely know,how are plans for China going ?

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China will be exciting, I want lots of touristy photos of the great wall!

Looking forward to when you do the europe thing, you'll be much closer to England that way and can pop by to say hello.

That actually looks ok, right on the coast. They have kryptonite lasers, so you can feel safe. Sorry, no train, but they do have a bus station and the intercity buses are usually clean and very punctual. Intracity buses will be about US0.3 or less for a long ride, and taxis about US1 for ~4-6km. It's also a climate made for motorbikes, and this will probably be the majority of personal transport.

You will be away from the glitz of the big cities, and that's my perferred environment here. More real.

Area developed beginning in 221BC, which is encouraging. They have a different dialect, so I can't give any pointers.

http://www.zjtz.gov.cn/ksp/english/

(not my photo of Wenling; from some Taizhou web site)

Job opportunity? Good luck.

Wow. Good luck, and details!!! Need details!

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range.

Your eyes are capable of seeing detail in a much broader range of brightnessess all at the same time, than either film or digital sensors are cabable of. You can look at a sunshiny meadow and simutaneously see detail in the puffy white clouds as well as the bark in the shadows of trees. Film and digital sensors can't do that. But now what you can do, is take an exposure that captures the detail in the clouds, and another that captures the detail in the the shadows of the trees, and combine the two(usually three or more) images digitally into a single image file that has detail in all highlight and shadow areas. What you then have, though, is an image file that has a broader range of brightnesses than can be shown on a computer screen or printed. So what you see in my blog are three "tone mapped" images made from the same HDR image file. tone mapping means that you take the hdr image and compress it digitally down to the limited range of brightnesses that can be shown on a computer monitor or printed.

You don't need as bigtime a camera as that nikon you want, but you do need a camera that has manual exposure settings, and pretty heavy tripod to keep the camera still for three exposures.

I went to the Frye gallery in Seattle recently, and found I had a similar response. Not only the "shut the fuck up", but also, I found the whole exhibit rather distasteful and offensive. And not because I'm conservative, and not because it was shocking, but because it was so smug. You could just FEEL how seriously it all took itself. Hard to explain, but I didn't get any joy, inspiration or wonder from it.

I don't really feel art is "better" or "worse" in any particular era. I like and dislike some of
every art museum I've ever stepped into. To ME, the biggest drag is going through the
areas of the National Gallery Of Art where it's just.... a bunch of 18th century gentry
standing out on a hill, portrait after portrait of these rich idiots in their powdered wigs
by a tree on their ill-gotten or birth-entitled estate. I'll take a Brillo pad box over that
anyday... but I agree with the first poster, monochromatic-canvas minimalism sucks.
I'm not very big on Abstract Expressionism either; give me SOMETHING to go on. A
mess of paint splotching does not compute emotionally.

I'll probably meet up with a few folks a bit earlier -- like 7.30-8pm.

I'll suggest the Rose, but if elsewhere, will be Newtown. Have phone, will text.

Update: Rose it is. We'll be there, arrive when you're spruced-up and party-ready.

it sounds as though you're hatching a plot.

You have seen some of the people on King st.it would have to be a sturdy one to match some of those folks,i think Mr Steeds umbrella/sword combo would be needed.
Good to hear you have found a new home,are you still in the Enmore area ?

Thanks! Good luck with the interviews, Mister. How long are you in Oz? Maybe I'll catch you up there.