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original travel photos by iPhone 5 "the journey will never end"

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【Project Mnemosyne】SFMOMA

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【Project Mnemosyne】Beijing Art Museum of Stone Carvings, aka. Zhenjue Temple or Five Pagoda Temple

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【Project Mnemosyne】Forbidden City/Palace Museum - 2010

【Project Mnemosyne】Forbidden City/Palace Museum – 2010

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Chinatown, NYC

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Restaurant at Santa Cruz

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【Project Mnemosyne】Henan Museum

Henan province is the origin of Chinese civilization, and cultural political center through Chinese history. Like what we saw in Yin Xu, Anyang, countless precious relics were uncovered since late 19th century, when modern archaeology was introduced to China. Most of them were stored and exhibited in Henan Museum (河南博物院), located in Zhengzhou. It was thought to be second largest museum in…

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Lighthouse in Cape Cod, MA

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Highland Park, Rochester, NY

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【Project Mnemosyne】Yin Xu / Ruins of Yin

【Project Mnemosyne】Yin Xu / Ruins of Yin

I guess you’ve all heard of oracle, not the company but the word as a noun: oracle bone script. Thousands of years ago, Chinese ancestors burned turtle shells and cattle scapulae to make cracks on them, then read the message conveyed by the cracks (fortune telling) and carved the result, i.c. oracle bone script, on the bone with cracks. In late 19th century, scholars found that people were using…

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NYC Subway

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Oriental Pearl Tower + Apple Store, Shanghai

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【Project Mnemosyne】Philadelphia Museum of Art

In front of Philadelphia Museum of Art. I parked in the big parking lot inside this traffic circle. Strange design but convenient and easy to find.

This museum should be the best among those I’ve visited at recovering original historic scene. This old Chinese architecture was amazing, but this plaque with 5 characters of “happiness” would be very abnormal and unnatural…

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A Grand Central Story

A Grand Central Story

It was not unfamiliar to me riding Line 7 to go from Flushing to Manhattan, as I always stayed in Chinese family hotels in Flushing when visiting NYC. The subway was crappy (compared with newly built ones in China), but the good thing was that nobody would stop you from eating and drinking. So I was drinking Starbucks and playing my iPad.

I saw a Chinese old lady sitting at my 11 o’clock, in…

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Odometer after Cross-Country Tour 4912 miles from Rochester, NY to San Jose, CA.

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【Tips】on amateur phoneography

As said in my ABOUT page, I’m not professional blogger or photographer, just someone who loves taking photos with iPhone. So my suggestions on phoneography are based on personal experience, preference and understanding, which served me well on the road.

No flashlight

I’d say it’s not necessary to turn on the flashlight of your phone, and better not take pictures at night unless you are okay to…

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Huangpu River Bank, Shanghai

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Illusions Created by Glass, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Illusions Created by Glass, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism, 2007, Josiah McElheny

http://www.mfa.org/node/399876#5

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