eArts or eFarts or eTrash

Shanghai eArts Festival 2008

On these three larger than human scale 'periscopes', images of those who look into the smaller view finders will be projected on the other sides of larger screens. Images will be repeatedly displayed over time. For these images taken, they are transferred to another large screen. From here, images are processed, taken as a unit at a time and transcribed as an electronic pixel, and transformed into constructing those vertical stacks of representative building blocks of a city. Well, this is a simple presentation but made so magnified and complex. Why would the artist make life so tough to understand the meaning of an electron or electronics? And how an electron or an electronic has affected our everyday life ever since its discovery or before discovery?

Just never understood the function of this beautifully sculpted cubicles...many were standing in line for a long time but just were never allowed in. So what's the objective of an eArts then? To wait another second longer in order to find out the meaning of another electronic big bang? Dumb.

Jeremy

Shanghai upon the Sea

Oct. 21st., 2008

eArts or or eFarts or eTrash

Shanghai eArts Festival 2008

See those so called (f)artists setting up their exhibition outdoor but their actions are none other than in the process of generating more visually polluting urban trash, indeed more reminiscent of those fragmented glasses lacing the parapet top of fences to keep out unwanted elements, an already unfortunate urban fixture exposing our endangered living and hostile environment. So what has this got to do with electronics or arts or eArts? Scummy trash!

More eTrash polluting the plaza's pool. These eJelly-Fish are supposed to light up in the pool but the overall presentation was so lame that they were indeed visually confounding in their existence, not even close to electronically appealing. What is the Shanghai Urban Management supposed to be doing? High time to get rid of eTrash and keep the pool as pristine as it functionally should be.

Jeremy

Shanghai upon the Sea

Oct. 21st., 2008

Green Vege

After picking up ironed clothes from the laundry mat, on the way back I bought a bunch of the green vege for only RMB2 to add for dinner tonight. Really can't beat the price when I could only consume half the vege tonight.

Jeremy
Shanghai upon the Sea
Oct. 20th., 2008

eArts or eFarts or eTrash

Shanghai eArts Festival 2008

eArts Festival opened with a big bang in Shanghai but sounded more like some lame trash continued to be added onto the surface of Earth. Rather, all these projects at eArts Festival should be tossed back into those artists' sources where they were born. The hoo-haa around town captured the attention of a local TV station to feature timely when this local TV also has nothing better or programs to feature.

If taking seriously this project shown below, I wish the artist did not associate any of his or her monkey idea with electronics or arts - some wishy washy monkey head or monkey tails references - at all, rather, just plain environmental or urban sculpture, and whether interactive or not. The tentacles are supposed to move should one walks by with his or her movement detected by those sensors set at the bottom of the two rows of tentacles. If not, puuurlease - not another piece of purely fanciful trash that does nothing to promote or develop novel ideas other than polluting the already congested urban space available.

Jeremy
Shanghai upon the Sea
Oct. 19th., 2008

Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre

Jeremy

Shanghai upon the Sea

Oct. 19th., 2008

Pollution in Shanghai

This is what happens when stunted stone age provincial mind set continues to be retained in the urban environment. For three over years living above and right by this restaurant as shown below, every single morning is but menacing due to the smoke. Windows must be shut but willowing smoke slips through the gaps. Depending on the wind direction, mine also cannot be subjected without pollution, the immediate neighborhood and especially the kindergarten behind the fence are direct hit of this total disregard of clean environment. The photos also show one of the employees starting a fire with the restaurant across the street.

Jeremy

Shanghai upon the Sea

Oct. 19th., 2008

Craftmanship

I always have very high regard, though socially they are not, for this craftman's admirable skills, and those alike. They are able to well utilize their skills, out of which make a decent living and generate pretty little things that decorate homes. Social or economic planning including urban planning has historically and still consistently disregard their contributions to social development. Indeed, they make nice addition to side walks in countryside or urban scenery so long as there is proper, but usually not considered, allocation of space for them to make a living.

Jeremy
Shanghai upon the Sea
Oct. 19th., 2008

Osthmanthus blossoms

桂 花 飘 香

The sweetly aromatic osthmanthus cannot be avoided when the wind is blowing one's way. The fragrant flavor keeps people alive during autumn. When dried, the flowers can be sprinkled into a cup of tea to enhance its taste values.

Jeremy
Shanghai upon the Sea
Oct. 19th., 2008

Medan and Lake Toba, Indonesia
Oct. 1st – 4th, 2008

Wong Solo

Wong Solo is a restaurant famed for its various but limited choices of fried chicken. The sweet smiling service was less than satisfactory for every order requested could not be met or unavailable. Wonder how else they do business. When dinner bill was requested, it was noted that wrong orders were recorded.

With strong regional influence, the interior decor is impressive and well articulated with great sense of proportion and color used. However, dining tables, chairs and ground level cubibles were not well upkept after use due to grease stain. The ground level cubicles as very personable or family oriented partially enclosed dining spaces maintain the customary dinner congregation on floor level of the local folks.

Wong Solo is now an expanding business with two or three chains around town. For two days, two Wong Solos were visited and not once were lucky enough to try out its famed fried chicken.

Jeremy

Shanghai upon the Sea

Oct. 18th., 2008