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I heart Shanghai taxi

By Cankles | August 16, 2009

Personally, I love the Shanghai taxi drivers – they almost always seem to know where to go even when a laowai like me is pronouncing the streets in the wrong tone. They even know where I’m meant to be going even when I say south instead of north. They are also pretty cheap by western [...]

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The Everyday Things #1

By Cankles | April 16, 2009

Here’s another experiment with stop motion animation – this time a little bit more successful than the last. In this video I take a look at an everyday street in Shanghai during peak hour. It’s a quick snapshot of the daily traffic grind of cars, scooters, buses, trucks, carts, bicycles, tricycles, carts, tuk tuks, pedestrians, [...]

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Stop Motion Animation: Shanghai at Night

By Cankles | April 14, 2009

The unusually clear weather last night saw me grabbing my tripod and camera, lugging it on my “lady bike”, and peddling down to the Bund for a few rare shots of a clear Shanghai skyline .
As usual, the Bund was full of tourists to gasp at the city lights – and hawkers of varying degrees [...]

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Video: Shanghai – city of contrasts and confusion!

By Cankles | January 8, 2009

This video of Shanghai in 1947 has grabbed the attention of a few lately so I’m getting on the bandwagon. According to the original poster of the video it was shot in the short period after WWII when the concessions were closed (1946) and just before the communists rode into town (1949).
It’s an interesting [...]

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