A collection of all the “interesting” photos that I couldn’t fit anywhere else…
You might have heard Asians are bad drivers, well consider that stereotype absolute bullshit. I recorded a little chunk of time outside a typical street corner and was amazed at how pedestrians, bikes, scooters, cars, those weird vans that look like a bread truck had sex with a bus, actual buses, and heavy trucks were able to merge fluidly. Watching it for ten seconds looks like chaos, watch it for ten minutes and you realize it’s pure math…
Streets of Shanghai
(Click on link to view video, then cross fingers and pray it loads)
What about some of the latest Asian fashions? Well, you tell me if this is the mascot of a store YOU would shop in…
An American Best-Seller List, note how it has an actual mixture of genres and subjects from romance to thriller to biography…
Now here’s a Chinese Best Seller List, Note how EVERY FUCKING THING is about the government leaders and how awesome they are…
And the sales girl actually tried to block my camera from taking that last picture. I guess a picture contrasting the two charts can say a thousand words about why I’m glad to be an American.
And now, a look at Chinese money…
A machine that exclusively sells hankies…
How they advertise products TO ADULTS
And a light show…Every night, Hong Kong puts on the Hong Kong Symphony of Lights…
(Click on Link, curse the skies that it won’t open, then stare at it intensely for thirty seconds, forget about it for thirty minutes, and it should play)
So that concludes my longest trip abroad and first trip to Asia. Hope you enjoyed it, our regularly scheduled rants and feuds resume tomorrow…
Wow, I like all this. Makes me want to go and visit.