Streets Saturday Features

By On July 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment

So, it’s confirmed. My family’s annual pilgrimage to Ocean Park in central Taiwan starts in a week-and-a-half from today. It’ll just be for a couple of days, but it’ll be a couple days in a different place from where I am now, which is the whole point of a vacation.
Here are this week’s street photos [...]

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Picturing Daily Life: the Kids Monthly Haircut & Shampoo

By On July 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Since my wife left work at noon and I didn’t have anything scheduled after this morning, we decided to take the boys to have their hair cut, washed, and styled. We took them to their normal barbershop, Zix in Ming Yao (on Chungsiao East).
The front area where the haircuts took place was very evenly lit, [...]

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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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World Chocolate Wonderland, Taipei, Taiwan

By On July 18, 2010 · 5 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 is an attempt to drum up nearby international tourism. [...]

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Streets Saturday Features

By On July 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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 able to be prolific enough to do this weekly [...]

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Teh Lin Prosthetic & Orthopedic in Taiwan

By On June 23, 2010 · 1 Comment

I’ve been using my prosthetic leg for about 3 months, since early March. A couple weeks ago the manufacturer of my prosthesis, Teh Lin, gave me a call and asked that I come back in for a check up.
You know…to have the oil changed and the timing adjusted.
I finally had a free [...]

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