I spent the week or so prior to the chinese new year in Anchang and the Beichuan area, which was one of the hardest hit and in which there are many quake victims living in temporary housing. I talked a bunch of them and in general just observed their lives there. I will write something [...]

I don’t remember where I first heard of Tin Shui Wai, but I believe someone told me that this was the famous “walled city” (圍城） that the movie was named after, so I went there expecting something desperate and ghetto, but didn’t find anything of the sort. The subway ride is nice…the stations are not [...]

The rest of that series is here. Some photographs from the Magnum photographer Patrick Zachmann are here.

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I recently bought the K-touch A902, which in case the pictures don’t make it obvious, takes its inspiration from some phone designed in Cupertino.
Someone noticed that it had a health menu that had several interesting functions. One was the BMI (body-mass index) and the other was the MENSES calculator. As you can see [...]

I thought this picture was somewhat amusing…don’t know if there was any PS in this but then again, having a huge belly that you can puff out more isn’t exactly a rarity among middle-aged men.

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Hu Yang (胡杨) is the Shanghai based documentary photographer that takes shots of people living in Shanghai, in their native environments–their homes. He did a series that got a lot of publicity in the last year or so, it was called 《上海人家》 and showed Shanghainese people (or at least people who live here) from all [...]