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My friend Lu Jia is organizing an event in Beijing called F.R.O.M. She invited me to make a video of myself ask three questions and answer them. So I did this quick piece last weekend with our Dim Sum breakfast. Sorry it’s kind of random : )

Tomorrow night they will have a party in Beijing to present a group of artists and designers born in 70s and 80s. And they will show some of my video projects: Straight Outta HK, Panda Express and Bump’n Grind. Check out more about the event here.

How is hip hop doing in Beijing? Check out this episode from Sexy Beijing. One thing I know for sure is all the hip hop girl-friends/fans are sexy! Remember in 2005 Ellen and I have visited Yu Gong Yi Shan bar in the video, where we saw improv Jazz-Rock from Douwei and his band.

Straigh Outta HK music video is online, if you haven’t seen it yet. Credit list here. Thanks again for everyone’s on the list. The music is from Canto-core band Say Bok Gwai.

Please note that version two of the video is directed by Catherine Young. I have released all original footage to her to create the second version. Any one who’s interested in the project and want to edit your own version, please let me know. When you edit your own version of the video, you will be credited as director.

Our last minute trip to Mexico City went well. Hurricane Dean wasn’t an issue anymore by the time we arrived inland Mexico. There were only some rain at night and actually it helped cleaned out the pollution quite a bit. This was my first time visiting a Spanish speaking country. Jon was learning it on the fly. Communication was not that much of a problem because people would tried their best to understand when I spoke in English with some gestures. In many ways Mexican people are humble and helpful.

Thank you for Leon and Jorge! You are great hosts and look forward to seeing you in SF.

Remembered the first time I went back to China after four years living in US, the first a few hours I felt I was in a foreign land. And being in Mexico City, all the suddent I had the feeling that I was in China. Very strange. It might because of seeing those incomplete and disfunctional buildings in Zona Rosa made me nostalgically thinking about China. I often see them as urban monuments. Later we found out that a lot of them were actually ruined during the earthquake. That is very different from China’s broken-tail projects. Yes, Mexico is very different.

Metro
Subway system in Mexico City is serving a great population. And it’s often packed like this. There were mobil pirate DVD sellers roaming between train carts. They had backpack-speakers and played videos with one of those portable LCD DVD players.

Subway stop sinages were made up with icons that represent the areas, so that illiterate people can also understand.

This is a sinage in Anthropology Museum.

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