Catshanghai

It’s been a while since my last post. Here is a brief list of things that have happened to us over the last month. We enjoyed Chinese New Year in Lingang in Nanhui Pudong Jenny found out that our baby is a boy and we’re going to name him Jake. Jenny is now 6 months [...]

We spent today at Fudan University’s Gynecological and Obstetrics Hospital in Dalin Lu in downtown Shanghai. We could have opted for the expatriate option where you pay upto 100 000 RMB to jump a few queues and listen to an English speaking doctor at places like Shanghai East Medical Centre. The reality is that expatriate [...]

Jenny has just remodelled Projection 216 and we have written a schedule of films that are going to show up until Christmas. I’m looking forward to Baron Munchausen, because I haven’t seen it yet and Terry Gilliam is a great visual director. Dr Strangelove shows Peter Sellers at his best playing multiple characters in Kubrick’s [...]

I heard a funny story over the weekend about European exporters copying a Shanghai based fashion designer. We enjoyed hearing our friend Cho Cho tell us about a European customer who bought some of her clothes from her shop. Cho Cho runs the Neither Nor label and she has a few shops in and near [...]

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 [...]

Last week I picked up a new pair of training shoes from DK who is the designer/ boss for Multiplication Sign. The shoes I bought remind me of the Dunlop Greenflash that I used to wear for PE lessons when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. He had others with toes cut [...]

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 [...]