Monthly Archives: May 2009
Microsoft’s Bing in China
In the nerdosphere today Microsoft announced a new search engine, dubbed “Bing” to be launched next week. In China bing.com is redirecting to cn.bing.com – leaving many (nerds) guessing what the Middle Kingdom will get in terms of a search engine. In Chinese, Bing could mean a number of things depending on which tone you [...]
Shanghai Shots: Qibao Town
“I could eat the arse out of a low flying duck”, a visiting friend said before we jumped a 15 minute cab ride to Qibao Ancient Town in Shanghai’s Minhang District. Neither of us knew we’d actually be squaring off more peculiar dishes than low flying duck arses for lunch. This was actually back in [...]
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Shanghai graffiti
On the weekend we headed over to Moganshan Lu, an art district of Shanghai with some fantastic galleries. I’ll blog more about those later but here is a quick slideshow of the cool graffiti to be found in the area.
Is this guy crazy?
No helmet. One hand on the handle bars. And riding with a pane of glass: Crazy as a coconut, right? Maybe. Maybe not. On the maybe side of the argument is common sense which says wearing a helmet will probably increase the chances of surviving a crash on a bike. Those chances of survival seemingly [...]
Shanghai Shots: Xintiandi at night
Xintiandi (新天地 – New Heaven and Earth) is a rather cosmopolitan area of Shanghai with restored shikumen (“stone gate”) houses which facade some of the town’s most upper crust cafe’s, restaurants, bars, and shops. It’s a cool place to hang out, especially in summer with the various outdoor eating and drinking options. While the area [...]
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Shanghai Shots: Elevated Highway
Last week @pat1982 and myself went scouting for places to take night shots of Shanghai. In our first expedition we took the following long exposure photos of the various elevated highways. With a parching thirst consuming our vitals we headed around the corner to Xintiandi to seek out a good German beer and take a [...]
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A what film?
At first I thought this headline in Shanghai’s Enjoy Classifieds was a poor choice of words from a skin cream company, or similar: But, for 2000RMB ($400 Australian) an hour?……Oh.
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Blue Sky Mining
Other than a quick re-size these photos taken this week are untouched. No special lens filters, no photoshop, no tinting, no special effects. Here it is: naked, deep blue skies over Shanghai. It really does happen.
Should China eat Kangaroo?
While the world press fixates itself on the future of China in the world economy there’s been a bit of a stir back home that’s hit the front page news: China eating our Kangaroos. Okay, I know what you’re thinking: poor old skippy, one minute he’s jumping around the countryside, having a great time reproducing [...]
Shanzhai Eye: DIY helicopter
It’s one thing to Shanzhai a USB stick or SD card. Another to copy the iPhone. Amazing to see a whole F1 car made from scratch. But, a helicopter? Update: Thanks to Swiss James for pointing out this story was last month’s news at Shanghaiist and 56minus1.com. 56minus1 even has an update on what happened [...]
Shanghai Shots: Morning on the Bund
If one can get out of bed early enough then you’ll see these scenes of Tai Chi, Kung Fu practice, and other morning exercises down on the Bund (Waitan) side of the Huangpu River. In fact, you’ll see these morning rituals at most parks but this has to be one of the more spectacular backdrops.
Shanghai Shots: Dancing in the Park