Xu Song (Vae), a Chinese Creative Singer I love!

Name: 许嵩 (Xu Song)

Hometown: He fei, An hui Province- China

English Name: Vae     

Birthday: May 14, 1986 

Height: 5ft 11in

Weight: 132 lb     

Constellation: Taurus 
   
Education: Bachelor's degree in health management

Talents: Writing, Music composition 
 
Instruments: Piano
             
Childhood Dream: Create a software as good as Microsoft Windows™ 

Favorite Cartoon series: Doraemon   

Favorite Music Genre: All kinds
     
Clothing Style: Casual   

Favorite Food: Not interested in food   

Favorite Place: Home 

    As an independent musician, Vae composes, mixes, records, and edits all of his homemade pieces. As of now, he has NOT signed with any music company.
    Since 2006, Vae has created over 100 original songs, all of which have been on billboards and have acheived a number of downloads beyond measure.
    A young man who is always improving, always coming up with new ideas- Vae

Vae's Website:                    http://www.vaecn.com/
Vae's Personal Blog:         http://blog.sina.com.cn/vae

Then as I see..

   Sooo, many people may think- 'o he's just taking Jay Chou's stuff and giving it a twist', I believe that most of Vae's works are highly understated. It may be true that he did walk in Jay's footsteps for a while as a beginner, but hey~ everyone needs to start off somewhere- with some influences and inspirations. Vae did like Jay's songs before he started making his own, but it doesn's lead to the conclusion that he's merely a 'Mainland Jay Chou'. Try to listen to many of his works, especially the ones from the newly released album: <Personalized>. They do have a different style than Jay's; in this case, a different style than any artist on the market. This young man's been through a lot in the past two years. The changes are very distinct in his songs, whether it be the lyrics or the way he tampers with the keyboard/mixer. He is no doubt advancing from an 'online singer' to a real artist. Many think that the way he writes and presents is way beyound young adults his age, i second that.

    Why didn't he go with a company? because he really didn't need one. Although music companies can carry a singer further into the mainstream media, signing a contract is also selling oneself to that particular company for a designated period. The company agrees to carry out a name, not to guarantee fame. Therefore just by signing a contract means nothing unless skills come in first place. Breaking a contract takes millions of yan, why take the chance? The entertainment world is bad enough by itself anyways with rumors and annoying people everywhere.. And i digress...like i said before, Vae don't need people to make him look better than he already does. His fans like him for who he is, not for who he has the potential to become. Seriously, an original artist who can create an album from scratch- in his room- is pretty rare nowadays. On top of that, an artist who does not spend his time on advertising his songs, but spends his time supervising album manufactoring and mailing, is pretty rare nowadays (did i mention that the album sold 10,000 preorder copies in a week?). All I can say is, he has too many fans. haha. I hope one day VAE can also be big in countries other than China. I see it, it just takes time

Related: http://topfashionlifestyle.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-song-of-xu-song-sudi.html

How Can Hold Your Feelings With The Little Fashion Sisters?

You Do NOT spend ANY to be so fashionable as the two little girls do! Now many small Lauries arise at the historic moment. They are lovely and beautiful. Can 80s' and 90s' hold on with the 10s'?

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Fashion Week Is Pruning Its Diesel Generators

Fashion Week is back, minus two diesel-powered generators.
The event’s producers said they had plugged into Fordham University and the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center to help power their tents and get rid of two of nine portable generators that drew complaints about noise and fumes from Upper West Side neighbors last winter.
“We remain committed to being good neighbors and truly believe that our event has, and will continue to have, a positive impact on the surrounding community and local economy,” Zach Eichman, a spokesman for IMG Fashion, said in a statement.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, which is scheduled for Sept. 8 to 15 but is setting up right now, was held in Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan before moving to Lincoln Center last year. The generators scattered around the fashion village erected at Damrosch Park burn diesel fuel to power the lighting, heating and blow dryers of a production that organizers compare to three Broadway musicals put together.
But the air — and smell — of excitement proved too much for residential neighbors when Fashion Week was last held in February. In a city that routinely fails to meet federal clean air standards, many residents said the event was too big to be held in a residential neighborhood given the amount of noise and pollution produced by the generators.
The organizers said they met with officials from the city and community representatives over the summer to find a solution and are still looking for more existing land-based power, which will entail upgrades to the electrical distribution system.
For now, the event has eliminated the two generators at West 62nd Street and Columbus Avenue that ran the longest because they were used to power the logistical underpinnings of the event — the warehouse and support vehicles — during and after the festivities. The generators that remain are new, upgraded versions, the producers said, that are less noisy and run on a cleaner biodiesel fuel blend. They said they expected to run only five of those.
Gale A. Brewer, a City Council member who represents the area and helped broker the changes, said she expected the neighbors to be “much happier.” She added, “These were the oldest and noisiest generators.”
But Ms. Brewer said she was looking at possible legislation to address the generators that are a fixture of the city’s outdoor life — the ones used by food trucks, streets fair and other special events — but that pose noise and air quality issues. “It’s something that needs to be looked at,” she said. “It’s not just these generators.”

Circuits Human Empathy - Reality TV Short

The recent suicide of Russell Armstrong, husband of Real House Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong, illustrates the real problem with Reality TV.
Armstrong, 47, was found hanged on August 15. His death follows bankruptcies, two other deaths and many failed marriages among the cast of women who appear in the Bravo series.
While much attention has focused on the stresses of living life while also staging one’s life as a TV show, I think there’s a much more ominous reality related to Russell Armstrong’s death that is worth focusing on: People care about Armstrong hanging himself just about as much as they would care about a fictional character dying in a TV drama—say, the same amount they will care if Charlie Sheen’s character is killed off on Two-and-a-Half Men.
The not-so-subtle difference is that Charlie Sheen, the actor, would still be alive after the character he plays are no longer being written into episodes. Russell Armstrong, on the other hand, is really dead. He really lived through what must have been terrible psychiatric suffering before putting a noose around his neck and crushing his airway.
I don’t think folks can immediately make that distinction. I think Reality TV shows that seek to turn people’s lives into entertainment/media events actually succeed in doing so. The medium of television or the Internet comes to own and operate the contrived characters, nearly fully dehumanize them and, thereby, extinguishes our empathy for them.
A real man named Russell Armstrong committed suicide, but he’ll be replaced on the series by someone who dates his grieving widow, a woman who recently grabbed headlines asserting she was attacked by her husband prior to his suicide.
Again, I don’t think anyone really cares about that act of domestic violence any more than they would care—really care—about such an act unfolding on the hit series Entourage. It would be very bizarre, indeed, to sincerely worry a whole lot were a female character on that drama series attacked by her husband.
Well, no one who has heard about Ms. Taylor’s alleged assault really cares that she was reportedly punched in the face—even though it may really have happened.
Now, here’s the biggest problem: Because events that actually happen in real life, when contaminated by the Reality TV production and broadcasting, elicit no particular empathy from the public, I believe they end up subtly reducing the ability of viewers to empathize with anything—even the real, evocative trials and tragedies that unfold around them (possibly even in their own lives).
Reality TV is, then, an actual toxin that erodes the capacity of human beings to empathize with other human beings. It does this by fictionalizing real people so that no one cares about them any more than they would scripted characters. And the effect is viral.
This same dehumanizing effect of video broadcasting of “real life” dramas explains a lot. It explains why people actually record videos of themselves beating others and then post them on YouTube. The fact that a scene is being “produced” renders the victims less than human. They are actors worthy of no more empathy than any other made-up character. It may explain why groups of shoplifters brazenly storm stores and make off with the merchandise while being videotaped. The videotaping makes it all “not real.”
Witness the recent horror story in which a woman was apparently told by a producer at the Dr. Phil show that she couldn’t appear as a guest because she had only threatened to hurt her child, rather than actually hurting him. So she made the child drink hot sauce, videotaped the abuse and then sent the video to the show. Voila, she was booked to appear on the show.
Reality TV takes the truth of human pain and makes it the stuff of scripted drama—of fiction. It cleaves us from our instincts, which include caring not only about our pain, but about the suffering of others. It risks making us lose our moral bearings. And it is, therefore, a public health menace of the highest order.