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perkins in shanghai

Perkins with drink

It's Ian here, blog world, hello.

I am currently in shanghai, where i am about to work
with W+K shanghai till the end of the year. I have been out and about
my first few days soaking up some Chinese culture. (see above.)

I have to say Shanghai is amazing. Wo ai Shanghai (I love it). It's really amazing
here. I managed to use my basic mandarin to order food and drinks and
have been understood so far which is pretty nice. On my second day I
was told I have a baby face and rabbit teeth by a nice girl on the
street.

The pictures are of me drinking when I met up with
scott, liana and kerli who I know from W+K. There's me sight seeing…

Perkins in shanghai

…and
then there's a tv ship that plays adverts on the river…

Ad boat
Love her

…a terrible
haagen-dazs advert "love her, love haagen dazs" (hopefully I can do better
when I get into some projects).

There's an ad agency sign from the
shanghai advertising company, just round from W+K, which sums up
everything that we ad folk offer in a nice little montage. 

Shanghai advertising

The
newspapers are displayed each day on the streets (i just look at the
pictures- it was of the chinese astronauts space walking).

Newspapers

There is a mild sulphur smell in the air from all the
construction work, but i haven't found the pollution too bad, but it's the
end of typoon season so i guess the wind is keeping it clearer.

All in all an amazing start to my time here, it's really tai hao le (great).

servant of hydra

Skeleton

Excellent brass skeleton sculpture seen in Spitalfields market this morning. Obviously based on Ray Harryhausen's models for Jason and the Argonauts. That scene where the skeletons rise up out of the ground to fight Jason and his men had a formative influence on me as a wee boy.

Ray Harryhausen Jason Argonauts skeletons

I wonder if I can persuade folks that we NEED this skeleton for the office.

Skeleton 2

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