Catshanghai

What choices do we have for sharing videos with friends and family in other countries given that Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo Video and Blip TV have stopped working? I’ve been using Vimeo recently. It has a basic free service that lets you upload upto 500 mb of videos each week. All video hosting sites display uploaded [...]

Our six week old son Jake has a Chinese mother and a British father. This presents us with both amazing opportunities and challenges. Textbook parenting differs between China and Europe. According to Chinese custom, postpartum women should observe bed rest for a month after the baby is born (yuezi). The child should not go outside [...]

Below are two videos of Jake, which I shot and edited in recent days. Jake Crosses The Bridge from Matt Seigal on Vimeo. The most recent was shot yesterday.It’s the Chinese tradition to mark a month of a baby’s life by crossing a bridge. In this case we crossed Nanpu Bridge and two at Century [...]

Jake is 22 days old and getting bigger and stronger every day. Here are some things we’ve noticed about him. He is utterly fearless. Jenny says he feeds like a wolf. He only cries when he is hungry. He is not too bothered by heat or a soiled nappy. He is strong.He is already starting [...]

Here are a few pictures of Jake that I took in the week, having just added them to a picasa album. Jenny and Jake came home from hospital yesterday. Jake can’t get enough milk whether it’s from his mum or a bottle of formula concoction. It’s really nice having my family home. I normally get [...]