I own two 2nd-generation Drobo 4-bay devices, and I’ve definitely had a love-hate relationship with them. Both Drobos had to be replaced at one point because of issues with the Firewire connections. Fortunately Drobo’s customer service did a good job of...
My good friend Dagny Looper is a 2nd-year film student at NYU. This month she shot her pre-thesis film ‘The Lipstick Stain’ in NYC and Upstate New York. Originally she had planned to shoot in Arkansas just before Christmas, and I told her that if I was...
With the Western world inundating China with the best and worst it has to offer these past few decades, it’s no surprise that eventually even Big Bird would make a migrational trip over the Pacific to visit the Middle Kindgom himself. His inaugural visit was...
The 2012 East-West Center Alumni Conference in Beijing wouldn’t have been complete without a field trip to climb the Great Wall of China. And climb we did! After a rainy conference morning which looked like it was going to put a damper on our climbing fun, the...
Every two years the East-West Center, a Honolulu-based Asia-Pacific research institute that funded my M.A. studies in Hawaii, holds an alumni conference biennially somewhere in Asia. Having served as the official photographer for the last three conferences (Hanoi in...
AFD (Agence Française de Développement), known in English as the French Development Agency, is a French international development agency that does a lot of good work in China (as well as in many other countries). In fact, they were the top foreign donor to the 2008...
One week after the semifinals cut the number of contestants in half to only six lucky survivors, Rock the Web held the finals of their inaugural season singing competition. Following different rules than the semifinals, this time online votes from friends and...
A few days after shooting the semifinals of Chinese singing competition Rock the Web’s first season, I took the six finalists to Sanlitun Village for some ‘glamour shots’ to use as publicity for the competition. Uta, the eventual winner of the...
Two weeks after returning from the incredibly exciting Las Vegas training camp, Rock the Web held the semifinals of their singing competition in good ol’ Beijing. Originally the semifinal competition was scheduled to take place in Las Vegas at the end of the...
While frolicking in Las Vegas with the Rock the Web crew and semifinalist contestants, we figured it would be negligent on our part to not take pictures of the contestants in the swank mansion we were staying in (and rents for US$10,000 a day at normal rates, which...
