Official John Rabe(约翰拉贝) pictures.

Most of my friends know what I've been doing during the last three months: working with the VFX team on the german movie John Rabe. Sadly, no trailer has been officially released yet so I don't really have anything to show. But! 'Majestic Film Verleih', the company who will bring…

Shanghai Transformers Police?

When we drove back from Wuzhen to Shanghai in January, we encountered the above posted police car. The first time it passed us by, I was like 'wtf?', that can't really be a police car. But then I noticed the siren on top of the car as well as the…

A walk on the wall.

Yesterday we took a day off from all that family-meeting-during-spring-festival business and took a almost two hour long walk on the famous Xi'An city wall. The Xi'An city wall surrounds completely the inner downtown area, which makes it a incredible 13.74 kilometers long. It was established in the year 582,…

The Edison Chen "Sexgate".

Top topic among people in the wife's and mine age rank this spring festival: the stolen sex tape pictures from Hong Kong star Edison Chen, the Sexgate. So this dude is a famous singer slash actor, and bedded recently quite an impressive amount of chinese female stars (god knows how…

Michael is back! Thriller 25th Anniversary.

"Dangerous" was probably the album I listened to the most as a young, dumb boy. And I absolutely loved Michael's great music videos on Mtv, too! I guess I'm one of the hardcore fans from him. Anyway, his last two or three albums were really bad, so I had almost…

Mastering Mahjong (麻將).

My wife, my parents-in-law and myself had a nice little Mahjong session just now. Real chinese Mahjong is played with 136 tiles which contain about 30 different characters, so that each one is about four times to be found in the game. Sounds a lot like Poker, doesn't it? Wikipedia…

The Condemned – Blutiges Überleben als Unterhaltungskonzept

Die Handlung als Spiegel der Sensationsgier Die Idee hinter The Condemned ist simpel, aber effektiv: Ein skrupelloser TV-Produzent organisiert ein mörderisches Spektakel, bei dem zehn zum Tode verurteilte Straftäter:innen auf einer abgelegenen Insel ums Überleben kämpfen. Nur wer als letzte:r überlebt, erhält die Freiheit. Die Kämpfe, gefilmt von hunderten Kameras,…

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