House numbers in feng shui have been one of the most revered and sacred information from this famed and authentic Chinese tradition. Such is the power and forcefulness of these house numbers in the art of feng shui that even real estate and property selling is influenced by the house numbers in Chinese based localities and in areas where the art of feng shui is looked up to as an idealistic and impressive art form.

According to the art of feng shui, a house number may not only affect your life, but also of every person’s life you come in contact with. Inauspicious numbers are harbingers of bad luck, while auspicious numbers are a sign of happiness and joy to come into your life. The interpretations of feng shui as to which numbers are auspicious and which house numbers are inauspicious are calculated by several methods. It includes the equations and calculations involving the five feng shui elements and the ever charismatic elements of yin and yang.

The five elements of feng shui includes the Fire, Earth, Wood, Metal and Water elements that help you recognize and channelize the natural forces of energy. The yin-yang is the balancing force of the universe according to feng shui theory. Yin is the feminine symbol while yang is masculine. Feng shui maintains that both should be equally present in the house to attain eternal energy. In the case of house numbers in feng shui, both of the above discussed entities of feng shui contribute.

Even in the business of real estate and property sales in China, Hong Kong and other Chinese populated states, feng shui house selling is dominant. A house or property with an auspicious house number according to feng shui will conventionally and regularly beat a house with an inauspicious number in selling prices. This happens even though the latter may be ten times better than the former as far as area, space or luxuries are concerned.

The auspicious or unlucky quality of a house number in feng shui is not equal to the world’s viewpoint on lucky and unlucky numbers. To the western world number ’13′ is unlucky but its lucky as per feng shui is concerned. This is because the number 13 sounds like ‘sure live’ implying long life! Similarly number 4 is unlucky according to feng shui as it sounds like ‘dead’!

Therefore, even though house numbers in feng shui influence people in choosing their residential accommodation, it actually has more to do with the psychology of people than the ancient Chinese tradition.

London has always been considered as the global center of fashion, and it is not surprising that it should showcase a lot of high street shopping stores and designer boutiques. If you have the time and the budget for it, do not forget to visit London because it holds the key to all your fashion desires.

The world famous Oxford Street is the busiest shopping area in Europe. It offers a wide array of fashionable choices in clothes and shoes, which include major British brands, like Selfridges Department Store, Marks and Spencer, Debenhams, House of Fraser, Borders, Disney Store and Top Shop.

The next place you should visit is Camden Market which consists of small markets such as Camden Lock Market, Buck Street Market, Stables Market and Iverness Street Market. They sell handmade crafts, offbeat, second hand clothing and vintage clothes.

The oldest street market is located in Notting Hill which is the Portobello Road, and serves as the best place for antique lovers to go to.

The most prestigious shopping area is Knightsbridge which is home to the most exclusive designed shops in UK such as Harrods and Harvey Nichols, Cartier, Chanel, Jimmy Choo, Stella Mccartney and Vivienne Westwood. Knightsbridge and its neighboring places such as Chelsea and Mayfair are home to many fashion and art schools. Hurry and plan a shopping break to London now. If you do not have the chance yet, I am sure that London will be waiting for you for many years to come.

Disco music gets a bad rap. People decry the genre as a plastic, soulless, producer-driven music fad that deserves scorn for being empty and unfulfilling. Many music fans were happy to see disco die in 1980, but the truth is that disco never passed on. It spawned a new generation of dance music that branched out and evolved into the global phenomenon known as house music. So how exactly did disco give birth to house music? Here’s the story.

So a gay guy and a black dude walk into a warehouse….just kidding! Well, actually that’s not too far off. Here’s the short version.

Larry Levan started spinning disco records together at those crazy Paradise Garage parties in New York.
Soon after Disco Demolition Night (when white kids killed disco at a White Sox game), Chicago started developing a new, electronic, drum-machine happy sound.
Frankie Kunckles brought his gay-friendly crate of thumping disco tracks to Chicago and the kids got into it. Stuff like “Let No Man Put Asunder” from First Choice rocked the Warehouse in 1983.
Soulful, bangin’ disco tracks collided with what-the-hell-sounding beats from Jesse Saunders, Farley Jackmaster Funk and a bunch of other DJs, remixers and record producer types in Chicago.
All the kids wanted to buy the records that were playing at the Warehouse in Chicago, and after some abbreviating — the house music label was born.
In Detroit, Juan Atkins (/Cybotron), Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson originated a techno touch alongside the Chicago house music sound.

If you want to learn more, there’s a video on it — Pump Up the Volume. This documentary outlines the history of house music’s muddied origins. From swinging disco tracks to squelching, experimental knob-turning, to the base kick of techno’s first producers, this three-part video has it all.

Pump Up The Volume – History of House Music – Part 1

Part 1 starts with Larry Levan and the Paradise Garage and goes through the early house music scene in Chicago.

In Part 2, you can learn about how Brits got hold of the stuff and used their Northern Soul infrastructure and connections in Ibiza to club the music out to the Euro masses. Detroit’s take on house also gets attention.

Part 3 takes you through some of the more recent house music scenes, you know — all that splinter faction definition label stuff. Anything Goldie says is hilarious, and Armand Van Helden seems like a pretty chill dude.

Sure, these Google vids don’t offer the best presentation. And yeah, some of the music you’ll hear is a bit wack, but this documentary from 2001 is a bridge that connects the house music of today to the disco classics of yesteryear. Understanding the details of this evolution will give you a greater appreciation for the ever-evolving history of dance music.