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Automation for the People

I saw this on Mashable today from contributor Sam Laird and thought it had some great information for those of you in the travel industry.

From mobile apps to deal sites, people use technology more than ever to help find places to go. Technology also helps vacationers enjoy themselves after they reach their destinations. But just how much is technology changing the way we travel?

Nearly one-third of social media users have used a mobile app to find good prices for flights and hotels, and 15% have downloaded an app specific to a certain trip, according to a survey by the market research company Lab42. And just because people are on break, they aren’t necessarily taking a break from their devices. More than 80% of international vacationers use their smartphones while abroad. About 70% post photos to a social network while on vacation, and 46% use services like Facebook and 

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The Happiest Cow

Winners from the Oscars 2012

Best Picture: The Artist

Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, The Artist

Best Actress: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady

Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help

Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Directing: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

Cinematography: Hugo

Art Direction: Hugo

Costume Design: The Artist

Makeup: The Iron Lady

Foreign Language Film: A Separation, Iran.

Film Editing: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Sound Editing: Hugo

Sound Mixing: Hugo

Documentary Feature: Undefeated

Animated Feature Film: Rango

Visual Effects: Hugo

Original Score: The Artist

Original Song: Man or Muppet from The Muppets

Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants

Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris

Live Action Short Film: The Shore

Documentary (short subject): Saving Face

Animated Short Film: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore

Mooooo

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Very specific comment about Iphone4S commercial and the power of technology. 🙂

I love “The graduate”. Although it’s a kind of “assignment movie” in film course last semester, it impressed me a lots and made me introspect myself – Did I drown in any pool???

annoyingfilmperson

Guys. I hate this question.

How am I supposed to answer something so broad, so ambiguous? There are so many wonderful movies out there that make my heart soar/sing/pitter-patter/explode/something. But I know this question will inevitably come up every time I say, “Oh yeah, I’m a big ‘film’ person.” Even, “Oh yeah, I like movies.” (Who doesn’t?) Someone will ask you this question. And if they don’t, they’re probably about to ask the other version: “So, like, what do you think is the best movie of all time?”

And who am I kidding – you’re wondering the same thing right now! You want to know my movie choices so you can belittle and judge them too! Well I aim to please, so I’m providing 10 of my favorite flicks in no particular order. But, to make it Annoying Film Person-y, I’m telling you why, and then I’m telling you…

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Film “Hugo” :)

Back to film! come and dream with Georges Méliès!!!

“Hugo” is a wonderful movie. The young boy Hugo, who thinks that the purpose of his life may be fixing machine, finds the place he could belong to and actually “fix” brilliant filmmaker – Georges Méliès back to film life.

The whole world do like the machine from some angles, espeacially when we want to explain why everyone in the world is different and exist for some specific reason.

The story will never end, so who knows that is happy ending only happen in film rather than reality.

streetsofsalem

Heart-shaped maps are one thing, but maps of the human heart are quite another, and I’ve got both on this Valentine’s Day.  The charting of emotional territory, as opposed to physical space, has resulted in the production of several interesting maps from the seventeenth century to the near-present.  Below are the companion Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart and Map of the Fortified Country of a Man’s Heart, ostensibly and anonymously drawn “by a lady” and published by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut in the 1830s.  These heart maps, along with lots of other examples of the Kellogg’s impressive lithography, can be viewed at the online gallery of the Connecticut Historical Society and Museum.

I’ve brightened and cropped both maps so that you can better see the different regions that make up these human hearts. It’s very interesting that the woman’s heart is an “open”…

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You may have seen Matthew Kavan Brooks‘ work before.  His pieces have caught my eye several times while browsing pinterest and society6.  His work is so fresh and lively.  The unique text, bold and bright colors, whimsical patterns, layout, and images all work together beautiful to create a super unique piece of artwork (wearable, usable, and frame-able!)

Brooks is trained in both a diverse background of fine art studies and has a degree in product design.  He has a fantastic professional design career and has already worked as a product designer, fashion illustrator and packaging designer for high-profile clients, companies and restaurants.  His amazing work clearly speaks for itself!

Stop by his site to see more of Matthew Kavan Brooks’ work and products for sale on Society6.

“In the midst of winter, I found there was inside me, an invincible summer”

Happy Weekend!

xox, Beautiful Hello

 

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Amazing! Gum art!!!

Little London Observationist

It takes Ben Wilson an average of about three hours to create each piece of gum art. If you’re lucky you may even spot him lying on the concrete with his blowtorch and acrylic paints tackling the latest gob of abandoned chewing gum with an intricately detailed mini-masterpiece. Adds a new dimension to appreciating the little things… Ben’s been at it for eight years.

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opposite side

If I did not make a decision to leave China, leave my family, leave my Old friends and everything I’m familiar with, I would never truly realize how important they’re and how far I would get independently.