gf225

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlYTC...temid=99999999

Underplanted and odd fish selection for the 2007 world's best aquascape IMHO.

No sour grapes, of course! I placed 775th...

Others -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyqQM...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-XM...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHDHf...eature=related

Paul Higashikawa

Uh...I don't think many(esp western) people know what this phrase means. It is a Chinese phrase that basically means don't be jealous or red-eyed because of other people's accomplishments.

ed seeley

It's pretty common phrase over here, Chinese or not...

twilothunder

It's common here too (u.s.)

DonaldmBoyer

I am going to have to be very honest with you:

I don't know if I am especially crabby today, but all of the tanks in all of those videos are very disappointing to me. Looks like an assembly line of robotic crap with no emotional value. Very unimpressive to me, especially this year's winner.

Whatever.

mistergreen

hahah.. it's a planted tank.. It's not a Picasso.
I do agree that there's a lull and the hobby is a little stagnant when it comes to arranging.

and we have the same expression, 'sour grapes', here in the States too although it doesn't mean jealousy... It's more like a party pooper?

ps.. it's cool the hobby get to be on the news over there.... We don't have that much interest here.

Snow Prince

That's pretty funny. One phrase having 2 totally different meanings
In his context, though, i think he does mean jealousy as that is a fairly common phrase in Chinese community especially when applied to competitions.


Speaking of those tanks, might I add that perhaps they are not that appealing is partially due to the fact that we have already seen too many similar layouts. In a way, we are spoiled. However, those tanks were set up not to wow people like us who have seen more than an average folk's share of nature aquarium tanks. Try to remember those times when we first come across Amano's tanks back in......however many eons ago it was, and how it impressed us back then. The tanks in the Gallery is what they are: To show everyone(as in everybody who might not have planted tanks) what this hobby is about and in particular, the nature aquarium style.

But if one was to refer to people like us who have already been exposed to nature aquarium style, then yeah, they are not that special

Roger Miller

In the west, "sour grapes" derives from Aesop's fable of the fox and the grapes. A fox worked hard to reach a tempting bunch of grapes that were out of his reach. He finally left, tired and a bit bruised from his attempts and told himself "they were sour grapes anyway." The moral of the story is that it is easy to despise what you cannot get.

Aesop's fables are some 2500 years old. It's very possible that the saying in the west and in the east derived from the same source.

I think the aquascapes in the ADA Gallery look pretty much like they did when I first saw their photographs a few years ago. Some are larger. That's about it for major differences. If you want to see some more variety then you need to look somewhere else. Amano is pretty likely to stay with the style that got him where he is.


Roger Miller

gotcheaprice

Did she slap that tank o_O

puttyman70

LOL. What is she saying when she slaps the tank?