昨天終於有時間到訪﹝還是搞亂？﹞Rainbow Gala同人誌即賣會創辦人 – 小撒的新店/ 工作室，隨便拍了些相片及一段非常好笑的「粉紅貓特色無聊小短片」。想知道更多小撒的往事及背景，可到手機迷你版 pinkwork city
> http://pinkmessage.com/city/archives/1531
past interview with Chloe (Flash required)
~~> pinkwork.com/book/rainbowgala.htm
I’m not a BIG fan of Olympus PEN, though many of my human friends are (especially those young girls). It’s the “Weekend Weekly” magazine editor told me she borrowed a Lite PEN (E-PL3) from Olympus and asked whether I was interested to take it for a 1-week trail. Why Not? Almost at the same time, one of my friends who runs a vintage Store in Central said, the lovely tiger-striped cat at his store just born 4 new babies. So I suddenly came across a funny topic for my column, that is “Using lite PEN to shot little baby kitten” !
I was not writing a camera review article, but I have to say here the “tilt screen” function of E-PL3 is very useful when I used it to shoot cats at very low angle (close to the ground). Its light weight and small size also made me be able to shoot photo or video with one hand. See, below are photos and two very short “art“ movies starring cats using this little camera. WOULD I buy a PEN? Sorry, don’t get the money …
我不是Olympus PEN的粉絲，雖然身邊很多人類朋友是，特別是女孩子。不過是上星期《新假期》的編輯跟我講，她剛向Olympus借了一部輕巧版PEN E-PL3，問我有否興趣借去玩一個星期。有新機玩當然無問題啦！同一時間，一個在中環開古著店的朋友說，他店內那隻非常可愛的虎紋貓生了小貓。於是我忽然想到以此作專欄題目，就是「『輕巧』PEN影BB貓」。
雖然不是寫試用報告，但真的要在這裡讚一讚此機的「可反80度角觀景屏幕」功能非常有用，尤其是以超低角度﹝貼地﹞拍貓時候。另外因為機身輕、細，我單手也可拿著相機拍攝相片及短片，另一隻手可用來打燈。看看，下面就是我用這部細小相機拍下的相片及甚有藝術味道的貓貓短片 … 會買這部機嗎？沒有多餘錢啊 …
自從2009年的第二張專輯《Festival Traveler》後，小肥﹝徐智勇﹞已近兩年沒有出新唱片。他說純粹因為自己要求高，加上和新監製黃尚偉合作，要時間磨合，後期已愈來愈順暢。所以他的新專輯《黃昏音樂會》終於錄音完成，快將面世。今次歌路會有少許改變 … 想聽/看看他親自講解，可到下面手機迷你版pinkwork city…
~ http://pinkmessage.com/city/archives/1427
Audiophile singers like to sing cover versions of those big-hit songs. I guess one of the reasons is, it could give the listeners a standard or reference to make comparison, well, between voices of different singers. Philip Wei just released a new audiophile album titled “Phil/Harmonic“, most of the songs in the album are new songs ... Click the link below could hEAR him talking more about his new album.
那些發燒碟歌手都喜歡翻唱一些經典舊歌。我估原因之一是，那些音響發燒友想有一個標準或者參考，去比較不同演繹者的聲音。不過，韋雄剛推出的新碟《Phil/Harmonic》，十四首歌之中只有兩首是舊歌。 ... 想聽/看看他親自講解此碟的製作過程 …可到「迷你手機版」pinkwork城市。
This time is special, cause the three girls@HotCha were so excited in front of my “holga” camera (never been photographed by a CAT before ?!), so photos came out are all so natural and fit this title … …
這原本是我今期﹝第 630期, 130~131頁﹞《新假期》專欄的標題﹝懶特別、虛無飄渺 ﹞，「感覺」是指對人﹝被攝者﹞及場地﹝拍攝地點﹞的感覺。雜誌編輯其後將之改成「捕捉HotCha」，又的確會更吸引讀者。雖然我經常拍攝人﹝類﹞，卻甚少以此做文章主題。因為想在此欄目試驗多些新鮮題材，例如影食物、動物、蟲蟲等等。
今次比較特別，因為HotCha三女在我的Holga鏡頭面前表現實在亢奮﹝因為未試過被貓影？！﹞，Regen當時臨別在即似乎也不太傷心。總之出來的相片很自然，反映現場氣氛，才想出了這個主題。
meow ... PINKCAT introduces you all a Canadian singer-song-writer and actress, Cory Lee who was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada to a Chinese mother and German father. At age 15 she joined a 3-girl group named Ris-K and was offered a record deal by a big label. Unfortunately one of the group members said she wanted to get married and had baby, so everything ended suddenly. That also made Cory get the “Fire” to do her solo Album. After several years, Cory finally get a deal with Universal Music to put out her new Album worldwide. During this past few years, Cory has actually done a lot of things, such as releasing several successful singles including the big hit “The Naughty Song” , playing the role of Karma in the TV series “Instant Star“, and Miss Oh on “Degrassi” . Want to hEAR/sEE this music and acting talent talking about herself and her upcoming new album, you could go to my pink virtual city.
粉紅貓又找了一位有趣的人類做訪問。她就是加拿大的創作歌手及演員Cory Lee。 她的母親是中國人，父親是德國人。本來幾年前，Cory已跟另外兩名少女組成了一隊組合Ris-K，並獲得一間國際唱片公司簽約出唱片。不過其中一位成員 卻突然說要結婚生孩子，結果一切發展要停頓。經此一役，Cory更加決心要出版自己的個人唱片。經過幾年的努力，今年她終於能夠和環球唱片合作，將於年底推出全新唱片，並開始了她的亞洲宣傳之旅。其實過去幾年Cory也做了很多事情，包括推出了多首極受歡迎的單曲，如非常流行的「The Naughty Song」、在北美高收視電視劇集《Instant Star》及《Degrassi》中擔任主要角式等等。想聽聽/看看Cory親自介紹自己及講解快將面世的新專輯，可到我的粉紅城市 …
FULL CITY Version (Flash required)
~~> pinkwork.com/shortnews/corylee.htm
官恩娜又出新EP《Take A Shine to》了，一如以往﹝自她初出道開始﹞，粉紅貓都會走去跟她做訪問、拍些相片，包括正常的及Holga相、影一段無無聊聊了小短片。今次比較特別的是，EP內有一首歌《依依》，是她自己用結他作曲的。想看看 / 聽聽她講講更多，按下面的連結 …
FULL CITY Version (Flash required)
~~> pinkwork.com/shortnews/ella11.htm
want to hEAR/sEE this HK popular sing & dance girl group talking about their new EP album and a farewell message from one of the group members ~ Regen, who will go to Australia to study English and music for 1~2 years, you could touch the “pink” city ‘s link below.
HotCha (in Cantonese means “Hot Tea”) is a successful girl group formed in 2007, comprised of three young girls, namely Regen, Winkie, Crystal. They were all singing or dance competition winners. To date they’ve released 5 albums and won many music awards. What a surprise, Regen suddenly announced last month that she will leave the group for 1~2 years and go to Australia to study.
MEOW, pinkcat has never interviewed HotCha before, cause I’m more into electronic and new age music. I really want to include their voices and feelings in my city once I heard this news. Yes, pinkwork city is a new media artwork about interesting people! During the interview it might be easy to make them crying in front of the camera … well, keep asking them to say about their feeling, memories, etc..
I don’t want to do that, instead I want them to share more about their happiness from the past and expected happiness in the future ! So that’s why you would see this superb FUNNY video below.
粉紅貓從未訪問過HotCha這隊出道了五年多的跳舞組合的，因為貓的喜好較特別，比較喜歡古古怪怪﹝甚至沒有人聲﹞的電子及new age音樂。不過上月，成員Regen突然宣佈會於九月離隊一至兩年，就引起我這隻貓的興趣。因為pinkwork city本身就是一件關於「人」的新媒體藝術作品，對於那些有個性的「人類」特別感興趣 。
訪問時，粉紅貓也不想故意問她們的心情，搞喊她們了，反而想引導她們講些開心的東西，未來也可以是令人興奮的 … 所以大家便會見到下面那條極之玩野的短片 … 喇 … 想聽聽/看看她們親自講更多，可按下面的粉紅城市連結。
FULL CITY Version (Flash required)
~~> pinkwork.com/shortnews/hotcha.htm
You might question how could I use this plastic camera to shoot close-up or macro photo. Its closest focus length is 0.7 m! Of course my Holga have to put on a Macro or Close-up Lens (bought from Holga shop, just HK$68 per set). To know more about how I shot these photo, could see my article in this issue (624, p122~p123) of “Weekend Weekly” magazine. Yes, since the experiment result is quite good, I decided to write an article about this in my “Weekend Weekly” magazine ‘s column.
真的要多謝 agnès b.公關們的幫忙，原本粉紅貓只不過是通知她們，我打算在她們的銅鑼灣café內﹝貪那裡有黑白階磚地板﹞，用Holga塑膠相機做些「食物拍攝實驗」。 「放心，我只用一些Lo-fi器材，佔用餐廳一小角落，絕不會騷擾到她們的客人的」當時我跟她們說。
誰知她們十分好人，還問我要不要特別製 作一些蛋糕給我拍攝。當然不用了，她們店內已有很多七彩繽紛的蛋糕。你可能奇怪Holga最近的拍攝焦距是0.7米左右，怎可能用來拍微距或近距的食物 相？方法是套上一塊在「Holga專門店」有售，只是HK$68大元的塑膠微距或近攝鏡片。
結果，出來的相片依然有Holga相的「原始」風味，所以決定在我《新假期》的專欄稿，寫這個主題。想知詳情，可看看今期﹝第624期，122 ~ 123頁﹞這篇稿啦。
PINKCAT ‘s other Articles in “Weekend Weekly 新假期”
~~> pinkmessage.com/city/archives/1028
A human friend of pinkcat (a young HK girl) just immigrated to Taiwan and is working as a freelance PR for many music groups there. She introduced this rising androgynous girl group “MISSTER” to me.
A group formed by Diana Tai who is the lead vocal and became popular through “One Million Star II” (Taiwan version of American Idol). She then opened a record label herself and along with the other four members, namely Chiao, Chris, Milk and Carol, formed this music group. They’ve just released their debut album 《特先生》last month and received a great response from critics and audience from Asia.
WANT to hEAR/sEE them talking more about their music, could go to my pinkwork city.該組合是由主音戴安娜領軍，她在幾年前在參加「星光2」比賽時已很多人認識，後來還跟經理人鬧翻了。幾年之後人成熟了，她和友人成立「新女帝企業」公司，並與其餘四名成員賴紫綸、陳瑾怡（球球）、王哲巧、潘宜萱（牛奶）組成MISSTER。
在加拿大修讀錄音工程的戴安娜花了很多心思在樂團的首張專輯《特先生》上。雖然走女子中性的路線一直不被看好，但專輯推出之後大獲好評，連行內人也讚好呢 … 想聽聽/看看她們親自講解新專輯的意念及製作過程，可到pinkwork city。
~~> http://www.pinkwork.com/shortnews/misster.htm
影ICC要捱蚊針，反而影它的姊姊大廈IFC﹝國際金融中心﹞就舒服得多。看，這就是幾年前用Holga拍下的 … 好藝術啊！
粉紅貓會在《新假期》周刊專欄寫關於HOLGA攝影的稿，得閒留意一下啦。該專欄他們每期會邀請不同的「攝影達人」﹝貓？！是唯一一隻 …真是我的榮幸 ﹞參與，所以久不久便會輪到我寫。下面是已出版的。
* these photos might not be large enough to let you read these articles clearly, if so you have to buy a hard-copy magazine. 這些相片可能不夠大，讓你看清楚內容，那麼你便要花錢買一本真雜誌了。
MEOW, some new stuff by PINKCAT, this movie trailer was shot by my Holga 120 plastic camera, of course I’ve to do some very low-tech modification.
It’s a trailer only, will finish this movie (art project) if I got some free time and find a “suitable” person to be the lead actress and do the music for the movie. Special thank to Hina for her guest appearance in this trailer (though just 3 seconds). This girl is also a talented photography and painting artist.
“Freedom of Laziness” is actually a creative writing project by me, it’s about a fictional future world … one day in the future …
粉紅貓又有新作品。對呀，Holga相機也可以用來拍短片的。當然要經過一些很low-tech的改裝。
多謝Hina客串這條預告片的演出﹝雖然只出鏡了3秒 ﹞。這位中日混血兒本身也是一位攝影及繪畫藝術家，很切合「Freedom of Laziness」的主題啊！遲些有空，又找到合適的人當主角﹝兩、三分鐘的片都要主角？﹞及為電影配樂 … 便會完成這套短片。這其實是跟我的一項文字創作有關的，一個幻想出來的未來世界，看看下面 ….
~~> http://virtualdiaries.blogspot.com
Pui Ching Ho, a graduate of UK Cambridge University with a master degree in Information Technology. Since he came back to HK nearly two years ago, he devoted most of his time, well, not to looking for a high-paid IT job but his pursuit of music dream. Last year he self-produced and published his debut album, but sadly very few people appreciated or even noticed his album. Last year he helped his friend Wai Yin (a veteran children’s songs composer) to produce a song titled “Siu Ming goes to Guangzhou” for Dr. Lee Ka Yan, a paediatrician doctor cum amateur children’s singer in hk. What a surprise (irony), this song with simple melody and lyrics became a BIG HIT in Youtube last year!
“In the past, I posted my songs to Youtube and just attracted hundreds of views. And this simple song got millions of views ! I won’t be disappointed, cause it’s also one of my creations. Most importantly, I think the audience have the right to choose what they like to listen.”, said Pui Ching.
Though this song is a great success, Pui Ching insists on his music style (mainly UK pop rock). Last month he just released his second album “Shimmer of Dawn” in the name of his band “White Dimension“. Want to know the ‘ROCK” side of this successful children’s song producer? go to pinkwork city mobile mini version
sound, video, photo ~~> pinkmessage.com/city/archives/960網上大熱的「兒歌」《小明上廣州》及《小明去東莞》的監製何沛澄，其實年多前已自資出過一張專輯，可惜沒有很多人認識。這位英國劍橋大學「資料科技」碩士生，其實喜歡玩英國搖滖風格的音樂，上年「無心插柳」幫李家仁醫生製作歌曲，竟然成為百萬VIEWS的youtube歌曲影片，連他也多了人認識。不過他也堅持自己的音樂風格﹝沒有走去創作兒歌 ﹞，最近又自資出版了第二張專輯《Shimmer of Dawn》，今次是以自己樂隊「White Dimension」名義出版。想知這位「小明」創造人的搖滾，可到pinkwork city 手機迷你版看看/聽聽 …
