tastefullydetached

i am sad that i could not make it to china, or even to see it on cctv.

China’s 60th Anniversary national day – timelapse and slow motion – 7D and 5DmkII from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

i am back in the jing, and the weather is spectacular. but the real news is the status of the trees and grass and flowers, everything is in full bloom. i have only been back for 15 hours right now so pictures are not available yet, but as i take them… i will post [...]

first post from the states, feels good/weird to be back. seeing green again is definitely a nice part, i really can’t complain about the weather in vegas either. feels odd not have my bike with me here, being bike-free vegas just feels wrong… like going to war without a gun, or having sex without [...]

divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 & 12. this was brought to my attention while having a borderline intellectual conversation today about the metric system (i say borderline not to demean the group of people but to say that it was just snippets of info). it was a beautiful day out, [...]

not much happening here in beijing, pretty much working all the time. i did manage to get out for a few hours to see my friend Ines record some of her bicycle film for the bicycle film festival, and met a few more riders in the process. It has been rather cold here as [...]

i got in the shower with my underwear on… after that ordeal was put to rest and i was thoroughly clean and dry, it was off to breakfast in the hutong and a day at the lama buddhist temple near my home for sightseeing. not too much so say honestly, just pictures. a few [...]

thanks to the efforts of some chinese people with chemical rockets beijing was blessed with wet weather recently (much needed) and then last night with white weather. This is my first snow here and it is a nice break from the gray-sky days that i am now so used to seeing, and weather [...]

bringing in the year of the Ox with style… and alot of explosives. the video at the bottom of the post is from the opening night of the 15 day spring festival (03.09.2009).
this image sums up the power of the munitions that night

temple of heaven pics

so after over a month here, i can finally access my blog without the use of TOR. this is a delight considering it was sooooo slow to get here before, so slow in fact that i just didn’t post things.  i have taken a few pictures since the last post and gone some places.  see [...]