randamu with ah-kam

HK milk tea workshop

You can't say you have been to Hong Kong if you haven't tried our "pantyhose" milk tea.  If you feel nauseated by the vision of someone filtering tea over a pair of pantyhose, take a look of the following video -- a news coverage of the very first HK milk tea workshop co-organized by secrettourhk and the Association of Coffee and Tea of Hong Kong.  (The coverage is in Cantonese but I think you'll get the idea through footages of the workshop and the interviews with some foreign participants.)

http://youtu.be/BveBhF9MCuY

I'm in for the next workshop!

A great presentation I enjoyed throughout

Souce: RSA Animate

Has Hermes done it right?

To appeal to a younger audience, Hermes did a cool fingerboard skate viral. It's visually intriguing -- such an interesting way to showcase its products. But while this viral is all cool for YouTube audiences, I can't help to wonder where the appeal is for Hermes young affluent target. So yes, Hermes may have attracted attention from a younger crowd of audiences, but has the brand hit its bull's eye target? What do you think?

It's about passion and what excites our spirit!

A great talk by Sir Ken Robinson on revolutionalizing education.

I've always had a thing with good beer ads...

...because it's such a cluttered market with so many clichés.

Here are a few that had amazed me.  My salute to the creatives and the agencies, as well as the advertisers for their courage and wisdom to go for the unconventional.  And of course, the brilliant production teams that brought the idea to life.

Start with this new ad from Guinness, really bringing it to life in visuals.

(Source: adland.tv)

It's a really big ad from Carlton Draught...

Besides their famous "wassup" ad, I love this one...now how is that supposed to sell beer? (Budweiser)

 

and this, my all-time favorite from Guinness again -- this one is just legendary.

My salute to my friends in advertising

(By DraftFCB)

A cruel but true reflection of what my friends have to put up with everyday 

in advertising.  This reminds me of one of my all-time favorites 

"When I grow up I wanna work in advertising." 

My hats off to you my friends.

Evolution of social networking

Source:current.com

Anything for sale?

Break-ups are heartbreaking (well usually).  What if you can at least get something "tangible" back from the relationship?  This may be a way, ladies...

exboyfriendjewelry.com

(Want to know more about this consumer selling trend, go to trendwatching.com - what it dubbed it as "Sellsumers".)

Finally...YESSSS!!!!!!

Think that's the reaction of all iPhone users.  That's certainly mine when I watched Apple's reveal of the iPhone OS 3.0 today.  Finally, Apple is fixing some "obvious" screw-ups, the biggest fix to me is cut and paste (oh god!!!!).  

Other enhancements include MMS and push email notifications etc. Check out Apple website for more details.

The iPhone OS 3.0 will be available for free download this summer.

Tilt-shift your world

Tilt-shift photography refers to the use of camera movements (tilt and shift) and large aperture to achieve a very shallow depth of field (area that appears sharp in the image).  When used in landscape photography, it can make a large scene appear much smaller visually.

To do that, it usually requires special "tilt-shift" lens or perspective control lens, and of course, photography skills.  While an amateur enthusiast like me finds this tiltshiftmaker.com a fun exploration. It makes life size location or object look like a miniature scale model. 

Here are two examples, courtesy of my photo-shooting buddy, Eric.

(And you can find more knowledge of tilt-shift photography in wikipedia.)

original photo (Tokyo)

Tilt-shift

original photo (Cheung Chau, Hong Kong)

 

Tilt-shift