Well, what do I miss about Shanghai? Dancing in the street – yes, Walking backwards – yes, old guys getting their groove at the 1 minute mark of this video – YES!
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It seems like any old bum with a camera adds “photography” to their list of hobbies after living in Shanghai – guys like me, I’m a guy like me. I guess it was either that or shopping.
Anywho, while I’m busy tomorrow to go to this event it looks like a great little, free, get [...]
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It’s true, I gave in and finally got a phone from the company of Jobs. Other than the 24-7 access to e-mail and procrastination there’s also a bevvy of good photo processing apps which I’ve had fun messing with.
In no particular order here is a scrapbook of recent photos.
Bikes in Shanghai – the work horses of local industry, the transport of choice for many, and family cars for some. The engenuity of the bikes and the characters that ride them around Shanghai – and China for that matter – is worth a stop and gawk.
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Material for a blog in Shanghai is a pretty easy task, simply walk down the street and you’re bound to walk into some sort of funny business – whether you were searching for it or not.
And so it was a joyous occasion last week when I came across a small-ish pooch wearing a pink dress. [...]
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Sometimes when people with amazing talent are jobless they can muster some seriously interesting work. Take this time lapse of Shanghai from multiple angles by a guy named Joe Nafis. Pretty cool stuff:
Amazing stuff. You can follow Joe via his Vimeo Page. Go on, give him a job so he can do more of these. [...]
Today is the start of a week’s holiday in China to celebrate 60 years of the People’s Republic of China and the Autumn Festival, collectively known as Golden Week. Expect fireworks. Expect parades. And expect to eat moon cakes.
For those in China, you’ll hear many people saying “Guó qìng jié kuai le” which pretty much [...]
To mark 60 years of the People’s Republic of China the Shanghai Exhibition Center is showing off some of the nation’s triumphs in photo form.
We accidentally came across the show while taking a shortcut though the exhibition centre grounds – many locals were lining up to get in which is usually a tell-tale sign of [...]
Chinglish, the butt of many expat bloggers in China. It’s all good and well to have a good old ‘tee hee he’ about Chinese words transmogrified into English but have you looked in your own country’s backyard lately?
Well I did recently and came across this doozy. Seriously, whoever wrote, approved, painted, and then hung this [...]
While out and about on Saturday we dropped into the Expat Show which was on all last weekend in Shanghai. What we didn’t know was that it was an expat-only affair – only some Chinese allowed.
The very idea of an expat show seems to suggest someone wants to sell their wares at a premium to [...]
