Monthly Archive for February, 2009

An awesome art website

Published on Friday, February 20, 2009

I have a feel­ing that peo­ple who like art mu­se­ums have never looked at con­cept art for movies and video games. Commercial art is so much bet­ter than the ar­bi­trary crap they put up in museums.

Just learned about this web­site: CgHub.com, which “fo­cuses on artists in the en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try, pri­mar­ily movies (vi­sual ef­fects), tele­vi­sion, com­mer­cials, an­i­ma­tion, games, and il­lus­tra­tors and se­quen­tial artists (comics).” I could have been one of them, but pho­tog­ra­phy ru­ined my life.

And if you’ve never been to DeviantArt.com, be sure to check it out. That’s where I get all my desk­top wallpapers.

Anjo also hates Qibao

Published on Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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I’m do­ing lo­ca­tion por­trai­ture again! The last one I did was nearly a year ago, and it was of three ugly guys from San Francisco. Good to shoot at es­tro­gen again.

090111anjo_0116First up is Anjo, a uni­ver­sity stu­dent who un­for­tu­nately had to live by Qibao, way out in Minhang District. I un­der­stand the pain she went through.

D.Kwan: Where are you from and when did you move to Shanghai?
Anjo: I am from Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. I’ve been in Shanghai since September 2005. No spe­cial rea­son, just be­cause my school is Shanghai Jiao Tong University (the top one in Shanghai!) but I’m go­ing to grad­u­ate soon. I choose to work in Shanghai be­cause I found a job here and I want to try it. Not sure for how long though.

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Day 298: Guilin and Yangshuo

Published on Saturday, February 7, 2009

Yangshuo

I’m alive! Haven’t up­dated un­til now be­cause my new apart­ment just got in­ter­net to­day. The Coffee Bean has lost a customer.

I went to Guilin and Yangshuo with Bonnie and Jeanne dur­ing the one-​​week Spring Festival break (Jan 25–31, aka Chinese New Year). It rained on and off and was cloudy the en­tire time un­til the day we left, but still it was a nice get­away from Shanghai. I hope Bonnie blogs about the trip in more de­tail be­cause I’m feel­ing lazy. Pics below.