打鼓的小人
Moganshan road is well know among local artists, as well as getting more international attentions. but thanks to the international exposure, the local rentals for the place has been skyrocked ever since then. it’s getting hard and harder for the local artists who are still doing well but with the extra fee need to pay for the housing. some are thinking about moving else where with cheaper cost.
因为去年是金猪年
现代城市山水画
探索中
真正的霸王硬上弓
你们想怎么样想就怎样想吧，随你的便
高楼下的涂鸦
好起来！
闪开！
什么什么鲤鱼在这里
a friend an i visited a semi-abandoned factory, before we arrived, the people who works there told us there was another group of photographer who hog the whole place for photo gigs.
i dont have much feelings with this place but still interesting to look at.
enjoy
当年，我们在上面宣布我们的领地。今天我我们给他人占领着。
我们来自6号星球，今天我们要侵略地球！
正在努力修飞船的师傅们
营地全景
地球上的菊花
放气
宇宙阴阳门
飞船上看到的地球村全景，准备侵略！
老头。
It’s been more than 20 days since I left the states, saw countless faces, one after another dinner gathering, and yet to devote some time to myself just get my shit together and finish some of the projects that I’ve promised to finish ages ago ( to those who know what I mean, I swear I will finish it before head out to india.)
Things that I have been seeing around here changed yet again, more foreigners in the mass public area, the metro, mall, restaurants, even the area where I’m currently staying. Shanghai has become like the hub of international flash gather point, some rooted here, some are here for short gigs, some are just here for their biz trip, and the rest falls into tourist group。
Free internet, there’s no such thing as free wifi here, after some serious hunting, coffee bean is the only place that offer free wifi (if you don’t mind the slowness). And both smoking/non smoking indoor rooms. Starbucks offer wifi, but not free, iphone owner will find themself get away with slow/crawing wifi connections, free eh? you get what you paid for.
there are things i meant to blog, but they kept on skipping my mind like fadded pages in a notebook. i might as well need to jog down the thoughts on my phone while i still holding onto it. otherwise it’d take me some thinking in front of a computer. after all i cant carry the laptop with me everywhere i go. thurs goes with the notebook. but i think i will have some more free personal time once i arrive india.
the price to india for one way from shanghai is redulicious. 4500 RMB estmated. i’m like wtf.. that costed more than what i paid for my one way trip to here from DC. another idea is to enroute tibet and cross nepal into india.. but i dont have much time here, my 30 days tourist visa for this time expires in 29th, and that leaves me less than a week and half to travel from shanghai to india via land.. doable but it’s going to be stressful and rushed. i’d like to stay in Lahsa for few days and enjoy the sun from high above. *sigh* next time then. and i hope india is going to grant me more than just 30 days stay once i landed, if not… i’m screwed, i’d have to do a short overland trip else where and come back to india for a longer stay. i will worry about that later.
the internet addiction withdraw is still hard to shake off, im still holding on my phone for some web actions, offten i find myself looking at facebook’s latest status, news on cnn, wapo etc. *sigh* we are i am totally hopeless without the internet. still hours before i hit the hay still stays with book reading and games on the phone, there’s no network reception on the bed :/ no tv at all, there isnt cable in the apartment. pretty much sucked. i tried to visit my aunt’s apt which is next block to mine, but with her crappy attatidute, facital express toward my visit for using their internet, i’m not gonna put up with it, even if i have to suffer slower than 56k speed with the phone in my apt, or the internet bar. so see you later auntie.
more to come…
I have to thank Tim for giving me this opportunity to shoot this wedding, 1 for extra cash toward my travel fund. 2 for erasing the post-dramatic experience i had with my last wedding gig. and sure enough this one turned out pretty well. as a backup photographer, it’s a pretty easy task to do, as long as i dont have to deal with the bride. but some day.. that fear needs to be tamed.. someday perhaps…
Click here for Tim’s post on this wedding
pictures this way
timmy hard at work, with a broken foot.
i can say this wedding has been iphonelized! Apple owns all the wedding now
as they look onto their life together into the future
gotta love that little girl’s expression
it’s groom’s job to make the ladies happy that night
but only tim can order the ladies around that night
for more photos, click here
I was meant to check the place out last year when i was in town, but due to short stay, and some other thing came up. When i went there few days ago, it’s a mess all around, it’s in a process being renovated for modernized shops and office space. so i didn’t have the chance of photograph the building with bare bone form.
Ghostly basement, 阴暗的地下室多多少少给人有一种发毛的感觉。
another 1933 building across the main building
american appear inside the building
the view on the roof
more links regarding to the building from others.
新摄影论坛- 上海- 1933
1933-上海创意地产
Shanghaiist: 1933: Where’s the beef?
开山见门 – 上海“1933老场坊”
1933 official website
more pictures here
just two days ago, i went to hangzhou to see a friend, and man.. rain rain rain… i’m getting sick of rain around here, everything is muddy, went and hazy. friends around me are calling me the god of rain.. suggesting me to visit africa for their drout problem.
and now comes the food part 
More photos here
so much for promising to blog often, i find myself going out too much. meeting friends than just find a place and sit, get online and do my business. the apartment i’m currently staying at doesn’t give me a reliable network connection.. crappy mobile coverage that is, i get no reception anywhere but one bar next to my bed. but funny thing is, as soon as i connect my laptop to the phone via bluetooth, the reception craps out on me.. like magic if you say. oh well.. time to improvise and move on.
I’ve got myself a new phone, spanking new nokia E71, other than the small non touchable screen and ok ok keyboard.. it’s one soild build phone, dare i say it’s sexier than the iphone? 
yeah i basically traded in my 3 mobiles to get this one, iphone, the panny SH901, and the nokia N75 that doesn’t have any Chinese input firmware for it. but unlocked mobile phones are everywhere here, if you are looking for a reasonable priced mobile phones, look no further, come to china E71 costs more than USD500 back in the states or euro, but this one i got cost me only 400, with trade in cash, the cost of it went below 200. excuse me for my fuzzy math
and guess what i did first when i got the phone?
it’s no secret, i went online and checked facebook, yeah i’m such an addict i’ve gotta to admit it’s going to take a while for the internet withdraw. it’s mighty hard to do so :/ i’ve gotta keep myself busy with other stuff, else i might go crazy at this state of mind.
with all those election crazeness going on back at the states, i wish i could be part of it, be part of the history. but then again… i’m bound to miss out things that are happening in the states everyday.
one thing nice with the fact that i have almost no access to the internet at home, i get more things done, planing my travel routes, get all the info off the book and unload them on my project application on the laptop. finally finish the damn book i’ve been meaning to finish. rest more
some pics from qibao (七宝）
Those are camera photos, so this is what i have to show, as is.
soy sauced fish
uncle attacks his pry
some kind of green veggie..
skinned chicken. steamed.
yellow chives n egg
seafood sauce tofu
shrimp stri fry ( a bit too salty… )
kicking back and relax…
i’ve arrived shanghai without a hitch, got a full bench on the plane as a makeshift bed, the groves in between seats was killing my back. do not underestimate those little bumps, 10+ hours on them will break you down mentally at the end. as soon as i landed, rushed out though the customs like visiting an old friend. picked up my luggage in record time, where it could take more than one hour. zoomed out of the apartment door right after i dropped off my luggage. got myself a SMS card and i’m in business. met with a friend to pick a place to eat, i had to eat, i was starving with less than enough to eat on the plane. short layovers in the connect flight didn’t give me enough time to buy anything at all. i did remember to bring my camera so to snap photos for what i had that evening, but ended up eating my heart out :/ sorry people.. i will try to remember take more photos religiously before i start mow the plate.
the costs of here can be ranging from 250RMB ( 36.55 USD ) all you can eat seafood buffet in an upper class neibohood to 3RMB ( .44 USD ) in the local restaurant. either way, i got my belly happy and healthy.
internet cafe in china could be awful, with 50+ people chain smoking local tobaccos… the air quality is just simply unable to breath in. I’m a smoker, but this is more than what i can take. in china, you are bound to be the victim of first hand smokers. you can run but you can hide, and you cant avoid it. so i’ve decided to use mobile phone to get online instead of visiting the dreaded internet cafe/bar. then comes with phone problem… my iPhone is hacked and unlocked to use with any sim card, yet i haven’t figured out how to get the laptop to leech the data network from iphone. dear god.. cant you make anything easier for me? so i might have to sell my phones ( if anyone is going to take em in ) and get a new nokia that does the job.
and oh.. my sleep pattern is fucked again.. :-/ it could be either jet-lag or the new places or the bedbugs that’s been bugging me… i swear to god that i can feel something’s crawling around me while i was asleep.
and oh oh oh, i’ve completely forgot to load those movies that i had back home, so… basically how i spend my downtime at home is reading book.. listen to ipod and try to write. i guess i could also get some freelance work done too, but i need a table that’s allowing me to sit up straight, and the glass table wont do it for me, i have this thing with glass surface tables.. the cold surface can drive me nuts.
bye iphone…
until then….
