All right, I have to force myself to keep some kind of rhythm to this blog so the news for today is that I have (finally) uploaded most of the pics from my trip to China last year on Flickr: click here.
These are the scenic pictures, for the "people" pictures in varying states of drunkenness you have to be my friend on Facebook at the very least.
Enjoy!
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007
Some snippets from China
I was looking through my pictures from China and there are a few I'd like to share here. This first one was at the Great Wall in Simatai:
I know they are investing a lot of money in translating a lot of things in (proper) English for the Beijing Olympics next year, and they definitely have a lot of work to do.
That said, I was really happy there was some matter of English, and even more so that it was usually quite entertaining!
Now on the other hand, bars in Beijing have some great slogans and I particularly like this one, direct and compelling:
I don't know what you would have done, but I saw that and walked straight in! I think whoever came up with this should be working on the Olympics, but somehow I doubt that's the case...
I saw this sculpture while walking along the river in Chengdu, Sichuan.
I was actually surprised to see it, after a few weeks in China, you completely forget it's supposed to be a Communist country. Fortunately they left some of the artwork to remind us, and I think this is a fine piece of Soviet art.
I saw this while climbing Mt Emei, one of the four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China (a big deal for Chinese people and one of the main tourist, historical and religious sites in the country). The ability for Chinese to surprise was endless, the last thing I was expecting was to read about Donald Duck hanging out there in the mountain! Of course, I didn't manage to spot the tree, I mean it is a forest right in front of you... I don't even know if it's possible to see it from this picture, but if anyone does please do tell me!
I saw this one in Shenzhen, it's really funny how just one letter changes the whole meaning in English but at the same time probably describes the food even better!
I know they are investing a lot of money in translating a lot of things in (proper) English for the Beijing Olympics next year, and they definitely have a lot of work to do.That said, I was really happy there was some matter of English, and even more so that it was usually quite entertaining!
Now on the other hand, bars in Beijing have some great slogans and I particularly like this one, direct and compelling:
I don't know what you would have done, but I saw that and walked straight in! I think whoever came up with this should be working on the Olympics, but somehow I doubt that's the case...I saw this sculpture while walking along the river in Chengdu, Sichuan.
I was actually surprised to see it, after a few weeks in China, you completely forget it's supposed to be a Communist country. Fortunately they left some of the artwork to remind us, and I think this is a fine piece of Soviet art.
I saw this while climbing Mt Emei, one of the four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China (a big deal for Chinese people and one of the main tourist, historical and religious sites in the country). The ability for Chinese to surprise was endless, the last thing I was expecting was to read about Donald Duck hanging out there in the mountain! Of course, I didn't manage to spot the tree, I mean it is a forest right in front of you... I don't even know if it's possible to see it from this picture, but if anyone does please do tell me!
I saw this one in Shenzhen, it's really funny how just one letter changes the whole meaning in English but at the same time probably describes the food even better!
Friday, 26 October 2007
Chinese mobile ads and naughty girls
One of the other pretty funny things I saw when I was in China was this TV channel that showed mobile phone ads non stop all night. According to some of these ads Chinese mobile phones are amazing, you can throw them on the floor, answer a call in your shower, all sorts!
I was trying to look for some of these on Youtube but didn't find any (sob), I guess I'd have to be able ot type in Chinese, perhaps... Instead I found this ad which is part of the Axe Vice campaign, pretty funny and I think better than the ones with the Morgan Freeman look alike detective.
I'd be particularly curious about the "indecent exposure in a chicken suit"! Sounds kinky!
I was trying to look for some of these on Youtube but didn't find any (sob), I guess I'd have to be able ot type in Chinese, perhaps... Instead I found this ad which is part of the Axe Vice campaign, pretty funny and I think better than the ones with the Morgan Freeman look alike detective.
I'd be particularly curious about the "indecent exposure in a chicken suit"! Sounds kinky!
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Back from China!
I've just spent five weeks traveling in China and one of the (many) hightlights was to discover this T-shirt while walking around Yangshuo where the hammer and sickle symbol had an ice cream replacing the hammer. The slogan read "Everybody gets Ice Cream!"
I instantly fell in love with it, but as usual in China they didn't have my size, so I decided today that my new blog would be a bit of an hommage to the person who designed this T-Shirt. Whoever you are, thanks for the inspiration!
I did this logo relatively quickly, but I'll make the page look better as I go.
I instantly fell in love with it, but as usual in China they didn't have my size, so I decided today that my new blog would be a bit of an hommage to the person who designed this T-Shirt. Whoever you are, thanks for the inspiration!
I did this logo relatively quickly, but I'll make the page look better as I go.
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