Some things that my co-workers made for me. These people are what you call creative.
This was embroidered by hand by the girlfriend of one of the Can-lab guys, Jia Ding. It’s got all of my favorite things, like pandas, Olympic rings, a golf club and something he said was “from outer space.”
Liuyi aka Stopnow found [...]
We love it here because there are impressive architectural feats like the Temple of Heaven structure. It’s looking shiny and new after its million dollar renovation and we’re lucky to be tourists in our own city.
On the same trip, we remarked on the ingenuity of Beijing entrepreneurs with their new technique of making phone number [...]
We’d never actually seen Re-TROS (Re-establishing the Rights of Statues and Rebuilding the Rights of Statues) play live but we’d heard a lot about them from our friend Damon, who’s been extolling the band’s virtues for several months now. We finally had the chance the other night at one of Beijing’s most popular live [...]
Our friend Andre was recently invited to the influential Beijing art book store Timezone 8 to present a lecture on his most recent book project, Big Bang Beijing. We showed up to support him.
You never realize how nice the pedestrian subways are until it’s late at night and they are starkly empty, clean and kind of beautiful.
It’s been super cold the last few days and we wonder whether we’ll ever live somewhere as cold as Beijing.
It’s freezing here, but we managed to head out to 798 to have a look at some art. First stop, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects for a group show.
The highlight of the show were these massive rolling characters. The second character is “person.” I don’t know what the first one says, but I liked [...]
Our latest project at work centers around a white bunny called Tuzki. He’s an animated Chinese superstarwho shows up mostly in msn chat emoticons. We were lucky enough to get our hands on the Tuzki plush head for some office good times.
Dave as Tuzki
Rabbit in profile.
Girl Tuzki
Funny - spent the past two weeks in Seattle and Portland visiting family and I only picked up the camera a few times. I guess I had my hands wrapped around a coffee cup the rest of the time. Or maybe it was the perpetual rain.