A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
I would kill for a copy of this poster. If anyone in shanghai sees these odes to civic pride being taken down, can you please grab me one?
Shanghai: Apartment Shopping
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Catching up on posting a few photos from that sojourn in Shanghai. This one was shot in a dusty hutong in Shanghai. Grease from a jianbing seems to have clouded my iPhone’s camera. I think I remember at the time choosing not to wipe it off because it looked interesting. The kid in this photo has the perfect kind of barely-reactive wary look. Better that than succumb to overwhelm, can’t have a billion people throwing a tantrum!
The area of Shanghai in which I found that food item
Friday, March 4th, 2011
A lively example of entropy in motion, these hutongs South of the Lujiabang fabric markets reminded me of areas of Beijing. I found the aforementioned food item, xidan, at a stall at the end of the road where the old buildings ended and the apocalyptic wasteland of demolition began.
The demon dog of Songjiang, Shanghai’s “Red Bar”
Thursday, February 17th, 2011(9915 KB)
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This dog is actually super-cute in real life.
On the streets of Hengdian, China
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011Rachel encounters a sidewalk butcher shop on the streets of Hengdian. Hengdian is a 4 hour drive from Shanghai. Many movies and TV shows are filmed on the town’s huge sets, which include a full-scale1 replica of Beijing’s forbidden city.
Shot with a Canon 550D/T2i running the Magic Lantern firmware. Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens, Steadicam Merlin. Internal mics for audio, one channel without digital gain, one with about 18db.
If you are so inclined, you can download the video and watch it in higher quality from its vimeo page.
- I’d venture it’s actually 4/5ths scale, but it’s pretty huge [↩]