Beijing and Loney Dear

Loney Dear:


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I just got back to HK from Beijing...

Some pictures:

Cui Nan's kitties...








Master pug...












The poorest artist studios I have ever seen...




This is an exiting and inspiring time for me.

Yayayaya!

Oh my GOD, how cool (+slightly creepy) is this:
The Knife, You Make Me Like Charity


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I had a really good week last week. Nothing significant, other than lots of good music, and surprisingly nice lunch meetings.

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Osage Gallery

We (Hilda, Matt, Calvin, +I) went to Osage Kwun Tung gallery for the FUTURAMANILA opening.











Uh huh..


This band is called the Radioactive Sago Project. And they are this awesome "alternative jazz" band from Manila.






This is the owner of Osage. She's so cool. From this point on, I look insanely happy and a bit ugly. I swear it's the camera...


The business card moment

So we ended up taking this slightly drunk photo with the guitarist...


So we said hi and exchanged business cards etc. Then we went to catch up with the rest of the group. And right before we left we saw him at the door again, being a retard I forget that I already gave him my business card and gave him another one! He must think I have short term memory loss!









Stopped by at the Chivas Studio party, the lamest and most pretentious party we've been to in HK so far... we left after 20mins.


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The following night, went back to see Radioactive Sago again at Osage Soho with Gigi and Wendy.




We went back to that jazz place I talked about couple of weeks ago...I forgot what it's called again...

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Poo, back to work.

Discover Mates of State!

My Body is a Diary

Work
Work is piling by the day. I really want to just want to get away for a day.
I'll be in China from August 2 to 11th.

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Furniture
I've been gawking at things that I like but I can't have right now because I can't settle down. The idea of settling down so I can go furniture shopping is so appealing right now. Furniture like these:

Paddy by Nick Melville from Glimpse Online

Item description
‘Paddy’ is a comfy upholstered chair with the theme of a padded cell. The enclosed shape offers an experience of safety and security, and provides sanctuary from the rapid pace and noise of everyday life. It’s large enough to fit two people so you can share with a friend.
Price £3,235.42
Wanna come and be insane with me?

Gramophone Chandelier by Jericho Hands

Item description
A huge globe of Gramophone horns forms a stunning chandelier with the real 'wow' factor. As featured in The Sunday Times 'Style Section.' Available to order to any specific size.
Price £2,800.00

And for when I have a garden: the bathtub chair from Reestore

Price: £2,400

Sigh...

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I went to a local art gallery opening with Hilda today (no photos...). It was hard to break the ice because I don't speak Cantonese. It looks like HK is split up into two main social groups: the expats and the locals. And it's really hard to get the two to appreciate eachother and to learn from eachother. Not knowing is one thing, not interested is another. Now how do we get people to be interested in one another?

Who ever said art is a universal language is a fool.

I want to meet more locals.

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-Andy Warhol.



This was taken at...(name to be added as soon as I find out). Great live jazz. I'm wearing my leather flower headband as a bracelet, loooove that thing.






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At Knutsford Terrace.

He's leaving...


With Gigi, from high school back in Auckland. Soon to be lawyer. She's so cool :P *blush.












This is what I would look like in finance.


Seriously...


Dress is Alice + Olivia.

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New favorites:


Clara Luzia, from Vienna. Haven't heard anything this good in a while (listen on her myspace page).

Morninglight:


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The Kills, Last Day of Magic. This is what love means to me.


Cavalry come
Cavalry go
Cavalry leave me alone
A little serenade, oh
A little cup of cane, oh
Last day of magic
Where were you?

I don't want heart, I want soul

Update: What the hell? "Batman star Christian bailed". London. He was arrested after his own mother and sister accuses him of assault? Hmm...

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At Osage gallery in Kwun Tong with Hilda, for the Women's Work opening. This is one of coolest places I've been to in HK so far. It's inside a revitalized factory space. I love everything about it, from the freight elevator to the large dramatic space and the industrial feel. Plus there was free food and wine, and not nachos and shit, like roast ham, risotto and mini burgers.



The way overused Porcelain font from (the so awesome) misprintedtype.com. Stylized fonts become outdated so quickly. This is what I mean when I say HK is a little bit lagging. I used this font too...in 2006 :(
















Yup I'm wearing a men's shirt. Got it last week and I've been wearing every other day.


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Best movie I've seen in a long time. Heath Ledger is so brilliant. (And I'm glad Maggie Gyllenhaal replaced Katie Holmes). Go see it!


Dries Van Noten dress. Can't stop admiring how the flames from the poster matches those flowers on her dress...

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Recent shoe purchases:





This whole living next to one of the best malls in HK thing isn't doing me much good. I should move far far away...but since HK is one big shopping haven, that's going to difficult.

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Starting today, I'm saving my money... to buy a better camera...

The good the bad and the beautiful

My week started out like CRAP. I blame it on the rain and.... global warming! The rain finally stopped Thursday and that's when things started getting better.

Thank goodness for friends, and retail therapy.

Weekend:

Friday night, Wendy and I went to The Fringe Club for Listen Up! I really appreciate what this place is trying to do, the whole giving new artists a stage to perform on, gallery space to show work..etc etc. We checked out their gallery space. What's funny is that there were paintings for sale, actual price tags next to all the pieces (there were big paintings for 8000HKD). To me that's a little awkward and kind of cuts down the...should I say "warmth" of the whole place. When I was walking around it felt like they were trying to do everything at the same time. Obviously a recent art school graduate doesn't want to make "starving artist" as their profession...and this is giving them a chance to make some dough to pay the rent. But pricing the paintings like shoes for sale — at a place that's supposed to be encouraging — is "cold".

Anyhow, here's a band that performed. Can't remember their name. We saw 2 of the 3 performances and this band was the better of the two...just an opinion.





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Saturday I went computer hunting. It's finally time to replace my Powerbook G4, she's been with me for the past 4 years through thick and thin. I've dropped her numerous times, she's been sent to "the station" 3 times and now she's begging me to let her go. You can get a pretty good deal for a Macbook Pro here. All hail for tax-free HK!

I saw The Incredible Hulk!! Reminds me of...
Anyway, it was 1000x better than the first one! But that's because my favorite actor is in it! Edward Norton is the epitome of the perfect man to me. The sad eyes, the dark hair, the way he talks, the script writing, the directing, the environmental activism, educated. I love the roles he chooses to play. Fight Club, Norton beats Brad Pitt by farrr.



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An afternoon with Olivia, at Cafe Epoch, then some shopping at Pacific Place and IFC...
I really enjoyed Epoch when I first arrived in HK. It's worst weekday lunchtimes when its filled with men in suits and it becomes a big and chatty corporate meeting room. Best at night, for dessert, when it's most quiet, right before they close.













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I'll be in Shenzhen for most of next week. Ah why is everything so hard?? ...
Must be global warming.