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.
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Life and travel stories from China – culture, contrast, family ties, and a filmmaker’s eye on a changing world.
DVD9: In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.
Jason Statham plays a farmer called Farmer (no joke) who has to go on a mission to save the world, after an evil sorcerer (Ray…
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…
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 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,…
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…
Golden week, so far: Ningbo, a lake, tea mountain and faked cities.
This pictures was not taken in Beijing.
Confusing headline? You should have seen me when I was standing in the fake forbidden palace! Hengdian World Studios is the name of the crazy movie studio that 'rebuild' the forbidden city for cinematic purposes. And not only Beijing, but they also copied some buildings from Xi'An, Hongkong, Guangzhou and other cities. I didn't know this, but quite a few big movie titles were completely or partly shot here: Gong Li's THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN, Zhen Kaige's horrible THE PROMISE and last but not least Zhang Yimou's latest drama THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER. And countless chinese TV series, as it seems.
My first driving lesson in China!
Last sunday was the 'premiere': I had my very first driving lesson in Shanghai's Xuhui district, near Caobao road line one subway station. The license…
Buying a Nintendo Wii in Shanghai.
I wanted a Xbox 360. But then I saw that the prices for HDTV's didn't drop that much and that we probably weren't going to…
Insane rain in Pudong!
I just had left my home to walk to Longyang road to grab a subway to go downtown for lunch with a friend, when a…
Old Shanghai in Ang Lee's new movie.
Lust, Caution is the new movie from Ang Lee. Most of the story seems to take place in 'occupied Shanghai', so I am guessing in…
Top 25 Cities with skyscrapers.
German magazine "Spiegel" has published a list of 25 cities - ordered by the amount of skyscraper they have. It's a quite interesting list and it even has some surprises. Shanghai will, of course, sooner or later rise to No. 1 - don't worry! Here we go:
No. 1: Hongkong, China! 7422 skyscrapers.
No. 2: New York City, USA! 5445 skyscrapers.
No. 3: Singapore! 3503 skyscrapers. 4 million people.