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CLICK HERE: Learn how to Hold Chopsticks - Video
Hold the bowl in your palm, and study this video to learn how to hold chopsticks. The Chinese hold foreigners in high esteem if they can propery hold and use chopsticks.
There is no other way to learn than to practice, so watch, pause, study, and re-watch!
China is a spooky place. If you don’t believe me, see the Sanya beach photos below. Be careful!
BTW, the video is choppy for one reason and one reason only: I bought the value pack of TDK DVs from Costco in 2003. I didn’t know DVs went bad. But every tape I is pretty much corrupted. Well, it could be the Diet Coke spill all over my camera, I dunno. Time for an upgrade.
Lightroom Tutorials, Screenshots, Review
I just finished my review of Adobe Lightroom. Basically, it is the answer for people who:
Don’t use a Flash on a mountain shot
You know how to shoot, you have a digital SLR, and you take good pictures
Are tired of iPhoto’s poor layout and weak architecture
You liked it in the beginning, but after your library grew, iPhoto couldn’t keep up
Are looking for “a better way” to manage and present their photos
File management, slideshows, export to web, print — Lightroom has it all.
I shot this video last year when our house wasn’t completely finished. If you are wondering what Chuxiong is like, or even Yunnan, then this video can take you in a little deeper.
For clarification, when I’m talking about “check your facts, bro, Mr. SF Gate” — it is in reference to this San Francisco Chronicle article where Kathleen E. McLaughlin writes about how bad the Chinese workers have it in Shenzhen, China, building iPods with a monthly salary of a mere $80 USD per month. It turns out her article addresses the farmers in western China, and admittedly, her “facts” are correct.
I was simply pointing out that there are many other people in China who have it much worse, and don’t have the benefits provided by those factories in the bigger cities (specifically, discounted rent and canteen.)
In the video you can see someone cleaning and sweeping the sidwalks of this rich community in China, Yi Ren Gu Zhen, and she makes 300-400 RMB a month (roughtly $40 USD).
While I don’t agree with the current trend of US companies exploiting the cheap labor of Chinese citizens (which is seemingly condoned by the Chinese government), it’s a fact of life here. It’s an opportunity. It’s more money than picking carrots.
A lot of the people who work in those “sweat shop” factories come from the “nong cun”, or rural areas of China. They migrate to the eastern populated cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen and take jobs where they can make 2-4x what they can make on the farms. Some send the money back home, some don’t.
Why take it to Touchless down the street for $1.25 USD? It takes 30-40 minutes every time! Welcome to Bob’s Carwash.
If you watch it twice, notice how the water on the ground evaporates because of the time-compressed video at 1600% (just pick a spot on the left, say, and watch the water slowly evaporate.)
| Title | Bob’s Carwash in under 15 mins |
| Video | 800 kbps, 2-pass VBR |
| Audio | 80 AAC, mono |
| Dimenions | 700×360, preserve aspect ratio (crop) |
| Format | Flash Video |
| File Size | 5.3mb |
| Length | 0:49 (FCP compression time= 3-4 mins) |
| Sound? | Yes, light music soundtrack |
| Rated | G (All audiences / work-friendly) |
| Notes | Sped up 1600% |
(That’s “Eh Jia”). GPS Coordinates: 24°30′27.96″N, 101°11′15.24″E - if you whip that into Google Earth you can see the that mountain range runs deep into Vietnam.
Video notes: 6 megs, 1 minute, Flash video, no sound
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