PSDTU

There was alot of finalizing of ideas today and last minute touch up and changes.  Throughout the three seperate projects, the use of water was a reoccurring theme. Our final three presentations will be video projections on the wall… and ideally, seperate walls at eArts. Our project involved alot of experimenting with different materials and different [...]

A couple of main focuses for my personal work here is based on the deterioration of elements that humans leave behind. I have also been attracted to bright colors for a while now. This is what I have kept in mind mostly when photographing. What do these layers of paint represent? Why do these colors stand out [...]

In the first image, I can tell that Ben is with Simone near Houhai, even though Simone’s device isn’t uploading her data.
In the remaining images, I am observing the excursions of parsons.049 (Hayhun Park), parsons.064 (Stephanie White), and parsons.067 (Zach Gage).

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is Houhai’d ‘n’ Seek! It’s a chance to explore the Haohai neighborhood and surrounding hutongs. You’ll have a chance to meet some local people, play a game with the “Go” guys, wrap a dumpling, meet Tao Tao, and lots more. It’s going to be a lot of fun!
Let’s meet out in front of [...]

Yakitori Friday – Great Wall Saturday – Cuandixia Sunday/Monday
(Cuandixia) Textures – Stories – Good Eats – Good Company

Saturday – Left hotel @ 3. Get to Pingguoyuan Station by 430. Was about to hop on the 929 bus to Cuandixia but some random guy approached us and offered to take us straight there, saving us 2 [...]

So while we were wondering around the city yesterday, we came across with a bicycle shop! YES, an ACTUAL decent bicycle shop! It was somewhat near houhai. Eventhough we don’t see that kind of bicycles on the roads, they are actually selling “Helmets” and other safety products for bicycles. We didn’t check out the prices [...]

I posted this on facebook along with the pictures! It is being very popular so i just wanted to have a record of it on our blog too!! 
Well ok! I had to share this… 
“the thing” about china (other than many great things  like great wall, food etc) is the baby pants and dogs! 
So 1st of, [...]

this hit me hard.  as i was getting out of the Wangfujing subway station, and i heard very loud crying.  i looked to my left and i saw two helpless cops staring down at three crying children and a woman.  i doubt if the woman was alive.

Language class is just not my thing. According to my sisters quote… “um. you can’t even speak canto. what makes you think you can speak mandarin?” heh. Well… I’m actually going to start trying and absorbing some of this stuff.
Today Mara and I went to the photo market. Quite the adventure. We randomly handed the [...]