Couldn’t really resist posting this one, its a bit cryptic but if you look at it for a while you can figure it out… The official title is ‘foreigner’s calligraphy.’ My 八 got criticised a bit.
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Fidel is still kicking apparently, or at least his body double is. Quit a change since the old days. There ‘s an interesting article here on ‘the chairman smiles‘ looking at the different images of some of the better known communist ...
Got 60 paintings photographed, and just got the pics back from the photographer. Randomly, here is the 60th one.
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Shanghai Eye neglected to open its email box over the weekend. Apparently while we were dozing in front of some DVDs Shanghai Fringe festival got underway. In fact Shanghai Eye never even knew there was one – but there is. Anyhow, so the Shangha...
A friend in Moscow pointed Shanghai Eye to a Russian site where photographers and illustrators and the like upload their work. The site is hiero.ru – and there’s quite a few interesting bits and pieces there. There is also this site. This ...
Shanghai Eye will be moving studio to a new address- 696 Weihai Road. A former glass factory and originally an opium den. Empty for 3 years it took three days to rent out once the correct buttons were pressed. There are now ’30 artists’ in...
A new Andy Lau flick, ‘a Battle of Wits‘ is taking on the Warring States period. But with flying kung fu fighters? The movie site has a trailer. The last major work on this period Shanghai Eye managed to notice was Chen Kaige’s Emper...
You’ll have to bear with us on this one- this is the Shanghai Eye #1 outlet. OK, so the shop is on Huai Hai Road, number 1986, and its name is Ting. It also sells a lot of stuff by some relatively famous designers, in clothes and porcelain, furn...
Shanghai Eye was shocked, repeat, shocked. Shanghai Scene magazine has long been the tired and mildewed attempt by mysterious organs of the local party to knock That’s Shanghai off its perch as the city’s top Time Out clone (not that we ca...
This is this month’s cartoon for ‘the Beat’ magazine, the cover story is on research, so erm, the theme of the cartoon is research! Genius.
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