Archive for October, 2012

• PHOTOGRAPHY – ’1 Year in Hong Kong’ by Brian Yen

  Date: 2012.10.28 | Category: Photography & Wallpapers | Response: 1

  Brian Yen has been photographing Hong Kong for six years. His long exposure series captures bright, cultural and festive scenes that epitomise the busy populated metropolis that is our city. He is planning a photobook depicting a year in HK.

  More of his photography can be found on his Flickr page and click here for an earlier Hong Wrong post on his work which reflects a less glamorous side of the Big Lychee…

  

  

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• HISTORY – Newly Unearthed Photos of 1950s Hong Kong

  Date: 2012.10.26 | Category: Blog, History & Abandoned HK | Response: 2

  Below is a previously unseen set of Eastman Mounted Slides depicting scenes from 1950s Hong Kong including Nathan Road, the Peninsula and the old TST Kowloon-Canton Railway Station. Reproduced with kind permission from Redditor kmallon12.

  

  The Peninsula

  

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• ART – HK’s Got Talent! Paul Lung’s Amazingly Realistic Pencil Drawings

  Date: 2012.10.24 | Category: Art & Music, Blog | Response: 0

  Who says our city is not creative? Hong Kong’s got talent (and integrity!) 38-year-old business design consultant Paul Lung admits that he ‘really loves drawing’ – having mastered the 2B pencil (and occasionally 4B), he refuses to sell his work or do commercial / commission-based projects. Lung particularly enjoys drawing cats and capturing people’s personalities in their pencil portraits.

  See more of his work on his Facebook page or Deviant Art portfolio. Click here for his main portfolio page.

  

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• POLITICS – Citizens Left to Clean Beaches Still Brimming with Plastic Pellets

  Date: 2012.10.23 | Category: Politics: All Posts | Response: 1

  It has been left to the citizens to clean up the mess left by the plastic pellets spill back in June. 150 tons of snow-like plastic confetti was deposited in Hong Kong waters after a vessel was rocked by category 4 hurricane winds earlier in the year…

  

  Environmentalist Tracey Read, NatGeo photo by Gary Stokes

  

  The beads resemble fish eggs, making them a disaster for marine life and the environment…

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• BLOG – WTF Licence Plates of the Rich & Shameless #10

  Date: 2012.10.22 | Category: WTF Licence Plates | Response: 1

  

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• POLITICS – New HK PSA: Shut Up and Love China

  Date: 2012.10.21 | Category: Blog, Politics: All Posts | Response: 0

  A new creepy Public Service Announcement encouraging Hong Kongers to “protect our treasured Motherland” is attracting ‘dislikes’ on YouTube. It contains the usual HK PSA tropes and themes following the standard format of ‘highly-contrived-family-conversation-in-a-park‘. Click here for more cringe-inducing government ads, and here for a trip down PSA memory lane.

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• PHOTOGRAPHY – Poverty, Age & Loneliness in HK: by Brian Yen

  Date: 2012.10.19 | Category: Photography & Wallpapers | Response: 1

  Brian Yen is planning a photobook depicting a year in Hong Kong – a book about birth and death in the most crowded place on Earth. Much of his work involves long exposure photography, but his series also uncovers a less glamorous and fast-paced side to HK. Scenes we are all familiar with yet rarely pay attention to – the invisible lives of the poor, elderly and the elderly working poor.

  The collection below begins with someone almost all LKF-goers will recognise…

  

  

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• HISTORY – Evolution of the Hong Kong Skyline – a Visual History

  Date: 2012.10.17 | Category: Architecture & Infrastructure, Blog, History & Abandoned HK | Response: 5

  As HK comes tops again in a ‘World’s Greatest Skyline‘ list, we present a brief visual history of how the Hong Kong harbour developed below. Check out other architectural entries on the blog here.

  

  Pre-1869 painting via RGS-IBG image / E. L. Watling

  1880s - Beginning with a rare shot of the Fragrant Harbour from the 19th century – the same decade in which the Star Ferry became operational.

  

  via New York Times

  

  1890, click to enlarge

  1900s - Next, a quaint postcard from 1906 (via gwulo.com)…

  

  via gwulo.com

  1910s – The CBD, gradually creeping up The Peak, was then named Victoria City. There was no light show back then (but click here for a photo of the harbour at night, some 106 years ago!)…

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• BLOG – Photos & Footage from the 1st Hong Kong Soapbox Race

  Date: 2012.10.17 | Category: Blog | Response: 2

  Photos below of the weekend’s soapbox race in Sha Tin, attended by over 30,000 Hong Kongers…

  

  Tyrone Sui, Reuters

  Tyrone Siu, Reuters

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• PHOTOGRAPHY – More Vintage Photos of Old Hong Kong

  Date: 2012.10.16 | Category: History & Abandoned HK, Photography & Wallpapers | Response: 2

  Below is a fascinating mixed bag of vintage photos of old Hong Kong.

  See our other Hong Wrong historical galleries: The 1967 Riots, Before & After, When the MTR was New, Rare Kowloon Walled City shots and more.

  

  “Hot dog” buses, Tsim Sha Tsui, 1987.

  A common sight near Kai Tak airport, 1998

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