Shang Hai

Shang Hai is a great city! We've been here for about five das or so and I have to say we've been to a few places. We've been to the top of Jin Mao, you get a free fresh water pearl with the purchase of a ticket to the top(80 plus stories) and a great view of one of my favorite buildings in the cityscape, the Shang Hai Financial Building. This particular building has made it in to the sketch book and into a small wood cut that needs work.

The coolest thing so far in Shang Hai was the ShangHai Bieniale where I finally saw live work by Yin Xiujin and Yue Minjun and a new favorite Chinese artist Wang QingSong. Yin Xiujin made a plane car combo (life size)conected by modern textile cotton t-shirts (more portability and travel themes)"Flying Machine". Yue Minjun had an amazing piece commenting on cars and fossil fuel, made from steal and car paint of humanoid dinosaur anti-heroes called, "Colorful Running Dinosaurs."

Suzhou city was old, amazing and surrounded by canals. The only garden we got to spend time in was out of this world, shot footage, we'll see what we can do with it. Bai Ta Pagoda was a spiritual experience to climb to the 7th floor and take in Suzhou's 5 million residence and watch people perform insence cerimony. the train ride home an impressive example of Chinese life and what it's like to be a chinese trying to get around by train. Edwin is the MAN! He was reading chinese maps and characters and getting people in taxis, and making sure everyone was having fun.