A friend went on vacation and snapped these photos in a kid’s park in Guilin.
Photo credits: Aurelie Glorieux.
They’re made of foam, for kids, and the fathers apparently kept putting theirs kids next to them to take pictures.
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
“Private kitchen” = 私房菜 = home-cooked or super-traditional meals that are fixed course depending on the day and the restaurant is usually set in a small apartment upstairs; was all the rage in Hong Kong some years ago.
If you’re in Hong Kong, why don’t you try a few set up by Mr. Lau Kin-Wai:
Yellow Door
Kin’s KitchenI went to the Yellow Door some years ago and both the setting and food were unique experiences 
Via Thomas Crampton.
UPDATE: I added my short analysis/reflection.
An ad for Wellcome (one of the big supermarket chains in Hong Kong) based on the premise that if the little daughter saves enough, one dollar at a time, that she can buy back some of her father’s time spent at work.
But why does it stir my emotions? Because Hong Kong people are famously overworked and their children are increasingly raised by housekeepers. A story that touches on both of those at the same time — excellent.
Aw Guo on IfGoGo:
This is a “panda shaoxiang” version. Shaoxiang, aka “烧香” in Chinese, means go to the temple for burning incense and offering up a sacrifice. The Shaoxiang Panda is a very famous computer virus (worm like) in China during 2007. Once you get infected, all the icons of your files will be a picture like this one.
Then of course, someone applied this image to a real photo and Photoshop:
A city wall tower and very clearly, the moat, Beijing, 1840-1860: just one of the many photos from around the Pacific, circa 1840-1940, now to be found online at the National Gallery of Australia’s Picture Paradise exhibition. Well worth browsing through this eclectic collection of shots of everything from Australian aborigines to Javanese dancers, a white European man in Chinese dress in a Hong Kong studio, bathers on the Ganges, and views of Fuzhou, in “daguerreotype portraits, mass-produced views and portraits on paper made possible by the revolutionary wet-plate and dry-plate glass negative-positive process, and prints from the modern era of small format film cameras and photojournalism.”
Start at the themes page and click through to the different collections, and be prepared for the dizzying format of photos sliding into view from left to right. I wish they wouldn’t do that.
(via The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Aug 2008, Vol. 15, No. 9 (283))
“With music by Damon Albarn, and imagery by Jamie Hewlett — the duo that brought us the Gorillaz — I am loving BBC Sport’s marketing campaign for the Chinese Olympics.”
Via Drawn.
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