Experts are made, not born!
They don’t come from no where.
精英是被训练出来的，他们不会凭空而生。

以下是朋友在日本观赏一个很烂的乐队后，问日本朋友说，“他们那么烂，为什那么多人来看他们？”。日本人的回答，值得我们好好省思。
From the Japanese, “if we don’t support them (a local Japanese band) when they are lousy, how they can get better?”......

This gave me a new paradigm of thoughts! Let’s reflect!

What Pete Teo said in his latest article: In Search of A Bigger Canvas, with his permission, I decided to translate it. Hope you Enjoy it.
一位令人敬仰的艺人Pete Teo 写了一篇文字，我觉得颇有共鸣，是以尝试翻译之。这是我的尝试：

寻找大一点的画布

我是从来没有跟任何公司签过约的。我的演艺生涯基本就是独立艺人的身份行走。那并不容易，不过我觉得我算做得不错了。如果你有兴趣的话：这是我走过的路，你看看吧。
首先你需要了解的是：你可以走的路是被你所在的市场的大小所主宰，这个要素比你是否有才华更重要。在马来西亚这个小市场，你是逆流而上的。小的市场意味着你缺少机会。
缺少机会你就成长得很慢。作品的数量对艺术家来说很重要。如果你三年只能拍出一部电影，而你的中国同行一年可以拍一部，五年后你还是一个新人，而他或她已经是一个老手了。
唯一可以改变这个事实的，就是进入大的市场。你可以移居过去，或者在马来西亚做你的作品然后输出去。如果国语不是你作品的媒介语，输出外国更是明显的事实。不过呢，不管怎么做都是难啊。

基于个人的理由，我选择留在马来西亚。所以我尽力的将我的作品推出海外。我演艺生涯的前十年我都是在日本和韩国巡演。可以这样做，你特别需要运气。
不过呢，你越努力的做，你会越幸运。很多人认为才华是艺人的一切。其实，才华虽然重要不过却不足以让你成功。努力是很关键的呢。记得，你的同行们也是很有才华的哩。所以，努力是成败的关键。
既然出口我们的艺人是那么的重要，我不明白为什么我们的政府机构如此的漠视我们土生土长的才华。比如，FINAS并没有致力向海外推荐我们的艺人。希盟政府对这件事也没有任何远见和展望。

恰恰相反，所有的噪音都集中在拨款和施舍。当然资助年轻刚起步的电影人是很重要的，我却不同意官方拨款给已经成名了的电影人。我觉得不如将这些款项导入到税收优惠政策或者建立起出口管道。

当然可以取得资助是很好，不过你得接受的一个事实就是：作为艺术家你得为自己负责任。如果你尽在那里呻吟，你除了得到一个坏名声之外，什么也得不到。倒不如行动起来，因为空口不做什么都是假的。
这任务很困难，不过大家一起做就可能比较容易了。所以，请跟你的同行们互通信息互享资源，大家携手合作。相信我，一个人打拼你可能事倍功半；可是当大家一起来做你们的机会会翻倍。这不是在玩零和游戏。

除了音乐人的身份之外，我也属于那一代被称为马来西亚新浪潮导演的其中一员。有那么几年，我们在国际电影节上面辛苦的暂露头角。不过到了最后我们还是败下来了。原因虽然很复杂，简单来说可以归咎于我们的离散。我们得从中学习。

这个世代在国外寻找机会的艺人当中，数Bront Palarae 特别特出。他勇敢的在亚洲各个城市耕耘，他努力，有智慧，有行动。还有其他像他这样在行动耕耘的马来西亚艺术家，他们给了我们希望。

请谨记，马来西亚有很多的人才。有很多复杂的原因导致这些人才无法闪耀，不过更关键的是，他们没有信心和曝光的机会。在严厉竞争的世界里，你得有自信。

不管你是一个艺术家，还是对艺术有兴趣的人。你得了解，人们的认可培养信心。来自本土的认可可以筑起艺术家的自信，可是最快批评任何本土艺术家的人们就是我们自己人，而且往往是同行们。

我不是说不容许有善意及正面的批评，我们当然应该严谨的评论，这有别于不经大脑的恶意批评。这里的分别就是“意图”。让我告诉你一个故事：

有一次我受到我一位日本乐迷的邀请去看他镇上的一个乐队。这个乐队惨不忍听。我忍不住问这家伙为什么他会支持这么烂的乐队，他的回答令我反省。如果他们烂的时候没有人支持，那他们怎样变好？

你看，这就是我们和日本的差别。我们时常踩我们的艺术家来自我感觉良好。日本人也会批评自己的艺术家可是他们却带着正面的意图。这就是虽然日本的草根艺术圈子也像我们一样那么参差不齐，他们却有着国际水平的艺术圈而我们没有。
我有一次在东京和Tun Mahathir 讨论过这个问题，他当然是哈日的，不过我不觉得他了解国际水准的人才是需要本土的栽培的。或许他尝试过，然后灰心了。不管如何，我们还是得加油。
我说了这么多，主要还是：小市场当然有很多阻碍，不过才华和努力同样重要。智慧很重要不过你也得靠运气。同样关键的是，栽培艺术家需要整个社群的力量。

我们缺乏的就是这最后的关键。到处可见的是：我们因为觉得不重要，所以没有公共政策来培育年轻的艺术家。我们也不了解孕育世界级的艺术家需要的种种，我们以为世界级的艺术家是凭空诞生的。

最后，什么样的人民就有什么样的政府，同样的，什么样的人民就有什么样的艺术圈。就像任何的群体，它源自个体。所以，简而言之，你必备才华，努力，运气，是的，你也需要培育的。

祝你好运。

This is the Original:

IN SEARCH OF A BIGGER CANVAS

I have spent almost the entirety of my career as an unsigned indie artist. It hasn’t been a walk in the park but I guess I’ve done pretty good. This was what my road looked like and, if you are interested, how you might traverse it...

The first thing to understand is that you path is almost entirely determined by the size of your market, even more than how good you are. In a small market like Malaysia. you fight uphill all the time. Small market means lack of opportunity.

Crucially, lack of opportunity also means you grow slower. Velocity of output is vital to any artist. If you made 1 film every 3 years compared to a peer in China who makes 1 film per year, you’d still be a newbie after 5 years while s/he’d already be a veteran.

The only way to overcome this is to tap into bigger markets. You can do this by moving to work in a bigger market, or stay in Malaysia and export to foreign markets. This is especially so if you don’t primarily work in BM, the biggest sub-market in Msia. Either way, it is hard.

Due to personal circumstances, I chose to remain in Malaysia. This means maximising every opportunity to play / exhibit my work offshore. As a result, the first decade of my career were largely spent on the road in Japan and Korea. You need to be kinda lucky to accomplish this.

Yet, the harder you work, the luckier you get. Most people think talent in an artist is everything. It isn’t. Truth is, talent is necessary but insufficient for success. Hard work is crucial. Remember, most of your peers are talented too. Thus hard work is the difference maker.

Given the importance of export markets to our artists, I’ve been baffled by the lack of support from our public institutions. FINAS, for instance, has done little to facilitate exports in the past. The PH govt is likewise showing no vision or leadership in this matter.

Rather, all the chatter has so far been about grants and handouts. While important to help young filmmakers get started, I see little need to fund established filmmakers through grants. Much better to divert funds to tax incentives and the setting up of export channels.

Either way, good though it would be to get help from public policy - it is important to accept that you are fundamentally on your own. If all you do is sit and moan, then you ain’t gonna accomplish much other than a reputation for moaning. It is better to act. Talk is cheap.

The task is difficult, but it is easier if you hunt as a group. So remember to share resources and contacts. Help each other. Trust me, work alone and you will likely not get out at all. Hunt as a group and your chances multiply by many fold. This is not a zero sum game.

Other than being a musician, I also belong to a generation of filmmakers known as “Malaysian New Wave”. For a few years, we beat the odds in the international film festival circuit. Yet In the end we failed. The reason is complex but came down to our failure to continue to hunt as a group. We must learn from this.

Of the current generation of artists working to establish offshore opportunities, Bront Palarae stands out. He ploughs the field all over Asia and shows no fear. He works hard, act smart and walks the talk. There are others like him. They are the hope.

Please remember that, despite everything, Malaysia is a talented land. The reason most of our talents have often been wasted is complex - but it is underlined often by a lack of confidence and exposure. You need self-belief to be out there where competition is fierce.

Whether you are an artist, or just an interested layman, you need to understand that confidence comes from validation. And the most basic source of arts validation comes from local support. Yet the quickest to damn Malaysian artists are Malaysians themselves, often fellow artists.

I am not saying there is no room for objective critique - of course we must be critical - but there is a difference between thoughtless bitchiness and critique - and the difference is: intention. Let me tell you a true story to illustrate my point...

I was once invited by a Japanese fan to watch his neighbourhood band. The band sucked to high heavens. But when asked why he supported a band that he knew to be terrible, his reply was revealing:

“If we don’t support them when they are shit, how can they get good?”

See, his reply is the difference between Japan and Malaysia. We thrash our own often for selfish validation. They criticise their own too but with positive intention. That’s why, despite having grassroot scenes as uneven as ours, they have a world class arts scene and we don’t.

I once discussed this with Tun Mahathir in Tokyo. He is of course a big admirer of Japan. But I am not sure he understood the importance of local support in nurturing world class artists. Perhaps he tried but was disappointed. Either way we must try harder at it.

I have taken long to get here, but my point is: there are many elements required to overcome the handicap of small markets. Talent is important but so is hard work. Smartness is important but so is luck. Equally crucial is ability to nurture artists as a community...

It is this last element that we are most missing. The evidence is everywhere. From lack of public policies that nurture young artists (as if they are unimportant), to lack of understanding of how world class artists are formed (as though they exist in a vacuum).

Ultimately, much as we deserve the government we have, we also deserve the arts we have. And as with everything that involves the collective, it really begins with the individual. So, in a nutshell, you must be talented, hardworking, lucky, and yes - nurturing too.

Good luck.

我現在心中有恨。

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Hottoys CEO & OSR 问答录- HT 未来产品开发计划与动向~----
玩家JOVIN 翻译总结：

1、目前没有计划出罗素的角斗士
2、是否出钢铁之躯的其他角色看现在已公布的人偶是否成功
3、不会出希尔， 小辣椒头雕生产中 班纳博士头雕再审批中
4、普罗米修斯马上来 长老 DUTCH上校和其他铁血有可能
5、断头谷已经完成 但没有计划出爱丽丝梦游仙境和查理巧克力工厂
6、蝙蝠侠岳父还没确认单很多关于这方面的信息 警服罗宾会生成 大衣版戈登不会出
7、X-MAN教授推迟在明年X战警前传2推出
8、92蝙蝠侠归来推迟
9、回到未来推迟到2014
10、阿纳金推迟 以DX形式推出
11、阿卡姆城也推迟
12、1比4终结者在继续；犯罪高手推迟因为在审批；洛奇和兰博在继续 洛奇会比兰博先公布
13、独闯龙潭计划中 柯南没计划

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Q&A with Howard Chan @ACGHHK / Mark Osr

以下中文翻译由玩家stgalahad 撰写，感谢~

1. After therelease of Jor El, are you considering a Russel Crowe figure as Maximus fromthe Gladiator movie?
在推出了超人之父后，你们是否考虑出一款拉塞尔克罗的人偶，比如《角斗士》里面的马克西缪斯？

No plans on making it at the moment.
至少目前没有这个计划。

2. Since the movie MOS was a worldwide success, doyou plan to make other character figure besides Superman, Jor EL, General Zod?Faora?
随着钢铁之躯在全球的热映，你们是否考虑出一些除了超人之父、佐敦将军和弗拉之外的超人人偶

Maybe, Depends on the success of the MOS figures.
也许吧，还得看目前的这些超人题材人偶是否成功。

3. Do you have any plans on releasing Maria Hillfigure from the Avengers movie, and the most requested Pepper Potts? by theway, we saw a teaser about Bruce Banner with his clothes on, when will it bereleased for pre-order?
是否有计划出《复联》的马利亚希尔以及人气很高的《钢铁侠》小甜甜佩普波兹？顺带问下，我们看到了变身版的班纳博士，那之后有可能会出非变身版西装版的吗？

No plans on making Maria Hill figure, But we arealready in the process of making Pepper Potts, head sculpt is ready by now.Bruce Banner needs approval, hopefully soon.
马利亚希尔没计划，但小甜甜在计划中，头雕已经完成。推出班纳博士的非变身版还要获得通过，希望之后可以推出。

4. Any news on the reissue of Predators figuresline, from the movie Predator, Predator 2, Predators, AVP, AVP Requiem? We sawteasers before about the line, are they just delayed or cancelledalready? Regarding the Prometheus Movie, is there also a delay on the figures?
能否透露一些铁血战士复刻版系列的新消息，包括电影铁血战士1和2以及异性大战铁血战士及前传？我们之前听说HT会推出一些1：4人偶，他们的计划是被推迟了还是已经取消了？包括普罗米修斯，也是被推迟了？
Prometheus is soon, We might remake ElderPredator, Dutch, and other predators.
普罗米修斯马上就会推出了，我们可能会复刻长老铁血和达奇上校（阿诺）。

5. Johnny Depp is the most favoured Hot Toysfigure, any advice when will the Ichabod Crane? Or any other JD figures youwant to produce besides those characters provided? Like reissuing EdwardScissorhands, Alice in wonderland, Public Enemies, Charlie and the chocolatefactory, etc
约翰尼德普是HT最受欢迎的人偶，《断头谷》里面的人偶伊卡布何时会面市？或者其他一些约翰尼德普的其他电影人偶？比如《爱德华剪刀手》、《爱丽丝梦游仙境》、《全民公敌》、《查理和巧克力工厂》等？

Ichabod Crane is almost done. although we want to,we have no plans with regards to Alice in Wonderland and Charlie Chocolatefactory.
《断头谷》伊卡布警官很快了，即便我们很想，但还没计划有推出《爱丽丝梦游仙境》、《查理和巧克力工厂》。

6. Regarding the Dark Knight movie figure line, Anyplans on making Ras Al Ghul, Blake Police uniform, Gordon with formal suit, orothers not in the list?
关于《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士》系列，有计划推出拉尔斯、制服版和便装版约瑟夫戈登或其他角色？

Ras Al Ghul not yet confirmed but many messaged usabout it. Yes, we will make Blake but not Gordon with formal suit.
拉尔斯还没获得授权，但很多玩家和我们提到这个角色。我们会推出约瑟夫的，但不会出大衣版戈登。

7. Why is there a delay on X-Men First Class figureline?, Even Professor X is delayed, will this line still be continued?
《X战警》系列为何被推迟了？X教授也被推迟了，这个系列还会继续不？

We will try to make it for next year, mayberelease it together with the movie release of X-Men: Days of Future Past.
我们尽力在明年推出，也许会推迟到和新电影《X战警前传：未来之日》一起推出。

8. Regarding the figures from the movie BatmanReturns, You told me last time they will be released last Dec 2012, Any reasonof the delay? Do you have any plans on making another Batman figure or perhapsother characters like Penguin, Catwoman, Riddler, etc?
关于《蝙蝠侠归来》，上一次是在2012年12月，你告诉我们会推迟，推迟的原因是什么？有计划推出一些其他角色吗，比如企鹅人、猫女、迷语人？

Yes, We will still make it but the release datewill be delayed.
这个系列还将继续，但推出时间还得延后。

9. Any update you can share on the Back to theFuture figures? Which figure do you prioritize to make? Marty Mcfly, Doc Browm,or the Delorean?
能说说《回到未来》系列的消息吗？会考虑推出哪些角色？马蒂迈克菲、布朗博士或Delorean超级战车？

Yes, they will be postponed to 2014.
这个放在2014年的档期吧。

10. I know you are an avid Star Wars fan, but yourStar Wars line up are all delayed, Any reason why? Also After Luke Skywalker,What other characters are you planning to make? (ex: Han Solo, Princess Leia,Anakin Skywalker)
我们知道你是个星战迷，但星战系列的计划都被推迟了？什么原因？天行者卢卡之后，会推出其他什么角色？（比韩梭罗、莉亚公主、如安纳金）

Yes Anakin Skywalker but it will also be a littledelayed but it will definitely be a DX.
安纳金会推出但会推迟成为DX系列。

11. Batman Arkham City was a huge success withgamers, will you be making a Batman or Joker figure based on it?
阿甘之城是非常成功的，有可能会推出里面的蝙蝠侠或小丑吗？

Delayed also.
之后才知道。

12. Is the Terminator Line still a go?Any news regarding Michael Jackson Smooth Criminal figure, Why is the delay?Also the Rocky and Rambo figures?
终结者1：4系列还会继续吗？有MJ月光行者的新消息吗？怎么又被推迟了？包括洛奇和兰博……
Yes, Terminator 1/4 line isstill a go. The Michael Jackson Smooth Criminal is also a go but delayedbecause it has a pending approval. and yes, Rocky and Rambo figures will becontinued and maybe Rocky figure will be released earlier than the Rambo figure.
终结者系列肯定会继续，月光行者推迟是因为授权，洛奇和兰博也在继续，洛奇可能比兰博再推出。

13. Any plans on making a Commando figure or Conanthe Barbarian?
有机会推出《独闯龙潭》或野蛮人柯南吗？

We are planning on the Commando figure but no newswith Conan the Barbarian.
《独闯龙潭》有计划，柯南没。

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有小蜜峰願意幫我做字幕嗎？ 吸引更多不同國家的小蜜峰來Mira的花園玩嗎?
►這裡有上字幕的影片教學 → https://goo.gl/iURCeD

韓國去哪好玩？
►KKDAY → https://goo.gl/sMds9m
►KLOOK → http://goo.gl/qr45V1

MIRA 的 人氣影片*
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18禁! 未成年不准看!! 韓國性愛樂園Love Land?
► https://youtu.be/Ndr2KZd5YwY

韓國人到底如何煮拉面？
► https://youtu.be/MrLopmcCK2A

在韓國剪頭髮竟然會這樣做?
► https://youtu.be/BvTN4oPnq5Y

5分鐘變韓妹！韓妹最愛 Top3 髮型教學
► https://youtu.be/e58XBp3xGyc

50件不可不知的韓國生活小事
► https://youtu.be/AaBFR-yYVQo

3個月學會韓文 - 我學韓語的方法
► https://youtu.be/DrBIqIGS7Tc

追蹤Mira
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► FACEBOOK https://goo.gl/HtUvum
► TWITTER http://goo.gl/Li7HRM
► EMAIL themirrorsgarden@gmail.com
► CAMERA Panasonic Lumix G7

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