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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Nonlinear Optics
During NLO 2011 there will be a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of nonlinear optics.
I don’t want to emphasize the well-known speckle which was removed from the famous paper in Physical Review Letters by P. Franken, et al., demonstrating nonlinear optical effects for the first time appeared in 1961. I do want to pay tribute to the great scientist Raman here.
Let us start with a question: When Raman observed Raman scattering in 1928, there was no laser. What was his light source?
I don’t want to emphasize the well-known speckle which was removed from the famous paper in Physical Review Letters by P. Franken, et al., demonstrating nonlinear optical effects for the first time appeared in 1961. I do want to pay tribute to the great scientist Raman here.
Let us start with a question: When Raman observed Raman scattering in 1928, there was no laser. What was his light source?
(I wish I had prizes for correct answers!)
The answer----“The apparatus used by Raman for the discovery consisted of a
mirror for deflecting sunlight, a condensing lens, a pair of complementary glass filters,
a flask containing benzene and a pocket spectroscope. the total cost not exceeding $25 ” [1]
Raman observed not only the Stokes radiation, which has the lower photon energy than the incident photon, but the extremely weak anti-Stokes radiation.
Below are a few notable things that I know about the symposium invited speaker:
Plenary session speaker Steve Harris discovered optical parametric fluorescence (Wonder why it is called parametric oscillator? ). What less known is that he is inventor the acousto-optic tunable filter. He filed the patent “Tunable acousto-optic method and apparatus” in 1970. Now one type of pulse shaper--Dazzler made by FastLite in France--is based upon this. Whenever we disucussed the acousto-optic tunable filter, my thesis advisor, who was Professor Harris’s graduate student, always made sure the audience know about this history and gave Professor Harris the credit.
Professor Bloembergen, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field of nonlinear optics and to the development of laser spectroscopy in 1981, will give a talk on the birth of nonlinear optics. I look forward to that talk.
Robert Byer probably will speak about the history of the nonlinear optics. I had a glimpse of his talk from his website, which shows a lot of pictures and fascinating stories. For example, he has a funny picture about “Who Invented This Crazy Idea (of laser driven fusion), Anyway? ” By the end of the 85-page-pdf-talk file there is a picture of Surfing Ocean Waves at Poipu Beach, Kauai. The video is great. I know it will be event better to hear the talk in person!
Algis Piskarskas, the Head of Department of Quantum Electronics and Laser Research Centre at Vilnius University, serves as the one of the advisory board member of the Virtual Institute for Nonlinear Optics (VINO http://www.vino-stella.eu/vino/index.php?section=about), where they promote open sharing of know how, infrastructures and resources. They have a logo which is a beautiful picture of conical waves:
The answer----“The apparatus used by Raman for the discovery consisted of a
mirror for deflecting sunlight, a condensing lens, a pair of complementary glass filters,
a flask containing benzene and a pocket spectroscope. the total cost not exceeding $25 ” [1]
Raman observed not only the Stokes radiation, which has the lower photon energy than the incident photon, but the extremely weak anti-Stokes radiation.
Below are a few notable things that I know about the symposium invited speaker:
Plenary session speaker Steve Harris discovered optical parametric fluorescence (Wonder why it is called parametric oscillator? ). What less known is that he is inventor the acousto-optic tunable filter. He filed the patent “Tunable acousto-optic method and apparatus” in 1970. Now one type of pulse shaper--Dazzler made by FastLite in France--is based upon this. Whenever we disucussed the acousto-optic tunable filter, my thesis advisor, who was Professor Harris’s graduate student, always made sure the audience know about this history and gave Professor Harris the credit.
Professor Bloembergen, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field of nonlinear optics and to the development of laser spectroscopy in 1981, will give a talk on the birth of nonlinear optics. I look forward to that talk.
Robert Byer probably will speak about the history of the nonlinear optics. I had a glimpse of his talk from his website, which shows a lot of pictures and fascinating stories. For example, he has a funny picture about “Who Invented This Crazy Idea (of laser driven fusion), Anyway? ” By the end of the 85-page-pdf-talk file there is a picture of Surfing Ocean Waves at Poipu Beach, Kauai. The video is great. I know it will be event better to hear the talk in person!
Algis Piskarskas, the Head of Department of Quantum Electronics and Laser Research Centre at Vilnius University, serves as the one of the advisory board member of the Virtual Institute for Nonlinear Optics (VINO http://www.vino-stella.eu/vino/index.php?section=about), where they promote open sharing of know how, infrastructures and resources. They have a logo which is a beautiful picture of conical waves:
Gérard Mourou, the inventor of the chirped pulse amplification and the famous book Quantum electronics author Amnon Yariv are also among the invited speakers.
Inspired by another principle of VINO: wider concept and visualization based on the search for truth and beauty in the world that surrounds us, I would like to show a picture that I took during my experiment but have not published.
Above, three sets of sidebands generated in a 160 micro meter fused silica with a pair of fs IR pump lasers.
Without lasers, or without nonlinear optics, we will never see this beauty.
If you have any comments, please email me at mczhitamu@gmail.com.
[1] R. S. Krishnan and R. K. Shankar, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 10(1), 1
(1981).
Thanks! Lady Gaga!!
Lady Gaga arrived in Japan on June 21st. About 200 fans with her promoted wrist band for our disaster relief gathered at Narita International Airport. This YouTube shows you the scene of her arrival.
I guess she was the first big star who came to Japan after the earthquakes and the nuclear mess. Many stars cancelled the trip to Japan after 311.
She came to attend the event, `MTV VIDEO MUSIC AID JAPAN' on 25th and to promote her new album.
I guess she was the first big star who came to Japan after the earthquakes and the nuclear mess. Many stars cancelled the trip to Japan after 311.
She came to attend the event, `MTV VIDEO MUSIC AID JAPAN' on 25th and to promote her new album.
She supports Japan all the time and advertises it is safe to come to Japan. We all check her on TV and radio and talk about her. She was the first one who decided to come to Japan after 311. When we heard her coming, we felt there might be a good change in June and our country would be much better at that time. She has been our hope since then. Japanese government gave her a thanks letter.
She is in Japan until July 1st. The last YouTube is from yesterday and she was on NHK, which is only our national TV. Some part only Japanese, but you can hear English at the best part.
I appreciate her comments on this interview. Thank you very much, Lady Gaga!!
Thanks! Lady Gaga!!
Lady Gaga arrived in Japan on June 21st. About 200 fans with her promoted wrist band for our disaster relief gathered at Narita International Airport. This YouTube shows you the scene of her arrival.
I guess she was the first big star who came to Japan after the earthquakes and the nuclear mess. Many stars cancelled the trip to Japan after 311.
She came to attend the event, `MTV VIDEO MUSIC AID JAPAN' on 25th and to promote her new album.
I guess she was the first big star who came to Japan after the earthquakes and the nuclear mess. Many stars cancelled the trip to Japan after 311.
She came to attend the event, `MTV VIDEO MUSIC AID JAPAN' on 25th and to promote her new album.
She supports Japan all the time and advertises it is safe to come to Japan. We all check her on TV and radio and talk about her. She was the first one who decided to come to Japan after 311. When we heard her coming, we felt there might be a good change in June and our country would be much better at that time. She has been our hope since then. Japanese government gave her a thanks letter.
She is in Japan until July 1st. The last YouTube is from yesterday and she was on NHK, which is only our national TV. Some part only Japanese, but you can hear English at the best part.
I appreciate her comments on this interview. Thank you very much, Lady Gaga!!
AAQR: Solitaire Deluxe (only available on Amazon Appstore)
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| Solitaire Deluxe screenshot via Amazon Appstore |
The production values are quite good, and there are various modes to play. I am just not sure if it's worth $4.99 (regular price). Furthermore, there's some rumblings among reviewers that the app lets you buy more ingame currency (with real money through micro purchases) to unlock more games. You start with 70 plays free, but what happens when that runs out on an app you already paid for? Hmmm...
Rating: try it, maybe? When they offer a demo...
http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Deluxe-Solitaire/dp/B0057YPQVW
AAQR: Pocket Cast (free on Amazon for 27-JUN-2011, else paid) Podcatcher
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| Pocket Casts Library Screen screenshot via Amazon Appstore |
Upon entering the app, you're presented with a mere 5 buttons along the bottom. It's clean, and the initial "help" screen explains that those buttons are.
Library -- index of all your podcasts subscribed to, with a number indicating how many episodes are available.
Listen -- which podcast is playing (video or audio)
Refresh -- presents which subscriptions have downloads available, and whether to stream or download offline
Search -- add new subscriptions to your library
Setup -- settings and whatnot
The interface is VERY clean, so the initial impression is very good. However, the problem here is mostly under the hood.
I start by adding some of my own favorite podcasts.
The search interface is not bad, as you can search, browse by subject, browse by network (TWIT, CNET, NPR, etc.) There is an "import" function but it asks you to import the OPML file manually by looking for a .TXT file. Huh?! This is Android, not DOS! I mean, this doesn't even integrate with Google Reader! Still, this is how most podcatchers operate. However, the interface leaves a little to be desired. Instead of being able to subscribe right from the list view, I must click through to the "detailed description" page of the podcast, and hit "add" from there. This is annoying and not necessary.
I went into settings and things started to look bad. Offline downloads cannot be cleaned up by date (keep only last X epsiodes) or by space (keep only 1 GB worth offline). The ONLY automation you are allowed is delete after full playback. Otherwise, it's deleting the downloads individually, purge all played, or purge all (played or not). The max refresh to find new podcasts is every 3 hours (else it's manual), but this is more of a nitpick. This is starting to get annoying.
I go to the "refresh" screen, and this is where the app starts to really look bad. It automatically picks up 2 episodes (or is that two weeks?) from each podcast stream. You can't adjust this threshold (that I can find). From there, you can choose to download or stream. I chose a few to download, intending to try it out.
In the "library" view, your only choice is 3 x 5 grid view of the "picture" shown as icon. While it's nice and big and readable if there's text inside, not all podcasts use a useful picture WITH description. For example, the podcast "Inspiring Words of Encouragement" just have the guy's portrait, no words at all. Unless I know the stuff intimately, how would I know what podcast that was without clicking through?
So how does it perform when it comes to actually playing a podcast?
Unfortunately, it failed terribly. I cannot get a SINGLE podcast to play, either streaming OR offline. I tried half a dozen different shows, and not obscure shows, but major ones like CNET's Buzz Out Loud, Leo Laporte's The Tech Guy, and so on. NADA. I click on "play", and bounces me right back to the library screen. Else, it force closed (which happened multiple times during testing).
I admit, I have an older phone, OG Droid with CM 7.02 (I have problem with 7.03 keep boot looping on me) However, this should not be an issue. All OTHER podcatchers I tested work just FINE on my OG Droid.
I hate to say this, but this app ain't worth the download, even if it's free. You may have better luck with it on a different Android device, but for me, this app is a total bust.
Rating: skip it (until the bugs get fixed, or if you can try it within 15 minute refund window)
http://www.appbrain.com/app/pocket-casts/au.com.shiftyjelly.pocketcasts
A rain-swept valley and two lines of sheep
I have been watching the DVD of Gideon Koppel's acclaimed film sleep furiously (2009), a remarkably poetic documentary shot over the course of a year around the faming village of Trefeurig in Wales, where the filmaker grew up. Koppel has said 'I wanted to make a film in which moments of intimacy and human gesture became juxtaposed with the infinite space and time of the landscape. I think about the landscape of sleep furiously as an ‘internal landscape’: it has a quality of childhood about it.' The film has the soft light and muted colours of childhood memories (rather like Tarkovsky's polaroids). At the end of the BBC interview below Koppel explains his preference for using film because it can evoke a world, like paint. A landscape on a big screen shot in HD video "works like a signifier - it says very strongly: 'this is a beautiful landscape', but that's all it does. The same landscape shot on film allows the audience to engage with that image through their imagination."
There may be nothing new in breaking off from scenes of people interacting to show, for a few seconds, a panoramic landscape like a gently moving painting (as in Werner Herzog), or in holding a camera steady while a car makes its way slowly across the screen and into the distance (Kiarostami), but each time Gideon Koppel does this in sleep furiously it seems fresh and original. A practice session for the village choir is intercut with shots of an epic landscape of shadowy hills, drifting clouds and crepuscular rays on a distant sea - it sounds too obvious but the effect is genuinely moving, and the sequence concludes modestly with the choir leader's verdict: "well done... at least we have an end now." John Banville, writing of another landscape in sleep furiously, says 'one of the most beautiful and mysteriously affecting sequences is shot from a high mountainside down into a rain-swept valley into which two lines of sheep straggle slowly from different directions to form a kind of ragged magic square. It is the inexplicable beauty of these images that one remembers long after the screen has gone dark.'
Frequency Combs and Waveform Synthesis---Toward synthesis of arbitrary optical waveforms
(Please click on the images for a high-resolution one.)You may be familiar with the function generator, which is available in most of the physics labs and the simplest version of an electronic waveform generator [1]. It is much more difficult to synthesize arbitrary optical waveforms since the optical frequencies are much higher. The electronic synthesis is generally limited to ns time scales while the optical synthesizer is in the femtosecond range.
Synthesizing optical waveforms requires both broadband coherent light and precise control over the phase and amplitudes for the frequency components. Therefore it is natural to combine the frequency comb technology with the pulse shaping technique, which may enable optical arbitrary waveform generation (OAWG), as discussed in a progress article written by Steven Cundiff, the session presider and A. Weiner, one of the invited speakers in the same session and the most famous person in the pulse shaping area [2]. The application, as pointed out by the authors, “are still a matter of speculation,” as "OAWG is still in its infancy." It can be used for coherent control, generation of attosecond pulses etc.
Currently most of the research is focused on only a small number of comb lines. The results, however, are very exciting. For example, Kung’s group recently demonstrated synthesis and measurement of ultrafast waveforms such as square and saw-tooth fields by using 5 frequency harmonics [3]. The result is similar to the following figures. Due to copyright issues I can’t put the original figures here. Kung is giving a talk in this session as well.
Our group also just achieved pulse-shaper-assisted phase control of 5 Raman frequency combs, which is what I am going to present in the conference. The difference of our work from Kung’s is that our comb itself has broad spectrum. So we not only need to correct "local" phase distortions on each spectrum, but also need to "globally" adjust the relative phases of the sidebands. We manage to make the sidebands "dance" in unison, as shown below.
The SHG spectrum of the 5 sidebands after the BBO crystal as we vary the AS 3 phase from 0 to 9 pi, after we adjust the relative phase among all sidebands to be equal.A: SHG of AS 1; B: SFG of AS 1&2 ;C: SHG of AS 2;D: SFG of AS 1&4, and AS 2&3; E: SHG of AS 3, SFG of AS 1&5, and AS 2&5; F: SFG o AS 3&4;G: SHG of AS 4.
Session presider Steve Cundiff is the 2011 NLO program chair. Many people probably know him through his work and the book “Femtosecond optical frequency comb technology” book, which is edited by him and Jun Ye, who will give an invited talk at this session.
I am not so familiar with C. Fabre’s work. As I Google him I only found his website in French. When I use the Google translation, I get the following----which is almost as funny as if you put an ancient Chinese poem and use the Google translation to get the English version. I love the last sentence---“to measure travel time fine”.
At last, I would like to mention somewhat related work---Multiple independent comb shaping (MICS) by Marcos Dantus. The comb is not “frequency combs” but more strictly speaking “pulse shaper pixels." as explained to me by Dmitry Pestov, who works with Marcos Dantus. The similarity lies in that it does phase shaping of a pulse to generate complex waveforms [4].
Reference:
[1] Toward Synthesis of Arbitrary Optical Waveforms, Deniz D. Yavuz, Science March 2011, Vol. 331.
[2] Optical arbitrary waveform generation, Steven T. Cundiff & Andrew M. Weiner,Nature Photonics, Volume: 4,Pages:760–766, Dec. 2010.
[3] Synthesis and Measurement of Ultrafast Waveforms from Five Discrete Optical Harmonics, H. Chan, Z. Hsieh, W. Liang, A. H. Kung, C. Lee, C. Lai, R. Pan, and L. Peng,Science, vol. 331, 1165-1168 (2011).
[4] Generation of Complex Optical Pulse Sequences by Multiple Comb Shaping, Dmitry Pestov, Vadim V. Lozovoy and Marcos Dantus, OPN, Dec. 2009.
The world is blue at its edges and in its depths
'The world is blue at its edges and in its depths,' writes Rebecca Solnit in A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Blue is 'the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and desire, the colour of there seen from here, the colour of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon, but in the atmospheric distance between you and the mountains.'
Solnit goes on to describe the blue distances of Renaissance paintings - the hills in Solario's Crucifixion (1503), for instance, or in the right hand panel of Memling's Resurrection (c1490). I was gazing into one such painting by Jacopo del Sellaio last Saturday at the National Gallery of Scotland when my reverie was broken by the announcement that the room was closing for an hour, due to staff shortages. (I just found the painting online - reproduced below - but failed to note down any information on it as I was hurried out of the gallery, and there is no information on the website). I felt like offering to sit in for the attendant so as to look undisturbed at the painting while he had his lunch, but I could see that in the National Gallery of Scotland all male staff must wear tartan trousers.
In Sellaio's painting the eye follows a succession of mountains set further and further into the distance where sky and sea merge. These mountains resemble waves of rock, emanating from beyond the horizon. They look as if they could form an infinite series - every time you reached one, another peak would be visible further on and, as Rebecca Solnit says, you could never actually reach that blue at the world's edge.
To stare out to sea may be to overlook what is happening in the foreground, and here there is a stark reminder of this in the crucified Christ. And yet this figure, which entirely fills St Jerome's attention, exists only in his mind's eye... There is much to look at in Sellaio's figures of the Saints, their rocky backdrops in three contrasting types of stone, the curiously transparent stream flowing around their feet, and the stylised, perfectly shaped trees behind them. But in the end my eye gets drawn back to that mountain range, receding into the distant blue.
Solnit goes on to describe the blue distances of Renaissance paintings - the hills in Solario's Crucifixion (1503), for instance, or in the right hand panel of Memling's Resurrection (c1490). I was gazing into one such painting by Jacopo del Sellaio last Saturday at the National Gallery of Scotland when my reverie was broken by the announcement that the room was closing for an hour, due to staff shortages. (I just found the painting online - reproduced below - but failed to note down any information on it as I was hurried out of the gallery, and there is no information on the website). I felt like offering to sit in for the attendant so as to look undisturbed at the painting while he had his lunch, but I could see that in the National Gallery of Scotland all male staff must wear tartan trousers.
Jacopo del Sellaio, St Jerome in the Wilderness
with Saints John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene
In Sellaio's painting the eye follows a succession of mountains set further and further into the distance where sky and sea merge. These mountains resemble waves of rock, emanating from beyond the horizon. They look as if they could form an infinite series - every time you reached one, another peak would be visible further on and, as Rebecca Solnit says, you could never actually reach that blue at the world's edge.
To stare out to sea may be to overlook what is happening in the foreground, and here there is a stark reminder of this in the crucified Christ. And yet this figure, which entirely fills St Jerome's attention, exists only in his mind's eye... There is much to look at in Sellaio's figures of the Saints, their rocky backdrops in three contrasting types of stone, the curiously transparent stream flowing around their feet, and the stylised, perfectly shaped trees behind them. But in the end my eye gets drawn back to that mountain range, receding into the distant blue.
Painting
It is very hot and humid in Japan now! I worry energy shortage this summer. The government may conduct planned blackout. I don't like to imagine the situation without air-conditioning.
It was unbelievably hot last summer. Many elderly died of heat. The elderly tend to be very patient and they don't use air-conditioning. Without notice, their body temperature exceed room temperature and they are found dead in the morning.
We don't have summer time in Japan. But now companies introduce the little different summer time system and start early and finish early. Since our government can't lead and make any concrete plans, each company think the best way and cooperate the situation.
Although it is like summer, the rainy season is not over yet except for Okinawa island. In rainy season, hydrangeas are very beautiful everywhere. I painted them. I'll practice painting a lot to be able to have more workshops
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My Czech friend, Lubica sent me an amazing video. Painting On Water
When you have time, please watch this! Although you don't have time, please watch the last 30 second!!
It was unbelievably hot last summer. Many elderly died of heat. The elderly tend to be very patient and they don't use air-conditioning. Without notice, their body temperature exceed room temperature and they are found dead in the morning.
We don't have summer time in Japan. But now companies introduce the little different summer time system and start early and finish early. Since our government can't lead and make any concrete plans, each company think the best way and cooperate the situation.
Although it is like summer, the rainy season is not over yet except for Okinawa island. In rainy season, hydrangeas are very beautiful everywhere. I painted them. I'll practice painting a lot to be able to have more workshops
My Czech friend, Lubica sent me an amazing video. Painting On Water
When you have time, please watch this! Although you don't have time, please watch the last 30 second!!
Painting
It is very hot and humid in Japan now! I worry energy shortage this summer. The government may conduct planned blackout. I don't like to imagine the situation without air-conditioning.
It was unbelievably hot last summer. Many elddrly died of heat. The elderly tend to be very patient and they don't use air-conditioning. Without notice, their body temperature exceed room temperature and they are found dead in the morning.
We don't have summer time in Japan. But now companies introduce the little different summer time system and start early and finish early. Since our government can't lead and make any concrete plans, each company think the best way and cooperate the situation.
Although it is like summer, the rainy season is not over yet except for Okinawa island. In rainy season, hydrangeas are very beautiful everywhere. I painted them. I'll practice painting a lot to be able to have more workshops
![]()
My Czech friend, Lubica sent me an amazing video. Painting On Water
When you have time, please watch this! Although you don't have time, please watch the last 30 second!!
It was unbelievably hot last summer. Many elddrly died of heat. The elderly tend to be very patient and they don't use air-conditioning. Without notice, their body temperature exceed room temperature and they are found dead in the morning.
We don't have summer time in Japan. But now companies introduce the little different summer time system and start early and finish early. Since our government can't lead and make any concrete plans, each company think the best way and cooperate the situation.
Although it is like summer, the rainy season is not over yet except for Okinawa island. In rainy season, hydrangeas are very beautiful everywhere. I painted them. I'll practice painting a lot to be able to have more workshops
My Czech friend, Lubica sent me an amazing video. Painting On Water
When you have time, please watch this! Although you don't have time, please watch the last 30 second!!
owls.
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i've never seen one, but i think owls are beautiful creatures. i wish i have one as a pet. *but i think that's illegal.*
time of change and growth
I haven't updated for 2 weeks! Thank you very much for visiting here while I was not updating.
I did many things past 2 weeks. I prepared for my first paste-painting workshop on July 9th. I advertised it in my Japanese-language blog. Happily and luckily, the class was filled up within one day! People who can't join this time request me to have more workshops.
I focused on doing something for a while and the next few days, I suddenly felt sleepy. This pattern was repeated these days. I'm originally very sensitive to energy, environment and people around me. Since I started new things, I need time to adjust myself to new environment.
It was the summer solstice today on June 22nd. The daytime was longer than the nigh time. From tomorrow, the night time is getting longer.
I did many things past 2 weeks. I prepared for my first paste-painting workshop on July 9th. I advertised it in my Japanese-language blog. Happily and luckily, the class was filled up within one day! People who can't join this time request me to have more workshops.
I focused on doing something for a while and the next few days, I suddenly felt sleepy. This pattern was repeated these days. I'm originally very sensitive to energy, environment and people around me. Since I started new things, I need time to adjust myself to new environment.
It was the summer solstice today on June 22nd. The daytime was longer than the nigh time. From tomorrow, the night time is getting longer.
The power of sun was very strong as if its light had cleared up everything which had been hidden for a long time.
In Japan, after 311, people's consciousness have been changing. We knew we didn't know what would happen the next moment. Our life might be shorter than we expect.
Therefore things we used to consider important were and are being changed. The number of people who quite job and pursue what they really like to do is increasing.
I met one of my friends today. She worked at foreign-tourists divisions of travel agent. However, due to less foreign tourists and no tours, she was transferred to another division where she couldn't find job challenging.
She is thinking of changing jobs now.
Many Japanese face many changes like a change of job, marriage, divorce, move, illness and change of relationships and mind.
It is the time of change and growth for everyone in Japan.
I guess our situation might effect people in another couturiers because we are all connected at energy level. I hope everyone can choose his or her right path. The way you can choose your right path is to listen to your heart not to thought. Then allow yourself to follow the path.
time of change and growth
I haven't updated for 2 weeks! Thank you very much for visiting here while I was not updating.
I did many things past 2 weeks. I prepared for my first paste-painting workshop on July 9th. I advertised it in my Japanese-language blog. Happily and luckily, the class was filled up within one day! People who can't join this time request me to have more workshops.
I focused on doing something for a while and the next few days, I suddenly felt sleepy. This pattern was repeated these days. I'm originally very sensitive to energy, environment and people around me. Since I started new things, I need time to adjust myself to new environment.
It was the summer solstice today on June 22nd. The daytime was longer than the nigh time. From tomorrow, the night time is getting longer.
I did many things past 2 weeks. I prepared for my first paste-painting workshop on July 9th. I advertised it in my Japanese-language blog. Happily and luckily, the class was filled up within one day! People who can't join this time request me to have more workshops.
I focused on doing something for a while and the next few days, I suddenly felt sleepy. This pattern was repeated these days. I'm originally very sensitive to energy, environment and people around me. Since I started new things, I need time to adjust myself to new environment.
It was the summer solstice today on June 22nd. The daytime was longer than the nigh time. From tomorrow, the night time is getting longer.
The power of sun was very strong as if its light had cleared up everything which had been hidden for a long time.
In Japan, after 311, people's consciousness have been changing. We knew we didn't know what would happen the next moment. Our life might be shorter than we expect.
Therefore things we used to consider important were and are being changed. The number of people who quite job and pursue what they really like to do is increasing.
I met one of my friends today. She worked at foreign-tourists divisions of travel agent. However, due to less foreign tourists and no tours, she was transferred to another division where she couldn't find job challenging.
She is thinking of changing jobs now.
Many Japanese face many changes like a change of job, marriage, divorce, move, illness and change of relationships and mind.
It is the time of change and growth for everyone in Japan.
I guess our situation might effect people in another couturiers because we are all connected at energy level. I hope everyone can choose his or her right path. The way you can choose your right path is to listen to your heart not to thought. Then allow yourself to follow the path.
Challenge #3 sponsored by Stempelstudio
Welcome to the third challenge on this blog. We loved to look at all your cards this last two weeks and they were beautiful. You can see last weeks winner in the post under this one.
This week Nicole made the sketch and you can find it at the end of this post ;o) Regarding the sketch, please make a link to this post in stead of placing the sketch on your own blog. If someone wants to join us they can find the sketch here and get inspired by the cards of our DT members .... Thanks!
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On our blog you can read the latest news and participate in a monthly “challenge” where you can win amazing stamps! So don’t hesitate and come take a look at www.stempelstudio.blogspot.com Of course you’re always welcome to come by and visit us to browse around our stamps while sipping a cup of tea at Verzetlaan 31 in Schagen. But please let us know beforehand that you’re coming, because we do not have a regular store, but all the stamps are in Karin’s livingroom…
A tip for all Christmas cards fans… we have a great sale on almost all Christmas stamps at the moment!!!
And now for some little inspiration, here are the cards the Design Team made for you as samples ;o) You can click on the names and you go straight to their personal blogs to see the details about their cards ;o) They love to recieve your comments ...
Made by Claire
Made by Janneke
Made by Linda
Made by Marion
Made by Monique
Made by Nicole
Made by Pam
Made by Renata
Made by Wilma
And the Guest Design Team Cards
Made by Annemarie en Merit
Made by Betina
Made by Dina
Here is the sketch that Nicole made for you this time ;o) You can rotate the sketch and resize the elements, as long as you follow the original sketch, that way your entry qualifies for the prize draw. To join the challenges and to be eligible for the prize made available by the sponsor of that challenge, we have a few rules. You can find them --> here <-- Please do NOT place the sketch on your own blog.
You can place your direct blogpost link in Inlinkz untill Monday July 4th 23.59 am (Dutch time)
Challenge #3 sponsored by Stempelstudio
Welcome to the third challenge on this blog. We loved to look at all your cards this last two weeks and they were beautiful. You can see last weeks winner in the post under this one.
This week Nicole made the sketch and you can find it at the end of this post ;o) Regarding the sketch, please make a link to this post in stead of placing the sketch on your own blog. If someone wants to join us they can find the sketch here and get inspired by the cards of our DT members .... Thanks!
This week sponsor is Stempelstudio
For over six years now, Stempelstudio has been the webshop for stamping- addicts. www.stempelstudio.nl has a wide variety of stamps and stamping accessories for both the beginning as the advanced stamper. We have a wide range of “artsy” stamps like Paperartsy, Darkroom Door and Aspects of Design stamps. And ofcourse we also have a lot of “cute” stamps including the Penny Black, Kraftin Kimmie, Bildmalarna and House Mouse brands. If you’re looking for something in between then Sweet Pea and Hero Arts are the brands for you! We are also always actively looking for new stamping brands.
Service is very important to us, so the customer is always king in our store! And that’s why we have standardized low shipping costs. And if you order for €55,- or more, we’ll pay the shipping for you! (Netherlands only For international shipping; see website.)
On our blog you can read the latest news and participate in a monthly “challenge” where you can win amazing stamps! So don’t hesitate and come take a look at www.stempelstudio.blogspot.com Of course you’re always welcome to come by and visit us to browse around our stamps while sipping a cup of tea at Verzetlaan 31 in Schagen. But please let us know beforehand that you’re coming, because we do not have a regular store, but all the stamps are in Karin’s livingroom…
A tip for all Christmas cards fans… we have a great sale on almost all Christmas stamps at the moment!!!
And now for some little inspiration, here are the cards the Design Team made for you as samples ;o) You can click on the names and you go straight to their personal blogs to see the details about their cards ;o) They love to recieve your comments ...
Made by Claire
Made by Janneke
Made by Linda
Made by Marion
Made by Monique
Made by Nicole
Made by Pam
Made by Renata
Made by Wilma
And the Guest Design Team Cards
Made by Annemarie en Merit
Made by Betina
Made by Dina
Here is the sketch that Nicole made for you this time ;o) You can rotate the sketch and resize the elements, as long as you follow the original sketch, that way your entry qualifies for the prize draw. To join the challenges and to be eligible for the prize made available by the sponsor of that challenge, we have a few rules. You can find them --> here <-- Please do NOT place the sketch on your own blog.
You can place your direct blogpost link in Inlinkz untill Monday July 4th 23.59 am (Dutch time)
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