I laughed out loud when I saw these “Chinese” characters promoting Olympics-related prizes for a German shopping rewards card. I especially like the elegant Chinese ladies in their traditional qipaos (this is how most people dress in Beijing). Usually on my days off you can find me in my coolie hat and red pajamas swinging [...]
Lisa bought some gloves and they seem to have a life of their own. Thanks to the patrons at Marlowe and Sons for not getting mad at us.
This last one’s for Lisa.
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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Sunday, February 10, 2008
It’s a temporary goodbye. Can’t believe it’s been two years.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Beijing music connoisseur and promoter extraordinaire, Neebing, is launching his new restaurant/bar venture, Song, inside of The Place on Guanghua Lu. Described as a location to “promote local creativity in Beijing, Sòng has brought the best local design and creatives together to create a warm, cosy and chilled environment for good food, great music and [...]
In addition to the global art world arriving for the opening of the Ullens Center, this weekend also saw the opening of The Boiler Room. The Boiler Room is a factory conversion project in the center of old Beijing that looks to become something of an architect’s park in the vein of Shanghai’s Bridge 8. [...]
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
FM3’s Tuesday night performance at 2 Kolegas was certainly a treat. The defining element of FM3’s sound is the drone collage - a technique they developed through their much lauded Buddha Box performances. The highlight of the show was the final number in which the drone of loops and guitar built to a glorious crescendo [...]
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Pleasantly surprised by what I heard at MAO Live House last night. After catching the end of New Pants power-pop set, I ran into James Chang, who happened to be VJing the next act. He seemed pretty confident that it would be worth hanging around for - turned out he was right! IGO is a [...]
The Beijing leg of Translate went off inside the 798 Gallery last night. Lack of aircon made for a pretty sweaty evening but, thankfully, there was plenty of beer on ice.
Dwayne & Andre
Uma & Simon