Author Archives: haonowshaokao

Portugal in the Pop World Cup 2014

Posted on 25/04/2014 by haonowshaokao

My career as a Pop World Cup manager (the link should explain what this is) was cut short this week as I failed to claw my way out of the infamous Group of Death. In hindsight I should’ve realised further … Continue reading →

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Equally Divided Europe

Posted on 08/04/2014 by haonowshaokao

UPDATE: This is a new version (8th September 2014) – six country names have been changed and one capital has been moved. I think it’s probably still not finished, though – so please feel free to share any ideas about … Continue reading →

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Long-distance Childhood

Posted on 20/02/2014 by haonowshaokao

I grew up 5500 miles away from my wife. For her birthday, in a Stalinesque re-writing of history I’ve been editing myself into her childhood photos. No laughing at my poor photoshop skills, please. Here we are at two years … Continue reading →

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Arbitrary Number of Shorter Sounds From The Most Recent Orbital Period of The Earth (AKA “27 Tracks from 2013″ )

Posted on 04/01/2014 by haonowshaokao

I seem to now be in a steady routine of mostly ignoring new music from January to November, then digesting it all in one lump in December. This year I’ve been using the ‘Mincer’ technique to get through a thousand … Continue reading →

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Hong Kong Tram Timelapse Video Thing (Again)

Posted on 17/11/2013 by haonowshaokao

I’ve been editing videos from a few years back, trying to get to grips with the massive backlog, and I thought I’d have a go at fixing something I made when I returned to China in 2009 – a timelapse … Continue reading →

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Things in China – Sign #4 (not actually a sign)

Posted on 04/09/2013 by haonowshaokao

I haven’t posted on here for more than two months (too busy with work / family / moving and writing efforts have been diverted largely to this) so I’m putting up a few funny signs as a stopgap. These are … Continue reading →

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Things in China – Sign #3

Posted on 03/09/2013 by haonowshaokao

I haven’t posted on here for more than two months (too busy with work / family / moving and writing efforts have been diverted largely to this) so I’m putting up a few funny signs as a stopgap. These are … Continue reading →

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Things in China – Sign # 2

Posted on 02/09/2013 by haonowshaokao

I haven’t posted on here for more than two months (too busy with work / family / moving and writing efforts have been diverted largely to this) so I’m putting up a few funny signs as a stopgap. These are … Continue reading →

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Things in China – Sign # 1

Posted on 01/09/2013 by haonowshaokao

I haven’t posted on here for more than two months (too busy with work / family / moving and writing efforts have been diverted largely to this) so I’m putting up a few funny signs as a stopgap. These are … Continue reading →

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Parkview Green (芳草地) = weird shopping centre

Posted on 22/06/2013 by haonowshaokao

In late April, when it was still basically winter, we wandered by a shopping centre in Beijing and went inside on a whim. Normally this is a recipe for tedium, but fortunately this time there was a wealth of bizarre, … Continue reading →

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