Recently in Polaroid of the Week Category

I got another lovely SX-70 camera. I resisted of getting the chrome tan SX-70 camera for so long, but finally, i had to give in.

Blank stone tablet in Harvard.

This entire week has been a week of thunder storms and flash floods for Boston and its surrounding areas. Between the rain and sun, there are these amazing clouds. I caught this moment as I was driving home from work. I love Vanilla Sky. Yes, because I just got an amazing scanner, the white frames are back!

Swimming pool in my Beijing home.

Polaroid of the week this week is of Lili and Bobo, in NanLuoGu Xiang, Beijing.

Polaroid of the week this week is a shot of a very boxy ice cream truck I saw down in Lower East Side of Manhattan. Its almost cartoon like.

Missed some polaroid-of-the-week, finally got them back today, here they are...

Meeting up with Chloe in Xidan for the play Amber, scaffolding outside of the mall.

Trip to Summer Palace with Rachel

Another shot of Summer Palace

Fireworks at night, during Chinese New Year two month ago. I liked the black polaroid having just a few drops of flares, finally decided to have it scanned.

I'm absolutely infatuated with these brand new mega constructions in Beijing. Looking out from HP building and seeing the CCTV tower being finished, I wonder what's it like to work in there. Its a massive 550,000 suare meter development housing the entire porcess of tv program making. There's a second building cleverly named "TVCC" next to the tower, which you can kind of see through that "window" of the tower. It'll be a hotel and visitor center.

I personally don't have a whole lot respect for the station its self though. Its a massive bureaucratic entity much like China its self. Its channel idents are pathetic, CCTV logo is a knock off of CNN's, no consistency cross the board. For example, while CCTV news channel's identity being a spinning yellow+black globe. CCTV money / finance channel just plagiarized the ever so famous Sony Bravia "balls" commercial. Its a bunch of bouncing red balls instead of multi color robber balls going through a city.. and... they waited for traffic lights.

anyways, back to HP meeting, and for those of you curious souls that still haven't seen the Sony Bravia spot i mentioned, here is the link : http://bravia.sony.eu/bravia-html/balls-thead.asp

PS. from now on my polaroid pictures will be presented without borders.

Ever notice most songs are written about love? From a secret crush, to love at first sight, to heart break, to longing. Desire can be beautiful and scary at the same time. Does love make us stronger? Then why do we reveal so much vulnerabilities to a loved one? Does it make us weak? Then why do we abuse a loved one's trust sometimes? As we move on, we become skeptics, cynics, and sometimes, abusers, and yet, we put our selves in this loop. I'm not in love. I'm not in doubt. I am... despondent.

Polaroid of the week.

The first one is the terminal in SFO, I loved the yellow lighting. It made the pass way futuristic.

Encounter is one of my favorite architectures in LA. Apparently its under some renovations.

Second, is the MTA building in Downtown Los Angeles on Valentines day.

3rd street and 110 fwy entrance.

Missed couple of the Polaroid of the week pictures, here they are.

Self portrait of me on the morning of Jessica's wedding. Night at the hotel in shanghai, and Shanghai hongqiao airport.

Drowning Heart.

taken in front of the HP building, waiting for a meeting...

The Moscow Restaurant near the Beijing Zoo and Beijing Exhibition center is the first western restaurant in Beijing. Built in 1954, it was built to demonstrate the brotherhood between China and Soviet Union. Similarly, Moscow has a restaurant called Beijing Restaurant.

I first got interested in this place from watching the movie "in the heat of the sun" (阳光灿烂的日子) in it, it was portrayed as the ultimate symbol for luxury and power during the tumultuous 60s in Beijing.

The food is actually not bad, I went in with low expectations as I was told by my dad that from his memory as a child, the restaurant was an over rated place that sold crappy food. I did enjoy my food, however I think it IS on the pricey side. Its worth going just for the atmosphere trust me.

Randomly felt like visiting the National art museum of China. Architecturally, it is one of the first waves of major construction in the city along with tian an men square and people's great hall, but often neglected for some reason. I saw Li Ke Ran's Chinese paintings, its alright. His son has fresher ideas I thought. Think Wang Nan and Meimei had better time than me though.

Polaroid of the week, for this week and last week. Two encounters on my way back from work. I saw a bunch of Migrant workers just having fun watchin the traffic, there were four of them, absolutely captivated by the traffic going under Jian Guo Men. The other one is a lonely singer, sitting in the cold pedestrian underpass, singing his songs away in a deliberately, pretentious lonely voice.

Tibetan girl

Polaroids from Tibet are scanned in, this will count as polaroid of the week this week. I'm organizing the photos now, and since Roger's going back on 17th, his 120 rolls will be taken care of first, I will have to wait for a week :-/, anyways, I will post some polaroids as time goes by.

Polaroid of the week, Vivian Lan and Clair Zhou, at my farewell party.

Thanks you guys, I do have to admit that despite my mediocre attitude towards you all, you guys decided to show up to my farewell dinner. I wish I could've done more both as a friend and as a co-worker. Anyways, without further adieu, click on continue reading for all the pictures that night.

Polaroid of the week, Xi Zhi Men Suway Station.