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 [...]

If you like films and enjoy Taikang Lu then you should come to Projection 216 any Saturday night at 8pm. Here’s January’s schedule: Here’s the address in English and Chinese: Projection 216 Room 216, Building 3, Lane 210 Taikang Road, Shanghai, PRC 泰康 路210弄 3 号楼216 室 021-54656616 Tickets are 15 RMB for refreshments. Please [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Everybody is writing reviews of the past year so I will join in too. 2007 has been a great year for us, although it has not been without struggle and frustration. I have just been scanning this year’s blog posts as a prompt for the some of the highlights, which I will summarise below: Personal [...]

Man Push Cart is possibly the scariest film I have seen for quite some time even though there are no scenes of blood or threatening villains. The film is just a story about a Pakistani immigrant called Ahmad who is struggling with work and life in New York. While most New Yorkers sleep, Ahmad fetches, [...]

Here is the scenario. It’s a typical, sunny day in LA. Loving husband gets up early to give his wife a cup of coffee before she drives to work. Minutes after she leaves, LA is devastated by a series of dirty bombs causing panic and confusion as the city is shrouded in a cloud of [...]

February has been a great month for films so far, so I am going to make a few recommendations. The Queen  follows the public and private world of Britain’s royal family in the week following Princess Diana’s death in 1997. Trapped in a world of formal traditions and duty, The Queen and her family failed to tap [...]

I just read this breaking news on Tech Crunch. It has also been reported on the BBC and New York Times. Steve Jobs has just published an open letter to the music industry asking it to abandon DRM on music that is purchased as downloads. This is extraordinary considering that all music bought on the [...]