Blog from the Loft

I often hear these from friends — “you live in the city, right?”, “loft? How about those nice luxury condo buildings?”, “No? Why not? I thought that’s real city living….”. Don’t get me wrong. I grew up in Hong Kong, and lived in many high rise buildings. I was/am used to them. But given the [...]

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Only took us four years, but I finally decided to get some solar shades for the lofts. The new loft is high enough that the sunshine pours into the space all thru the day, which I love. However it is also blindingly bright. Since time is money we decided to get them ordered and installed. [...]

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I broke down and bought a Toyota Sienna. Read my review here. It is the Lexus of Minivans.
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From a film review by Leighton Klein: “Woo’s strength has always been splitting the moment apart:
finding the truth that lies between the pull of a trigger and the touch of a bullet, dissecting the instant when someone realizes he’s been betrayed by - or must betray - his best friend. ”

I thought this was very [...]

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Starwars Episode II
This
article at the National Post gave a perfect explanation on what’s wrong with SW I and II.
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Languages
Flipping through my music collection in my car, I realized I have music in 7 languages in just a few MDs. English, Korean, Cantonese, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, French. It is a very small world.
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What is Design
A definition:Design is the PROCESS of SELECTING and ORGANIZING elements or components in order to fulfill a specific purpose. This purpose may be functional or aesthetic, or (frequently) both. from Art, Design, and Visual Thinking.
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I went to the Deutsches Architektur Museum, German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt. A new show called “secret of the shadow” just started, and it was very interesting. One particularly note for myself, being such a Starwars fan, is that they used this Episode I poster in the exhibit to discuss our perception of shadows.

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Audio Products in Tokyo — Sony NetMD and Bose
Sony is at it again. There are now several different NetMD related model of desktop sound system.
They are called SoundGates. The basic NetMD is a MD (Mini Disc) recorder/player that has a USB input. So you can record from your PC. Two new models are much more [...]

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I always liked Richter after seeing Lesende several years ago. Just read an article on him on the NYTimes magazine, probably because MoMA is having a show on
him right now. Only now I realized that Andreas Gursky and Richter like each other’s work. Which explain why I like Gursky as well. Many of his photographs [...]

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