Mimo Khair Creative

Month: June 2011

  • Day One Hundred Fifty Eight, June 29, 2011

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    Did you ever entertain the thought of taking out a lounge chair, carrying it out to the pavement of a busy street of an densely populated city, opening it up and stretching there to chill? Chinese people baffle me with their ability to just let it all hang for a half hour when they need…

  • Day One Hundred Fifty Seven, June 28, 2011

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    You see them every day, at all times of the day, weekdays, weekends, working, toiling, sweating, carrying loads, in construction sites, cleaning streets, selling goods, resting on sides of roads, falling asleep in the shade to catch their breath. They are very important elements in the canvas that is Shanghai, a city rushing towards the…

  • Looking back to April! A 365 (on photo a day slide show)

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    Still going on with the 365 project which is keeping me from this main blog lately… I am on day 153, still inspired, learning so much and planning to go through with it. Here is a look at April’s 30 photos!

  • Day One Hundred Fifty Six, June 27, 2011

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    It’s a funny thing our perception of size. When we are young we perceive our parents to be bigger than life, our homes and gardens to be a large domain where we build our memories and our planet to be out of this world huge. Then we grow up, and we go back to visit…

  • One Hundred Fifty Five, June 26, 2011

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    We think we understand our children and know them back to front simply because they were created from  our union and because we happen to raise them. But that is only their physical part, isn’t it? We may have been the airports in which they landed on this planet, and the waiting rooms where they…

  • Day One Hundred Fifty Four, June 25, 2011

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    It was the opening act of the summer festival at the German School in Shanghai, the audience filled the seats, my heart was pounding nervously about her dance being the first in the show…I imagined a nervous, shy, hesitant little girl. And out she came, confident, proud, dancing with all her soul to the rhythm,…

  • Day One Hundred Fifty Three, June 24, 2011

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    Today I planned to go into the hot streets of Shanghai for some street photography, which is normally my favorite style of work. So I got ready, bag packed, lenses dusted, hat and sunglasses on and dove into the 30+ degrees of broiling city soup. Suddenly I found myself making a 90 degree turn as…

  • Day One Hundred Fifty Two, June 23, 2011

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    We, foreigners living in Shanghai are often found to be very annoying to the local people of authority. We are sometimes referred to as the ‘why people’. With the summer here now in full power, the pool is open in our compound, and with that come the strange rules. One rule is that you must…

  • Day One Hundred Fifty One, June 22, 2011

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    Shanghai summers are home for sudden and powerful electrical storms. Today we were at the pool for the first very hot day of the summer and at some point the storm arrived. I love how scientist try to explain this incredible phenomena without being able to agree on a single explanation. I spent the last…

  • Day One Hundred Fifty, June 21, 2011

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    They appear as if from nothing, the expand at an impossible speed and they disappear almost just as fast. Most mushrooms behave this way. They are one of the mysteries that have always fascinated me. When things appear and disappear in a short time compared to all else around them, like Native American sand paintings,…