2009年10月26日 星期一
2009年10月25日 星期日
Green tea benefit
Tea's health benefits are largely due to its high content of flavonoids — plant-derived compounds that are antioxidants. Green tea is the best food source of a group called catechins. In test tubes, catechins are more powerful than vitamins C and E in halting oxidative damage to cells and appear to have other disease-fighting properties. Studies have found an association between consuming green tea and a reduced risk for several cancers, including, skin, breast, lung, colon, esophageal, and bladder
Drinking a cup of tea a few times a day to absorb antioxidants and other healthful plant compounds. In green-tea drinking cultures, the usual amount is three cups per day. Allow tea to steep for three to five minutes to bring out its catechins. The best way to get the catechins and other flavonoids in tea is to drink it freshly brewed. Decaffeinated, bottled ready-to-drink tea preparations, and instant teas have less of these compounds. Tea can impede the absorption of iron from fruits and vegetables. Adding lemon or milk or drinking tea between meals will counteract this problem.
Drinking a cup of tea a few times a day to absorb antioxidants and other healthful plant compounds. In green-tea drinking cultures, the usual amount is three cups per day. Allow tea to steep for three to five minutes to bring out its catechins. The best way to get the catechins and other flavonoids in tea is to drink it freshly brewed. Decaffeinated, bottled ready-to-drink tea preparations, and instant teas have less of these compounds. Tea can impede the absorption of iron from fruits and vegetables. Adding lemon or milk or drinking tea between meals will counteract this problem.
2009年10月16日 星期五
Design poster for WWW
What is your language
The brand promise is clear and simple: Innovate to perform for > Speed / Endurance / Protection.
However, times have changed and the consumer market requires something more. Apart from it’s functionality, emotions becomes important to the user in order to perform. Thus, the concept of 'empowerment' is sold to the consumer to heighten a different level of demand. For example, My sporting attire/item gives me the strength to be fast, achieve maximum performance, and ensure safety.
The Prominent Features
To further elevate the concept of empowerment and trigger one’s emotion in the ability to be fast in speed, achieve maximum performance, and assurance in protection, the form, the weight, and the colors, provokes positive energy and emotional lift in communicating the concept of empowerment. Thereby, out of the consumer sub-consciousness, the design of the product is tagged onto the promise of empowerment via emotional triggers/stimulation and via design features: the form, the weight, and the colors.
Important Elements and Principles
To form an association with the emotional reaction the designer wants to achieve, the choice of materials, aggressive lines and curves, patterns, and vivid colors are important elements used in designing the products.
The choice of materials, for instance: carbon fibre, aluminum, and titanium, offers the perception of being lightweight allowing faster speed and prolong endurance, and polycarbonate offers the perception of impact resistance for full protection.
The application of aggressive lines and curves in creating the form or surfaces, emphasizes the aerodynamic capability, and sharp lines together with vivid colors evokes the emotion of being fast in speed.
bamboo product in japan
Japanese packaging design that imitates natural materials, such as fake printed cardboard bamboo sheaths, plastic fake "bamboo" bottles, and other natural/plastic hybrid packaging techniques.
Bamboo is naturally divided into sections and here it ingeniously functions as the mould and the container for the jelly as well. Efficient! Amazing! Perfect!
But to temper the delight: There is an extra tool required to make the yokan slip out of its container. This involves additional effort.
In contrast, the plastic replica is easier to open.
Bamboo is naturally divided into sections and here it ingeniously functions as the mould and the container for the jelly as well. Efficient! Amazing! Perfect!
But to temper the delight: There is an extra tool required to make the yokan slip out of its container. This involves additional effort.
In contrast, the plastic replica is easier to open.
2009年10月12日 星期一
bamboo sake product
2009年10月1日 星期四
2009年9月28日 星期一
2009年9月17日 星期四
SPLINTER WORKSHOP DESIGN IN ACTION
Along with completed contemporary furniture and objects in a workshop environment, see works in progress and take the opportunity to speak to designer/makers about their influences and methods. Splinter Workshop – Design in Action in an experiential event that connects visitors with the designers, makers, design process, the craft, materials and the completed pieces.
sydney design 09
SUSTAIN ME: CONTEMPORARY DESIGN
The word “sustainability” is in danger of losing its tangible value and status as a universal catch-cry from chronic over use. Sustain me: contemporary design explores the conventional role design and designers play in creating and developing a deeper understanding of sustainability. Exhibitors include David Trubridge, Green Life 21 project (designs by Yoshikazu Hasegawa and Prue Venerables), Elliat Rich Steven Harrison, Luisa Cevese: RIEDIZIONI, Instyle Contract Textiles, Mark Vaarwerk, Andrew Maynard Architects and Julie Paterson: clothfabric.
2009年9月16日 星期三
New Year Traditions
Traditionally the Chinese New Year begins ten days before New Year's Day by cleaning and decorating the house. New Year's Greetings in the forms of cards and letters are sent to friends and family living far away. The entire family would get together to clean their homes from top to bottom so that they could begin the year clean and fresh in the hopes that the next year would be healthy and happy.Chinese couplets wishing good luck in the New Year are pasted on either side of the doors and the Chinese Character Fu is placed throughout the house. Another popular tradition is pasting colorful New Year's prints throughout the house. This ancient art form featuring beautiful colors and auspicious designs have recently made a comeback and can be seen throughout China.
Chinese papercuts are placed in the windows of homes. Flowers which have auspicious meanings are displayed throughout the house. Seven days before New Year's Day is celebrated with sacrifices to the Kitchen God. In China, almost every person returns to their hometown on New Year's Eve. In the evening a huge family reunion dinner is held with a lot of food. Many of the dishes symbolize good luck and fortune for the upcoming year. At the stroke of midnight families light fireworks and they can be heard for hours. In the early morning of New Year's Day each person in China puts on new clothing and cooks many dishes. The food is taken to pay homage to each family's ancestors.Ancestor worship is an important part of each Chinese New Year and it reminds each family member where they came from. Children are given hongbao (Red Envelopes) which contain money in the hopes that they will have wealth in the future. On the second day of The Chinese New Year, people go out to visit the wife's family. The first day of Spring Festival traditionally is spent with the husband's family. During the visit, more Hongbao are given to the children and many sweets, and food is shared. After visiting the in-laws, friends are visited. It is a great time to see family and friends that perhaps live far away and are rarely seen. The rest of the holiday is spent with friends and family. The last day of the Chinese New Year is the latern festival when each person goes to their hometown's parks, or downtown areas and look at the lantern displays held there.
Chinese New Year is looked forward by every person in China. It is a time of family, of celebration, and of fun. Children through the elderly take part in the festival and revel in the part they get to play. It is wonderful time of the year, which is filled with ancient traditions which are an integral part of the festival.
Chinese papercuts are placed in the windows of homes. Flowers which have auspicious meanings are displayed throughout the house. Seven days before New Year's Day is celebrated with sacrifices to the Kitchen God. In China, almost every person returns to their hometown on New Year's Eve. In the evening a huge family reunion dinner is held with a lot of food. Many of the dishes symbolize good luck and fortune for the upcoming year. At the stroke of midnight families light fireworks and they can be heard for hours. In the early morning of New Year's Day each person in China puts on new clothing and cooks many dishes. The food is taken to pay homage to each family's ancestors.Ancestor worship is an important part of each Chinese New Year and it reminds each family member where they came from. Children are given hongbao (Red Envelopes) which contain money in the hopes that they will have wealth in the future. On the second day of The Chinese New Year, people go out to visit the wife's family. The first day of Spring Festival traditionally is spent with the husband's family. During the visit, more Hongbao are given to the children and many sweets, and food is shared. After visiting the in-laws, friends are visited. It is a great time to see family and friends that perhaps live far away and are rarely seen. The rest of the holiday is spent with friends and family. The last day of the Chinese New Year is the latern festival when each person goes to their hometown's parks, or downtown areas and look at the lantern displays held there.
Chinese New Year is looked forward by every person in China. It is a time of family, of celebration, and of fun. Children through the elderly take part in the festival and revel in the part they get to play. It is wonderful time of the year, which is filled with ancient traditions which are an integral part of the festival.
2009年9月15日 星期二
Chinese Reunion Dinner
Some of the key pont is Reunion dinner is less of a ceremony and more of a promise that the family will once again unite despite their work and studies outside.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqDdhloTLM4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqDdhloTLM4
2009年9月13日 星期日
Rules in japanese dinning
Some rules to remember:
Never pass food to someone using chopsticks. This act parallels passing cremated bones of a deceased relative at a Japanese funeral. If you must share food, pass them the plate so that they can pick from it instead.
If you take food from a shared plate (such as in the above situation), use the reverse ends of your chopsticks rather than the ends which go in your mouth.
Never bite into a piece of food and then replace the other half on your plate. Once you have picked something up you should eat all of it.
When not using your chopsticks, you should place them in front of you, parallel to the edge of the sushi bar, with the narrow ends in the provided hashi oki; never place them directly on the bar.
Never leave rice after a meal. Leaving any kind of food is considered rude, but leaving rice is especially so.
Never smoke in a sushi bar, it obscures the delicate flavours of the fish for everyone else. Ashtrays will likely be provided in many sushi bars (especially in Europe and America) but to use them is dismissive of the efforts of the chef.
Never expect the chef to handle money, another employee will settle the bill for you. People who handle the food never touch the money.
Do not ask for knives. This would imply that the food is so tough it can't be properly eaten without them.
Don't make wasabi soup with your soy sauce! Sushi Chef's cringe at this spectacle that Americans often make. Wasabi paralyzes your palette and will hide the subtle flavors that fish has when eaten raw.
Never pass food to someone using chopsticks. This act parallels passing cremated bones of a deceased relative at a Japanese funeral. If you must share food, pass them the plate so that they can pick from it instead.
If you take food from a shared plate (such as in the above situation), use the reverse ends of your chopsticks rather than the ends which go in your mouth.
Never bite into a piece of food and then replace the other half on your plate. Once you have picked something up you should eat all of it.
When not using your chopsticks, you should place them in front of you, parallel to the edge of the sushi bar, with the narrow ends in the provided hashi oki; never place them directly on the bar.
Never leave rice after a meal. Leaving any kind of food is considered rude, but leaving rice is especially so.
Never smoke in a sushi bar, it obscures the delicate flavours of the fish for everyone else. Ashtrays will likely be provided in many sushi bars (especially in Europe and America) but to use them is dismissive of the efforts of the chef.
Never expect the chef to handle money, another employee will settle the bill for you. People who handle the food never touch the money.
Do not ask for knives. This would imply that the food is so tough it can't be properly eaten without them.
Don't make wasabi soup with your soy sauce! Sushi Chef's cringe at this spectacle that Americans often make. Wasabi paralyzes your palette and will hide the subtle flavors that fish has when eaten raw.
Common Dinner Menu in Japan
boiled rice (gohan)
suimono or clear soup; misoshiru or miso soup
nimono, or boiled foods (boiled vegetables, fish or meat)
yakimono or agemono or both (broiled or deep-fried vegetables, fish or meat)
sunomono (vinegared vegetables, fish or shellfish)
aemono (dressed vegetables, fish or shellfish) or hitashimono (boiled greens in soy sauce)
sashimi (sliced raw fish)
koonomono (pickles)
suimono or clear soup; misoshiru or miso soup
nimono, or boiled foods (boiled vegetables, fish or meat)
yakimono or agemono or both (broiled or deep-fried vegetables, fish or meat)
sunomono (vinegared vegetables, fish or shellfish)
aemono (dressed vegetables, fish or shellfish) or hitashimono (boiled greens in soy sauce)
sashimi (sliced raw fish)
koonomono (pickles)
2009年8月13日 星期四
Laser hair removal
Concern : Unwanted male and female facial and body hair.
Technology : Candela GentleLASE Alexandrite Laser(medical graded and FDA approved).
Result
Permanent Hair Reduction.
Treatment Duration : 5 to 60 minutes.*
Treatments Required : 6 to 8 treatments.*
Treatment Intervals : 4 to 8 weeks.*
Treatment Recovery : Similar to a mild sunburn, most clients experience slight reddened or goose bump like skin. This effect is very normal and will disappear shortly after.
2009年8月10日 星期一
2009年7月31日 星期五
Metrosexual Kit!!
This Mini Kit(TM) adapted from "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man" (more than 100,000 copies sold ) includes some of the grooming aids required to maintain the image of the stylish, well-coiffed urban man, including tweezers, emery board, lint brush, and 10 cards with tips for maintaining the metrosexual appearance.
product that related to metrosexual
Jean Paul Gaultier Monsieur Eau du Matin and beauty care line
All of the skincare products combine the same unique plant complex, which helps to ensure the protection* and well-being of the skin:A desert micro-alga capable of with standing the most extreme climate conditions lends its strength to resist harsh everyday factors such as pollution, smoke and UV rays.An extract of Tephrosia stimulates the synthesis of beta-endorphins*.These feel-good molecules production is boosted by exercise or love and contribute to a sense of euphoria. Each product delivers on its promises. With formula, application and presentation tips that meet specifically masculine needs and wishes.
From the appearance of the bootle, it show it is a product of man. it is a perfume call diesel which was design for metrosexual
What is metrosexual
-A man concerned with self-image, self-indulgence and money.
(Usually urban, heterosexual, probably affluent).
-A man who is seen, sociologically, as having attributes common to homosexuals, but is in fact heterosexual
2009年7月27日 星期一
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