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A Content Farm Animal Is Born: My New 13th Book In 2024 依依得捨(Departure Time)
5.8.2024 The joy of writing is the opportunity of sharing what I believe. The pain of writing is me seeing deadlines looming larger and larger. A writer does not simply write. He has to sell books so that the publisher’s fingers will not get burned. Ultimately, he has one moral duty: to write well to…
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A ‘Professional Fan’ Timmy Cheung (張港欣) Explained, “Why The Often-disrespected ‘Fandom’ Actually Help Art, Culture And Creativity In Hong Kong?”
25-04-23 A ‘fan’ is short for ‘fanatic’. Celebrities welcome fans to support, until they suffer ‘social phobia’ when their fans turn up everywhere and they become afraid of going out. It is easier for entertainment events to attract fans. Serious art exhibitions, culture talks and classical concerts can hardly find thousands of fans encircling entrances…
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“Artists Have A Value, But Nothing We Know Suggests That!”—How Prudence Mak & Her Famous Cartoon Figure Chocolate Rain Inspire Us In Hong Kong To Believe In Ourselves!
17-08-21 The Elevator Card is a magic effect in which a playing card can return to the top of the deck after being placed elsewhere in the middle of the deck. ‘Talent’ is the Elevator Card of everyone and according to Prudence Mak (麥雅端), the creator of the well-known cartoon Chocolate Rain, there is a…
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Art Tech Theatre—Open Hong Kong Up To A New World? Scholar Expert YUEN Cheuk Wa Elucidated
24-12-20 In 2020, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong said, “The application of technology has extended the horizon of creativity in arts and brought new opportunities for the arts and creative industries. Leveraging the bold and innovative spirit of local artists and the active support of the Government, Art Tech will flourish and thrive in…
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It’s Time To Fundamentally Upgrade The Way That We Do Things In Hong Kong Through Creative Thinking—Edmund Lee, Executive Director Of Hong Kong Design Centre
19-05-20 Creative thinking(創意思維) is not the same as creativity(創作). It is about how anyone of us can solve a problem or understand an issue differently and imaginatively at work or in life. Barack Obama said, “To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is…
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TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY IN HONG KONG, WE NEED EDUCATION IN FAILURE, NOT ONLY SUCCESS—STANLEY ZHENG
13-10-19 I wrote on creativity. Technology is about creativity. Technology in Hong Kong means the discovery of new scientific knowledge which will bring the new results of methods, systems and devices. They can be used for practical purposes to drive our economic growth and give hopes to the youth. Stanley Zheng is a renowned expert…
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Hong Kong old trams turned into Creative Communities
Alvin Yip launched a social innovation in Hong Kong by converting 5 trams into art, culture and creative spaces. Trams were “born” in Hong Kong in 1904. Great that they are still here on the Hong Kong island, meandering between the western end and the eastern tip. Comforted, we know they are not far away;…