Catshanghai

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 be one [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Photos from Jenny’s first collection at Projection 216.
Model: Yi Mei
Photographer: Andreas Larsson
We’ve just uploaded photos of Jenny’s new collection at her websites Projection216 and JNFashionStudio.This is Jenny’s first new collection since she moved from Shanxi Nan Lu to her new studio at Taikang Lu. The move has worked out well. Taikang Lu has a great [...]

Not getting enough sleep can be a big source of stress in any city, especially Shanghai.
The Reader’s Digest website suggests that a lack of sleep is bad for the mind and body when it states:
Blessed sleep — the holy grail of health. Lack of sleep can send your blood sugar levels skyrocketing, contribute to weight [...]