A set of 12 ink drawings.

Working kind of diligently… This is my lonely room.

I have to send my stuff to the gallery by 12/19 so I am looking at some heavy production time…

RK, my bookshelf is in the left corner…

I bet you can guess what is playing in my iTunes.

The ultimate ending for 2008: I am participating in a group show at a gallery in Beijing called Beijing Center for the Arts. The gallery is located in the Legation Quarter which is the old American Embassy during the Qing Dynasty. I will be showing a drawing installation. This is my first time participating in a REAL show… so I am super nervous and excited. If you are in Beijing, please come!!

Near Yonghegong. I love the typeface used on this sign. So friendly!

Beijing makes people do crazy stuff. I woke up this morning with this urge to reorganize my room so I can clear off the desk for a surface to draw.

The wind was blowing at 20mph and the windchill was 0°. I biked to the local market (which I like to call the “Commoners’ Market” for a more rustic feel) to pick up a bookshelf. The market sells authentic “MADE IN CHINA” stuff at real and bargainable “MADE IN CHINA” prices. I bought a not so pretty particle board/thin metal bookshelf for 50RMB, assembly required.

The unassembled box of stuff was almost as tall as me and longer than my bike. I took it outside of the market and stared at my teeny tiny fold up bike and thought to myself, “WTF am I going to do??” A Chinese man stood and observed while I stared back and forth at my bike and the big box for about 3 minutes in the crazy cold weather. Finally, he said, “It won’t fall!”

So I strapped the big box to the back of the bicycle. I peddled some and I pushed some. It was ridiculous.

I thought, at any moment, this thing is gonna pull an E.T. and go flying.

Man, I am late as @!#$# at discovering this blog, but this one tops the favorite food blog list now. This is a photo from the chicharon entry on Grocery Eats.

I feel like my arteries are clogging just by reading this blog but I just can’t stop…

Appropriately placed Chinese Santa Klaus in front of Shin Kong Place in Beijing. It finally feels like Christmas time around here.

Alright, so these are not really a collaboration by the smurfs and Cause (Flauge x Cause)… I am kinda into these right now…

A local beauty parlor in an alley on the edge of East 4th Ring…

The shop name, in the 4 big characters, is called “White People Pretty Hair”.

Services offered (in the smaller white characters): 7-color extensions; 7-color highlights; ionic perm; handcrafted big curls; nutritional maintenance; aluminum foil perm; make big flowers; monthly membership discounts; brow trimming; black slow cooking (?); one time straightening; color slow cooking (?)

Interesting services… I am picturing this lady at the door…