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Hangers

Chongqing: hangers
Late night flight out of Chongqing, ghostly hangers to house sleeping giants.



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29 Dec 2011

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Friction

23 Dec 2011

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Every city has a certain level of friction – a tax on the time and energy on the team and what is is able to …
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3 Wheels Good

23 Dec 2011

In: Cultural Norms
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This can seat 8.
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Textures

23 Dec 2011

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Those twenty minutes pre-interview where the team has a chance to stroll the neighbourhood and just feel what’s out there. Chongqing has more textures than …
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Up

23 Dec 2011

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Drive. Drive. Drive. Fly. Fly. Fly.

23 Dec 2011

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Syncing with the team in Chongqing – the city of 30 million souls that most non-locals have never heard of. If you want to understand …
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Factory Lamp Shade

15 Apr 2010

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Beautifully textured, oiled.
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Significant Strangers, Rear View Mirrors

15 Apr 2010

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Been thinking a lot about my relationship with strangers recently – triggered by a number of unrelated threads: the death of a pedestrian on Sunset …
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A Day in the Life, Simulated in a Day

26 Feb 2010

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One of the slides from the recent Behind the Scenes event showed one of Chongqing participants (above) seemingly in a moment of domestic bliss – …
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Motivations for Protecting

17 Apr 2008

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Chopsticks covered with a plastic sheet – in line with colleague Younghee’s thread on freshness and protection (that’s her in the baseball cap, below). Given …
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