Misc.

Here are some miscellaneous pictures without enough companions for a separate blog entry.

Here is the top of a Daoist Temple in Danshui, a suburb north of Taipei. It has a lighting rod on top so maybe the gods that live here are not so powerful as they need the help of science to avoid lighting.

Here is a big, powerful sculpture in front of what must be a big, powerful company headquarter's building. And for good measure, the sculpture has a mirrored surface and we all know that ghosts don't like to see their own reflection. So with the power of feng shui, it also wards off the evil spirits.

Here's a good use of triplets in advertising.

Surrounding Taipei there are mountains with cisterns collecting rainwater. Sometimes the cistern might overflow and the excess water would wash away the footings of the cistern. So there needs to be overflow tubes to remove the excess away from the base of the cistern.

A resourceful minimal staircase of raw materials.

Color is everywhere.

I got this shot from a moving bus, the guy on the back of the scooter is carrying a plate of glass. I classify this this as dangerous.

Bikes in Taipei don't make long trips and space is always at a premium.