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...side burners, and what Vieluxe is calling "a concierge"--on call 24 hours a day to answer any questions, including what wine to drink with your char-broiled lobster. Built-in rotisseries and refrigerators are becoming more common, as are dual systems, barbecues that use both gas and charcoal, or even infrared heat. Grease-management devices, to prevent flare-ups and make cleaning easy, are standard...
...love my keyboard. In Hong Kong, where I live, I do all of my work on it, typing in articles, letters, e-mail, memos, rEsumEs. For me, a pen, whether Mont Blanc or Bic, holds no more charm than a bullock-cart or a charcoal stove. And paper is for reading, packaging and folding into little planes. In my world, keyboard and trackball reign supreme. So the folks at Anoto AB have their work cut out for them if they're going to convince me that plain old writing is the best way to get on the Internet. This start...
...chuang, a village 40 min. from Tainan, Taiwan's fourth largest city. This is the Taiwanese heartland, where kids still play marbles with pits of the dragon-eye fruit the way Chen did as a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. His family's red-roofed Taiwanese house consisted of four rooms built around a courtyard and an open hearth. They used chalk to write on the charcoal-stained walls how much they owed neighbors and merchants. His father was a day laborer...
...This is the Taiwanese heartland, where kids still play marbles with pits of dragon eye fruit the way Chen did when he was a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. When Chen was growing up here during the 1950s, Taiwan was still struggling for survival; today's grandiose notion of cultural identity was a distant luxury. While the newly arrived leaders of the Kuomintang, freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th...
Weil painstakingly outlines these hands with charcoal rather than with loose oil paints. These lines of charcoal are so soft, however, that the distinction between oil paints and charcoal is difficult to identify. This rich use of texture, coupled with the swirling blends of oranges and yellows, creates an effect that is both stunning yet soothing...