XIANGDIAN的视觉空间

Ms. Shang, a brilliant woman. Photoraphed on Apr.11, 2009, on the way to Zhaojiao's eco-mountain in Yanqing, about 100km away form downtown of Beijing. 摄于2009年4月11日。商，一位灵气十足的女人。走在去张娇生态山林的路上。延庆，大约离北京市区100公里.

Ms. Zhang Jiao, the owner of the mountain, is pulling out the deak or overbrowded trees almost all the time when she was guiding us into the forest. And that was what she has been doing for 15 years. 张娇同学，山林的主人，在把我们带入森林的路上几乎不停地在拔去枯树、过于拥挤的树、或杂树。这就是她15年来一直在做的事。

Volunteer comes to help Zhangjiao from time to time. The commercialized world seperate people, while the love for nature bring us together again. 志愿者时不时地过来帮助张娇。高度商业化让人们彼此疏远了，而对自然界的爱又让大家聚在一起。

we need both science and faith! Is that a truth or a faith? 

以下照片上那面大镜子从1992年开始就挂在华南理工大学一号楼的大堂了. 它见证了千千万万个学子无数个一闪而过的身影,也见证了四年内成千上万个我经过的时刻. 当我再次来到镜子面前的时候,所有过去美好的回忆一下子涌上心头! 我被深深触动了,为了我和这面镜子之间的默契,为了那些我未曾浪费的时间,以及我曾对着镜子里的自己暗暗发过的誓言...

Below pitures show the big mirror hanging in the No.1 building of South China University of Technology in Guangzhou.  It witninessed hundreds of thousands of moment in 4 years when I passed by almost every day.  When I saw this Mirror again last month, all those wonderful passing moments immediately rushed into my mind!  I was so touched, for the loyal friendship between the mirror and me, for the time I didn't waste, for the promise I kept to myself in the morror...

Photographed in Guangzhou, Nov.23, 2008.

照片摄于2008年11月23日，广州。 

1. 未来即现在 Future Is Now     2. 三维空间 3D Space

摄于建外SOHO, 北京.

 

有个琴键下去了一时起不来.刚好和我原先设想的一样.灯光在琴盖和边沿的映像则营造了夜的气氛,也正合我意. 可惜琴键上也留下了反射光的痕迹,要是自己布光,效果应该会更好控制些,拍摄的角度还可以尝试更多样一些...把更大的希望寄托在16号以后的第二次琴行拍摄了.　

顺祝大家新年快乐！

Asked by a good flickr friend cathzilla about how to say meow in Chinese when we talked on her amazing photo, so here it is: 喵 - it sounds much more "point-blank" than "meow". This reminds me a similar funny story about how to say "love" in French and Chinese: During a dinner in SEDAN, France last year, I was chatting with my two French colleagues, a guy and a lady. The guy spent about 10 seconds saying "a-i-m-e-r" - just like singing a very romantic touching opera. Then they asked me how to say love in Chinese? I told them it's "ai4". The lady laughed out loud and spouted "so short!"...  Languages' diversity always amaze me no matter how they're communicated - with jokes, via paintings?  Fine! ;)

Just like "the most successful manager is not the one with the largest budget; he or she is the one who makes best use of the budegt available.*", the most outstanding phtographer is not the one with most expensive camera, he or she is the one who makes best use of the camera available.  

正如“成功的经理人不是拥有最大预算的人，而是充分利用所得预算的人”，杰出的摄影师也不是拥有最贵相机的人，而是能够充分利用所持相机的人。

好相机能够适当地帮助使用者通过调焦获得清晰度，通过曝光控制照片的影调，层次和色彩，但不能保证带来好的作品。好的作品分三个级别：初级 - 良好用光和构图；中级 - 巧妙构思，创意和特殊视角；高级- 强烈的视觉冲击力，深刻的内涵，震撼人心的情感和独特的风格。显然，好相机不一定能拍出好作品，高预算不一定能带来高回报，关键是使用它们的人 - 摄影师和经理人 - 如何充分发挥到极致。

* See the 5th Golden Rule of Budgeting in the book "Managing Budgets" by Anne Hawkins.

The problem with marketing and sales is that they are the functions inside companies most likely to be driven more by emotions and anecdotal "evidence" than they are by facts. The result is never as profitable as it could be.

These companies shift from emotion-driven sales and marketing to data-driven sales and marketing. Their marketing and selling departments become as professional and manageable as finance and manufacturing. They are never blind-sided. They know what their customers are thinking and what they want. They know what their competitors are doing and how to sell effectively against them. They make every sale that can be made. They dominate their markets. They become "the big dog."

"Data" will take effective only when it turns into "information" and "intelligence".  During this process of transforming, people's market sense, emotion and intuition are all involved. So i would say once the messy emotion-driven marketing turns to data-driven marketing successfully, it's time to call "emotion" back to help making decisions quickly.

A data-driven sales and marketing model is like photographing with right exposure, it makes sure the photo is taken "correctly" only. To take an excellent commercial photo requires a very good and distinctive sense of the photographer, not only the right settings.

I am getting to "form" a picture in my mind for my future.  Then I appear to myself as someone running on a sunny day, following my own head which was carried by a flying bird in a blue sky.   That not only refer to "where i am going to" - freedom, but "how to get there?"- flying. :)

I received an email from the director of marketing at Pragmatic Marketing on the other day.  In my reply email to this kind gentleman, I said "posting the Chinese translation of Pragmatic Marketing Framework on my site is a way to show my love in the idea of "visualization" for anything I'm interested in.". 

True... I have been addicted to getting use of graphics, pictures whenever possible for presentation to others or myself, to visualize an idea, some emotion or a process.  That might explain further why I was deeply attracted to this amazing interactive PMF (click the link to see the updated version) immediately when I discovered it in year 2004.