Archive for March, 2008
Spring Break in Shandong
We’ve just enjoyed a five day holiday in Qingdao and Laoshan, which are two seaside resorts in the north eastern Shandong province. Here are a few highlights.
Qingdao used to be a German colony at the turn of the 20th century so the city has fantastic architecture such as The Granite Castle and St Michael’s Cathedral. [...]
Posted: March 29th, 2008 under China, travel.
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That’s Shanghai Come to Projection 216
That’s Shanghai stopped by Projection 216 (Jenny’s studio) for her opening party and they came back a couple of weeks later for a leisurely chat, which they wrote up in last month’s edition. Here is the clip. It’s flattering and well written, but Andreas’s photo is a bit dark and they got one fact wrong. [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2008 under Shanghai, culture, films, random.
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Pumpkins Should Be Squashed, Not Smashed
Shanghaiist told me that Spli-t is casting a vote for performers to appear at the Shanghai Yue Festival it is promoting in October. Here is a list of the performers I can choose from:
Counting Crows, Smashing Pumpkins, !!!, Foo Fighters, 范晓萱 (Bo Bo Mavis), Rihanna, REM, Kanye West, Ben Harper, The Verve, Mastodon, The Strokes, [...]
Posted: March 12th, 2008 under Shanghai, music.
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Number One on Youtube
My video did not get as many hits as Sarah Silverman singing expletives about Matt Damon, but my rough Youtube movie about the Shanghai flash mob has been viewed more than 12 000 times since I uploaded it on Saturday.It feels good to be the number one video on Youtube for travel and events, even if [...]
Posted: March 11th, 2008 under Internet, Shanghai, blogs, culture.
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Flash Mob Hits Shanghai
I heard about this from Clyde when he came to Jenny’s shop this afternoon.
There was a message floating around to meet on Nanjing Dong Lu outside the Sofitel at 3pm in order to stand still for five minutes. Passers by look amused and the police appeared rather baffled. I was going [...]