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The restaurant within JIA hotel in Shanghai where I’m staying features a restaurant that’s highly recommended. It’s called Issimo. It’s Italian, which is odd choice of food, considering, I’m far from home in Asia, but this place doesn’t disappoint. First off, it was filled, and you’re supposed to reserve ahead of time. Being a last second person, it was a “kitchen” seat which is basically a front row to the kitchen counter seat. The simple salad is actually really nice. You can crush salt and pepper and you can do your own dressing. Balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Bruschetta is always a winner. It’s simple, bread, some tomatoes, but this one features the white part. The fat off of pork, which works almost like cheese. It’s super thin, and I’d guess a lot wouldn’t know it was fat, they’d think it’s cheese. Grilled vegetables on a skewer with cheese on top. I don’t eat dairy products, so I opted to not have any on it. But in the end, cheese and pork fat, are just about the same, except the pork fat won’t make me sick. You order pasta for two. I guess you can get a single portion, at more than half the price of the normal portion which is priced for two. Simple and good. 931 West Nanjing Road, ShanghaiTelephone: (86-21) 6287 9009
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My buddy sent me this link the other day. This is a seriously amazing animation made in Argentina and done mural style with still photographs. This took a lot of time, effort and big time creative skills to pull off. Respect!MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
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What can't Nike do? Now they're in art areas. I had to shoot a bit of video to show you their gallery building or whatever you want to call it. It's pretty amazing. Imagine, the Olympics are sponsored by Adidas, but Nike sure has a large foot in the door. Upon talking to Colin at W+K, I guess they're sponsoring tons of athletes, so you'll see them wearing the gear, but on the podium, you won't see...
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What can’t Nike do? Now they’re in art areas. I had to shoot a bit of video to show you their gallery building or whatever you want to call it. It’s pretty amazing. Imagine, the Olympics are sponsored by Adidas, but Nike sure has a large foot in the door. Upon talking to Colin at W+K, I guess they’re sponsoring tons of athletes, so you’ll see them wearing the gear, but on the podium, you won’t see them with the gear. I figured their strategy was to do the cool stuff around the Olympics and be just as influential, but let Adidas have the sponsorship and be commercial, but I guess Nike is doing both, anyway. Amazing building.
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Yes, art in China rocks. I'm not even talking about the Mao looking work that's all influenced by the Cultural Revolution, but I'm talking about just talent that's showing at the 798 which is an art area. It's easy to say, that art in China is hot, but it's also hot in Japan as well, and I'm sure it's hot in other spots, but walking around, I saw a lot of great work. So much all around, it's...