Chongqing Taxi Driver.
I always thought the worst taxi drivers are in Shanghai, but it seems that the ones in Chongqing are quite deadly, too. The video is…
AuthorJakob Montrasio (555)
Frontend developer at DIE RHEINPFALZ, photographer under @yakobusan, occasional filmmaker — directed The Way of the Spur in Shanghai, co-directed the Golden Eye–nominated Souls of Zen. Started in Freiburg in 1982, still hasn't picked just one thing.
My new favorite colors.
Here are my new favorite colors. From left to right: #09f911 #029d74 #e35bd8 #4156c5 #635688 #c0. Hope you like them!
Fantastic Four in Shanghai.
So I just checked out the new 'Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer' trailer and guess what's in it: the Oriental Pearl TV Tower!…
justin.tv: The Truman Show comes alive.
I wanted to write something about this guy Justin since weeks. So he lives in San Francisco and he has a mobile web-cam that he…
AOL could be chinese.
Funny. I just saw 'New AOL.com Beta Rips Off Yahoo! Home Page' on digg (but TechChrunch reported first) and it's so true! Seems like AOL…
SS: China Top Brand.
Austin Ramzy has posted something rather crazy on the TIME China-Blog, a new symbol that 'designates a product as one of China's top brands'. Click…
Jin Mao Tower & World Financial Center: Vertical Panoramas.
So when I went to Lujiazui yesterday to take some new Pudong pictures for the ChinaNext competition, all of a sudden an idea flew to my head: Why not create a vertical panorama of the beautiful Jin Mao tower? So I took five images at full zoom and stitched them together in Photoshop CS3, which has a new and goddamn hard rocking Photomerging function. Do you like the result?
Cooking spaghetti - my way.
Since my guests always seem to like my spaghetti, I thought I'd post my recipe. Today my friend theshanghaieye from flickr came over and took pics while my wife and I were cooking, so you can see the progress with images.
Nikon D50 HDR test: Single RAW vs. 3 RAW's vs. 3 JPEG's.
Since people keep telling me that you can achieve better HDR results by taking images with different exposures, I performed a test for this. I was quite surprised by the result. But let's begin with the setup.
Zhouzhuang.
Zhouzhuang is supposed to be the most famous, or at least most beautiful water town in China. You may have never heard of it, but…
Why there is no Beijingist.
I guess most foreigners and / or english-speaking chinese know great Shanghai resource Shanghaiist from the Gothamist network. I always wondered why there is no…
Pudong reloaded.
Regardingless to what you may have heard, Shanghai's Pudong area is kinda boring. Except for the first ten minutes, when you walk around with a…