THINK.. THANK.. TALK: 10월 2010

2010년 10월 31일 일요일

Samsung HMX-T10 brings to making movie a truly enjoyable experience

Following is a video of Samsung Digital Camcorder HMX-T10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEbU9n4INPM

unwire.hk - Samsung Nx100 Focus Speed Test

Following is a video of Samsung Nx100 Focus Speed Test.

Click & view : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaTnOihcSoA

Crazy Bottle Opener! by WB2000

following is a video taken by Samsung Wb2000.

Link Url : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koLjuIZ7q7o

Samsung WB5000 HD movie sample

Following is a sample video recorded by WB5000.

LInk : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu6a8UmSJ24&feature=related

WB2000 Super Slow Motion video sample

Following is a sample video of Samsung Digital Camera WB2000 Super Slow Motion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x7z7x1rZ6w&feature=related

2010년 10월 29일 금요일

ST100 digital camera with seamless dual LCD

Following is a video of Samsung Digital Camera ST100 with seamless Dual LCD.

Click : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m71QpZERCAE&feature=channel

Alicia Keys "See you Smile" Samsung DualView Commercial

Following is a video of Alicia Keys "See You Smile" Samsung DualView Commerical.

Click Me : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EalXl4JxDBg&u=DYOJqDTEii0&list=LL&feature=BF

Samsung NX10 for Sport: Jarrad Howse

Following is a video of samsung nx10 fro sport : Jarrad Howse.

link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_BxTB-xt_I&feature=related

Five Chinese Photographers Invited to the Madrid International Photography Festival

An exhibition of artwork by the five Chinese photographers (Gao Shiqiang, Dong Wensheng, Han Lei, Jiang Zhi, Jin Shi) invited to the 2nd Madrid International Photography Festival 2010, held in the Spanish capital and the center of culture, art and industry, was opened to the public in Beijing. The artwork was exhibited in the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (http://www.iberiart.org) fromJune 25 to July 27, 2010.

The interior and exterior of the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

The Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, the first art center established in China by the International Art & Culture Foundation of Spain, has multiple functions including exposition, research, education, and the collection of the contemporary art. The center has a large collection of visual media, conceptual photography, modern photography and documentaries.

With its media library, the center is one of the most important organizations for contemporary photography and videos in China. The five Chinese photographers, all born around the 1970s, represent a newly emerging group bringing a new wave of contemporary art. For them, visual media and installation art constitute the important language of art. They ceaselessly raise questions in areas of humanities including history, society, tradition and culture with diverse methods of communication, and pursue their search to enlighten people through this language. Gao Shiqiang was born in 1971, and is currently teaching in the Department of Synthetic Art at the China Academy of Art. In February 1995, he founded a sculpture group with two other friends and started creating experimental pieces of art. In 1996, the group participated to the "1st China Video Art Fair" with the video installation "Seen & Unseen Life". After finishing his Master's education in Shanghai in 2003, Gao Shiqiang returned to his alma mater to become a teacher. Although he works independently, he is seen to have started the contemporary art movement the "Hangzhou Visual Media Movement" with several other artists. His creations further developed into his second phase; "video sculpture".

It was during this period that he created a massive quantity of experimental short films. Gao Shiqiang's work from 2007 to the present, which mainly consists of films, constitute what is often referred to as his third or "flourishing" phase. He recently participated in Shanghai Biennale (China), Guangzhou Triennale (China), Gwangju Biennale (Korea) and China Art Guangzhou Triennale (China), and has been gaining interest ever since. Gao Shiqiang is one of few "academic" artists in the newly emerging Chinese contemporary creative arts. His art, which includes installations, photography and experimental films, raise questions in a grandiose reflection of the history and culture of China.

Gao Shiqing
Total Eclipse-1, Photography, 110×137cm, 2010

Gao Shiqing
Total Eclipse-11, Photography, 110×165cm, 2010

Born in 1970 in Jiangsu, Dong Wensheng graduated from the Department of Industrial Arts at Changzhou Teachers College Of Technology in 1991. In 1999, he participated in the "China Contemporary Photography (Italy, Milano)" exhibition, and in 2001, he was invited to the "September Festival" (Nice, France).

His exhibitions include "Living in Interesting Times: A Decade of New Chinese Photography (Israel, Open Photo Gallery)" in 2005, "The 13th: Chinese Video Now (U.S., New-York P.S.1 Modern Art Center)" in 2006, and works in other significant international art organizations such as the Vienna Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia. All Dong Wensheng's artwork demonstrates his close relationship with Changzhou, a small town, south of the Yangtze River in China, where he currently lives.

His main creations consist of photography, installations and experimental films each expressed through elements of traditional culture of China such as gardens, rocks, tattoos, and skulls. From his initial work, the back garden series and the still-life series to the most recent series of artwork, the primary element of which is a human skull, he focuses on an established scenery and exposes the mysterious, surrealistic and unworldly feelings hidden within, raising questions and reflections concerning more abstract, philosophical conceptions such as time, existence, and emptiness. Han Lei was born in Kaifeng, Henan, China, in 1967. He studied at the Central Academy of Craft and Design in Beijing.

Currently working in Beijing, Han Lei has held personal exhibition tours which included cities such as Shanghai (China), Berlin (Germany), and Helsinki (Finland), and has participated in numerous international photography fairs, in the U.S., France, Germany, Italy, and Denmark among others. In 1998, he was awarded the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography Award (U.S.) for "Rail & Men", and in 2007, he was invited to the "China Modern Arts Fair" organized by Gwangju Art Museum (Korea).

As an artist, Han Lei stands to his principle: "One can never trust the apparent truth". His artwork maintains the "truth" of the actual scenery, but at the same time incorporates his personal sentiments. The intervention of personal and subjective feelings invariably creates an unusual, extreme instability to the actual scenery in the photograph. Even his portrait photography conveys an expression far distant from the "truth". He selects a person with a clearly identifiable social standing, then positions them in an atypical surrounding. The truth that we perceive through the person is obscured and twisted by conflicting judgments and definitions, which forms the constituents of the "illusion of truth".

Dong Wensheng
The Convert No.1, Photography, 122×101cm, 2009

Dong Wensheng
The Convert No.2, Photography, 122×101cm, 2009

Dong Wensheng
The Convert No.4, Photography, 122×101cm, 2009

Dong Wensheng
The Convert No.5, Photography, 122×101cm, 2009

Jiang Zhi
Yang Jia's Landscape No.01, C-Print, 167×100×6cm, 2008
Photo: Yang Jia
Selected and Produced by Jiang Zhi

Jiang Zhi
Yang Jia's Landscape No.02, C-Print, 60×60×3.5cm, 2008
Photo: Yang Jia
Selected and Produced by Jiang Zhi

Jin Shi
Run Fast No.02, Photography, 30×30cm, 2009

Jin Shi
Small Business Karoake No3, Photography, 90×120cm

Jin Shi
Playground No.2, Photography, 75×100cm, 2007

The work of Han Lei can be divided into three phases. The first phase includes photographs emphasizing relative objectivity, dating back to his early career. These are "observational" photographs where his personal opinion and sentiment are least apparent. The second phase consists of photographs that maintain the "truth" of the scenery, but have an emphasis on his subjective conscience.

The third phase comprises photographs in which Han Lei's artistic conscience, developed throughout his life and experience, is more deeply involved. These include portraits of "fictional" subjects, created with various props. The artwork in this exhibition belongs to this last phase of photography. Han Lei's photography shows a development from the initial, technical phase to the conceptual phase where the artist's sentiment and reflection are more visible in his work.

Jiang Zhi was born in 1971 in Hunan. He graduated from the China Academy of Fine Art in 1995, and is currently working in Beijing. In addition to photography, he also works with short films and documentaries. In 2000, he was awarded the "Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA)", and in 2003, he received an award for his short film "KongLong" at the IFVA Short Film & Video Festival in Hong Kong. Jiang Zhi was invited to the Gwangju Biennale (Korea) and the Guangzhou Triennale (China) in 2002, and also participated in the Venice Biennale in 2003. He has recently been receiving a lot of attention in numerous Biennials, film festivals and exhibitions, in various countries including Switzerland, the Netherlands and the U.S.

Jiang Zhi's artwork series "YangJia's Landscape" included in this exhibition are not pieces he created himself, but consist of photographs he downloaded from Yang Jia's blog which detail his controversial actions. In 2008 in Shanghai, China, a young man on a bicycle was stopped and questioned by a police officer for no apparent reason. Instead of complying with the officer's request, the young man refused and responded with insults and abusive language. Later, he requested that the police department present a written apology, and grew upset as the police apparently ignored his request. Determined to propagate the incident nationwide, the young man proceeded to the kill six police officers. Yang Jia was later arrested and sentenced to death. When Jiang Zhi learned about the incident, he decided, as an artist, to look at Yang Jia through his art and act as a journalist reporting on contemporary Chinese society. Through his "Yang Jia's Landscape" series, Jiang Zhi conveys the intricacy and subtlety that exists between the artist, journalist and spectator.

Born in 1976 in Henan, Jin Shi graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Art, and is currently working in Hangzhou. In 2009, his artwork "Unreal Reality" was awarded the Festival Saab Award in the PhotoEspaña Festival, the world's biggest photography festival which takes place in Spain.
Through his numerous installations and photography including "Half Life", "Petty, Life" and "Small Business Karaoke" series, Jin Shi shows the multifaceted aspects of the life of the lower class in China that he himself sees, and conveys the humorous sentiment hidden within their mundane world.

The five artists participating in the festival, all of whom were born in the 1970s, share a common background. In the continuously changing Chinese society, they each express the different worlds they see through their own arts and communication methods, installations, photography, videos, sculptures, and others. As they raise questions in the diverse social, cultural and historical aspects of China, we, as spectators, are charmed and fascinated by their ceaseless efforts. Ta

The exhibition hall of "Kalpastival of Photography" hosted by the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, and the artists participating in the exhibition

2010년 10월 28일 목요일

[TRAVEL] Around the world with a Samsung camera, France

A Romantic Day in Paris!
A Day in Paris
Paris - The City of Romance.
Many tourists visit Europe with Paris in mind.
The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, the Seine River,
the Pont Neuf Bridge, the Notre-Dame Cathedral, and Montmartre are all must-see attractions in the city.
Too many? Here's the ultimate route to make it in a single day! ■Text and picture by Oh Dong-Hyun

The Louvre Palace by day (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

▲ The Louvre Palace by night (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

▲ The Obelisk of Luxor, a monument that France looted from Rome (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

Paris is a big city. Planning your route within this metropolis is certainly not easy, but once you're on the right path, it is still possible to limit your use of the Metro (subway) and enjoy a walking tour. The problem is that Paris is an unusually radial city. In most cities, which have a grid street plan, if you miss a turn you can always take the next one and still end up close to your destination. In Paris, this strategy will invariably fail. One wrong turn might easily lead you astray, causing you to lose your direction. It's too risky to vaguely presume that if you follow this street you'll eventually cross the main road. In reality, you're more likely to get further away from your destination. Be sure to always carry a map with you when you're walking in Paris, and check your position regularly. Ok, enough with the introduction, let's get back to how to tour Paris in a day.

▲ Glass Pyramid, by day and by night (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

The journey begins in the Louvre Palace...

Let's start at the Louvre. After all, it is in the center of the city. Compared to its worldwide fame, the Louvre Museum was rather disappointing. For me, there were only two pieces of art worth seeing; The Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo, but otherwise, it wasn't very interesting. Really. I preferred the Louvre Palace and the Glass Pyramid much more. When you're finished at the Louvre, head to Place de la Concorde. North-west of the Louvre is the Petite Arche. It's a straight line from there to the Arc de Triomphe and the Grande Arche de la Défense. Last time I went up to the Grande Arche to see the Arc de Triomphe, I couldn't see it because of the smog. This time, however, the Grande Arche was clearly visible from the Arc de Triomphe. The air quality in Europe must have improved. Looking through the telescope from the top of the Grande Arche, you can see the Arc de Triomphe, and straight ahead, the Petite Arche.

Between the Louvre Palace and the Place de la Concorde there is a park that you can walk through during the day, when it is open. At the end of the park, a Ferris wheel sits awkwardly, then the famous Obelisk of Luxor that France took from Rome. It is said that Rome looted the Obelisk from Egypt in the first place. Really, the history of Europe is a history of plunder, take the exhibitions in the Louvre for example. When will they return our Jikji Simche Yojol? Anyway, let's continue our tour.

▲ Champs Élysées, by day and by night (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

▲ Arc de Triomphe, by day and by night (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

Feeling at home in city.
From the Obelisk, looking straight down the Champs Élysées, you can see the Arc de Triomphe in the distance. At night, the lights on the trees showcase the symbolic scenery of Paris, but unfortunately they aren't switched on every night.
Where the tree-lined street ends, the Champs Élysées begins. The Champs Élysées is the Parisian epicenter of shopping and entertainment. However, the lunch menus aren't that expensive in comparison with other restaurants in Paris. It's really worth sitting in one of the restaurant terraces along the Champs Élysées for lunch, preferably with a cup of espresso. Just like a Parisian.
But don't savor it too much, or you won't be able to complete the tour. Come on, hurry up. At the end of the Champs Élysées is the Arc de Triomphe. You can take the elevator to the top of the monument, but the entrance fee is quite expensive. There's nothing special up there anyway.

▲ The Eiffel Tower, by day and by night (Photo taken with a Samsung camera) Paris is more romantic in the fall (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

▲Paris is more romantic in the fall (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

There’s no Paris without the Eiffel Tower, and there's no Eiffel Tower without Paris.

From the Arc de Triomphe, take Avenue Kléber toward the Chaillot Palace. No, not the Eiffel Tower, not yet. Admittedly, this may be the most dull and uninteresting part of today's journey.
From time to time during the walk; you may catch a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower. Don't fall to temptation, stick to the route. Once in the Chaillot Palace, you'll be rewarded with far more beautiful scenery. Seeing the Eiffel Tower from the Chaillot Palace, you'll realize that most famous photos of the Eiffel Tower were taken from there. The view is even better with the Chaillot Palace fountains, but during my visit the palace was busy with the Rugby World Cup which, by the way, marred the beautiful scenery of the Eiffel Tower.
You could visit the tower during the day, but the view is rather flat - save your ticket for the evening.
Now, take a casual walk along the riverside toward the Cité Island and enjoy the romantic beauty of Paris. It's a long way, and the exhaust fumes from the vehicles is a bit of hindrance; but still, looking down the banks of the Seine is quite a view, especially in autumn when the trees are losing their leaves.
En route to the Cité Island is the Orsay Museum. It might be a good idea to reserve a ticket if you plan to visit the museum later. The museum has a reservation office which is separate from the ticket office and the main entrance, and the purchased ticket can be used freely within a limited period, so you can avoid standing in line to purchase the ticket or to get into the museum. Of course, it's not like the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, where it can sometimes take two to three hours to get in, so you don't have to visit the museum just to reserve a ticket. But since you're here, there's no reason not to, either.
The Orsay Museum is located approximately two-thirds of the way to the Cité Island. In fact, you can see the Cité Island in the distance and across the river is the Louvre. The famous Pont Neuf Bridge is three bridges away.

▲ The magnificent Notre-Dame Cathedral (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

▲ The Pont Neuf Bridge, made famous by the film "Les Amants du Pont Neuf" (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

A closer look at the French culture.

The Pont Neuf Bridge found its fame in the film "Les Amants du Pont Neuf", but apart from the fact that the bridge leads to the Cité Island, there's almost nothing special about it. The Pont Neuf Bridge means "The New Bridge", but ironically, it's is the oldest bridge in Paris.
Across the bridge is the small, boat-shaped Cité Island which is home to the Notre-Dame Cathedral. It's a very unusual cathedral, filled with strange and creepy sculptures. The architecture is also very interesting; it clearly distinguishes itself from the Italian Baroque or the German Gothic architectures. If you wish to climb up to the spire, be sure to get there before 4 pm. as there is no access after this time.
When you're finished at the Notre-Dame Cathedral, cross the river to the north and head to the Pompidou Centre. The Louvre, Orsay, and Pompidou are the three best art galleries in Paris. The Louvre is home to Renaissance art, the Orsay exhibits Modern art, and the Pompidou houses Contemporary art. Personally, the exhibitions at the Pompidou Centre were too complicated and difficult to understand. I probably wouldn't visit again, but the centre's eccentric architecture and its young and energetic atmosphere is certainly a different view of Paris. Appealing to the area's young population, there are a lot of affordable restaurants nearby. There are also quite a few fast-foods outlets like KFC and McDonalds in this area.

▲ Montmartre. The steep hill of Montmartre (Photo taken with a Samsung camera)

Climbing Montmartre!
The last leg of today's journey up to Montmartre.
It is a little too far to walk, so it would be better to take the Metro. Get yourself a drink before getting on the Metro. Once you alight at Abbesses station, you'll see an elevator. Of course there's also the stairs, but the elevator is not there for nothing. If you really want to know how long and tedious the stairs are, you might as well give it a try at least once. But remember I warned you, so don't blame me if you get exhausted halfway up the stairs.
When you get out of the station, follow the signs to Montmartre. You could take the bus, but most of the route up the hill is escalators, so you won't be walking very much. At the top of the hill is the Sacré-Coeur Basilica. The view of Paris from here is quite amazing.
I got hungry due to the long walk. Fortunately, there are plenty of cheap sandwiches available around Montmartre. My route today ends here, admiring the view of Paris from the steps in front of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica, with a sandwich and the drink I brought along with me.
But... nighttime in Paris is a completely different view which you wouldn't want to miss. The evening route is identical to the daytime one. Huh, how could you possibly walk the same streets? twice in the same day? Okay, then take a rest and plan your nocturnal trip for tomorrow.
The only difference between the daytime tour and the evening tour is that it ends at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Probably, the best part of the evening tour is admiring the view of Paris from the Eiffel tower - the tower's elevator won't be operating all night, and the queues are rather long as well, so it's better to get there before 9 pm - before returning to your residence by Metro. Oh, I forgot. The night views look far better in photos than in real life. Don't get too excited when you visit Paris with these photos and scenery in mind. If you go with high expectations you may be highly disappointed.