Shanghai

Theatre Lights

Shanghai: theatre lights
Beautiful detail on the operating theatre lights, and some reasonably graceful degradation – even though the mid-light handle is unscrewed, the nurses can still pull …



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16 Jul 2011

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Bound and Gagged

04 Jul 2011

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From the Jade Buddha Temple.
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Graceful Degradation?

13 Jun 2011

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Froth, Sediment, Delight

13 Jun 2011

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This Kommune beetroot smoothie (above) and banana-pineapple smoothie (below) is as much about the psychology that influences our sense of taste as the taste itself …
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Real? Or Real Shanzhai

10 Jun 2011

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New article up on The Atlantic on shanzhai innovation.
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Food Adulteration

31 May 2011

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A repost to a 1,000 x 1,000 exploding watermelons.
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Rockin’ the Suburbs

31 May 2011

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If you want to understand China you need to travel to the suburbs, the communities where tower blocks and half empty shopping malls nudge up …
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Tailored

23 May 2011

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Hand-sewn, hand-hewn – is such as integral part of the experience of being in China.
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Look Book, Squeeze

20 May 2011

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An acceptable level of distortion.
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Mind Grab

11 May 2011

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Our executive creative team came out to Shanghai last week – with plenty of interesting conversations in the many formal and informal sessions, a surprising …
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