October 26, 2009 @ 11:51 pm
Photo: Mike Clarke/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images (via Lens)
This photo taken by Mike Clarke during the Cheung Yeung Festival shows Chinese family members paying tribute to their ancestors at a local cemetery in Hong Kong. I don’t recall seeing any cemeteries in person when I was in Hong Kong, but if I saw any like the one above, you can bet I would have done a double-take. Are most Hong Kong cemeteries like this? If so, that’s sort of awesome from a visual point of view.
September 28, 2009 @ 11:18 pm
This is a wonderful time-lapse video from 7AM to 9PM as Typhoon Nangka hit Hong Kong this past summer. [via]
September 1, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
Hong Kong is one of my favorite places in the world and this Flickr photoset comparing old photographs of Hong Kong with modern images of the same locations is making me have wanderlust. It’s amazing to see what has changed and what has stayed the same over all these years.
August 17, 2009 @ 6:58 pm
111VOX is selling this nice T-shirt that highlights the 3 different kinds of taxi cabs you will encounter as you go from one island to the next in Hong Kong. Each cab is dedicated to one island and riding one color into another’s territory isn’t allowed. I want it: $27 USD.
June 17, 2009 @ 12:36 pm
I’ve always been a fan of Michael Wolf’s photographs of Hong Kong, but somehow I missed this series he did on corner houses in Hong Kong.
I remember when I was in Hong Kong last summer, I kept seeing these rounded corner buildings and I thought that they looked really weird but kinda neat. I guess there’s so many of them because the planning of the streets in Hong Kong aren’t necessarily hard corners like they are in Manhattan and some other more modern cities.
Anyway, it turns out that there’s quite a lot of these rounded corner houses/buildings and Michael Wolf has photographed a good number of them in his series. Check it out if you’ve got some time. I really should take this downtime in my career to plan a trip back to Hong Kong. I wasn’t there nearly as long as I wanted to be last summer.
May 13, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
Photo: Kin Cheung/Associated Press
Photo Journal posted this fantastic photo of a sculpture by Chinese artist Mu Boyan called “Nude No. 2″. The sculpture is located at the Hong Kong International Art Fair in Hong Kong.
