Monthly Archives: June 2009
Eat the yangmei, eat the yangmei, eat the yangmei
Well, it’s yangmei season once again in Shanghai. Known as the Chinese Strawberry, yangmei can be found in the fruit stalls and street vendors all over town this time of year. The furry-looking fruit looks similar to a lychee at first glace but is dark red in colour. Tasting somewhere between a strawberry and a [...]
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Shanghai Shots: YAPT Photo
Yes, another one with the Pearl Tower in it. Taken during the Chinese New Year celebrations and touched up using Tiltshifter.
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Everyday Things #3
This time I tried yet another time lapse but this time at night. Oh, and you can see the full version of this in HD on the vimeo Web site. There’s a lot going on in this picture but nothing uniquely Shanghai cool – just me experimenting more with this format on a regular street [...]
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Fire? Fire. Fire!
Quick, somebody grab the: It’s almost like this piece of Chinglish has come straight out of a movie with a funky bass line.
Bike Polo anyone?
With the amount of wankers wearing shirts with polo players on them you could be mistaken that Polo is a popular past time in Shanghai. However, Shanghai is a terrible place if you’re a polo player. The lack of open spaces and shortage of young fillies to hire is such a conundrum for locals and [...]
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The Everyday Things #2
This quick time-lapse is a view 30+ floors up overlooking the apartment block across the way and into the distance. For anyone who has seen Shanghai from a plane or from one of the high points around town you’ll notice that these high-rise apartments stretch out as far as the eye can see.
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Bing in Chinese update
After the recent mass blocking of social networks, photo services, and Bing – Microsoft’s new search engine – the intertubes have again been unblocked and procrastination amongst expats has once again returned to the status quo. With that in mind I thought an update to what Bing actually means in Chinese now that it is [...]
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Shanghai Shots: Jing’an Temple tiltshift
Hopefully this looks a little bit like a scaled model of Jing’an Temple. This is my first attempt at this type of photography so be kind.
Shanghai Shots: Pearl
A hazy day looking at Shanghai’s Pudong skyline. The image was given processing love from a free app called TiltShift Generator. The app works on the Adobe Air platform (Mac, PC, Linux) and is also an iPhone app.
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Ice Biking in China
While doing some research for a new website I came across this video of ice biking in Beijing. The video – done by some snowboarders from Australia – is a bit Jackass in nature but makes ice biking look like a whole lotta fun.
Shanzhai Eye: Rolls Royce
See the Geely GE sedan that looked like a Rolls Royce Phantom at the Shanghai Auto Show a few months back? Well here is what looks like a direct copy of the Rolls Royce from a garage in China. Here is one of about half a dozen videos showing off their masterpiece: For the whole [...]
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About living in Shanghai highrises…