Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Casey Mack and co. worked on the exhibition design for this show at the Center for Architecture. We had also met one of the curators, Wei Wei Shannon, in Beijing last year and thought we’d check out the exhibit. Here’s a short description from the CoA website:
Building China: Five Projects, Five Stories features [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The New Museum members’ opening in NYC. Florian gave us a nice tour, and we got in a lot of sneaky photos (though the guard busted me at one point).
A beautiful and unexpected lookout point.
Jon Santos and Joe.
The ladies, as art directed by Jon.
Had to re-do the same photo with men only.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Okay, this is a companion post to the previous one. I realized that most of my “tips” referred to living in China, but none of them referenced any on-the-job to-do’s. This is mainly because I don’t have many. After giving it a thought, I’ve come up with five.
1. Be prepared to sit next to people [...]
Monday, February 11, 2008
I was reading a list of do’s and don’t’s for Berlin written by the staff of the local magazine Ex-Berliner and thought I should do something similar with Beijing, having spent over two years living and working there. Not that it makes me an expert by any means, but think of this as a personal, [...]
Sunday, February 10, 2008
It’s a temporary goodbye. Can’t believe it’s been two years.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
To defend against invaders, Hakkas built round homes all over Fujian province that are still in use today. We took a road trip with my uncle and had a look at a few of these amazing “tulous.” An entire village lives in one or several round structures. Immediate families live on the top few [...]
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Xiamen has a special place in my heart, even though I’ve never spent much time there. It’s where my father and grandfather went to college and it’s also the subject of a fair amount of my mother’s reminiscence of the past. She would recall sunny afternoons spent at the beach, a stick of haw candies [...]
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The coldest weather in 50 years hit China this year, making a normally crowded beach look like something post-Apocalyptic.
Nice to see the balloon shooting game is still available on the deserted beach.
We had an all-seafood lunch with some of my uncle’s friends and they insisted that we drink this very healthful liquor. When I asked [...]
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Chinese New Year means it’s time to visit family, so we went down to my ancestral hometown of Quanzhou for a few days of slightly warmer weather and fish cooked 100 different ways. First stop, a giant monument to the man who liberated Taiwan from the Dutch. Who knew the Dutch had foot in Taiwan [...]
As a final farewell to Beijing, Patrick, Joe and I decided to get a proper Beijing foot massage, complete with unlimited food and a DVD of our choice. We picked up My Blueberry Nights and went for the daytime 30% discount. This is what I’d been missing out on the entire time I was working!
This [...]