While Im at the keyboard...

A few shots from the visual sketchbook - recent trip to anhui...

Shaaaaaw

Just finalised a meeting with Shaw, after procrastenating and his busybusiness... the arrival of the head of the british council (to open expo) has precipitated an action- hopefully we can thrash out a project on sunday,  that will engage her attention (if we eventually get to entertain her) and it will be gloriousness for all! Expo good for something after all!

More champagne!

gotta love google ads

was checking my spam while something downloaded, when google piped this little beauty into my virtual world...

Spam Swiss Pie - Bake 45-55 minutes or until eggs are set

 

God I love the internet

Selling Meat in JingDaZhen

tick tick tick

As time slips by, I am drawing ever closer to the end of my stay in Shanghai. As such it occured to me for the first time last week that the SHANGHERSEY blog will effectively become redundant in 2 months, and I will have to embark on a new one about living in Derbyshire. Somehow I guess it will lose its appeal, as it will be very difficult to make Matlock sound interesting when compared to the otherworldliness of this crazy town...

Animated water

click this to see the animation






This old guy was using a specially customised plastic tube to write on the stone pavements and street furnishings with water. Its a practice that I have heard of before but never seen- scholars used to do it to save on ink and paper- the art of calligraphy is more of a physical ritual than an act of writing... so writing in water made perfect sense. The artist song dong appropriated this method for his piece in times square

Visual sketchbook- ANHUI pt. II

Visual sketchbook- ANHUI pt. I