Catshanghai

Highlights of 2009 Jake’s birth Jake’s first swim Jake’s first smile Jake’s first laugh Jake sitting up Jake’s first plane ride to Guangzhou Valentine’s Day at Bacaro Family coming to see us in Shanghai Getting VPN to work in China Watching Zombieland Listening to Boduf Songs Setting up school Moodle site Lowlights of 2009 Execution [...]

Our first baby is due in May.  Should our baby have British, Chinese or dual nationality? Ideally we would like our first born child to have dual British and Chinese nationality. This would make it easy to travel and live in Europe or China without any additional visas. I’ve just telephoned the British Consulate in [...]

This is a perfect video for living in Shanghai. It’s a full episode of Fawlty Towers. It captures the communication problems, the sense of chaos, the flexible attitudes to copyright in terms of vintage BBC tv shows and web service design. America does Youtube. China does Youku Enjoy. Tell me if it plays in the [...]

Here are some choices for English language short form television in China: 1. Terrestrial TV Channels CCTV 9 is China’s state sponsored English language news and cultural programmes. Nothing here will rock the boat with Beijing and it has the distinction of hosting the most tedious TV show to have ever graced the airwaves – [...]

In this earlier post I complained about the stress of living in a place where I am “doomed to waste time understanding and being understood.” This is still an issue or I would not choose to resurrect such a gloomy old blog post. The difference these days is that I am enjoying my summer holidays. [...]

It was a great night of art, fashion and hanging out with friends. Everyone likes Jola’s pictures of the Paris metro. Each picture was built on photographs, which were taken separately before Jola edited them together using painted images, scanning and photoshop post processing. The images remind me of rotoscoping where live action movies are [...]

Jenny has been busy setting up a photographic exhibition for Jola Kudela of Yolart.net, which will take place at Projection 216 on Sunday 15th June at 7pm. Jola Kudela is a photographic artist based in Paris. This is her first exhibition in Shanghai. This is her bio: “if loneliness has its God, Jola Kudela must [...]

Here is a video I shot on my way home of Dongtai Lu. It’s a well known antique market near Huai Hai Lu and Xizang Lu in downtown Shanghai.

Yesterday I had a great chat with a friend about the Tibet issue. She is a member of the Chinese Communist Party. She explained the Chinese point of view, but it sounded much more reasonable than the propaganda I see on CCTV 9, which makes me switch off. It was not the content of her [...]

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. [...]