日本のスーパーの店先に並んだ、見た目には美しい果物とはちがう。あらかじめ流通経済の部品のひとつとしてつくられた、大きさも形も色合いも均一の果物とは、勢いが全然違う。ひとつひとつの生命が、勢いよく語りかけてくる。～フエの話
Monday, June 27, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
The identity of Vancouver’s famous kissing couple is revealed
Photograph make moment forever. 
via Puck Daddy - NHL - Yahoo! Sports by 'Duk on 6/17/11
In the age of Facebook and Twitter, it was only a matter of time before the world learned the identities of the kissing couple from that now-iconic photo of the Vancouver riots.
About 24 hours after photos of the smooch was passed on through emails, IMs and blog posts, the Toronto Star and the CBC are reporting that the boyfriend and girlfriend in the photograph are Aussie bartender Scott Jones and Canadian college student Alex Thomas, who was injured just before the picture was taken.
The papers report that Jones and Thomas have been dating since Jones arrived in Vancouver on a "working holiday." They attended Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, which the hometown Canucks lost 4-0 to the Boston Bruins, and then somehow found themselves between the angry rioters and charging riot police later that night in downtown Vancouver.
The famous aftermath, as captured by Getty Images photographer Rich Lam:
So how were Jones and Thomas ultimately identified as the unlikely "make love, not war" couple of Vancouver's embarrassing night of injury and destruction?
It probably won't surprise you to learn that Facebook was involved.
Though Scott's sister Hannah first identified her brother to an Australian news network, things really started taking off when Brett Jones, Scott's father, posted the following update on his Facebook profile on Friday morning from the family's home in Perth, Australia.
(Note the funny response from Scott's brother, Ryan.)
Brett Jones now says the couple is being besieged by media requests from outlets around the world. All, of course, are interested in knowing the circumstances that found the couple smooching as cars were burned and windows were smashed around them.
But despite some of our initial assumptions, the kiss seen 'round the world wasn't the product of a riot-fueled, uncontrollable passion. Brett Jones instead notes that Thomas was injured and his son was coming to her aid. An alternate angle taken from above shows other bystanders later attempting to help Thomas and Jones.
Combine that different angle with Brett Jones' story and it certainly dispels the rumors that the couple had intentionally staged the photo.
"They were between the riot police and the rioters, and the riot police were actually charging forward, and Alex got knocked by a [police] shield and fell to the ground," Brett Jones told CBC News. "[Scott] was comforting her and gave her a kiss to say, 'It's going to be OK,' and the photographer just took the shot at that moment."
Jones' mother Marie said she immediately knew it was her son in the picture because "he doesn't have a lot of clothes with him and he always puts on the same thing."
So where do they go from here? The good news is that Jones escaped the incident unhurt and Thomas only suffered a bruised leg. The bad news is that Jones is scheduled to leave Canada soon and head home for Australia after a trip to California. The Jones family says that Thomas plans to visit California with their son but that the couple's future after that is uncertain.
UPDATE: Jones and Thomas spoke with the Toronto Star:
Thomas said this morning that everything happened so fast that there was just massive confusion all around. "I was trying to understand what was going on. The photo was definitely not something we expected to happen," said Thomas.
The couple is leaving in three days on a trip to California, before Scott heads back to Australia. Thomas said the response from her friends and family has been overwhelming.
"When I saw that picture I couldn't believe it and then I looked at it more and realize it's quite artistic and really something beautiful."
The full Toronto Star story is here.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
IBM Software Executive Briefing Center | Iosa Ghini Associati
via plusMOOD by Jimmy M. on 5/23/11
I tried to configure a place conceived as a new agora, capable of encouraging and stimulating productive discussion, in a dimension of communication that gets away from traditional parameters, making virtual interface scenarios the protagonists.
Massimo Iosa Ghini
IBM Software Executive Briefing Center in Rome has been entirely renovated and has significantly expanded its area. The entire project, designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini and his studio, elaborates the famous “strips” of the IBM logo in an innovative and fascinating way.
IBM Software Executive Briefing Center, image courtesy Iosa Ghini Associati | Photo by Santi Caleca
IBM Software Executive Briefing Center, image courtesy Iosa Ghini Associati | Photo by Santi Caleca
Audiovisual advanced technologies have been carefully selected to provide guests, a comfortable and high value-added experience.
IBM Software Executive Briefing Center, image courtesy Iosa Ghini Associati | Photo by Santi Caleca
The new Software Executive Briefing Center in Rome is located within the same structure that hosts the international laboratory for the development of the IBM Software Group and provides all the tools to explore IBM’s technology and its innovative solutions in one new and exciting atmosphere.
IBM Software Executive Briefing Center, image courtesy Iosa Ghini Associati | Photo by Santi Caleca
IBM Software Executive Briefing Center, image courtesy Iosa Ghini Associati | Photo by Santi Caleca
The IBM Software Executive Briefing Program is designed to provide professionally managed events and to maximize the value of time that customers spend in IBM. Any “briefing” usually includes presentations and demonstrations to bring customers to run events which they participate. Listening, discussing and illustrating how the new IBM technologies can be helpful in facing and resolving technical and business issues, make people away from the traditional concept of communication, to get closer to a place of useful comparison: a new agora.
IBM Software Executive Briefing Center, image courtesy Iosa Ghini Associati | Photo by Santi Caleca
IBM Software Executive Briefing Center, image courtesy Iosa Ghini Associati | Photo by Santi Caleca
+ Project credits / data
Project: IBM Software Executive Briefing Center
Location: Roma, Italy
Year: 2010
Type: Interior design
Design: Iosa Ghini Associati | http://www.iosaghini.it/
Photographer: Santi Caleca
+ All images courtesy Iosa Ghini Associati | Photo by Santi Caleca
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Fwd:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ニック(Nick Wong)
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Subject:
To: heavenivk@gmail.com
Hello people As you may know, the government of Japan via the monbukagakusho
scholarship is giving us a monetary support to study in this country.
Also you remember that this has been a not so common couple of months. Many people left to their countries, others travelled across japan or
nearby places, but thankfully everybody is safe and sound. Today is the day of the month when we receive the money and I know
that it has been long since we got it last month. But it's not time to
think on ourselves but in this country who needed us Japan needs to recover it's economy and for that I propose (if not
demand) that we start reincentivating the economy as soon as possible,
and do it the best way we know. Let's buy a lot of alcohol and drink
it so we have to buy even more alcohol!!! Japan needs you. So go to the matsumi Ike (the lake near ryugakusei
center) around 8, bring what you wanna drink, eat or whatever you
wanna bring and help this country to get over the crisis. And invite
all the people you can so our impulse would be felled by all Japanese
economy. Let's demonstrate that if we survived the earthquake and
aftershoks and nuclear crisis, a lot of alcohol cannot harm us at all. Pd. that the Tisa party for new comers is in same place and time is
merely a coincidence
For the ones that didn't read past message because it was too long.
Big party (huge) at matsumi lake today at 8. Bring drinks, snacks and
more people
From: ニック(Nick Wong)
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Subject:
To: heavenivk@gmail.com
Hello people As you may know, the government of Japan via the monbukagakusho
scholarship is giving us a monetary support to study in this country.
Also you remember that this has been a not so common couple of months. Many people left to their countries, others travelled across japan or
nearby places, but thankfully everybody is safe and sound. Today is the day of the month when we receive the money and I know
that it has been long since we got it last month. But it's not time to
think on ourselves but in this country who needed us Japan needs to recover it's economy and for that I propose (if not
demand) that we start reincentivating the economy as soon as possible,
and do it the best way we know. Let's buy a lot of alcohol and drink
it so we have to buy even more alcohol!!! Japan needs you. So go to the matsumi Ike (the lake near ryugakusei
center) around 8, bring what you wanna drink, eat or whatever you
wanna bring and help this country to get over the crisis. And invite
all the people you can so our impulse would be felled by all Japanese
economy. Let's demonstrate that if we survived the earthquake and
aftershoks and nuclear crisis, a lot of alcohol cannot harm us at all. Pd. that the Tisa party for new comers is in same place and time is
merely a coincidence
For the ones that didn't read past message because it was too long.
Big party (huge) at matsumi lake today at 8. Bring drinks, snacks and
more people
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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