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As a Big city, Hong Kong has lots of different people…
but the type i’m missing, is the streetartist….
…I miss Les Rambles

enjoy this wonderful video called Mr.Fortune

*this video belongs to a series of shortfilms creted by Eric Lerner.

this song came to my mind this morning when I was looking through the window… observing the amount of little ants crossing the streets of hong kong…
I particularly like this video, it’s fascinating, I can watch it over and over and I’m still seduced by it.
I specially like the “lunch break”! very fun

> this video is from Royksoop, an electronic music duo based in Bergen, Norway composed of Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge. The group formed officially in 1998 and released their debut album Melody A.M. in 2001.

apart from this video they have other ones that are really good also,
check the Poor Leno video

this pair of photos are not mine, but I really like them.

this one was taken by > ~Chris

and this one belongs to > _berc
you can find both of them at the Hong Kong ?? flickr group.
enjoy!

yesterday meanwhile having a beer in lan kwai fong (a guailo paradise) I had this song in my mind…

I want to share it

I just discovered the photos of michael wolf , who captures the built density of hong kong…
impressive!

“One of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the world, Hong Kong has an overall density of nearly 6,700 people per square kilometer. The majority of its citizens live in flats in high-rise buildings. In Architecture of Density, Wolf investigates these vibrant city blocks, finding a mesmerizing abstraction in the buildings’ facades.”

just recovered from the fun and interesting RecRoom event last night…

the event-party was organized by Videotage (a non-profit interdisciplinary artist collective, which focuses on the development of video and new media art in Hong Kong) and it was the closing of the “design series” events.

last night we enjoyed the work of Robot (a design and music collective from HK), with special hightlight of the work “evolution“, a short film that was screened prior to the dj/vj session… pretty fun!
enjoy it

*the event whas held at Cattle Depot, a surprisingly inspiring space in Kowloon side

another B/W video from belforn:

*the HK crowd again and again and again
music by Amon Tobin from Ninjatunes

a whole night trhough my window

Just today started the Dragon Boat festival in HK,

a kind of canoes but with asian style…

“The use of dragon boats for racing and dragons are believed to have originated in southern central China more than 2,500 years ago, along the banks of such iconic rivers as the Chang Jiang a.k.a. Yangtze (i.e. during the same era when the games of ancient Greece were being established at Olympia). Dragon boat racing as the basis for annual water rituals and festival celebrations, and for the traditional veneration of the Asian dragon water deity, has been practiced continuously since this period.”

*I don’t know how were the dragonboat festivals a couple of thousand years ago, but nowadays they seem to be very fun!…

Although HK is not a steet art paradise as it is Barcelona, there’s still the possibility to find nice stuff like this:

*this delicious mao was found by “gal” near Central district.
>>> more at start.hk and at the hong kong street art flickr group