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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.
To get us started, here is a 3 minute video that focuses on local food from Chongqing, a giant city in the Sichuan Province. Please note that what I call "rodent heads" may actually be rabbit heads (rabbits aren't rodents). Anyway, enjoy...
Rabbit rodent-likeness
Ok, so rabbits are just incisors-on-one-jaw-only rodents ;-)
Good quality
It takes a good quality video. I think i will buy one, haha...
Chongqing
Cant wait for the start of the Olympics. I wonder when they will be adding MMA into the Olympics. It's a legitimate sport afterall. So you guys tried the "hotpot"?. Chongqing Hotpot can be considered as the wonder of Chinese food. Its really spicy and hot!
Nice ...
As usual Lee, your content is excellent. I enjoyed the 2006 video (which was before I followed your posts) and look forward to your site including a few more clips and photos from the past (BTW, your fireworks photos were excellent). Unfortunately I followed a few of your indicated links and realized that the blogs highlighted and redirected from the video clip and previous blogs are a problem part of this growing online world. Perhaps 'someone' has advice or 'commoncraft' practices that could be implemented in our online life with ideas that protect content and links for years and version changes to come?
Thanks again ...
China
I hope that one day I will visit China just to experience the cuisine..or maybe not?
LOL
Great Wall
I have visited China before. The great wall of China is probably one of the coolest landmarks I have ever seen. You could walk it for days!