identity & canary warf

Clocks in canary warf.

I went to join a jazz festival in canary warf in summer. Based on the identity of financial centre, local jazz festivel was held, which is differrent from other identity of rock.

In the context of commemorating soldiers, people imposed this ritual to plastic models.

A girl says what adults say, wears what adults wear and imitate fashionable style.

just a toilet. please take a look at the symble above.

these two photos were taken from the same location but different perspective. the latter was taken by a commercial photographer, who aim to present business values- representative of wealth and power, so magnificent and oppressive. the former, taken by my friends when we were enjoying Jazz represrnt relax and happy mood. so, glancing over the skyscrapes, more soft sky appears.

lion in front of gates of HSBC.

Looking on & Participating in

I have to admit that it is my first time to be so exited and crazy during a festival. Enjoying Notting Hill carnival, I deeply thought about the reason. Obviously, people joining in festivals are passive in china, whereas that in London are active.

Once comparing Bank Holiday with Lantern Festival, the nature of the phenomena will emerge as soon. Although the same scale of marches and equal number of participants exist in China, concept of participating is different. In our country, when the peak of a holiday comes, citizens do not perform by themselves but go to a central point for watching performances and plays. after that they just go home with a calm and peaceful mood as if they did not join them. By contrast, in Notting Hill, despite unnecessary plays and marches, audients also sing, dance even drug in groups and enjoy themselves. It seems that leading actors are audients, not the actors dressing exaggerated clothes in the moving trucks.

Two issues i thought of from a comedy

Along with Soyin, Tony and Vivi, I watched a comedy- a tale of two dreamers this evening. I cannot help associating the humorous play with another musical play and Chinese comedy. At the same time, I analysed the two following issues.

One of them has something to do with box office earnings. Obviously, compared with the musical drama last week, the humorous play today has different feature. The barrier to keep audients beyond the national theatre square is the plot of a tale of two dreamers is hard to understand. However, Red Hook, a musical play performed last week provided fantastic visual experience and an understandable plot. No wonder tickets sale of musical plays is better than comedies.

The other is about the difference between typical Chinese humor and representative British humor. In my opinion, western humor tends to use actions and onomatopoeic words to achieve the purpose of making audiences laugh. For example, Chaplin is famous for his antics, including body language and face expression, which make viewers to laugh and tear. Whereas Chinese-style humor focuses on the content of dialogues. Take a cross-talk for example, a talker are used to cooperating with a respondent to tell a funny story to audients and make individuals pleasant and to laugh.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with going overseas for university study?

One of sweeping trends is to go overseas for university study in present society over the world. At the same time, individuals have to admit that studying abroad is regarded as a two-edged sword. Therefore, the issue has been debated by two parties, supporters and opponents. The formers believe that advantages going overseas brings are definitely more than the disadvantages, whereas the later consider it is not an angle but an evil. In my opinion, I will compare both the strengths and the weaknesses to justify.

On the one hand, it sounds reasonable that international students can benefit from the experience studying abroad. First of all, it is manifest that going overseas for study is a sensible investment. Provided that the person makes an effort to learn knowledge and skills, the profit they will earn from their jobs probably seems further more than the fund they allocated to the academic career.

Moreover, the experience studying and living in a foreign country could help graduated students to gain more employment opportunities. Generally speaking, a developed education system, policy and multicultural background tend to ensure increasingly competitive advantages for international students.

Last but not least, the choice of study overseas seems helpful to enrich their experience and broaden their horizons. Indeed, it is a interesting and helpful progress from creating conflicts between two kinds of culture, motherlands’ culture and foreign culture, to synthesizing them perfectly.

On the other hand, a latest research reveals that learning in a foreign country can create not only benefit but also problems and puzzles. One reasonable cause is study efficiency becomes dramatic low, which is caused by distribution of energy and time. They have to admit living and studying in a different culture is not so convenient as that in their own culture.

Another reason why individuals oppose the choice of studying in a different culture is these difficulties lead to problems of psychological health sometimes in the special situation. Undoubtedly, the serious cultural shock from one county to another has detrimental influence on development of their psychological health and poses a severe threat to their common daily life.

Given the more advantages than the disadvantages, I concede that going overseas for university study is an exciting prospect for students. No wonder studying abroad becomes increasingly popular.

findings of our table

just practice the 'findings' pragraph of a report.
(sample: 5. including Shadow, Cathy, Oat, Yun and me.)

The main findings were as follows. blue was the most popular color, chosen by 40%; this was followed by yellow, purple and black, each occupying 20%.

7 was the most popular, chosen by 40% and 6,8 were selected by 20%; one person had no lucky number.

60% of members in this table selected the age group 26-30 years as the ideal age to get married. 31-35 years was regarded as ideal age by 40%.

In looking at the most important qualities of an ideal partner, 27% chose honest without hesitation; this was followed by humorous and confident partners, each chosen by 20%. While intelligent, honestly, ambitious, kind, loving partners were selected as ideal ones,each by 7%.

The ideal number of children chosen by 60% was 2. However, 40% selected no children...

music festival

I visited a music festival, held in a park near Old Street Station last weekend. Enjoying the exciting songs, passinate dances and fantastic instrument solo, i couldn't help thinking about why music festivals in london are more mature than that in beijing. Perhaps, there are two dimensions of reasons.

One part might be their perfect commercial machism. This balances the interests of different parties properiately, including sponsors, sellers, artists and audients. For audients, nothing is better than enjoying festival for free. however, the council needs expense to function the program. Yet, where does the cost come from? It is sponsors and sellers that are responsible for the money. In addition, sponsors gain the oppotunitiy to promote themselves and sellers benefit from retails. Inviting artists seems to be a large deal to pay. Nevertheless, when artists or performance will advise themselves, i have to say, the state have transfered. Specificaly, individuals or clubs acheive reputation, at the same time, audients and the oganiser pay nothing. How subtle it is!

Another more mature section, in my opinion, is the shift between different programs. Obviously, each performance synthesizes two or more types of arts, one of which probabely is right the commen style in adjacent ones. For the reason, the shift becomes more smooth and natural. Take the transition between rap and rock for example. On the one hand, unlike usual black pop rap with regular beats, the rap program combined typical rap with jazz elements. On the other hand, next one, the rock also mixed a little taste of jazz. As a result, audients didn't recognize the gap of two genre, but enjoyed them one by one.

I don't think it is a difficult work to run a music festival even other similar festivals and i believe beijing can do this as good as london did as soon. Just need study...

Michael Jackson and else

Headlines of most media, such as newspapers, magazines and websites, are indulged with the information about Michael Jackson, involving his death, funeral and memorised lifetime.

Though I am not a fan of M.J, I admire and even adove him as an artist. Rewatching 'dangerous' (his representive work) recalled me of the style of space dance, which was created by M.J. I suppose the inspiration might derive from the behavior and guesture of walking on the surface of moon, which is absolutely different from that on the earth under the grivity.

Thus, in the terms of the realationship between technological events and art creativity, former can inspirit latter. Specifically, artists tend to analysize and abstract the value in their eyes from technical events, then transfer or interpret them to art or design. But M.J, there are still other good examples to demonstrate the arguement above. The same as M.J, Louis Vuitton latest posters also elevate the value through inviting three astronauts- buzz aldrin, jim lovell and sally ride, who have witnessed the lunar excursion since the first activity 40 years ago.

Thanks for M.J's contribution again! The world has been conquered by his dance ,his passion and his energy. It is him that relight our flame in our mind, while it was put out by daily life and individual indifference.

Wish you go in peace...

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