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1 May 2015: starting the Ningbo Local Drawing Circle

May 1, 2015 No Comments

Hi guys, hope you are enjoying your holiday. It is a glorious day in Ningbo. We planned on cycling and flying the quadcopter on mountains today and get some footage. While waiting for Matt, I started to draw on the brand spanking new sketchbooks. This month is my turn.

I woke up in the morning with our 450 quadcopter and the radio controller on the dining table. Quite an interesting shape with joysticks, switches and a display. So that’s my first couple of drawings. My personal aim is to showÂ Ningbo to the world (the circle is the first one in Ningbo- possibly in China too actually) along with my day-to-day life and personal interest through series of scribbles. That’ll make me explore Ningbo more, downtown area and interesting places. Let’s see how it goes, shall we! For info about the circle, click hereÂ and here are the books. Bfn.

Link to other circles (BrewDrawingCircles) is here, VPN is needed though.

Design Research

Pilot study: thank you for your contribution!

April 27, 2015 No Comments

The pilot study data collection stage has come to the end. I would like to say thank you to all participants especially the interestÂ to came along and did two sessions. Special thank you also goes to UNNC lecturers and friends who helped to disseminate recruitment poster, info and the chance to pop in during studio time (Ulf Richter, Rosaria Franco, Juliane Scheffel, Ali Cheshmehzangi, Yat Ming Loo, my supervisors and everybody I cannot mention one by one, for making this possible). Also Matthew Wallwork my better half for the incredible support. I am sure the pilot studyÂ isÂ a great step on the right direction for the subsequent study, the main study. Bfn.

Blogs, Events

Cycling and camping trips

April 27, 2015 No Comments

This trip is the second trip Simon Dawson has organised. Contributing on the catering side, it was a fun experience to brainstorm about feeding a big group of peeps. Each trip progresses, in terms of efficiency and speed. Matt and I have camped countless times in Europe and here in China, when it comes to food, we know exactly what we want: a hot cheesy pasta. Which sometimes for a big number of people is rather less feasible.

So for this time I came out with this menu:

Dinner: cheeseburgers with homemade patties (made patties a day before), the classic mac+cheese and jacket potatoes
Nibbles: tried the chocolatey banana split and the ultimate marshmallows on sticks. Subsequently Spencer and the guys went out for more tatties and fire wood, bless them!
Breakfast: omelette in bags (Ida and I tried this a day before, with Ida’s meticulous skill on checking the eggs) and quick oats.

Thank you internet for providing accessible online recipes and made recipes research a lot easier. What kind of excitement for the next one? Contact Simon Dawson if you are interested, May the 16th and 17th.

Good to have a beer with view before cracking on with the cooking and stuff!

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Blogs, Drawing Circle

Ningbo Local Drawing Circle: the sketchbooks

April 19, 2015 No Comments

Just a teaser, I have purchased a couple of sketchbooks to start with. Lovely texture, light, with stitches bits I like. Find my previous post hereÂ about the drawing circle. We still have available slots for you to join! Drop me a message if you are interested.

Other

Mentioned in Ningbo Focus, April 2015

April 19, 2015 No Comments

Ningbo Focus is a bilingual magazine in Ningbo, China. I answered some fun questions about Indonesia. good fun!

Photography

Photography Winner: Ningbo Guide, March 2015

April 14, 2015 No Comments

Events, Photography

Pick-a-Something Purple Photo Walk

April 11, 2015 No Comments

The weekend.

The weather is nice but I am injured, soÂ am not capable on joining theÂ morning cycle with the boys. So yesterday I had a last minute idea about going to a photo walk. Pick-a-something challenge, means I picked a colour and spent an hour hunted and papped anything with a chosen colour. I chose purple, not earth and ubiquitous colour so thatÂ it forced me to consciously kept on looking. Qingqing joined me and chose green.Â Taking place in Gu Luo (The Drum Tower), Ningbo. I was really impressed on how fast my eyes are able to scan objects and find THE colour.Â

Here are some of my favourite shots.

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Events

Pick-a-something Photo Walk, Sat the 11th

April 10, 2015 No Comments

Gu Luo, tomorrow morning at 10am. Pick-a-something photo walk, we’ll go for colours this time.

Other

Ningbo bike route card 1: UNNC – Park Hyatt – UNNC

April 9, 2015 No Comments

The bike route cards are initiated by John Higham based on his experience biking with a set of printed postcard size cards. We piloted one of the usual route, the loop from UNNC to Dong Qian Lake via Park Hyatt Hotel. The idea is to provide cyclists with visual cues in form of photographs with arrows. It is the shortest route we have so far, if you happen to know more routes, give us a shout.

Find the pdf (23 pages). last modified on 3 October 2016:

edit: 20161003_Bike Route Card 1_UNNC-Park Hyatt-UNNC_low

MapMyRide Link:Â http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/fullscreen/523806116/

Updates:Â 3 October 2016, corrections on sequential problems.

Please drop a message if: 1) you would like higher resolution pictures 2) would like to borrow printed booklet or 3) update us with the vast changing environment by sending your picture so we can replace them. It is a collaborative effort at the end of the day!

Special thanks to contributors as mentioned on the booklet.

Bfn.Â Mia and Matt.

Other

The quadcopters

April 7, 2015 No Comments

Both of our quadcopters are unwell at the moment, we are waiting for the new bits and bobs from Taobao! Thank you CHome Service for the Taobao support.

Update: currently we have the third quadcopter, the F330.