April 2007 Archives

I gotta hand it to the swiss, with their golden rules and Fibonacci numbers. I admit, swiss frank is by far, the most beautiful currency note I've ever seen.

I didn't want to take the usual party pictures of the store opening. I decided to take some shots the day before instead, here they are. Noise Beijing is a design concept started by dwane lincoln and wei wei, it is located in San Li Tun, right across street from Bar Blue. I will be in the shop every Friday and Saturday night to help out, well, after my may holiday trip. Hope to see all of you guys there.

one of the three founders of noise, Dwane

Wei Wei, is Licoln Damen's wife, she's very concerned about me making troubles there.

San Mao, from work, just hanging out.

So yeah, here we go again, when I ask people to take a picture of me, I repeatedly asks them to focus. Wei insisted that I was in focus, that I couldn't be any sharper. I still asked her again, to please double check, and she guaranteed me that I was in focus. Thanks Wei. I trained my ex-gf hard and now I really need another hassleblad friendly friend.

I somehow just didn't trust Wei, so I had to do this for insurance.

This cool noodle place is right next door to the shops back door, all I have to do is to rang the door bell and i get full kitchen access, how cool is that!

So right up to my flight to Singapore couple of weeks ago, I was feeling really shitty. Not only was I heart broken, I was also really sick caused by all the stress from work and from, you know, the person that dumped you. Anyways, Lisa and Lena, two nicest person on the 12th flr took their lunchtime and brought me to a clinic in Swisotel, I was better right away after the antibiotic IV. I just got these pictures back from Lisa. Thanks a lot guys ^_^. I don't know what I would've done with out you guys that week.

Thanks to Marcus from work. I was reminded of this movie and watched it. Eighteen directors each directed a short film piece revolved around love and Paris. I was profoundly moved by this film, such an overwhelming range of stories describing so many aspects of love, and yet, they are only a few minutes each. There are the typical love at first sight pieces, and rekindling of old relationships. Then, there are the ones that describe love taken for granted, love that causes aches and pain, love that examines loss, longing, miscommunication... closure. This has become my favorite movie so far this year, I recommend it to everyone.

Sitting in the office, working on the next big thing from Moto, which I can't yet disclose, I realized, that I'm actually missing out on Roots concert. Thank god I held off on getting the tickt. Found this cool link though.

noise beijing

Some of you thats close to O&M creative department, or with Lincoln and Dwane probably already knew this, yeah, they opened up a cool shop called noise. It reminds me a bit of giant robot in the states. Cool T-shirt, design books, and some random toys are sold there. There's also a studio space for silkscreen printing, how awesome is that. The picture above is when they just finished remodeling. I went to the place on Saturday night, I fell in love with it. I stayed there for the longest time, since there's a illigetimate, hole in the wall noodle place right next door to them. Lincoln kicked me out after bunch of us finished our noodels finally at 2 in the morning. Noise is located right across from Barblue, for those of you that are in Beijing, the shop is open for business now and official store opening will be next wkend... I think. I will have some more pictures posted up soon.

May Holiday Traveling Plans:

Beijing - Paris - Geneva - Lausanne

Lausanne - Geneva

Geneva - Lausanne - Cairo - Tele Viv

Tele Viv - Paris - Beijing

Happy easter everyone. Ning Sent these to me, they look really interesting. Thanks Ning :)

This is from absolut.com/pears. The site features some neat things being destroyed in slow motion. Really cool.

I've heard a lot about Singapore, how great it is, so on and so forth. Last week I finally got a chance to art direct a shoot there. Geoff Ang is this super cool Beemer driving photographer thats pretty famous in Asia. Also, I totally got a crush on his studio manger, she's super hot! damn it.

The shoot was challenging because we've never shot so many models with so many outfits and stylings in such short period of time. So I didn't have a great deal of time to explore the little country properly. I was mighty proud though, because this place is like... the closest thing to a colony for Chinese people, and we totally did it peacefully, before the brits.

I have one more roll left to develop, pictures of me and our AE jessica on Santosa island, they will be on here soon, but for now, I have these.