Mar/100
fooling around with the 50
i bought this 50mm/1.8 lens a while ago (1 year?) but have barely used it. decided to shoot with it over the past three weeks. here are some results:
Mar/102
big music weekend
friday night: pinkberry, candy shop, sonnet, boys climbing ropes @ MAO Shanghai
Saturday night: boys climbing ropes, st. vincent @ YYT Shanghai
friday night reviewed here my thoughts: xiao yoi (lead singer of pinkberry) was ill, and the crowd was clearly there for sonnet so they had trouble getting the crowd into it. candy shop had to do this terrible promotion for jaeger which killed any momentum they had. sonnet had some great danceable franz ferdinand-esque tracks which i really dug . . . a lot of experimentation with loops and dubs and electronic sounds from a sampler, which i did not dig. boys climbing ropes continue to rock and continue put on a great show. i am a huge fan.
saturday night photographed here by jenn wong and here by me. boys climbing ropes continue to rock and continue to put on a great show. i am a huge fan. st. vincent was fantastic – lots of experimental insturmentalation sounds combined with a beautiful voice.
Mar/100
oh. my. science.
tron legacy trailer. so excited. (h/t @zafaressa)
tron was a huge influence on my early life. and i must have spent hundreds of dollars on the video game. i am very very very excited.
Mar/100
houston to sacramento
this was on an old blog of mine – i don’t think it was ever read by anybody. the interludes are written by cousin celia
i dug it up in my email while looking for something. this took place in july 2006.
(with photos!)
Mar/106
crack pie
there’s a japanese bakery in new york called momofuku. my second cousin, who is really kind of like my niece, is a huge huge fan. so when i saw this recipe in the la times by way of seattlest.
i made two pies based on the la times recipe. had a few missing ingredients and came up a little short on the crust – so one pie has a lot less crust.
but man, this stuff is good. it’s gooey and rich and very sweet, but one or two slices and then you think about having a third or fourth.
it doesn’t look great in my photos (again, i need work on food presentation), but it is very very tasty.
and one slice
Mar/100
speaking of karaoke
this woman was spotted (by me) on a commute home recently.
busking in the subway car with a loudspeaker.
Mar/100
the star ferry
the star ferry is one of hong kong’s most recognizable landmarks and really whenever i want to feel like i’m back in hong kong, a ride across victoria harbour is in the cards. i love the fact that, like the tram (or ‘ding ding’) it is both viable daily commuter transport AND one of the great tourist attractions in the city.
while i was there over the chinese new year break, i shot some photos of the star ferry.
Mar/102
hiking and congee
one of the things which i miss most about living in shanghai is the easy access to nature i had growing up in california – or even living in one of the world’s most claustrophobic and crowded cities – hong kong.
yes, that’s right, even if hk is one of the most urban places in the world, one is only a 15 minute cab ride from getting into nature.
just over the last chinese new year, my friend andrew suggested we do a hike from the south side of hong kong island over the wong nai chung gap towards the north side, starting near stanley hiking over “the twins” and bypassing “violet hill.”
a view of stanley from the first twin
