http://dkwan.com/blog Shanghai flavored since 2008. Not a photographer. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:21:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I stopped blogging in 2010. Too time-consuming. http://dkwan.com/blog/2012/01/11/no-longer-blogging/ Getting an iPad may turn out to be one of the smartest things I've ever done, not because of how it has improved my life or my productivity (both debatable), but because it has re-introduced me to something I've always hated and avoided: reading books. They're too lo-tech for me. ... http://dkwan.com/blog/2010/10/05/ill-be-back/ (Post updated.) The Apple iPad starts selling in China tomorrow (Sep 17) at 8:00 am. I was around the Shanghai Apple Store (Lujiazui) tonight and there were already five people waiting in line at 8:15 pm. The couple who were first in line were already holding an iPad so I guess ... http://dkwan.com/blog/2010/09/16/people-already-in-line-for-ipad/ No, I did not disappear because of StarCraft 2. Not entirely anyway. I've been working on an online magazine called MOZIMOGO, handling mostly its art and design but a bit of everything else as well. Maybe more than a bit. And recently I set up DKWAN.net to serve as my ... http://dkwan.com/blog/2010/08/22/hell-its-about-time/ This past Friday at Windows Too, met a few people in person for the first time after seeing their photos a gazillion times in Shanghai Stuff and Mozimogo. My first impressions of them and others I met recently, and impressions of those I hadn't seen in a long time – ... http://dkwan.com/blog/2010/07/18/day-824-impressions/ Shanghai's first Apple Store just opened today in Lujiazui, right across the street from the Oriental Pearl Tower and Super Brand Mall. I waited in line like an Apple fanboy with Joe from 6:30 am until doors opened at 10:00 am. Roughly 300 people ahead of me when I arrived. ... http://dkwan.com/blog/2010/07/10/apple-store-shanghai-grand-opening/ The easiest way to shoot nice portraits is to shoot pretty people. Chesley is one of just a handful of people I've shot who model professionally. These pics were taken last December, about two years after I shot her the first time at the same location. I used a point-and-shoot ... http://dkwan.com/blog/2010/06/11/second-shoot-with-chesley/ Speaking of "D-K-1", I came across a Twitter user called deecayone. Guess what his real name is. Daniel Kwan! Pretty sure I know how he came up with that Twitter name. The guy apparently does graphic design and talks about Apple stuff. Total opposite of me, except not really. http://dkwan.com/blog/2010/05/17/another-d-k-1/ Looky what I found, another D.Kwan who takes photos. I bet he tried to get the dkwan.com domain name but had to settle for dkwanphotography.com. Sorry Don! Maybe I should warn him that promoting himself as DKWAN in all caps is gonna make a bunch of non-Asians think it's pronounced ... http://dkwan.com/blog/2010/05/14/another-dkwan/ Foursquare clearly wasn't designed to be used worldwide, but it is being used worldwide. This creates a language consistency problem when adding venues. Places like China, Japan, and Korea use non-Roman characters which are for the most part unintelligible to foreigners (tourists and expats), so oftentimes you'll see separate entries ... http://dkwan.com/blog/2010/04/29/non-roman-venue-names-in-foursquare/