It’s been almost a year since I’ve left Beijing and I still think about how the city landscape was in such dramatic change while I was there, as I’m sure it still is. At that time I also met Jonah Kessel (via Twitter), who filmed a series of short videos for Asia Society, the first is titled “A Disappearing World.” [...]
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Another look at Beijing’s Hutongs
Posted by Tiffany Wan on January 20, 2012
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2012/01/another-look-at-beijings-hutongs/
TEDtalk: How Westerners can make sense of China (And some rambling)
Watch this 20 minute TEDtalk by Martin Jacques, which gives some wonderful insight into China and how Westerners can better understand China and its growth. Jacques identifies some key points of Easterners being more knowledgable of the West because they have been forced to learn from these powerful, developed countries. In the time that I’ve been in [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on February 17, 2011
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2011/02/tedtalk-how-westerners-can-make-sense-of-china-and-some-rambling/
DaShan： 大山
大山, DaShan, (Big Mountain) aka Mark Rowswell is a Canadian who started studying Mandarin in the mid-1980s and has about 40 episodes of a CCTV series titled ’Communicate in Chinese.’ DaShan is quite well known by all Chinese as a caucasian who speaks Mandarin like a local. I’ve just started to listen to the episodes in the [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on August 19, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/08/dashan/
slurp digital eyedropper sucks up info
This digital eyedropper sucks up information from one screen and injects it wirelessly to another. Have a look at 40 seconds of amazingness: In this video I demonstrate how slurp can be used to move digital files between machines over the network. Rather than plug a USB drive into the port that corresponds with a [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on August 15, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/08/slurp/
a new vision for cookbooks
Cooking Dinner Vol. I from William Hereford is a beautifully filmed and wonderful concept for the food preparation experience. The imagery with perfectly fitting typography and soundtrack really indulges all of your senses while cooking. With the redefinition of how content is created, shared, and digested, Cooking Dinner Vol. 1 definitely gets the mental wheels [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on August 8, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/08/a-new-vision-for-cookbooks/
wheelchairs in Vietnam
Looking through some old photos, I came across these tricycle wheelchairs on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City when I was visiting a couple years ago… I’d never seen anything like it before, or perhaps I’m too sheltered. I did a bit of digging and these chairs are actually manufactured in Ho Chi Minh City, by KienTuong, [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on August 2, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/08/wheelchairs-in-vietnam/
Domino’s pulling the cheese video
Domino’s YouTube video shows the secrets behind shooting a commerical with a twist. Discover what crazy things are done at pizza photo shoots, and why Domino’s has made a promise about how we shoot our inspired pizzas from this day forward. Beyond the clever commercial, I knew that shooting food was difficult, but I had [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on July 15, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/07/dominos-pulling-the-cheese-video/
movie: Lemonade
I had heard about Lemonade when it came out and recently watched it on Hulu, a 35 min movie about laid off advertising professionals, who turned the bad news into an opportunity: “It’s not a pink slip, it’s a blank page.” What do people who were once paid to be creative for a living do when they’re laid off? [...]
Posted by Tiffany Wan on July 14, 2010
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/07/movie-lemonade/