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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 of course taken from the chinese movie 门 - The Door, a very cool psycho horror flick that tells the…
Here are my new favorite colors. From left to right: #09f911 #029d74 #e35bd8 #4156c5 #635688 #c0. Hope you like them!
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! Awesome, seems like Mission Impossible 3 did it's part in bringing more moviemakers to China. I wonder though, if the…
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 never turns off. He is live 24 hours a day. On the internet. Via live-stream. On the domain justin.tv. I…
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 is yet another Microsoft and can't figure out to make their own design, see Windows Live aka MSN and Google.
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 on the symbol to read the whole story...
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yakobusan/471351091/" title="Photo Sharing"><img loading="lazy" src="https://montras.io/media/posts/201/471351091_cc70f083e2_m.jpg" alt="ChinaNext Entry #3" width="159" height="240"></a><br><br>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?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yakobusan/468219100/" title="Photo Sharing"><img loading="lazy" src="https://montras.io/media/posts/196/468219100_7fd21c81e6.jpg" alt="55: Spaghetti!!!" width="500" height="486"></a><br><br>Since my guests always seem to like my spaghetti, I thought I'd post my recipe. Today my friend <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theshanghaieye/">theshanghaieye</a> from flickr came over and took pics while my wife and I were cooking, so you can see the progress with images.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yakobusan/243841124/" title="Photo Sharing"><img loading="lazy" src="https://montras.io/media/posts/193/243841124_32675c52d3.jpg" alt="Nikon D50: ordered!" width="500" height="380"></a><br><br>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.</p>
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 there is a chance that you have seen it already: It is used during the showdown of the third 'Mission:…