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From HK magazine   March 26th, 2010   The new book “Sex Appeal in the City” reveals why Hong Kong is the billboard capital of the world.   started when Frank Fischbeck and his team at the book publising company FormAsia noticed a provocative advertisement of scantily clad flesh plastered across the façade of a building last spring. Then they saw another one; and then another one. For the purpose of lighthearted documentation and review, they decided to take photographs and invited writer Stuart Wolfendale to add colorful commentary. What started out as a hobby for these inquisitive creatives eventually transformed into the glossy coffee-table book “Sex Appeal in the City” which is out this month. Some of the photos juxtapose the giant, sexy adverts with wooden bamboo scaffolding. For example, a male worker scales the luscious lips of Coco Lee in a Pure Fitness advert on Queen’s Road East. Trying to capture the exact moment was no easy feat. ...

(明報)2010年3月20日 星期六 05:10   要擁有《 哈利波特 》（Harry Potter）中哈利的「隱形斗篷」，相信指日可待了。 德國 科學家最近研發出3D「隱形斗篷」，利用彎曲光波方法，令被遮掩的物體「隱形」。   人用斗篷料10年內面世 德國卡爾斯魯厄科技學院（Karlsruhe Institute of Technology）科學家在最新一期《科學》雜誌發表研究報告說，他們利用了中間夾有空氣位的晶體結構，就像柴堆結構般，製成了長100微米、寬30 微米的微形立體「隱形斗篷」，成功把一片黃金表面上的高1微米、闊13微米的微小凸出物隱藏。「隱形斗篷」的結構可把部分光波彎曲，使物體被「斗篷」遮掩 時，部分物體光線無法散射出來，令人們無法以肉眼看到目標物及「斗篷」。研究員斯坦格施滕格（Nicholas Stenger）說：「我們用鏡頭觀察及光譜學分析，不論從哪個角度看，都看不到凸出物及斗篷。」   研究員埃爾金（Tolga Ergin）表示，結果令人興奮，因這引證了隱形技術可行，並為製造3D隱形結構踏出第一步，但要製造一件可令一個人或一輛車「隱形」的斗篷，尚需多年時間，施滕格相信在10年內始可成真。 美聯社/路透社/法新社

PARIS , March 9, 2010 - By Sarah Mower   Alexander McQueen's last works were given final honors by his trusted team in a hushed and dignified showing that went to his core as a designer who scaled the heights of couture accomplishment. Sarah Burton, his right hand, described how, in beginning this collection, McQueen had turned away from the world of the Internet, which he had so powerfully harnessed in his last show. "He wanted to get back to the handcraft he loved, and the things that are being lost in the making of fashion," she said. "He was looking at the art of the Dark Ages, but finding light and beauty in it. He was coming in every day, draping and cutting pieces on the stand." The 16 outfits shown had been 80 percent finished at the time of his death. What McQueen was preparing had a poetic, medieval beauty that dealt with religious iconography while recapturing memories of his own past collections. He had ordered fabric that translated digital ph...