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Wild Boars vs.
Covid-19!
Sep 28
- "The Fun'd Raiser is for a member of the
Lamma family ... huge hospital bill for her sister."
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Lamma Mia!
Sep 18 -
"...tell the story of Lamma Island, its
people, scenery and its past."
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Frictionary News
Sep 7
- "I'm delighted to announce an acerbic
alliance with political satirist Harry Harrison."
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Humid Love?
Sep 2 -
"Lamma's writing collective,
Write or Die, will be selling
their quarterly publication Ferry Brief."
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Sep 29:
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Wow, just overnight my latest
digital image, first one above, titled "Stairway to Heaven in
Hong Kong", became the MOST
LIKED
on the website I joined to
create my recent images with.
("Stairway..." has just
become #1 in
all new, worldwide liked images in the
last 24 hours! I've just won 10
free creation credits for my 67+
Likes):
Nightcafe/u/Lamma-Gung#Top
Here are some of my Digital
Dabblings over the last 40+
years:
http://Lamma.com.hk/L-G/
P.S. My first
creation to reach 103 Likes a
few days later, overtaken by my
"Memories of Hong Kong Street
Life" with 104 Likes.
P.S.2: Oct 27, '21:
Reaching the top level of
Nightcafe, the Legend
and Prolific
badges, coming with 90 free
credits!
Sep 28:
 "The Fun'd Raiser is for a
member of the Lamma family that
has a huge hospital bill for her
sister who is currently on a
ventilator in the Philippines.
It's a free event put on by her
concerned Lamma brothers &
sisters. Feel free to come along
and enjoy the evening of music &
fun."
P.S. Just in,
the framed original that will be
auctioned off on Sun. Bid on
the evening, no pre- or private
bids.
Sep 24:
Juggalos on Lamma??
 I had to Google it, confusing it
at first with a Lamma wordplay
of the Hawaiian-shirts-wearingg
Boogaloo Boys. A
wordplay about Lamma's beer
JUG-loving musicians: Juggalos?
But no, phew! Fortunately, it's
just these much less
controversial guys:
"A juggalo (feminine juggalette)
is a fan of the group Insane
Clown Posse or any other Psychopathic
Records
hip hop group. Juggalos have
developed their own idioms,
slang, and characteristics.
The Gathering
of the Juggalos, alternatively
known as just "The Gathering",
is a notable annual festival
held by juggalos and the artists
that they support, which have
included rap stars such as Busta
Rhymes, Ice
Cube, and MC
Hammer; over its first
eleven events (2000–2010), the
festival drew a total attendance
of a peak of 20,000 in 2010.
Promoted
as 'the craziest show on earth'
the festival has existed with no
corporate sponsorships, creating
an intimate atmosphere for
like-minded Juggalos."
The Lamma Grill gig tomorrow
night will hopefully attract a
slightly smaller crowd. But
"craziest show on earth" sounds
very promising!
Live performances are back, but
all Covid-19 pandemic
restrictions apply and face
masks are mandatory, even with 0
local infected cases in HK for
many weeks now. Join in the fun,
live music is BACK! More events
this weekend:
Sep 23:
"Jane
Ram is a long-time
Lamma resident, the immediate
past chair and long-time
committee member of the Hong
Kong Gardening Society and a
well-known broadcaster and
writer on garden-oriented
topics."
Expat Living, 22
Feb, 2021::
"The Tai Peng Community
Garden on Lamma Island, where I
live, is one of several similar
co-operative initiatives in
different parts of Hong Kong.
Two or three generations ago the
land was used for intensive
growing of rice or vegetables.
But these days most island
residents want white collar jobs
in the city and idle land is
available for rent at a nominal
charge, if you can track down
the rightful owner for
negotiations."
Public, free tours in thee
Tai Peng Community Garden this Sunday, 11am-2pm, during
the
Tai Peng Social Sunday:
But beware of the currently endemic, aggressive and often poisonouss
Bamboo Pit Vipers
in the Garden and all
over Lamma!
Sep 22:
Mid-Autumn Night: Harvest Full
Moon over YSW..
Courtesy of Peter
Kline, Lamma's
Birdographer Extraordinaire. He
received a record 111+
Likes/Loves/Wows plus 29
Comments. Thank you!
Sep 21:
More Digital Dabblings of Lamma,
Mid-Autumn Festival edition.
More Dabblings in my 40+-year
archive:
Lamma-Gung Art & Photography
Sep 20:
Mid-Autumn Festival night
tomorrow, when we'll admire the
full moon, snacking on moocakes
while sitting on Lamma's beaches
in the light of candle-lit
lanterns! Here's a preview of
how this might look like
tomorrow, through the digital
eyes of Artifical Intelligence
machine-learning about Lamma.
Just some of my most recent
Digital Dabblings.
I've used no starter photos or
pictures here. All of these
digitally-created images have
resulted straight out of the AI
neural networks interacting with
each other, directed by my
festival-related keywords.
"Vector Quantized Generative
Adversarial Network +
Contrastive Language–Image
Pre-training":
VQGAN+CLIP) is an
AI neural network architecture
which finds and combines images
based on descriptions."
Created & processed
online via
@NightCafe:
It's not free, but just a few
HK$/creation and you gain free
credits and badges for images
voted as popular on this
app/website. But I have a LONG
way to go before I'll ever
become as successful as this
fellow digital artist:
P.S. A few more?
Sep 19:
We've been blessed with some
amazing sunsets this summer.
I've become a regular at sunset
on our house's rooftop with my
smartphone. Spot the plane in
the middle picture above?
Even some
crepuscular rays have been showing up quite
frequently,,
"streaks of light that seem to
radiate from the sun shortly
before or after sunset when
sunlight shines through a break
in the clouds or a notch in the
horizon line and illuminates
atmospheric haze or dust
particles"".
Plus the much rarer and elusive
anti-crepuscular rays
at sunrise, viewed in the
opposite, sunset direction from
atop the YSW ferry pier's
automatic webcam, fixed in the
sunset direction!
 
P.S. Sep 22, 6:05am:
Plus one webcam photo at sunrise
on Mid-Autumn holiday, showing
the Harvest Full Moon:
Sep 18:
"Through this project, we
hope to embark on a journey
through the perspective of the
islanders and tell the story of
Lamma Island, its people,
scenery and its past through
integrated fieldwork and
research with a multi-sensory
artistic approach to engage the
public in a close dialogue with
the island. The project was
officially launched during the
Dragon Boat Festival.
The project was officially
launched during the Dragon Boat
Festival. On this important
occasion, we organised a dragon
boat launching ceremony that
involved the artists, locals and
members of the Lamma’s Island
Sports Association, who teamed
up to row a dragon boat along
the shore of Sok Kwu Wan as a
kick-start event of the project!
For the latest news on
'Lamma Mia', please follow
Art-OUR in situ on
Facebook and Instagram!"
Lamma Mia includes
a photo history of the
Chuen Kee Ferry
service, Sok Kwu Wan - Aberdeen:
Sep 14:
 
For people taking a Lamma ferry
to Aberdeen::
Every
Tue 10am-1pm @ Bus
Terminus under the Banyan tree.
They'll weigh your recyclables
and you'll get
small gifts when
reaching the necessary points on
your (non-personalised, safe)
6GREEN card. More
recycling and gifts in the
綠在田灣 Tin Wan Recycling Store,
just a short walk from Aberdeen
Bus Terminus.
Eight types of
recyclables
GREEN$ Points Conversion Table
Sep 10:
 
I've style-transferred &
colourised a Mandelbulb 3D
fractal donuts I created a few
days ago (last image above).
Which flavour do you like best?
How about adding some VQGAN+CLIP
neural net processing instead?
Way too much, perhaps?
Sep 9:
Mark Malby of Mute Planet
Productions:
"A rare sighting of
'anticrepuscular rays' (rays of
light that accompany sunrise or
sunset - but on the opposite part of the sky) over the island
village of Yung Shue Wan, Lamma
Island."
This post has one of the highest
numbers of hashtags we've seen
on Lamma-related FB pages!
#skyporn?
#landscape #landscapephotography
#sunrise
#sunrise_sunset_photogroup
#lammaisland #hongkong
#awesomehongkong
#discoverhongkong #hikinghk
#muteplanet
#muteplanetproductions
#solarrays #crepuscularrays
#anticrepuscularrays
#cloud #skyporn
#skylovers #dawnlovers #nature
#naturephotography #ilovenature
#magicsky #yungshuewan
#photosbymarkmalby
Sep 8:
Lamma Island Legacies writes::
"This is a short video
history of the Tai Peng Village
Community Garden from its
inception in November 2007 to
August 2021."
Featuring interviews with the
key people behind the garden!
 
More videos from
the same Tai-Penguin:
Nick the Book: Lamma Island
Personality
LammaLand HK: Arrival of the
Daily Guido
LammaLand HK: The Midday Ferries
Sep 7:
Phil Morgan (above
left in Harry's cartoon avatar)
writes:
"FRICTIONARY NEWS!!
I'm delighted to announce an
acerbic alliance with political
satirist Harry Harrison.
If you want to know the
difference between a BEERIO and
an ABNOGETTER, if you've ever
been offended by a SNOBGOBLIN or
had to work with an
UNDERHOUND... read on.
The first 100 copies of
'Frictionary' will launch on
Kickstarter in Jan 2022.
Details, at this stage, are
incredibly vague.
A new word daily here.
Please share if you like what we
do."
More details will follow here as
soon as available.
Sep 2:
Chloe Grimmett
writes:
"It's going to be a steamy
one!!
Lamma's writing collective,
Write or Die, will
be selling the third edition of
their quarterly publication
Ferry Brief tomorrow!
Ferry Brief #3:
Humid Love
Friday 3
Sep, 7:50-9:30am, opposite HSBC,
$20
Ferry Brief is inspired by
the pocket-sized Japanese
accordion book style. Each
edition features 8 original
stories by 8 members of the
collective.
The perfect length to read
on your ferry journey! This
edition will also be available
at The
Beer Shack."
Short story titles:
"The Beginning, Hot Commute,
Love in the Time of Humidity,
Storms, Passion Evaporates,
Pretty Okay at Bikes,
Roundabout, A Sickness, Therapy"
Sep 1:
Check out this photography
exhibition by Lamma-based
photographer Laura
Simonsen and featuring
Pak Kok Village's very own
scientists, biology PhD
Candidate
Anna (see
above) and Lou!
Running from today in HK
University all of Sep.
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