Thursday, February 22, 2007
It’s nice to go to other Asian megacities because you can start to see the similarities and distinct differences between them. Seoul is about an hour and a half away by airplane, but it feels entirely different from Beijing. We thought we should check it out as we’d probably never have another opportunity for awhile. [...]
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
We decided to warm up our apartment by inviting a few people over for a little party. A stroke of genius, Tammy brought over her newly-acquired Nintendo Wii and people went to town. It seems to be the biggest thing to hit Asia in years, and no one was able to deny the fun factor. [...]
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
We were in Shanghai for five days and discovered it had changed a lot since we’d visited in 2005. There were shops everywhere, selling the latest fashions as well as young designers who had started their own businesses on hip Changle Lu. The first night we found ourselves at an opening for a lifestyle/T-shirt shop [...]
In case you didn’t know, that rather space-age sounding acronym stands for the National Art Museum of China, which luckily for us, is located in a massive compound in Beijing. Nick was back in town for the opening of a Guggenheim-NAMOC joint show of 100 years of American art. We went to the opening and [...]
We donned our furry hats and headed off to Harbin for a couple of days. The capital of Heilongjiang province, Harbin is known as the “Ice City” as temperatures here dip well below freezing and the inhabitants use ice from the Songhua River to make spectacular sculptures. Rather than keeping people comfortably bundled indoors, the [...]
Saturday, February 3, 2007
On a recent trip to 798 we discovered that the artist known as Suitman, who I profiled last year for THEME, may have a twin! Or perhaps the world is filled with so many good ideas that they are bound to be repeated. I suppose I could have asked the artist since he was there [...]
For some reason, we never got around to putting these up last year. The photos were discovered again along with the fond memories that accompanied them.
First stop, spending a few hours at the “beach” bar and catching up with our dear friends Cynthia and Christian.
Next stop, a trip to the lake.
The stunning dining room at [...]
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Been totally negligent in keeping this thing going. After the move it took a while to get our internet up and running, but we’re back in business.
Back in January, John and Jiae dropped into town for a few days. They were super busy w/ meetings for the next issue of Theme, but Shu and I [...]