Questioneer for backpacker!

How long have you been traveling? How often do you travel?

How do you communicate with friends and family? Through which applications?

How many times have you accessed a computer?

How do you access a computer?

What do you use it for, when you are traveling?

What most commonly used application when you travel?

What is the most commonly used websites?

Do you book tickets online? Do you upload pictures when you travel? Do you participate on social networks?

What do you think about the pen drive os? Would it encourage you to use a computer more often?

Football in Hyde Park.

海德公园 from simon yu on Vimeo.

shuping yang was a good actor

老鼠印记 from simon yu on Vimeo.

Trafalga Sq

oh, is it a cool photo?

Kenwood House and Estate

This weekend if you don't have much homework to do or somewhere to go (haha..)

I have special place to recommend for everyone who interested in natural and picnic.

" Kenwood House " is the original house dates from the early 17th century and open to public in 1928.

You can enjoy in the sun with interesting drinks you like, also good books. It has very beautiful large yard and the incredible house in background where you will get the great pictures.

How to go there? ah.. very easy! you can take Piccadilly line (blue one) toward Cockfosters and thenchange to take bus at Finsbury Park station, bus number is 210 to Kenwood House.

We can go there someday, maybe when finished our course or some weekend.

friday's pictures

websits of animation and blog

Hi,I'm lina ,remembered these websits
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=53489324
the mv named Flogging Molly "Float"，this IP use the high quality
http://www.youtube.com/user/annecyfestival
http://www.ariasblog.ca/
http://www.studioaka.co.uk/
HSB bank's TV advertising is here
http://www.lemonpencil.com/

animation website to recommendation

Hi, this is Shupeng. These are five of the best English animation company, you can see all their commercial vedio online very easily. Some of them owns a group of directive elite, and the vedio catalogue by director's name. You can click the links of their names to see the different styles of animation. Meanwhile, you can obtain the jobs request of their working positions, and apply online.

http://www.framestore-cfc.com/

http://www.nexusanimation.com/main.html

http://www.passion-pictures.com/flash.html#page=d5

http://www.th1ng.com/th2ng/

http://www.dneg.com/

And also, I recommand a website "Skillset". It's very useful for job preparing, because it includes many information about diffirent jobs request - skill, responsibility, knowledge and so on. For instance, if you want find some job information about Interactive Media, you can use this website research "Interactive Media", they will tell you lots about this field.

http://www.skillset.org/
http://www.skillset.org/interactive/
http://www.skillset.org/animation/careers/

Websites recommendation

Dear all,
This is I-Ying. I‘d like to recommend you several nice websites related to art and design. Most of these are magazine’s websites, such as MONOCLE, Wallpaper, Communication Arts, etc. The contents are informative, covering international affairs, business, culture, design, fashion, etc. They are professional in reporting and analyzing with various aspects of viewpoints. You can also buy these magazines in bookshop. Hope you like it!
http://www.monocle.com/
http://www.wallpaper.com/
http://www.commarts.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/

A recommend website about illustration

The website I want to recommend is about illustration, which is called "Illustration Friday." 

http://www.illustrationfriday.com/

There are several reasons below that I would like to  recommend this website:

1. it gives chances to experience, explore, and play with visual arts

2. you can show your works without pressure and judgement

3. every week has different topic

4. there are a lot links in this website

5. the picture you post on the web also can connect to your blog and the visitors may give you some feedback 

 

Commend Websites and blogs

www.davidairey.com 50 top designers blogs collected by a designer

www.firstbornmultimedia.com Good concept and most advanced technic used in interactive design(cases and design process anlysis)
www.thefwa.com Favourite website awards, update every day
www.bestwebgallery.com Best web gallery
www.newwebpick.com Design magazine
tha.jp blog of a good design agency

Hope you enjoy them.
YuanMa

5 web site

dun yu's web post

http://motionographer.com/
this web site is very good for someone who would like to do animation or motion graphic. I watch this web site every day.

http://tutsplus.com/
if you love technology about computer arts you should visit this web. its really useful.

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
dont know what art it is? go there~

http://philipbloom.co.uk/
this guy have been making films for the past 20 years.

http://adsoftheworld.com/
do you want know what's happened today in ads world? just click.

today's picnic

today's picnic is great despite the weather is no very good.
every one bring or buy the food for the picnic. this is the picture for someone didn't come today. oye~

Free concert in Southbank

This weekend I had a lot of activities to present everybody because I really love to join all activities in London as much as I can.

First of all, I want to talk about free concert at National Theatre in Southbank. I went there with my friend on Friday because she is a big fan of Jazz song so I decided to came with her. When We got there I was so surprised with atmosphere and all of instruments on the stage, it's very impressed. Afterward, the Canadian band name Katya Gorrie Trio started to sang a jazz song but the things I noticed was they have just one guitar and double bass, that's very fantastic.

Anyway, this is just one example concert that I recommened. You can join these concert very easily by check it out in this site www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/whatson

The plan of the weekend

Hey everyone~~

Here is the plan of this weekend~

About CONTENT:

1. Watch the changing the guard ceremony outside Buckingham Palace

This ceremony is one of Britain's main tourist attractions.

But on the other hand, there will be thousands of tourists crowding outside the Buckingham Palace.

So we might miss the most parts of the ceremony and maybe just can see the guards passing by.

As Simon said it might be a little bit boring, so whether join this activity or not depends on you.

more detail at http://www.changing-the-guard.com/

2. Have picnic in Hyde Park

Hyde park is one of London's finest historic royal park as well as a great place to have a relax.

We plan to have a picnic there, in addition, play some interesting games for fun and also free chat to improve our spoken English.

We hope everyone could join this activity~

If you decide to take part in this activity, please bring some food and drink with you, cook some thing will be great. We are so looking forward to taste the food you cooked, and of course your hometown flavor will be awesome!

PS: We are also going to buy some drinks and some food from the supermarket near the Hyde Park, So you don't need to bring to much with you:)

About TIME & PLACE:

Sunday, 19th July

1. If you want to watch the changing the guard ceremony in the morning, please arrive at Green Park tube station at 10:30am.

The Whole ceremony will begin at 11:00am at St James's Palace and Buckingham Palace.

At 11:15am The 'Old Guard' will arrive at Buckingham Palace.

And the ceremony will be end at 12:00am.

2. If you want to join the picnic in Hyde Park, please arrive at Hyde Park Corner tube station at 12:30am.

ECCA WORKSHOP

I participated in ECCA Workshop at Davies Street on 15th July.

This session set out to provide you with tips on self-promotion from a creative business and example of web 2.0 tools that you can use to develop your profile.

For your information, ECCA(Enterprise Centre for the Creative Arts) is the University of the Arts London service that provides support to students and graduates that want to freelance or set up a business in the creative industries.

You can find some more details on this website >>> www.ecca-london.org

The workshop was made up of two parts. The first part of the workshop was a presentation of Bunch Design which is one of the successful creative design company that was set up in 2003, from a group of London College of Communication graduates. Two designers visited for the workshop and they carried out their presentation. I think it was a just common presentation to explain their design works, but their design works are obviously excellent. They also pointed up that web 2.0 is one of the best way to promote your work from their experience such as blog , website and so on, in addition to making showcase book, it can help you impress other people. They said even if some people just put your showcase book on the bottom of room, it could remind you a few weeks later.

http://www.bunchdesign.com/

In the second part of the workshop, another lecturer provided me several useful websites where are easy to access as well as for free for self-promotion. In these websites, you can promote your work through your portfolio or profile on the online. In addition, you can make networks with other artists and designers. And some sites offer advice and education, and also feature opportunities such as art prizes, awards and jobs.

I put up the list for you.

http://www.jotta.com/jotta/

http://www.arts.ac.uk/sketchbook/home

http://www.careers-creative-living.co.uk/

http://topwebtoolz.blogspot.com/

http://www.capzles.com/

http://www.web2rights.org.uk/

http://www.inkscape.org/

http://www.doinggraphics.co.uk

ClassmateS~~~~~

This is our class of presentation in which classmates are showing their works .

YIN ZI

I-Yin

Wei Xuan

Xiao Bai

Seriously listenning to prentation

Hi everyone

Hope you're enjoying the Bauhaus project. Here are two useful website addresses.

1) Bauhaus online

www.bauhaus.de/english/bauhaus1919/vorgeschicte1919.htm

2) Art exhibition at Philadelphia Museum of Art

www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/272.html

Hope they help.

Regards David

THE SEA FOOD PARTY!

I had a Sea food party with some friends on Saturday.

Fangfang who is one of my roommate invited me join to the party with her friends.How exciting! I haven't been eaten any sea food since a long time ago because sea food here were so expensive,but Fangfang told me that this market sale the cheapest sea food in london. We got up at 4:00 in the moring,then we took the 135 bus to there.  And it only took each of us 10 pound for all the sea food....

Do you like sea food ? Then may be next time you can follow me as well. ~~

Billingsgate Market
Trafalgar Way
London
E14 5ST

Tuesday to Saturday 5am - 8.30am
The market is closed Sunday and Monday.
NB the market is closed on Tuesdays following a Bank Holiday Monday.

Class activity

Hello everyone,
I have an idear that organising a group activity this weekend in order to communicate more after classes. I went to Hyde park last week and I think that is a fantastic place for gethering and picnic, may be we can cook something and bring to the park, share with others and enjoy a lovely communication.
Do you have any suggestions or idears, we can have a discussion in the break time.
YuanMa

Brighton

This weekend I went to visit Brighton and Coventry with my cousin. Brighton is a beautiful ocean city and it takes about 50 minutes by train from Victoria station. There are lots of small lanes curved near the ocean, also many amazing shops inside, which sell different kinds of things. Besides, Brighton museum& art gallery is nearly to the transtation, where is stand by the Royal Pavilion. It is really sad for us because the museum was closed and the royal pavilion was in restored but we still enjoyed the beautiful scenery and decided to visit there again next time.

     

          

Time management

Hello all,

Hope you used your time well over the weekend - a good balance of relaxation, cultural stimulus and study.  On that note have a look at the following link ...

http://www.studygs.net/timman.htm

Billingsgate Market

My friends with me got up very early and went to the Billingsgate Market yesterday morning,because there is the wholesale fish market for London. It operates from around 5 in the morning till about 8.30 am 6 days a week (Tues - Sun). So I had to got up early in order to buy some seafood .It is very cool at there . I bought a few of crab ,prawn,hairtail and so on , we asked about a large lobster-sized prawn to be told the whole box costs £12.5. So we bought the whole box of prawn and I think it is very reasonable price . To my surprised , one large crab is only £1 .I was very tired yesterday but I am very pleased to go there and I can eat very delicious seafood.

www.artdaily.com << recommended for everyone

I found this website when I was trying to searching the new design stuff. So, I decided to present it for everyone who interested in art & design update.

Actually, this site is newspaper on the net which displaying all of art works and design exhibitions all around the world. You can search for the artist's works or information design very easier. Hope everyone enjoy!! :)

Sucurity

one of our school mate Sandy experienced a terrible thing on 3rd July, a black people robed her self-phone on the bus and run away! It was 3pm, she was on her way back to the university accomdation,Ewen handerson court, just a station before she arrivaled, the door of the car opend and she were holding her self-phone on her hand,the man rob her phone quickly and got out of the bus immediately. She was scared! In the bus! afernoon! That is really terrible!!! I even can't imaging before it really happend! Every one, please take care of yourselves and your belongings! Hope this kind of thing never happen again to us.

Brick Lane Market

This is a very interesting market, where you can find many kinds of things there. It includes a great deal of clothes, second-hand goods, hand-made decoration, food, and also lots of amazing small shops. You can find anything you want and they are all very cheap. Be

low is the website for you to reference.

http://www.click4bricklane.co.uk/10.html 

Hope you can enjoy in it.

^0^ TO RECOMMEND

This is really really really WONDERFULL~~~

 

( This picture is from http://www.wretch.cc/blog/lin70713/23761303 )

Chinese ceramics/British museum

Hello, everyone! I am Weixuan from Beijing, China . I went to British museum yesterday. So I would like to share some Chinese ceramics' photos for you.

Frankly, I was shocked by those traditional Chinese ceramics, which I have never seen them before. These traditional ceramics were considered high-tech from mining the clay, shaping them, firing them, painting them, and packing them for shipping. People from all over the world wanted these wonderful treasures. It is an honor to show you the porcelain manufactured from Chinese ancestor!