BOONA CAFE 4pm the place is alive with laptops, informal business meetings and book worms.
Met with Wang Lang who together with Liu Xinhua have archived about a zillion propaganda images from the last 40 years and have categorized them into subsets depending on posture, themes, and component parts. It's an endeavor that truly illuminates the semiotics of state administered mind fucking and image construction in general. My favorite pictured here is the counting money- economic reform era attempt at showing the masses that the Masses are indeed benefiting from the governments various urban campaigns I am writing a catalog essay for their next exhibition at DDM . DDM big boss Zheng Weimin at dinner talks about his online archive of all the Chinese contemporary artists in the world that will be able to be cross referenced by generation, thematics, exhibition history, etc. Information... When is it just too much? Three bottles of Huang Jiu later (kinda tastes like sherry- served warm and often with shredded ginger very good for digestion and insomnia) I have to go meet yet another web designer who is attempting to face lift another lost cause of webbery
along the way
Shanghai night, composition in blue
In China store owners live in the store, sometimes literally, otherwise it is place where one hosts company, hangs out, eats, sleeps and occasionally takes care of business. At night the store slowly converts to the living room
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