Ancient tomb found opposite Shanghai Eye’s house

Workmen digging the new subway line bumped into an old 700 yer old tomb, just next to Shanghai Eye’s humble 33 floor abode. The flattened city block, which previously housed thousands of people in close proximity , is set to be the gateway to the 2010 World Expo. The Shanghai Daily piece is here, and Chinese text and pictures here.

fataga?

Shandong Province

Shanghai Eye just back from Shandong, via smokey Beijing.
China’s No. 1 crankshaft factory.

6 km for sale, RMB１００，０００　ｐｅｒ　ｍｕ

　some textile workers

　 civet cat

　a fox, for fur, the use of

textiles

workers menu

sign telling textile workers to pay attention to Mao Zhedong thought

three represents theory adherents

some model workers, who won a car

seat rest advertising website of Liugong island, formerly Britain’s ’second Hong Kong.’ The site is here.

old British colonial house

old colonial flag

Jiang and son

the Huangdi on his visit to the region

a mink

just about the last old house left

Paintblog: card 2

Paintblog:card design

Shopping

This is the Shanghai Eye swan song, most likely, for the beat. It changes editorial hands after December. The theme this month is ‘retail.’

Paintblog: hills

A couple of paintings from last year.

Internet 101: how to plagiarize and make a killing..??

The site www.pop-fashion.com is an interesting example of a business model often found in this corner of the Far East.

Boasting the latest runway photos from all international editions of most well-known fashion magazines, the site is a convenient one stop shop for all your young ladies fashion needs.This seems quite a feat for a Shanghai based net venture.

Users can see all runway shows photos as they are published online, if they join up. After seeing a free 1000 photos users are charged on a per photo click basis. Now, logically this can’t be kosher, this company offers a service you wouldn’t find anywhere else in the world. Surely they aren’t paying royalties to every fashion magazine in existance, that would be a rather expensive enterprise.

Further browsing of the site reveals that users can also subscribe to international editions of all these various fashion magazines-
again- surely only the state registered foreign language import company is allowed to offer this service.

Hmm. So, lets speculate how this business model works-

Subscribe to any fashion magazine you can find, most magazines offer online subs if you have a US $ credit card.

They arrive every month in the mail. Scan all the photos. Charge people to view them.

At the same time have a brainwave- hell, it was easy to subscribe- lets offer to help other people subscribe too, with some mark-up! Great, costs are low, and we have a lot of content, aimed at a high end consumer.

And its not porn so we won’t go to jail. Brilliant. Wang where is my credit card?

This business model could be applied to many other content segments! It is not ironic that the site says it is ‘beyond your imagination,’ it is a statement of fact.

Fecal Face

Now here is a  nice art site, found via boingboing.net, vi a post about this cartoon book. And in other news, Jesus looked like Val Kilmer…

Spot the difference

See if you can tell which site inspired which. The cigarette is a nice touch.