Voxing Akari...

Hitler rants about D3X

nobody@vox.com(Akari) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:20:57 +0700

I love cameras and funny things, and this is one of the best jokes I've ever seen on the net.

I am sincerely sorry for those who would get upset seeing this video clip - mostly nikonian. I just can not hold back from bursting to laugh over the subtitles.s

I'm a canonian, a big kidder and I like it. Hope that you too.

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Insane Colors

nobody@vox.com(Akari) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:04:37 +0700

I sometimes love to bump the saturation of the colors to its limit. And here're some results.

Those pictures were shot roghly 2 months ago but since my PC and monitor have just crushed down, I simply could not process any new photos.

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The last day of Hang Da market

nobody@vox.com(Akari) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:01:45 +0700

Hang Da market was one of the oldest markets left in the modern Hanoi. It is going to be destroyed in a couple of days and than tranformed into a 13-staged supermarket. The company which owns the site evacuated some 500 vendors out to a tempolary market in the schedule of 10 days - starting November 28th.

It was November 27th...

Moved out

A clothes shop on the 1st floor which moved out before the evacuation started. Right behind the frame of what was once a shop stand was another shop, still filled with cloths.

An old shop owner

An old vendor next to her stand. She said that she would move out in the afternoon, after the worship ceremony - "to get permission of the Gods to move out". Vendors like her believed that the ceremony would bring them luck.

Stay until the last minute

The ground floor. An emty space among shops that were still working. Most of the people in this area sold shoes and various kind of food.

The guard

A guard sitting in the shade at a pathway joining the two buildings of the market. It was not a crowded day.

Last preparation

A working testing electricity lines in a kiosk at the tempolary market, roughly a kilometer away from the old site. The very first people who moved here were clothes vendors.

Twin kiosk

A clothes shop ready. Each kiosk was 6 metter square large only. This one was combined from two detached kiosks, making a 12 metter square stand - yet there was still not enough space for the goods.

Hang Da market

A wet and shady lane within the old market. This scene will never be seen again, as the construction of the new 13-staged building will start soon.

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Country Road

nobody@vox.com(Akari) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:09:44 +0700

I took these photos in the end of Oct, meaning it's been more than a month. It was the havest, so a friend invited me to join him on a trip to the countryside. We were both axious of getting some good photos of the crop and the working farmers.

It was kind of cloudy all day long, yet we managed to have a few acceptable pictures.

Country Road

Farmers transporting a machine used to pluck off the rice from the rice trees' body.

Machinery work

Farmers working with the machine.

The road

A look at the working field from afar.

Finish

A female farmer clearing away after finishing the "plucking work".

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A slum by the West Lake

nobody@vox.com(Akari) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:48:53 +0700

West Lake 01

A slum building by the side of West Lake - the largest lake of Hanoi (Vietnam).

It was 3 day after the historical flood in Hanoi (meaning 5th Nov or so), a friend and I had a short trip around the city and found this building.

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A lane in the old market

nobody@vox.com(Akari) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:25:55 +0700

Hang Da market

Hang Da market - central Hanoi

A lane in Hang Da market, one of the old markets of Hanoi. The building will soon be destroyed to be reconstructed into a 13-floored supermarket. Some 500 vendors is migrating out to a tempolary markets which is roughly a kilometer away.

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