China Week: Pretty Pictures for 08-08-08
By leelefever on August 08, 2008 - 10:40am
To finish up China week, I'd like to share some of our favorite photos from China. Enjoy the Olympics!
Shanghai from the Pearl City Tower
A squished pig from a Nanjing market.
Summer Palace
View With CommentsChina Week: Lessons in Line Breaking (A Story)
By leelefever on August 07, 2008 - 10:04am
Below is a short story that was posted to our travel blog from Shanghai. Almost any visitor to China is likely to experience a higher-than-expected level of competiion while standing in line for something like a subway ticket. In the case below, I had made up my mind to be a competitor. Unfortunately things didn't work out as planned.
From the post: Lessons in Line Breaking
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China Week: Strange Translations
By leelefever on August 05, 2008 - 9:28am
If making signs in Chinese characters was my job, I would be very, very bad at it. However, I might hire someone who knows the language well before erecting a permanent sign at a major tourist destination. For a long time, this didn't happen in China and we snapped the photos below before they invested in changing the signs for the Olympics.
China Week: It All Started In China
By leelefever on August 04, 2008 - 1:20pm
In honor of the start of the Beijing Olympics, we've decided to make it "China Week" here on the Common Craft blog.
In a lot of ways, China was where we first started to experiment with video. We bought our first video camera (a Sony DCR - PC 1000) in Hong Kong, just before spending about a month in mainland China in 2006. Over the time in China, we edited and posted our first "real" videos.
This week, we'll share a few of those videos and some stories from our time there. It's stuff you won't see on NBC, I promise.
