Author: Chun Pong

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[Field-Homework 3] Slow City: Asia Society

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YouTube:https://youtu.be/x1VrJieJVbU   Slow City: Asia Society Video description In this video, it`s theme focus on discussing the feasibility of living slow in Hong Kong, specially focusing in the Central business district (CBD) in Hong Kong. It aims to find a place in Admiralty and achieve the level of having a secluded life inside the city. There is classical Chinese ‘小隱於野,大隱於市’ which means that finding a higher level of secluded life, it is better the find it inside the downtown than from the natural ( (百度百科：黎媛21, 2024). It wants people to find its own heart, own life. People always distribute Hong Kong

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[Reading Response 2] Walking in the City ,and Spatial Stories by De Certeau, M

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Although the book title is walking in the city, I think the idea of ​​the book is more focused on the relationship between space and humans. In the very beginning author using the top view to describe the city , he is using the pedestrian behavior to tell me that they should have some unexpected behavior acting in the city the book cite the Charlie Chaplin idea of ​​describing cane to support the idea ‘he does other things with the same thing and the goes beyond the limits that the determinants of the object set on its utilization’ I feels

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[Mood Board] Dreamless city CHAN CHUN PONG

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The mood board highlight the Hong Kong street view form morning to night, it is noted that on the top left corner, there is sunrise which i take it as people who has dream in Hong Kong, also the beginning of the story. In the midden part of the mood board, it shows the bustling of Hong Kong, but bustling has it own price which people may lose their time the find their dream. Therefore, at the end it can see a empty street and a hopeless women stand on a busy street. Although the street still very bustling, people

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Cat Links Workshop 1: Building Sets, Spaces & the City + Costumes, Characters & Urban Situations

Workshop 2 Exercise CHAN CHUN PONG

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To show the feeling of being alone , i think the best is that the character itself need to stay in a empty street and sit alone to look though the empty road. Using the back instead of character face, i think it can show that the character is tired in something, the more better way is that their can have some smoke came out from character first picture:https://zh.pngtree.com/freebackground/man-is-holding-an-umbrella-while-the-rain-falls_2652338.html second picture: poe.com(AI photo )   CHAN CHUN PONG 3036267135

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[Fieldwork Report] Chan Chun Pong & Chan Sui Tsit

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    5 stills from the video (took from field trip)     Hong Kong has long been crowned an international financial centre. Lofty skyscrapers, intertwining highways and underground railways has long been part of the image that Hong Kong has held since the start of the 21st century. Nonetheless, with the resurgence in popularity of neo-noir Hong Kong films like Chungking Express, the depictions of Hong Kong on social media has seemingly shifted towards its parts that are fading away. A visit to Sheung Hai Street attempts at unveiling the vanishing fragments of the city — Tong Lau is

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[READING RESPONSE] Roland Barthes: Leaving the Movie Theater

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The author describes the environment of the theater inside the cinema. In the cinema, the darkness is a kind of hypnosis. It makes people isolated from society. When people is watching a film inside the theater, the projector penetrates the air and dust. Dust is dancing with the film which led the audience to focus more on the film itself. The author is surprised by the projector as it just uses a tiny hole which already makes all the audience flabbergasted on the film itself. The author describes the level of concentration is like the audience are glued on the

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