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My Wife, Chun Mei

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Zhou Chun Mei

Chun Mei and I have spent the last three days scanning her photographs from the last 20 years of her life. Our goal is to make a web site for her to use when we get back to the US. Needless to say, there were many stories to be told, and I still cannot believe all the places she has been, shows she has done, people she has met, and places she has lived. Oh, and the competitions she’s won…

PHOTO (clockwise from top left)

1. Chun Mei (balanced on top) performing with André Heller in Europe
2. Chun Mei on the front page of Montreal’s Le Devoir
3. Gold medal trapeze performance at Cirque du Demain in Paris
4. Chun Mei and Steven Spielberg, backstage, while performing with Cirque du Soleil in Los Angeles

Update: Chun Mei (Chunmei) Trapeze Web site here

Dinner with Government on a Farm in China

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We ate dinner at a farmer’s ranch today. His main work is farming and as a side he created a place for people to come and play mahjong and eat dinner. We ate in the dining room / game room (pictured with the corn hanging in the windows.)

There was another party of government officials seated at the only other table in the room (so, 20 or so people including our party) — and I found it interesting that these people (who we didn’t know) stood up and toasted their table, and our table, and everyone stood up. It created a comfortable environment, and they even came over later to toast us again personally. It just further defined the eating experience here in Yunnan — lively, loud, friendly, and very personal.

Water Buffalo Update

Tomorrow, we will have more information about when and where we can get one. We’re shooting for this Sunday to buy it and deliver it.

Gallery, Adobe, Kunming

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First, I’ve been studying Photoshop CS2 for a week and learned some useful stuff. Quality stuff, I’m impressed with CS2 and InDesign CS. My favorite new features are the Bridge, Smart Sharpen, Warp and HDR. Vanishing point, I haven’t used yet, but HDR and warp are great features of CS2. Color coding your menus is cool, and the custom keyboard shortcuts are easy to use. Also, I’ve created a bunch of homemade Actions, and while not a new feature, is a great one anyway. I’m loving my new look at the Levels and Hue/Sat commands and knowing what they do, and successfully manipulating layer masks for the first time.

I’m glad to see that there is a PS CS3 Intel beta. I heard it took Tom 2 minutes to download, well you’ll be happy to know it’ll take me another 13 hrs 22 mins to get the last 500 megs.

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We made it back to Kunming to find that our internet was shut off. Official explanation? “The plug dropped.” Yeah I don’t remember the last time an RJ-45 cord “dropped” out of the snapped-in connection. Something smells fishy, but it’s back and slow, and that’s all that matters!

Montage + Jeremy Cohen

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There is no story, other than deleting things with masks.

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In other news, Jeremy Cohen’s Quartet San Francisco’s Latigo album was nominated for not one, but two Grammys – Best Classical Crossover CD and Best Engineered Classical CD. He recorded it at Skywalker Ranch.

Just FYI, last year the Turtle Island String Quartet won the Best Classical Crossover CD with their CD Four + 4, performing with the Ying Quartet, totalling eight performers playing classical and jazz compositions.

The fact that Jer got nominated for that AND Best Engineered Classical CD is simply amazing and I hope he wins.

Moon Moves

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These photos were take three minutes apart. I came across this as I was importing a sequence of moon pictures into iPhoto. I used the Italian tripod to try to get more detail of the moon’s surface, but it turns out it’s just my camera and lenses aren’t that great. Anyway, as the sequence of photos imported, I noticed that moon crawling up my monitor!

I never knew it moved this fast! It moved a whole “moon” in just 2-3 minutes.

-BOB-