3D to 2D and Wish List

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List #1 - Books I have read

One thousand and One Nights is a collection of middle eastern and south Asian Stories and Folk tales. Some of the stories of The Nights, particularly "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor". 

http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Thousand-Nights-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140442898/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257522388&sr=1-1

Anderson Fairy Tales stories such as "Thumbelina", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Mermaid", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", and "The Princess and the Pea" remain popular and are widely read. "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Ugly Duckling" have both passed into the English language as well-known expressions.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhca.gilead.org.il%2F&ei=55rdTuH8BdTptgf8xbGxCQ&usg=AFQjCNHU3opiK5t4x2uW3tocuXIVMAbYag

Grimmy's Fairy Tales

Stories such as snow white and Little Red Cap, is a French fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White

List #2 - Books I want to read

http://www.penguinreaders.com/

When a new detective agency opens in town, Precious Ramotswe has an unexpected problem - competition! At the same time her assistant, Mma Makutsi, has problems of her own. As always, solutions can be found at Botswana's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, thanks to the sensible Mma Ramotswe and plenty of red bush tea.

http://www.penguinreaders.com/pr/students/featured-reader.html

Falling Leaves

This book is the life story and family history of Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline was born in China at a time of great change and trouble. At the same time, she suffered terrible unkindness from the members of her own family. Falling Leaves is a story of pain and fear, but also of hope as Adeline fights for her independence.

http://plrcatalogue.pearson.com/Product.asp?Callingpage=Catalogue&ISBN=9781405879552

The Canterbury tales

A group of pilgrims are travelling together for five days from London to Canterbury. On the way, each pilgrim has to tell a story to keep the others amused. Some stories are happy, and some are sad. But they all have a message, and we can learn from them.

http://plrcatalogue.pearson.com/Product.asp?Callingpage=Catalogue&ISBN=9781405878920

    List #3 - People I find inspiring

Takashi Murakami
http://magtrends.com/creations-of-takashi-murakami/

Creation of Takashi Murakami painting, balloon art, including sculptures and enormous, the always colorful and charming, intimate and full of lovely cartoon characters like.As an artist, Japan and West, past and present activities, Murakami has been challenging the boundaries of art and pop culture and not only to produce works of art, to question the boundaries of art and commerce in collaboration with Louis Vuitton cast, shocked the world.

Vincent Van Gogh

was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

 compositionally as unreal and artificial represents an exalted experience of reality, a conflation of North and South, what both van Gogh and Gauguin referred to as an "abstraction".


                                            
                Mario WibiSono

Mario Wibisono the artist, who is the use of traditional techniques replaced by contemporary digital art. It is not surprising, because this technique by capabilities is much beyond all current techniques, thus giving the artist more room to work. These characters are like living people. Wibisono achieve sensational effects in his images. In their eyes you can see the glitter, their hair flapping in the wind, and the blood is sticky. His favorite topics is woman, young, beautiful and nice, but brave and strong. Reality and fantasy intertwine in these digital images. Magic, history, fantasy and contemporary designs are the features of Wibisono’s work.

http://www.mariowibisono.com/

#4 My desired places to visit

I grew up in Southeast China. One of my desired locations to visit is in the North part of China.   

                                                 

Terra-cotta Army
Xi'an, also called Changan is the largest city in north-west China. It had served as the nation's capital for 13 dynasties such as Western Zhou (11th century BC - 771 BC), Qin (221 BC - 206 BC), Western Han (206 BC - 24 AD) and Tang (618 - 907) for more than 1000 years. It is famous for historical importance.

Great Wall
Despite the common assumption, the Great Wall can not be seen from the moon; it can, however, be viewed from astronauts in passing orbiters.  The Great Wall stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. The most comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that all the walls measure 8,851.8 km (5,500.3 mi). This is made up of 6,259.6 km (3,889.5 mi)

Silk Road in China
The Silk Road has a history of more than 2,000 years. It actually started from Chang'an ( the present Xian, Shaanxi Province ) in the east and stretched to Rome, Italy in the west. The ancient silk road went through Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai provinces, Ningxia Hui and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions and then extended over the Pamirs, further extending to Central and West Asia. And finally the silk road met the east bank of the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Europe. The Silk Road had the total length of over 2,485 miles and over half of which is within China.

http://www.tour-beijing.com/top_10_must_see_places_in_china/#2