I have recently immersing myself in the world of Web 3.0 (blockchain etc.) and the use of artificial intelligence. I enjoyed using Story Machine which takes text prompts and turns them into a story. I have also signed up for several AI image creation services and had some great results. The two websites I have… Read More »
I had no idea Rangi existed until it popped up on my Instagram feed. It seemed that nobody else knew it existed too. What a shame they have so little marketing because it’s a wonderful place and in a central location in the middle of Masaki. Located next to the CCBRT hospital, the gallery is… Read More »
It had been a long time since I was last in Brasov. I liked it then and I like it now. However I am not sure whether my memory is faulty or whether graffiti is a permanent fixture in these beautiful old towns. It was almost the first thing I noticed when I got to… Read More »
I wanted to see the sort of craft that goes on in Tanzania and had seen online a place called Chuma and it looked interesting. It took a long time to find it and there had been a flood so the driver was teasing his bajaj through great pools, down into huge water-filled potholes to… Read More »
The children in the lane have developed a habit of knocking on my door every day in the summer holidays asking if I want to come out to play. This week I decided to hunt around for the paints and brushes and papers I’d got somewhere in the cupboard. As I was rifling through the… Read More »
Who would have thought that it could be possible to make art competitive. That was the main reason I went along to SHMadness Art Battle in UCube this week – to see how that could be done. I was sorry I got there at the start time because it was an hour later that it… Read More »
I was at Wuzhou Lu metro station to meet someone and I was a bit early. From the metro station, you can look over an old community downstairs and although it was in a state of disrepair and dereliction, there was still some life there. I walked around the deserted lanes with half tumbled down… Read More »
The West Bund is not a place I have spent much time in but went I took a shared bike from the metro I was pleasantly surprised at how peaceful and clean it is down there. There is an area of West Bund which is home to a variety of art galleries. When I was… Read More »
There’s not that much graffiti around but I noticed someone had started tagging the brand new metal roller shutters the government are installing on Fuxing Lu. All the shop fronts along the stretch near Jiashan Lu have been ripped out replaced and the whole place is looking better. The shops which lines the street outside… Read More »
I was having a ‘bad China day’ on Tuesday. I had tried to get a SIM card but had run into the usual problems of red tape, annoyances at work and the usual pushing and shoving on the metro and on the street. Even the spitting was getting me down more than it usually does.… Read More »