Archive for August 2007

Some newish WIPS

Aug 17th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Paintblog, Random Shanghai stuff...
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Some newish WIPS

Some new work in progress shots

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Some art news- revolutions within revolutions

Aug 10th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Some art news- revolutions within revolutions

The IHT has run a story on Zeng Fanzhi.
Quote: The Beijing-based 43-year-old artist was recently in Singapore for the opening of a major retrospective of his work. In an interview, he pointed out, with the aid of a translator, that the ideologic...


Hot Paint Wips

Aug 5th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Paintblog, Random Shanghai stuff...
Hot Paint Wips

Some work in progress shots…. preliminary titles include opiates of the masses, the good official.

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World War 3 illustrated

Aug 5th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
World War 3 illustrated

While I was in theUK I picked up a copy of this magazine/comic “WorldWar 3 Illustrated.” It has some very graphic stories from Iraq, such as photos provided to one of the artists by a traumatised soldier, ...


Shanghai flash floods

Aug 4th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Shanghai flash floods

Shanghai had some pretty intense rain this afternoon. Managed to take a few shots with the old camera phone. Where the roads dip towards the river a few cars and a bus got stuck. Back in the day it used to flood like this all the time.

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India and Pakistan 2007

Aug 4th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...

BBC radio has just broadcast an interesting 3 part documentary on the Indian Pakistan relationship.
” Crossing the Border:
Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a personal journey across the borders of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, setting his...


Silly season news

Aug 4th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...

Now August is here the silly season is with us, as journos around the world scrape around for news, while most other people are on holiday.
Here’s a quick round up of the latest (mostly in the Sun, which never fails to disappoint during si...


Blog admin note stuff

Aug 3rd, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Blog admin note stuff

Has anyone noticed this new news aggregator over at SH mag? Seems they have included Shanghai Eye in their feed! If we could only figure out how to do one of those counter thingys we’d actually know if anyone ever visited the site! We do hav...


The East is red, the butt is numb, and other art news

Aug 3rd, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
The East is red, the butt is numb, and other art news

There are some very cool hi res scans of People’s Opera here, together with some witty comments.

“a crack battalion of female sharpshooter-ballerinas were slaughtered en masse”
In other art news, once the sultry summer t...