Camera doesn't matter

As long as you know what your camera can do and cannot do, a crappy camera from a cell phone cal take great shots. The camera on the iPhone is by no means crappy though.

Boston in Spring

La vie en rose

Des yeux qui font baisser les miens,
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche—
Voilà le portrait sans retouche
De l’homme auquel j’appartiens.

Quand il me prend dans ses bras,
Il me parle tout bas,
Je vois la vie en rose.
Il me dit des mots d’amour,
Des mots de tous les jours,
Et ça me fait quelque chose.
Il est entré dans mon cœur,
Une part de bonheur
Dont je connais la cause.
C’est lui pour moi,
Moi pour lui dans la vie,
Il me l’a dit, l’a juré pour la vie.
Et dès que je l’aperçois,
Alors je sens en moi
Mon cœur qui bat.

Des nuits d’amour à plus finir,
Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place,
Les ennuis, les chagrins s’effacent,
Heureux, heureux à en mourir.

Quand il me prend dans ses bras,
Il me parle tout bas,
Je vois la vie en rose.
Il me dit des mots d’amour,
Des mots de tous les jours,
Et ça me fait quelque chose.
Il est entré dans mon cœur,
Une part de bonheur
Dont je connais la cause.
C’est lui pour moi,
Moi pour lui dans la vie,
Il me l’a dit, l’a juré pour la vie.
Et dès que je l’aperçois,
Alors je sens en moi
Mon cœur qui bat.

English translation

Eyes that gaze into mine,
A smile that is lost on his lips—
That is the unretouched portrait
Of the man to whom I belong.

When he takes me in his arms
And speaks softly to me,
I see life in rosy hues.
He tells me words of love,
Words of every day,
And in them I become something.
He has entered my heart,
A part of happiness
Whereof I understand the reason.
It’s he for me and I for him, throughout life,
He has told me, he has sworn to me, for life.
And from the things that I sense,
Now I can feel within me
My heart that beats.

In endless nights of love,
A great delight that comes about,
The pains and bothers are banished,
Happy, happy to die of love.

When he takes me in his arms
And speaks softly to me,
I see life in rosy hues.
He tells me words of love,
Words of every day,
And in them I become something.
He has entered my heart,
A part of happiness
Whereof I understand the reason.
It’s he for me and I for him, throughout life,
He has told me, he has sworn to me, for life.
And from the things that I sense,
Now I can feel within me
My heart that beats.

Translated by Thomas Keyes

Home is where my heart resides

Thank you my dear Sue for giving me a home. I love you.

Camera Obscura

Building a Camera Obscura - "Rad Science" Segment from popSiren from popSiren on Vimeo.

Why it is always so difficult for me?

I guess it is a sign that I should treasure what I have achieved after I get it done.

Tree top

Taken by Leica MP Summicron 1:2/50mm

A letter to Santa

Dear Santa,
Please give me a baby brother.
Johnny
...........................

Dear Johnny,
Send me your mother...
Santa

Fall colors

The weather is weird. The summer had only lasted 2 weeks. It snowed for 2 hours in mid-Oct. But the temperature is still in the teens now at the end of Nov. I took this picture 3 weeks ago in Winchester, MA. The leaves are long gone. But a friend said she saw new yellow flowers on the street.

iTit

Apple announced today that it has developed a breast implant that can store and play music.

The iTit will cost from $499 to $699, depending on cup and speaker size.

This is considered a major social breakthrough, because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

Bear Attack

From news.timtech.com

Kris Rowley, Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Vermont was hiking along vermont’s woodlands when she noticed that a bear was following her. Being well aware that she was not carrying any weapon to use to defend herself or fight back, she threw her iPhone at the bear in the hope of distracting it. Fortunately the bear got distracted and so Rowley was able to escape. She returned to the scene later on hoping to retrieve her iPhone and found that her precious smartphone was chewed and mauled by the bear beyond repair. Unsurprisingly, Apple would not agree to replace the phone for free. Although devastated by what happened to her phone, she said she was happy that she wais safe and would be willing to buy another iPhone again.

The moral: have your water bottle handy so that you don't need to throw your precious iPhone at the bear.

The Impossible Project inspires Polaroid to re-launch Instant Cameras

The Polaroid licensee - The Summit Global Group - announced at a press conference on October 13th in Hongkong that they will re-launch some of the most famous Polaroid Instant Cameras.

Therefore they are commissioning The Impossible Project to develop and produce a limited edition of Polaroid branded Instant Films in the middle of 2010.

Large-scale production and worldwide sale of The Impossible Project's new integral film materials under its own brand will already start in the beginning of 2010 - with a brand new and astonishing black and white Instant Film and the first color films to follow in the course of the year.

Random thought

2009 Nobel Prize

This year's Nobel winners come so close to me.

I had a brief collaboration with Thomas Steitz but the project didn't go anywhere; I had seriously considered applying for a post-doc opening at Elizabeth Blackburn's lab for telemere research back in 2000; and of course, Charles Gao was the vice-chancellor of my university when I was an undergraduate. Weird.

Chiura Obata

I was watching PBS's National Parks series these days. Today has an episode about artists. Chiura Obata was a painter who came from Japan and fell in love in the nature of the American west coast. He became a professor of UC Berkerly and painted hundreds of paintings of Yosemite, the High Sierra and sequoia. Days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Obata like hundreds of thousand Japanese immigrants are thrown into internment camps. He taught fellow Japanese children and adults painting and sketching along with his own painting and sketching in the camp. Art becomes an antidote for the harsh endurance.

Tapaz war relocation center by moonlight (1943)

Tapaz Mountains (1943)

Glorious Struggle (1965) Sumi on Silk, 36 X 22 in

His grand daughter compile his works resulted from his days in the internment camps and published this Tapaz Moon. Paperback available in Amazon.com.

U2 360 Tour Boston

Awesome music, awesome set, awesome video editing. Freaking awesome show. Only that I spent 6 hours on the road, one of them being inside the parking lot when I tried to get out.

Suebee honey

'Deed I do

You are always on my mind

The Heaven weeps

For the last brother of the Kennedy. Farewell.