A new, quick illustration created for the participatory blog Illustration Friday. The theme of the week was “Mystery”. I used a photo from my trip up E’Mei Mountain, a sacred Buddhist mountain in Sichuan province. I wanted to evoke the sense of mystery and delight I felt when we climbed up a steep set of …
I have some continuing translation work for the photography book I mentioned before. Right now I’m helping to translate titles of some photographic works. Most of them are pretty straightforward, but I am showing those below in order to get help. The photographs are all beautiful and an interesting window to Chinese photography in the …
The last three weeks, I’ve been working on a translation of an article about Jin Shisheng, a Chinese photographer who passed away in 2000. The article was written by Wu Hung (if you know who he is… well, you know how big of a deal this is), and I was both honored and terrified to …
Wow, wow, wow. Serious internet toboggan this afternoon that began last night at Foresight Design Initiative Green Drinks. The topic was “Art and Sustainability”, so of course I was interested (and also the founder of Foresight is an Obie alum), and so I went and listened to members of Chicago-based Filament Theatre Company discuss their …
Personal sourcebook of lion photos. These are from China and Denver. I was collecting these images for a while because I wanted to build my own Chinese stone lion. Right now I’m not as interested in the idea, but the visual concept might come up in another project somehow.
(I started writing this over the summer and then never got back to it… ) I am finally back in the United States after all of my adventures in China. I stopped posting on the blog in March, which was partially my decision (so little precious free time) and partially not my decision (Chinese government …
Our first full day in Chengdu was really packed- we got up early to see the PANDAS. They are only active from 8:30-10:00ish in the morning, when they eat, afterwards in order for their bodies to digest the bamboo they have to sleep. They were about as cute as everyone says they are. Andrew bought …
So I’m really behind on posting, but I’m just going to do what’s the most current and worry about the other things later (slash when I get home). Last week ACC had a one week break and we went to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. Sichuan is in the south western part of China, …