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post #16 of 25
1/18/07 at 7:57pm
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Originally Posted by Nantucket Red
Great. I've been waiting for some account of your trip. Is that coelacanth alive?

This reminds me of the Indian Museum in Calcutta, which is similarly grand and decrepit. I toured it in 1993 when I was last there.

No, I believe the beast is dead although it was floating in its own tank, seemingly rotting slowly.

India seems to have its fair share of grand old places that would be utterly fun to tour.
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post #17 of 25
1/18/07 at 7:59pm
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The museum comes across as both intiguing and melancholy. Take any "fine art" photos?
It was vastly empty the times I visited. However, the museum is apparently very crowded on the weekends or when they have student groups.

I brought my Rolleiflex along but have yet to process any contact sheets though.
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post #18 of 25
1/19/07 at 4:57am
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Speaking of museums, one of my favorite place to hang out in Beijing is the natural history museum. Lots of childhood memories were planted there so imagine my shock when they recently revamped the pre-historic room with a bunch of electronic interactive junks, the horror. I liked it much better with just the skeletons, the anatomically incorrect drawings, and the outdated scientific facts pasted on the walls praising the rise of man-kind, or was it the rise of the People... And on the subject of who is buying luxury goods in China, keeping in mind that luxury firms are setting up shop in China now to target the growing consumptions of the future, and taking a loss now is their investment strategy, the retail outlets are actually doing very well in their current state. All of the big names are in the process or already have revamped their old outlets into flagship stores. I believe there are as much as four Stefano Ricci stores in China. LabelKing, what other brands have opened on Euro Street in Hangzhou now? Last time I was there, there were only Armani, DG, and Zegna.
When I was in Hangzhou around October last year, there was a Corneliani store there!
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post #19 of 25
1/19/07 at 5:46am
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Any street fashion photo?

My friend took some pics in Shanghai, enjoy.






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post #20 of 25
1/19/07 at 6:52am
those are some great photos
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post #21 of 25
1/19/07 at 7:01am
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Originally Posted by LabelKing
No, I believe the beast is dead although it was floating in its own tank, seemingly rotting slowly.

India seems to have its fair share of grand old places that would be utterly fun to tour.

Calcutta in particular has a lot of grand colonial architecture that's fascinating and pretty well preserved. There's also an English cemetary where, among other things, you can read the epitaph of a woman who died from eating too much pineapple (!).
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post #22 of 25
1/19/07 at 7:09am
Shanghai looks awesome, I just watched a Discovery HD special on the waterfront area's new futuristic architecture which looks pretty sweet.
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post #23 of 25
1/20/07 at 2:08am
nice travelogue, Labelking. I could feel the musty odor start to creep into my nostrils.

In my hopeful imagination, the coelacanth is floating in formaldehyde, with its attendant acrid smell.

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The closest experiences I might have, comparable to the decrepitude pictured, are of some of the buildings in Istanbul. Many of course are genuinely ancient, but others are just old and held together with a lick and a promise. Getting our passports stamped at the airport was a sort of austere moment - blank yellowing walls, with a single portrait (Ataturk, probably) hanging behind the desk.
Seems like I've recycled this story before here on styleforum, or maybe it's just deja vu brought on by looking at old buildings.

/andrew
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post #24 of 25
1/20/07 at 4:06am
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I brought my Rolleiflex along but have yet to process any contact sheets though.
when i first saw the pictures i meant to ask, 'i thought you used a leica?'
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post #25 of 25
1/20/07 at 4:25am
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Originally Posted by matadorpoeta
when i first saw the pictures i meant to ask, 'i thought you used a leica?'
The pictures in this post were taken with a small digital camera.

I also have a Leica M3 and III screwmount but don't use them as often as the Rollei.
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