Monthly Archive for March, 2009

Anna the Cat, coming soon

Published on Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Daniel Kwan shoots Anna the Cat

I shot Anna more than two weeks ago but haven’t got­ten around to edit­ing the pho­tos. Been too busy not work­ing and all. I swear I’ll get to them soon! Thanks Joe for the above photo.

Day 350: Pier 39 cafe has a new regular

Published on Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Sandwich at Pier 39 Shanghai

Looks like I’ll stay in Shanghai af­ter all. Today I start work­ing for a mag­a­zine pub­lisher. More im­por­tantly, the of­fice is in ridicu­lously close prox­im­ity to one of my fa­vorite restau­rants in Shanghai, Pier 39!

Pier 39 info: CityWeekend, SmartShanghai

SmartShanghai says it’s a 10-​​minute walk from Line 1 South Shanxi Road. It’s ac­tu­ally 10 min­utes from Line 2 West Nanjing Road also. From Line 2, just head south on Maoming Lu and turn on Jinxian Lu.

Somebody bring Gina to Shanghai

Published on Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Gina Tran looked like this when she was a cute and in­no­cent (not) jailbait:

Young Gina Tran

Now, about three years later, she’s all grown up and … a lit­tle scary. I still haven’t seen her go-​​go dance yet. It’s on my to-​​do-​​before-​​I-​​die list so I hope she doesn’t re­tire from it too soon.

Gina Tran all grown upGina Tran all grown up

Any clubs or pro­mot­ers wanna fly her from Los Angeles to Shanghai for gigs here? I and all the laowais here with yel­low fever would ap­pre­ci­ate it.

U-​​Can Food Drive in Sacramento

Published on Monday, March 23, 2009

Here’s a shout out to the U-​​Can Food Drive that’s be­ing or­ga­nized in Sacramento. Apparently there’s a place known as Tent City full of home­less peo­ple (I may move there soon) and my old buddy Amanda says it was fea­tured on Oprah or some­thing. Here it is.

Anyway, Amanda is help­ing with the canned food drive for them and she asked me to make an il­lus­tra­tion logo for their promo ma­te­ri­als. I was like, uhm, an illustration’s a lotta work. I’ve been mess­ing with ty­pog­ra­phy lately so I made it like this instead:

U-Can Food Drive

I like ty­pog­ra­phy. It’s so much cheaper than photography.

Day 342: Oregon Trail

Published on Monday, March 23, 2009

Week 4 of un­em­ploy­ment in Shanghai. Well folks, if I don’t get hired this week, I’m gonna start tak­ing free­lance gigs. If you read my pre­vi­ous post, you know I have an awe­some bag now. Just think of all the things you could hire me and my bag for.

The Oregon Trail

Check this out: Oregon Trail for iPhone! This was the edu­tain­ment game we stu­pid kids looked for­ward to back in sec­ond grade, par­tic­u­larly the part where you guide your float­ing wagon down the river at the end. I re­mem­ber hav­ing to in­sert a 5.25″ floppy into an Apple IIe to play this mono­chrome game. Good times.

Just pur­chased (US$5.99) and down­loaded the game. Gonna try it out tonight. Let’s see how many of my fam­ily mem­bers die on our way to Oregon.