Christmas in Taipei, Xinyi Vieshow Village Edition

By On December 15, 2010 · 1 Comment

Taiwan is not a country that celebrates Christmas. For them, the major point in the “Holiday Season” is Chinese New Year (This coming February 14th). However, mix a nearby International trade center, a nearby major hotel, a nearby major tourist attraction, and a high street shopping complex and you get an area of Taipei that decorates and publicly celebrates what is generally a ‘Western’ holiday.

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My Top Eleven Free iPad Apps

By On September 16, 2010 · 6 Comments

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No, this isn’t link bait or one of those “earn pennies by typing Google fodder blogs for me”-type articles. I’ve had use of an iPad for about 5 months now and [...]

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An Exercise in Composition

By On August 13, 2010 · 3 Comments

We left Taipei by train at 7AM, arriving at the Hualien station at 10:00 and the Farglory hotel 30 minutes later. Once at the hotel, we discovered that we couldn’t check-in until after 3PM. My wife, her sister, and the kids unanimously decided to leave the bags with me and hop the next shuttle bus [...]

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5 Tips for Better Street Photography

By On August 10, 2010 · 6 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, Craig Ferguson invited me to write a guest post on his blog. It was something I felt somewhat honored to do since I both find him to be an excellent photographer and his blog to be incredibly useful. I’ve cobbled together this short pieceon street photography in the same vein [...]

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Tomica (Tomy) 40th Anniversary in Taipei

By On July 25, 2010 · 6 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 kids playing with die cast metal matchbox cars made by Hot Wheels Japanese brother, Tomica [...]

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Taiwan Storyland, Taipei

By 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 children’s mythos.
But i didn’t. In fact, it became clear at [...]

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