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Eco-Lantern DIY WS
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Country Kode - 852: Party
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Friday Karaoke
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Wind, Water & Soil Experience Festival
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2nd Anniversary Party
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Lamma Residents Concern Group
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Around Lamma Race
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Govt.-sponsored all-day bus tour for Lammaites
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Lamma Fun Day
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Lamma8
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We ARE FED UP!
Aug 16
- This "protest banner" has appeared at the Pak
Kok ferry pier.
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Post-T8 Hibiscus
Aug 1
- After all this T8 typhoon rain, storm and
general greyness yesterday and today...
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Sep 14:
Mid-Autumn Festival @ Hung Shing
Yeh
Sep 13:
ECO Lanterns, Parties, Even Karaoke
If you've got some energy left
afterwards, at 9:30pm there'll
be another Open Space party.
They're celebrating their new
graffiti wall, a reason as good as
any for a party! But does there
need to be any reason for a
party? Not on Lamma!
Click below for details and
directions to get there, amidst
the ever-verdant Lamma jungle.
Follow your ears.
Tonight from 10:00 @
Lamma Grill:
Sep 11: 'We
come from more than 70
nationalities'
Comments from a private
Lammaite who prefers to stay
anonymous:
"I felt very
distressed and frustrated, so I
had to sit and meditate, since
it was giving me a heartburn.
Now I feel better, since I
always come back to the
realisation that, here on Lamma,
we come from more than 70
nationalities (from a survey on
the Lamma Residents and
ex-Residents Facebook group).
We might have
our differences, belief systems,
ethnicity and preferences, yet
as neighbours we are brave to
express and find solutions
through dialogue and a Yardley
Brothers beer. Many of us left
our countries and found Lamma to
be a big part of our hearts.
Yet, if we say anything we are
CIA agents.
I'm grateful I
can express myself freely here.
Whether we agree with each other
or not, always with respect as
we come from very different
backgrounds and we can visit so
many cultures without having to
leave the island. Just by
sharing a beer, watching the
sunset and ending the day at
peace. That is what freedom of
speech and dialogue is, and it
happens naturally on Lamma. I
bet being so close to nature and
animals has to do with it, as it
increases community interaction
and sharing."
Perhaps we feel
at home here, because thanks to
each other we've learnt to
respect our differences and
flourish as individuals while
keeping peace. I hope we are
wise enough to keep it that way.
The rest is all unknown. Hope we
can all have a good night sleep
and peaceful day tomorrow.
I'd like to
dedicate this as a message from
the children and elders of
Lamma, often people without loud
voices are the wisest. They are
the ones who inspire me and are
my best teachers, so I owe the
credit to them.
Thank you for
your consideration and for all
the work you do at the
Lamma-zine. It has been a
wonderful lighthouse of truth
for many of us who felt lost at
the vast sea of online
information.
Sep 5: Bedroom
Window Spider
 
No need to leave your Lamma home
to get photos like these.
A hand-sized Golden Orbweaver is
spinning her sqm-plus-sized web
right in front of our bedroom
window today.
She was so concentrated in
her work, not minding my tripod,
long lens and spotlight mere
inches away. She was taking a
break from spinning when it
started to rain; a perfect,
still model for me, watching
from inside, dry and enjoying
the aircon.
Wildlife photography can be easy
when you're living in the Lamma
jungle. No need to even leave
your home, the wildlife
surrounds you and some of it
even manages to visit you inside
your home, frequently and
usually uninvited.
Aug 31: Deep
Dreaming 3D Mandelbulbs
Discovering my brand-new passion:
Creating 3D computer graphics
based on Mandelbulb's
fractal formulas.
Here are my
first serious attempts, hopefully
good enough to show in public?
They're all
based on "Crazy Euler'
parameters, post-processed with
Google's
Deep Dreaming:
Inspired by the view from the
YSW ferry pier:
the stilt
houses in the Fishermen's
Village in the background and a
superyacht front left, just
outside the Village, docking at
the ferry pier.
We're living in the Lamma jungle
now, after our recent move,
surrounded by lush vegetation,
it's really inspiring my
creative digital experiments.
All the images above have been
created with the same very
fertile set of fractal formulas,
post-processed with Deep
Dreaming's AI neural style
transfers.
Aug 30:
Tears To Your Eyes
A very recent SCMP appearance of
this
recurring character.
Facebook just reminded me that
it's been at least 7 years of me
being featured occasionally, the
way I might have looked like
last millennium!
Aug 26: A
Protest-Free Sight
Here's a new way of promoting
Lamma Island to visitors,
courtesy of the Telegraph
newspaper in the UK, Aug 23, by
their "Destination Expert":
Hong Kong needs visitors more
than ever - here's why now is
the time to go:
"Five protest-free
sights in Hong Kong:
2. Lamma Island:
Hippyish Lamma Island has it
all - stilted seafood
restaurants, pretty walking
trails, tiny temples, abandoned
fishing villages and white sand
beaches...."
Yes, still protest-free, but
"hippyish" is ancient history,
last-millennium.
This reminds
us of Lamma being touted as a
SARS-free island - not a single
case detected here - during the
devastating HK-wide SARS crisis
just a few years ago, when Lamma
saw a major boom in local
visitors escaping from the fear
of the potentially fatal
infection in much of HK back
then.
Many Lammaites are joining the
overwhelmingly peaceful protests
in town, but they prefer to keep
them off our home island.
Aug 16: We ARE
FED UP!
This "protest banner" has
appeared at the Pak Kok ferry
pier, but not posted by who you
might suspect. Just another DAB
party banner urging the Govt. to
get going with building the
planned new ferry pier.
In the meantime, pier repairs
happening yesterday, while we're
all waiting verrrry patiently
for at least the next 2 years
while this future fancy pier
will be constructed. :
The DAB banner above generated
quite some
heated feedback...
P.S.
Govt to renovate public piers
for more convenient access
(EJ Insight)
Aug 7: Bookworm
Cafe's Co-Founder
Hong Kong Tatler, Aug 2, 2019:
"As part of our Eco Heroes
series for our Sustainability
issue, we talk to five of the
city's most innovative
eco-warriors saving Mother
Earth, one impactful idea at a
time. Here, Mana! founder Bobsy
Gaia shares his story.
In the past 30 years,
Mana!
founder Bobsy Gaia has
reinvented himself multiple
times, spreading awareness about
the environment each step of the
way...
Bobsy moved to Hong Kong in
1992, where he has launched
various sustainability
initiatives, including
Able Charity,
which has planted more than
30,000 trees on Lamma Island
over two decades to help
rejuvenate its forest cover.
Along the way, he shifted his
focus from fashion to food,
opening a series of green
restaurants. In 1998, he
co-founded
Bookworm Cafe on Lamma, one
of Hong Kong's first vegetarian
cafes...."
Read more...
Aug 5: Falafel
Platter @ Back Street
Late lunch in
Best Kebab & Pizza:
Very nice Falafel plate and a
glass of white wine in a cool &
cozy place at only HK$77 on YSW
Back Street. I'll come again for
sure!
Good views of people spotting
during lunch on YSW Back Street:
Aug 4:
Instagramming
I'm getting a bit more serious
with posting on Instagram:
lamma.gung.
Expanding my social media reach
and all that. What should be
next? YouTube videos of sunsets
and computer animations, maybe
or better not?
A historic piece I created in
1984 for a cover of the IBM
European HQ magazine in Paris.
Rendered on a huge IBM
mainframe computer, I based it
on a B/W photo of the Ile de la
Cite island in the Seine in
Paris.
No
fee, but it got me a business
trip to Paris when I was just a
lowly summer
student intern in an IBM
research lab. Fond, but ancient
memories...
This image has also been used to
promote my very first computer
graphics/animation solo art
exhibition in 1986, in the
early novelty days of CG:
Aug 3: Lamma
Life...
Lamma Life...
...in a YSW beach-side
restaurant in the afternoon: my
favourite photo model, enjoying
his modeling fee - meat pie &
mash - in
The Blue Goose Tavern.
Internet-unconnected Nick loved
this photo I printed out for
him. He'd like to know what
people guess he was thinking in
that moment! Suggestions for
speech balloons, please!
First prize:
Same meat pie and mash that Nick
was enjoying in this photo, plus
a glass of wine!
Email me.
Aug 2: New,
Furnished G/F Flat For Rent
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Fully furnished, brand-new,
quiet 700sqft G/F flat available
in Pak Kok New Village.
Less than 10 mins from ferry by
foot, 2 mins by bike.
3 bedrooms, 2
bathrooms/showers/toilets, 4
GREE split aircons, blinds &
mosquito screens on all windows,
double-glazing in living room,
rooftop accessible with
panoramic views.
Sorry, no pets. Netvigator not
connected yet (Sep?).
$15K, 2 months
deposit, no agency fee.
Call 9772 7300
for info (landlord's daughter).
Our own new landlord asked us to
promote his brand-new house to
our friends, so I shot a few
free pictures. Contact me to
shoot/promote your property.
More pictures...
Aug 1:
Post-T8 Hibiscus
After all this T8 typhoon rain,
storm and general greyness
yesterday and today, this
amazing hibiscus has just
blossomed on my balcony.
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