I went to the local summer festival last night in order to photograph some dancing but instead I became too carried away in something different. What people are consuming, and how much. I had to try a taste of some of the food sold and I thought how expensive it was and the taste was not even so good. So I took out my video camera and started filming people selling, people buying and people eatting. The dancing was just different business groups in matching kimono all doing the same dance. Each group was ofcourse dressed differently but the dance was the same. seems to me the people were not much interested in the dancing as much as just buying. So these festivals become simple a place to spend money on not-so-good and expensive foods/drinks? So these festivals are becomming more and more consuption centered and less and less fun and entertaining unless shopping is entertainment for them. The video will be comming out sometime at the end of August/September.

This one song has to be one of the clearest videos in Hokkien. So clear I can almost sing along with the video. Good for learning Hokkien.

I came across this full length documentary (100min) that can be watched at an interesting website called freedocumentaries.
Called “Super Sized Me”

“Super Size Me” is one man’s journey into the world of weight gain, health problems and fast food. It’s an examination of the American way of life and how we are eating ourselves to death. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a ‘McDonald’s only’ diet for thirty days straight. His Sundance award-winning feature is as entertaining as it horrifying as it dives into corporate responsibility, nutritional education, school lunch programs and how we as a nation are eating ourselves to death.

The complete documentary is here (100min) Opens in a new window.

Now we see what America’s Macdonald and KFC is doing to kill the rest of the world.
Is there much difference between this and all the wars that the USA has been involved with since the first world war?
One person commented on Youtube saying look what the american military do by bringing Macdonald into Japan they are attempting to kill more people than the they did during WWII in Hiroshima.
Now look what they did to China and India and it doesn’t stop there.
Warning: DO NOT watch while you are eatting! It may make you sick.

In this modern age hand-made crafts are a disappearing tradition. Everyone is seeking cheap products that do not last. Tourists are not interested in quality but a bargain. Handmade pottery lives on at the Iroha Studio!

Finally I managed to get around to publishing some of these films. “Cities”  takes place in three cities the big metropolis of Guangzhou, and two smaller cities in Guangxi Zhuang Aunonomous Region - Yulin and Liuzhou. The films looks into cities from the development point of view that wherever you go in the world all cities look alike.