“The Street Cats of Zheshida Old Neighborhood is a collection of feral cat portraits taken in the Zhejiang University old teachers’ dormitory neighborhood in Jinhua, China. The cats live in a similar fashion to their homeless human counterparts; mainly they survive on handouts. They spend their days digging in trash cans, eating through plastic trash [...]
Sep 03, 2011 | Categories: China, Jinhua, Photo Essay | Tags: animals, cats, garbage, neighborhood, photography, Trash | Leave A Comment »
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May 16, 2011 | Categories: Art and Garbage, China, digital art, Jinhua | Tags: color, digital art, Expat, ideas, plastic bags, thoughts, Trash, ubiquitous, unstoppable | 2 Comments »
Coming from America, or some nation similarly skilled in methods of clandestine waste removal – with magic, automatic flush toilets; color-coded trash bins; and troops of picker-uppers who carouse the streets in great machines with as much authority as fire engines – such unglamorous, undisguised removal may be a bit shocking. Here in this ancient [...]
Jun 15, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, This Ridiculous World Guide | Tags: excrement, garbage, Humor, refuse, slop buckets, social commentary, Trash, waste | Leave A Comment »
The rains had just subsided. Sick Baby Street (also known as Guangzhou Lu) was crawling with parents carrying their patched children in their arms like loads of firewood. The stench – some amalgam of diaper, gasoline, and steaming buns – repelled the nose from its ordinary forward aim; out of pure necessity we walked looking [...]
Mar 23, 2009 | Categories: Art and Garbage, China | Tags: art, Art and Garbage, art galleries, caps, garbage, municipal workers, sick baby street, Trash, waste | Leave A Comment »
Jan 13, 2009 | Categories: China, Signs of Thought | Tags: English signage in China, garbage, Humor, recycling, redeeming bottles, rubbish, Trash, waste, yuhuatai park | Leave A Comment »
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Dec 11, 2008 | Categories: China, Traces of Progress | Tags: Chinese Food, consumption, garbage, purple mountain, social commentary, Traces of Progress, Trash, waste, white horse park | Leave A Comment »
Waste Not Yet Ye Be Wasted A simple garbage bin, a pleasant wood exterior, designed in accordance with the ultra-modern concept of discretion when disposing. Right bin or left bin?. Choose wisely. Consumption has past; it is too late to change that. You weren’t satisfied with your purchase? You think the whole thing was a [...]
Sep 26, 2008 | Categories: China, Crimes Against Posterity | Tags: disposal, garbage, Garbage Ninjas, life, Population, recycling, Trash, waste | Leave A Comment »
Dear People Who Sweep in the Wee Hours of the Night, No, that is not a result of careless typing; nor is it a cheap jab at the Asian people’s often-mocked struggle to pronounce the notorious letter ‘L.’ We have heard you out there. Sometimes, as we wake during the night and stumble to the [...]
May 23, 2008 | Categories: China, Letters to Whomever, Yichang | Tags: Add new tag, bamboo, brooms, Chinese Alarm Clock, cleaning, Expat, garbage, night, Ridiculous, sleeping, sweeping, Trash | 1 Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 20 Free range cattle! Hooray for their freedom! And look at the chain of consumption – gloriously short! From us, to the ground, to them, to us. Hooray for trash eating cows! And like that we have achieved a picture title and focus. As you know, this is the [...]
Mar 24, 2008 | Categories: Cambodia, Other, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: Cow, Expat, Free Range, Kampot, Ridiculous, Trash, Trash Eating Cows, Trash Talking, Trash-eating | Leave A Comment »
This Ridiculous World Guide: China – Garbage Vessels
Coming from America, or some nation similarly skilled in methods of clandestine waste removal – with magic, automatic flush toilets; color-coded trash bins; and troops of picker-uppers who carouse the streets in great machines with as much authority as fire engines – such unglamorous, undisguised removal may be a bit shocking. Here in this ancient [...]
Jun 15, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, This Ridiculous World Guide | Tags: excrement, garbage, Humor, refuse, slop buckets, social commentary, Trash, waste | Leave A Comment »