dessin de caratère 醉 qui signifie bu, ivre, grisé, etc. par un étudiant de HKDI. Avez-vous bu récemment?

醉, or drunk, by a student from Hong Kong Design Institute. So when was the last time you got tipsy?

Est-ce que les altermondialistes ont crié leurs frustrations ici?

butcher + Bruce Lee + 007 + Alien? Was I delirious ?!? Or it might just well be!

L’ancien chef se trouve sur le mur à Guangzhou.

The former chairman found himself on a wall in Guangzhou.

Hope you had a happy one in Canada. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong across the other huge pond, 1st July is also the HKSAR (Special Administrative Region) establishment day, commemorating its retrocession to China as well as the severed ties with the British empire. It has, since 2003, been a platform of public venting regarding various local causes. Below is a parade of selected pictures…

Hey you, keep moving. Don’t block the people behind you!
Allez vite vite vite!!!

La beauté avec les idéogrammes chinois demeure la facilité de les transformer au dessin ou motif sans souci. L’exemple qui suit est créé par la ville de Guangzhou. Mot par mot, les caractères 文明 廣州  s’expriment:

文明 wen ming - c’est-à-dire civilisé

廣州 Guangzhou

Il suffit d’un petit peu de votre imagination visuelle pour interpreter d’autres messages portant dans ce panneau d’affichage.

Who tagged above? It is right outside a construction site in Guangzhou (also known as Canton in the past) , a city in Southeastern China. Was it someone fed up with rapid urban redevelopment? A common scenary in many major cities in China is the leveling of huge city blocks replacing them with highrises. The “pockets” that temporarily survive become “villages in a city” or cheng zhong cun (城中村). These areas are at times the synonym of ghettos. Can that be a better model of (non) development? Are there alternatives?

I dunno if yin and yan were equally represented since I did not check the washroom of the opposite sex.

Je n’ai pas vérifié si yin et yan sont représentés egalement dans les toilettes des deux sexes.

La nostalgie des années 1970, quand plusieurs produits sont encore “fabriqué à Hong Kong”, comme le “school bag” ici. Ne négligez pas les matières plastiques, car c’était le domaine où remporte le premier million de dollars pour Li, La Shing, l’homme d’affaires le plus riche à Hong Kong.

Nostalgia 1970s, when things were still “made in Hong Kong”. This is an ad for a “school bag”, which is more like a briefcase, as seen in Hong Kong Museum of History. Don’t underestimate plastics. Li, Ka Shing, the richest man in Hong Kong, started his empire with a plastic manufacturing factory!