For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Muddy Waters: You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
Sage words from a great philosopher. . .
Sage words from a great philosopher. . .
Friday, June 08, 2012
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Monday, June 04, 2012
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Saturday, June 02, 2012
Zaz: La Pluie
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
Spare a moment to enjoy this chanson (les paroles y compris | lyrics included). . .
Spare a moment to enjoy this chanson (les paroles y compris | lyrics included). . .
Friday, June 01, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Eye | Land | View
Thursday, late afternoon.
The harbour of a little island in the South China Sea is very full. Why so?
Locally-based fishing vessels have returned to port as there is now a two-month ban on fishing.
Some of the local boats will never sail again. A law comes into force at the end of the year banning all trawl fishing in Hong Kong waters. Trawl fishing is when a boat drags a net though the water. So far, so good. But when fishing in shallow waters, the net scrapes along the seabed. That's really destructive. The result is carnage.
It is to be noted that the mainland Chinese government already prohibits trawling all year round in its territorial waters of less than 40 metres (132 feet) and extends this ban with a May to August moratorium on all trawling, purse-seining and stake-netting activities.
Hereabouts, Hong Kong Government has put in place a number of measures to compensate soon-to-be ex-trawler owners and crews. And thanks to its buy-back scheme, the local authorities plan to sink some of the newly acquired trawlers to create artificial reefs.
Beach Boys: Sail on Sailor
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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Drama on a little island in the South China Sea (part 2)
Yesterday's film shoot
[Sadly, I have never learned to read Chinese so I have no clue about what the banners say. Still, it looks "political" to me. But it probably has nothing to do with the telegram sent on 17 May 1968 to the POLITBURO OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY GATE OF CELESTIAL PEACE PEKING]
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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Drama on a little island in the South China Sea
Local terrestrial broadcaster TVB filming on location. There's the film crew, ancillary others, assorted Canto actors, and a dozen or so crowd extras (age 18-25) including one European blonde . . .
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Stromae: Alors on danse
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
As an antidote to the weekend's wet weather, here's some Belgian/Rwandan electro dance music (with French/English lyrics) . . .
As an antidote to the weekend's wet weather, here's some Belgian/Rwandan electro dance music (with French/English lyrics) . . .
Friday, May 18, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
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Second Sunday in May: Frocks!
("Procession in Honour of the Holy Cross and Our Lady of Fatima")
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mad Professor: Mad Man Dubwise
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
Classic Jamaican riddims coupled with Hong Kong kung fu in glorious black & white!
Classic Jamaican riddims coupled with Hong Kong kung fu in glorious black & white!
Friday, May 11, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Monday, May 07, 2012
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Dulce Pontes; A brisa do coracao
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
The singer is the Portuguese Dulce Pontes, the music is by Ennio Morricone. Theme song for the 1998 Portuguese film Sostiene Pereira (Sostiene Maintains).
Recently discovered the film. In this household it currently rates as one of the most enjoyable viewed so far this year. More about it here: Sostiene Pereira (Sostiene Maintains)
The singer is the Portuguese Dulce Pontes, the music is by Ennio Morricone. Theme song for the 1998 Portuguese film Sostiene Pereira (Sostiene Maintains).
Recently discovered the film. In this household it currently rates as one of the most enjoyable viewed so far this year. More about it here: Sostiene Pereira (Sostiene Maintains)
Friday, May 04, 2012
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
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With much crashing of symbols and bleating of cornets, a lion dance crew cruised past at least a half-dozen times today.
It's been like that for the past seven days, whatever the weather, come rain or shine.
Monday, April 30, 2012
May Day
Tomorrow, May Day is a public holiday, hereabouts.
Vive La Fête!
[The image above is from La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques? (Can Dialectics Break Bricks?), a 1973 film produced by French director René Viénet. A Situationist critique of cultural hegemony, it used the 1972 Hong Kong film The Crush (唐手跆拳道) by Tu Guangqi for its visuals. Probably only of interest to the politically literate.]
Vive La Fête!
[The image above is from La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques? (Can Dialectics Break Bricks?), a 1973 film produced by French director René Viénet. A Situationist critique of cultural hegemony, it used the 1972 Hong Kong film The Crush (唐手跆拳道) by Tu Guangqi for its visuals. Probably only of interest to the politically literate.]
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Supermarket
A little island in the South China Sea begins its annual Bun Festival tomorrow with Cantonese opera at the temporary bamboo/tin opera house newly erected in front of Pak Tai Temple.
A couple of days from now the place goes "vegetarian", although what counts as vegetarian is somewhat idiosyncratic. Oysters, anyone?
This year, the pièce de résistance -- actually, there are two: the procession through the village and "bun climb" -- is on
Just so you know.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Dave Brubeck : Unsquare Dance
For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.
Music is from the album Time Further Out. . .
Music is from the album Time Further Out. . .
Friday, April 20, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
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Monday, thunderstorm
Around 4:20pm this afternoon it got real dark. Dark enough the street lamps turned themselves on. Then the rain arrived, seriously torrential rain. Oh, and the wind picked up. So much so that soon enough it was bordering on typhoon-type wind.
Not the sort of wind nor rain you want to be out and about in.
Twenty minutes later is was back to "normal": the wind dropped and the rain became once more the kind that pitter-patters. It's still raining as I write.
The above photo was taken at the height of the storm (5:00pm) and from the comfort and safety of the flat. For me, it was too hazardous to venture out.
That said, I am still trying to work out how to capture such rainstorms in a way that "works", because I'm not there yet.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
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