Taipei Archive

Tomica (Tomy) 40th Anniversary in Taipei

Posted on July 25, 2010 | 3 Comments
Being born in the 70s in America, and thus a child of the 80s, I was raised on Hot Wheels. Remember those bendy blue plastic tracks? Little did I know that 10,000 kilometers to the left of me there were kid playing with die cast...
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World Chocolate Wonderland, Taipei, Taiwan

Posted on July 18, 2010 | 4 Comments
From July to September the National Taiwan Science Education Center (NTSEC) in Taipei is playing host to exhibits from the World Chocolate Wonderland. The World Chocolate Wonderland is a new (opened January of this year) theme park in Beijing, PRC and I suspect that this...
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Streets Saturday Features

Posted on July 17, 2010 | No Comments
Sorry that I haven’t been able to post these as regularly as I’d like to, but things have been massively busy and complex for a little while, cutting deeply into my my outside-and-shooting time. Hopefully, life will loosening up in the future and I’ll be...
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Taiwan Storyland, Taipei

Posted on June 10, 2010 | 6 Comments
It almost sounds like the name of a fantasy-themed amusement park, doesn’t it? Even the entrance, pictured above, invokes mental images of fairies flitting about in an enchanted forest. I fully expected to encounter scenes based on the Monkey King and other figures from Chinese...
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Streets Saturday

Posted on May 8, 2010 | No Comments
This week’s featured photos. Comments are always appreciated. Enjoy! Until next time!
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Love Animals Day in Taipei

Posted on April 24, 2010 | 2 Comments
Yeah, there was no Streets Saturday feature today. Sorry. But it was the “Love Animal Day” pet carnival in Taipei city, Taiwan and as a pet-lover (I have 2 rescued dogs and a turtle at the moment) and the father of pet-loving twin boys, we...
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