Have you seen Shooting War yet, the new graphic novel serialized at SMITH? Shooting War, written by Anthony Lappé and drawn by Dan Goldman, is the story of a vlogger set in the year 2014. The Iraqi Civil War is still ongoing and John McCain is President, suicide bombers have found the U.S. and video [...]

Jingan Park. aside Jingan Temple is a well maintained tranquil park popular during the days with the retired crowd. Lots of strolling, card, chess and domino playing and tai chi.
Here’s a quick clip of a group that meets for dancing:

Here’s a group that get’s together to sing:

The view from Shanghai’s ‘The Bund’ across the river to it’s twin city Pudong rivals any modern ubran skyline. Note the ‘video’ displayed on the side of an entire building. Stunning.

Videographer I’m not … sweet video camera mine is not … I posted these anyway
View of Hong Kong and Kowloon from Victoria Peak

The next day there was an article in newspaper about how nice it was to have a non-smoggy day, so I guess we got realy lucky with getting a clear view. Too bad [...]

      
Hong Kong has been like visiting New York City, if you had grown up in North Dakota. Eating, getting around, exploring, sight seeing have all been pretty much as your instincts suggest, but you never can actually expect how it’s going to be. I expected translation issues would be harder, but I didn’t expect to [...]

    
Hong Kong has been like I always dreamed, a fantastcally modern post-colonial ancient and present global trading city-state home to millions, ancestral to almost none. Exploring it has been fabulously easy: it’s compact; well-run, highly-signed, multi-lingual, proud but inviting; future-focused; friendly and all around ideal city to visit. The direct 15 hour flight [...]

In my twenties I suffered from extreme bouts of wanderlust. I could scarcely live in the same place for a year before I would be aggrieved by daily flare-ups of desire to expand my perspective on the world, humanity and myself.
In Indonesia it’s very common for complete strangers to greet each other on the road [...]

Harry Smith (1923-1991) was a post-beatnik pre-beat American musicologist, painter, cinematographer and if you knew who he was, you’re cooler than me. Smith’s most famous endeavor was compiling his massive 78 collection into The Anthology of American Folk Music, which has been described as a aural Rosetta Stone that many say influenced the mid-60s folk [...]