Category: photos
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Arrival of a New Rice Cooker
(I started writing this more than a year ago when I was stilling living in the US; left it as a draft all this time, but we are about to visit Asia, so I’d better post it before it gets really stale) To an Asian, an electric rice cooker is an essential home appliance that…
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Cat & iPad
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYyXRiziHL8&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0] I do not have a cat. Nor do I have a iPad. But this video shows the fun you (and your cat) may have when you put them together.
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Celebrity fragrance commercials – part 2
When I started writing this post, I found many fragrance commercials on Youtube – enough to put in a second post. In case you are wondering why I am writing about this topic, the following is an excerpt from one of my earlier posts: I am always curious about the promotion of fragrances – how does…
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Celebrity fragrance commercials – part 1
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlF22oSslNM&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0] Justin Timberlake for Givenchy Play Continuing with the theme of fragrance marketing, I saw a bunch of TV commercials just before Christmas on UK channels and noticed many pop and even movie celebrities playing the lead in these 30-45 seconds clips. Most movie celebrities do not let their TV commercials show in US territory…
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Waste in five languages
A few months ago, I blogged about a graphic element (a “cursor”) that is deployed by Swiss in all their cabin print materials, check out my earlier post Minimalist Graphics. Our flight back from Antalya, Turkey to Zurich was by Swiss. I could not resist snapping a picture of their waste bag in the pocket…
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Wonderwood by Comme des Garçon
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxtjoH–GbA&fs=1&hl=en_US] Comme des Garçon’s video for their new fragrance is done by The Brothers Quay. It’s gotta be one of the creepier perfume advertisement out there. Yet the video matches the brand. Comme des Garçon’s line of fragrances are unconventional and always interesting. This is an interesting covergence. I like “2” by Comme des Garçon. It…