16 June, 2011 at 5.34 pm

Lovely idea

"Dear Photograph, Grandma loved this beach" on dearphotograph.com

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29 October, 2010 at 3.12 am

Guilin Trip – Yangshuo

On the Way to Yangshuo

My advice to anyone visiting Guilin: go to Yangshuo.

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9 January, 2010 at 3.55 pm

Hazelton

I have the sneaky suspicion I should be listening to and writing about Vampire Weekend’s Contra (out Monday!) which I got in the post today. That makes me sound so cool. Like I got the CD in advance because I’m awesome, or something. But actually I just pre-ordered the thing. So I should be listening to it, and writing about it, but I can’t. I’m preoccupied, by this:

So, legend has it that Justin Vernon, before completing his transformation into Bon Iver by locking himself up in a cabin one winter, recorded and released his own [...]

14 December, 2009 at 11.35 pm

Are You Going to Keep Out All the Sadness?

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE – a review

“It’s going to be a place where only the things you’d want to happen, would happen.”

It’s hard to explain how beautiful Where The Wild Things Are is, especially when a bunch of teenage boys kept on walking in and out during the entire thing, before finally deciding that they should all stage a walk out. For a film based on a children’s book, and largely aimed at children, it’s strangely serious, and in some [...]

21 October, 2009 at 9.26 pm

Majenta Designs

Okay, so I randomly found this jewellery designer. Absolutely beautiful.

The designer is based in Boston, Massachusetts. And her jewellery is made using Japanese Chiyogami paper, and yeah, they’re freaking gorgeous.

Check out her Etsy shop! http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5317150

27 September, 2009 at 5.27 pm

南京!南京!- The City of Life and Death

南京!南京!(Nanjing! Nanjing!) or The City of Life and Death is a film directed and written by Lu Chuan (陸川). The film took 4 years to complete and was released earlier this year. It was a box office success, yet has sparked some controversy in China.

The film is a dramatisation of what is often referred to as the Nanjing Massacre – The Japanese invasion of Nanjing during the years 1937-1938. To give a brief history of the event, after taking Shanghai, the Japanese forces attacked Nanjing, the then capital of the Nationalist Party. City officials, families [...]