He Speaks Good Mandarin http://yeianchao.com/blog Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:33:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Nuit Blanche http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=173 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=173#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:48:18 +0000 delvig http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=173
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2009, Toronto

]]> http://yeianchao.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=173 Matt and Nathan Go Biking http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=170 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=170#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:20:47 +0000 delvig http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=170 Matt is biking toward BC. His buddy Nathan is going to accompany him up to Owen Sound near Bruce Peninsula. We were seeing them off. I snapped this shot and next minute they departed for their first day of toil. It’s gonna be a terrific ride. Be fit and sound, dude!

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Guelph, ON

]]> http://yeianchao.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=170 Chinatown http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=169 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=169#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:58:54 +0000 delvig http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=169 spadina
Spadina Ave, Toronto

]]> http://yeianchao.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=169 一切都有问题 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=168 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=168#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:38:18 +0000 delvig http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=168 经年恶果，一切都有问题，
除了歌唱，即使这依然是一种幻想与世界达成短暂和解的方式。
所以，请不要回答爱与世界和平。

在这宁静的水坑路 腰乐队

你在藏人的夜里
你相片里的脏脸
你陌生的蓝天奇怪的床
你相片里 我国的脏脸
你神秘地到达神像之前
我为你 唱个歌
下雨的然乌 呵啦啦耶
为你唱个美国的歌
那歌声粗糙
像活泼的八五、六年
我们躺在轱辘下哭成了泪人
谁在黑暗的歌声里
翻过小杰克结尾的新泽西
让我们哭成了泪人儿
music(人声)

世界呢分钟 腰乐队

我很想把对乐观的理解
深深的插进你的喉管
每个黑夜来临
你那永远不变低收入的镜头里
永远是春天
你微笑在破床边
仿佛永远 也喝不醉
这一年来
我冷漠得你没法相信
我转过身去 因为没种
面对安格斯小牛肉扒
和我所有爱领导爱打狗的同龄人
我安详
安详地在克拉玛依先走的阳光下
歌唱今天的恋人
我不介意她爱吃内脏、喜欢阳台并热爱 保养和文艺
我依然认为 草根不是民主 草根是庸俗 很庸俗
说白点 就是网民 网民当然是国民 无耻并热闹
是这世上最难唱的一曲悲歌
快乐中国的喇叭花
你爱八十年代
你想操今天最后操不了今天
你在这一切的一切都发生在中国后 孤独地醒来
没有了 早就没有人孤单
没有人不爱捐助 没有人无心睡眠
两千年的偶像人民的女王把神经官能症
和中国精神变成一头牛梦游在工地和晚会里
淹没了去年每一首爱情歌的下流前奏
这多么像个
这其实这就是个渴望乱来的生意场
你的歌声象泉水样甘甜
可我们的伤啊
要色情才可以抚平 抚平你
渴望被幸福摧毁的心肝
请允许我 用这彩铃般歌声换你 那永远不倦的心
命运 像一朵云
飘过世界上所有的早晨
我们楼顶优酸乳的孩子
你只能被这一代 最糟糕 的父母毁于钢琴
你不会了解我只是 爱天空中的骑士 爱从不开百合的西部
在安分繁荣的路灯下
昨夜我们 总算度过最委屈的那几年
我忘了摇滚 却忘不了你眨拉拉的眼睛
那是充满责备的眼睛
仿佛能把人的心儿看穿
我的听众朋友
晚是全世界的晚
安是你的

]]> http://yeianchao.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=168 The Cold Part http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=172 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=172#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:38:48 +0000 delvig http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=172 Yonge St & Queens Quay E, Toronto
Yonge St & Queens Quay E, Toronto

Ward, Centre Island, Toronto
Ward, Centre Island, Toronto

Lake Ontario Waterfront Harbour Area, Toronto
Lake Ontario Waterfront Harbour Area, Toronto

]]> http://yeianchao.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=172 Whatist? http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=166 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=166#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:20:23 +0000 delvig http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=166 The Economist杂志的封面果然犀利，文字和照片都透着标题党的至高范儿，我在Chapters结帐时毫无抵抗力地被它抓走。自然，正文难免就和所有标题党文章一样顾东言西，还夹带着主流杂志甩不掉的态度暧昧和观点全无之类的臭毛病。可是，我还是那么喜欢它——我有严重的恋封面癖。

The New Colonialists


]]> http://yeianchao.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=166 The Imaginary Tombstone of An Impossible Death http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=164 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=164#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:35:37 +0000 delvig http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=164
Key caps pulled off from a mishapped Thinkpad X31 and February cinema calendar of The Bookshelf.

]]> http://yeianchao.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=164 Farewell, Explorer! http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=161 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=161#comments Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:56:00 +0000 delvig http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=161 It was a beautiful ship which I liked to be on board some time in my life. But it was gone this morning, lost into the freezing sea in Antarctica after struck by ice. A sad sad news except that all her 154 passengers and crew members are safe and sound.

The ship:
http://www.gapadventures.com/explorer/

The story in news reports:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/11/23/cruise-ship-sink.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7110550.stm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/photo/2007-11/24/content_7136240.htm


MS Explorer on expedition at high sea (G.A.P Adventures)

]]> http://yeianchao.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=161 Brian Ulrich’s Copia Wonderland http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=160 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=160#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:49:39 +0000 delvig http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=160 It was not long after I saw Brian Ulrich’s photo essay American Happiness and the Need to Consume (selection from Copia*) on Mother Jones Magazine that I watched this solid and honest presentation by him in the PhotoShelter podcast. He addresses various issues in his presentation, from candid photograph making in public spaces to coming-of-age years of art photographers to flickr pictures. It’s a timely call for I did find myself curious about his way of working with media/large format cameras in public venues like big shopping malls and food marts where timing and lighting can definitely be tricky. Throughout the speech, Brian Ulrich explains his know-how to cope with the niche he choses. Highly recommended to everyone who is interested in this matter.


Black River Falls, WI 2006 by Brian Ulrich


Chicago, IL 2003 by Brian Ulrich


Smithhaven, NY 2003 by Brian Ulrich

Me and my friends recently have had some inspiring conversations on myth of consumerism as well as American patriotism, social spectacle, totalitarian machinery and so on, in similar discourses that Brian Ulrich does, not necessarily on photography though. Ulrich clearly has a social critical way of thinking on photography and shows both his earnestness and capacity to talk on these things. He seems to me a guy with attitude instead of pretentiousness. And, in the first place, he takes good photographs. Thumbs up!


Flushing, NY 2004 by Brian Ulrich


Kenosha, WI 2003 by Brian Ulrich

Some quotes from the presentation

1. everything being commodified in our culture…

2. early on right after graduate school…you know,
frightened to death of the ideal of being an artist….

3. it’s dangerous to think that mediocrity sells.

*Copia (Latin) means abundant, in a large number.

]]> http://yeianchao.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=160 爱生活爱飞跃 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=159 http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=159#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:28:42 +0000 delvig http://yeianchao.com/blog/?p=159 听上去很熟是吗？没错，现在最LOMO的时尚就是一双上海产的飞跃牌中古田径鞋。


NEW WINTER 2007 SERIES from Feiyue Shoes

还是那个你童年时只有上体育课才极不情愿换上的飞跃牌球鞋，现在正摆在欧美的时尚专卖店的货架上出售，eBay和Google也能轻易地搜索到网络卖家在推销它们。很像神话对吗？

看一遍网络贩售的推广词，它们都会用”Shaolin”，”Kung fu”，”Martial arts”这些在外国孩子眼里看着很土因而帅到不行的title来招揽生意。只是若哪个上海孩子看到，不免会狐疑自己小时候落雨天穿了打球的家什怎么就有了股江湖气。


弄堂美学, picture from official Feiyue news

其实，若了解LOMO这个词，就不难发觉飞跃鞋运作的方式和罗刹国大名鼎鼎的LC-A神话如出一辙。少林东方神功和KGB间谍相机传说无不浸透着远方专制国家的禁忌和刺激。对了，还不能忘了Holga，我们的老海鸥……这些早已端坐于lo-fi/snapshot流行消费美学众神殿云端中的先圣们。

当然，穿上飞跃以后是帅到抽筋还是土得掉渣，那就全凭你的时尚感觉了。穿对了，谁说The Sartorialist上就不会哪天突然看到无敌的飞跃鞋青年呢？至于我，当务之急还是找一对新鞋带，用来把自己靴子上那两根破得不象话的旧货赶紧换掉。


LOMO精神, picture from official Feiyue news
>>“Make it” Exhibition<<
The “Cédille” gallery in Paris presents various artists
works realised on the “Feiyue” theme until October 2006.

(资料：最LOMO的时尚球鞋—飞跃牌田径鞋!)

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