think in english, count in chinese

2012-02-02T07:46:00.005Z

郝事成雙/Good Things Come in Pairs

Our Favouritest Modelo Mr Hao Yunxiang/郝允祥 is currently in the Big Apple, preparing for the upcoming New York Mercedes-Benz Fall 2012 Fashion Week [9-16 Feb], among other things. Good Luck Mr Hao!

PS: His surname, '郝/Hao', sounds exactly the same as '好/Good' in Mandarin Chinese. Auspicious is it not dears.

Also: Something rather tells us that Mr Hao is taller than 6'2"/189cm, but is under-stating the case lest he should appear too tall, at least on paper...

2012-02-01T06:48:00.002Z

謬思/musing

Modelo: Mr Derik

Publication: GQ India January 2012

2012-01-30T14:57:00.000Z

戰前/antebellum

Modelos: Messrs

Pics 1-3. Kenta

4. Christian Thorn

6. Jirapong

2012-01-29T15:15:00.004Z

刪/why you have been deleted

In Thinkcount's more than five years of blogging, we only ever deleted three comments.

In each and everyone of them, what we found offensive hadn't much to with the content, but had everything to do with the snarky and impertinent tone in which the opinion was expressed.

If there's one thing we absolutely cannot abide, it's unprovoked rudeness and disrespect. Thinkcount is really rather old-school that way.

We are all for free exchanges of ideas. But the ideas must be couched in terms that are not unnecessarily personal, spiteful, or just plain nasty.

And that's why this kind of hateful, ill-mannered comments is ruthlessly and unapologetically banned on our little blog.

After all, one wouldn't anyhow allow an un-house-trained beast to come into, and foul up, one's lovingly tended garden now would one.

And please don't bother to answer. That's a rhetorical question.

2012-01-28T11:35:00.000Z

沒假/real it's real

Modelos: Messrs

Pic 1. Jirapong

2-4. Guan Jiarong/官加榮

10. Rocco Wang Ziyu 王子彧

2012-01-27T06:11:00.000Z

寧缺勿濫/never settle for less

Modelos: Unknown Korean hunks

And xiexie dear Gentle Reader Mr G for these gorgeous pics.

2012-01-27T03:12:00.003Z

解放!/liberation!

We finally deleted our Facebook account. Though we rarely use it, it is still rather important to us to take a stand. The 7-day mandatory period for the inane and invasive 'Timeline' was the last straw. Freedom!

PS: Hopefully the account is deleted for good. But one never knows how far the clutch of unrelenting Evilness might extend though.

PPS: Again, hopefully, this will be the long awaited Tipping-point for the Beginning of the Downfall of this arrogant, monstrous and exceedingly overrated behemoth. Perish.

2012-01-26T11:33:00.000Z

越夜越美麗/not in the morning dear [a long delayed sequel]

Modelo: Mr Rocco Wang Ziyu/王子彧

2012-01-25T23:59:00.000Z

新年禮物/new year's gifts

Modelo: Mr Takuya Nakamura/中村琢耶 [Pic 6 came pre-censored...]

Photography: Mr Leslie Kee/紀嘉良

From the photo-album/写真本 Super Taku

And much as we'd like to urge you to purchase a copy to support Messrs Kee & Nakamura, we couldn't find any relevant details online [not being able to read Japanese, unfortunately...].

If you know where copies of Super Taku may be purchased [on- or off-line], please kindly leave the info in the Comments section. Support Asian photographers & modelos. YaY.

[Later] Hey guess what, we managed to unearth some hmm Kee info for ya dearies. If you're in Tokyo, then you're in luck. The Super Nude Series Photo Exhibition is ongoing until the 28th this month, and the book is available for sale there:

Info source

Oh and Happy Happy Year of the Dragon/龍年快樂﹗

From your loving Uncle Thinkcount

Image source [xiexie]

PS: The 6-mbillion-dollar question: Is he? Or isn't he? Anyone care to hazard an intelligent guess?

[Updated 20120123] Two photos taken at the Exhibition. Mr Leslie Kee is the one with glasses. ~~Up, Up~~ OUT, OUT & Away!

2012-01-25T08:08:00.012Z

一個人的快樂/solo happiness [or pics, & it did happen :)]

Modelo: Mr Aki Komatsu/小松吾芸 [model/actor]

Photography: Mr Leslie Kee/紀嘉良

While you're recovering from your pearl-clutching and sal volatile-inhaling dears, let us set things in their proper context: The purpose of this daring shoot and the resulting limited edition photo-book was to raise funds for the March 11th tsunami tragedy that struck Japan last year/是為了去年311海嘯募款才拍的. And all 1,000 copies were understandably sold out. So it's done for an excellent cause.

Be that as it may, allow us, nonetheless, to repeat what we've said earlier to our dear friend Mr DG re: the très incroyable Mr Kee:

'I am in total and absolute AWE about his ability to convince these celebs/artistes to strip and go frontal for him, including in one case where the modelo actually jerked off and ejaculated, on film [!].

'Mr Kee must have tremendous charisma to charm his subjects into pushing the proverbial envelope to such a radical extent, especially in the still relatively conservative Asian context.'

Image source [xiexie]

Oh here's an oldie [but surely goodie]. Loving the oddly subversive contrast between total nudity and Hello Kitty [!]. Censorship is part of the original - and slightly disquieting - graphics:

[Updated 20120126]: More oldies:

2012-01-24T08:43:00.003Z

乒乓乓乒/ping pong, anyone?

Modelo: Mr Panpan

Thinkcount adores adores smooth silk-like skin tone. What about you dears?

2012-01-23T12:20:00.001Z

獨奏 x 4/solo x 4

Modelo: Mr Aki Komatsu/小松吾芸

Photography: Mr Leslie Kee/紀嘉良

2012-01-23T11:35:00.000Z

異首/the face that launched...

Modelo:

Face: Mr Harry Shum Jr.

The rest of the body: ???

2012-01-22T03:45:00.001Z

前食/foretaste

Modelo: Mr Takuya Nakamura/中村琢耶

More such delish Year-of-the-Dragon gifts on its way. Stay tuned dears.

From Uncle Thinkcount ;)

2012-01-21T23:59:00.000Z

因為是他/without whom...cannot

One simply can't start the New Year without bringing up the presence of one's favouritest boy modelo. Yes, it's the one and only Mr Hao Yunxiang/郝允祥 rocking the sultry see-through look...

2012-01-21T08:00:00.000Z

修工中/work in progress

Mr Chan Than San aka Paris Fung really makes rather a strong and convincing case for having 'work' done. Pictures above descend from the latest-to-earliest stage.

And the other cutie is Mr Mario Maurer who, one suspects [and hopes], hasn't quite gone under the knife. Yet.

2012-01-20T06:40:00.000Z

paris fashion week [menswear] automne-hiver 2012-13

Our favourite Mainland boy modelo Mr Hao Yunxiang/郝允祥 struck again yesterday [Thursday 19-01-2012] at 3.1 Phillip Lim, Paris.

Forgetable clothes, [somewhat] Fabulous eye makeup. One can't ask for everything.

2012-01-19T09:13:00.000Z

飢渴週四/thirsty thursday

Modelos: Unfortunately - or is it fortunately - all unknown...

2012-01-16T05:18:00.000Z

後景/rear view preferred

Modelo: Unknown [pls help ID if you can dears.]

And xiexie Mr MK for the stimulating sight...;)

2012-01-15T08:06:00.001Z

milano moda uomo autumn/winter 2012-13

Another rising Mainland star at the Dolce & Gabbana show: the 20-year-old Mr Hao Yunxiang/郝允祥. We are so happy that his first major international break is with the big-time Italian duo.

Thinkcount really can't get excited about the other three China models there [i.e. Messrs Zhao Lei, Jerry Fu and Wang Fei], as they rather fail our stringent - and strictly Asian-orientated - criteria for Chinese male beauty.

Sorry, but we just don't do only-Western-aesthetically-approved Asian dudes. No no.

2012-01-15T07:50:00.002Z

milano moda uomo autumn/winter 2012-13

One of the main highlights from yesterday's Dolce & Gabbana menswear show in Milano: Mr Rock Ji Huanbo/紀煥博 walking in his knickers. Check out them legs!

Too bad about the old granny-ish design though...

2012-01-14T05:13:00.002Z

鬆鬆/loose loose

Modelos: Messrs

Pic 2s. Jacob Lu Xi-an/盧希安

10s-11s. Christian Thorn [what a name!]

12s. Nathaniel Dang

15s. Johnny Angel

Ms Elva Hsia/蕭亞軒's '鬆鬆' ['Loose Loose' or 'Relax Relax']. It's the inspiration for this post, so just chill y'all.

2012-01-14T04:08:00.000Z

日安。吾愛 II/bonjour mon amour II

Modelo: Unknown [also]

2012-01-14T04:01:00.004Z

日安。吾愛 I/bonjour mon amour II

Modelo: Unknown [unfortunately...]

[Updated 20120131] Thanks to a dear anonymous Gentle Reader, we now know that this hunky cutie is Mr Damian from Argentina. See the Comments section for more links to him. Mucho gracias.

2012-01-13T14:34:00.001Z

洞/hole

Modelo: Cute unknown Mainland Chinese boy...

2012-01-13T08:02:00.000Z

因為/because

Modelo: Mr Top Chaiwat Thongsaeng

Photography: Mr Haruehun Airry

2012-01-13T07:45:00.001Z

航の反対側/the other side of the Sail

Modelo: Mr Koh Masaki/真崎航

Photography: Mr Eisuke

Image source [xiexie]

2012-01-09T05:58:00.002Z

熊熊.大火/bear alert!

Modelos/模特﹕Messrs Wang Wei/王巍 & Yan Zhenxing/閻振興 [pics 6&7]

Photography/攝影： Mr Dax Liu/劉大興 [Different Photographers Different Styles - a breath of fresh air?]

Publication/刊物: M1 Magic Man Magazine 2012 Special Issue/《M1魔男誌2011特刊號》

This magazine may be purchased here/這本雜誌可在此購買

Image source/圖片來源 [xiexie]

2012-01-08T11:00:00.001Z

酷愛/love, cooling...

Modelo: Mr Paul Wang Bo-tao/王博濤

Photography: Mr Adu/杜達雄

2012-01-08T09:50:00.000Z

魅/beauty

2011-11-26T15:45:00.002Z

說說/just saying

Just a 'footnote': Thinkcount was hit by the above thought while doing something rather un-‘aristocratic’: taking out the garbage and washing the dishes that had piled up over the weekend...

2011-11-24T14:05:00.006Z

'我不是'/'i am not'

'今天一位同志约我吃饭，开始的时候就和他说了，我不是，就不要费劲了，他说只是朋友一起吃个饭吧，呵呵，结果结束了还是问我怎么样？可以更深入了解吗？哎，我可咋办呢？'

Translation:

'Today a gay person asked me out for a meal. Right from the start I told him: I am not, so don't waste your effort. And he said it's just a meal between friends. Hehe, at the end he still asked me how did I feel? Could he get to know me better? Ai, what should I do?'

From Mr Paul Wang Bo-tao/王博濤's Weibo/圍脖

Source

Thinkcount's reaction upon reading this entry? Pray insert continuous - and strenuous - eye-rolling/翻白眼 for at least the next 10 minutes dears.

PS: And Happy Thanksgiving to all our dear Gentle Readers from North America. There are always so many things - large and small - that one can be grateful for, ja?

Click here to see previously featured - and some much more explicit - photos of Mr Wang that Thinkcount has showcased over the years, especially this and this.

[03122011] One more [and xiexie Mr A]:

2011-11-21T09:07:00.014Z

‘失去後便富有’/gaining through losing

Modelos [images are numbered; mouse over or click on pics to get number]

Messrs

Pics 1-11. Kevin Tan Kai/潭凱; a trained stage art director-turned-actor; China

Location: Tianjin/天津

12-13. Godfrey Gao/高以翔

14-15. Chaiwat Tongsaeng [homeboy is looking good here, esp. pic 14...]

17. Phil Shen/沈菲爾

18. A-De/阿德

19-22. Chris Fawcett

29-30. Akmal Shaukat

35-37. Li Meng/李猛

38-39. Jacob Lu Xi-an/盧希安

47. Kevin Luo 雪

56. Wang Mei/王魅

58-64. Victor/子瀚 [the taller chap] & Kyan/凯恩

Photography: Mr Adu/杜達雄

Publication: M1 Magic Man Magazine/《M1 魔男誌》 vol.26
[The mag may be purchased here/雜誌可在此購買].

Image source/圖源 [for the M1 pics; xiexie]

71-72. Koh Masaki/真崎航 [rimmer] & fellow performer

NB: Hard to believe that Blogspot would be foolish enough to remove the 'Original' button from their slideshow. How then are the viewers supposed to access the images in their original - read 'LARGE' - sizes?

The only suggestion we can think of is: right click on the image and open it, as it is and without being shrunk, in a separate tab. Forget about the worthless 'slideshow' all together dears.

The L Word: Currently feeling: '癡情司'/'Goddess of Obsessive Love' [above clip] & '拋磚引玉'/'Brick for Jade' [below].

Both tracks are taken from the recent Hong Kong stage production of 《賈寶玉》/Jia Baoyu aka The Awakening.

Playing the title role, in transgender 'drag' of sorts, is singer Ms Denise Ho/何韻詩, better known as Ms HOCC. And award-winning actress Ms Shuqi/舒淇 appears, as a special favour, as the gorgeously teary Lin Daiyu/林黛玉 in the music video.

Just goes to show that the inexhaustibly rich Dream of the Red Chamber, written in the 18th century, can take any number of re-workings, and still emerge fresh and fascinating.

Like in this case: that the love between Baoyu and Daiyu can be rendered homoerotic, yet not gay [not of the male variety, that is].

And that the usually effete Baoyu...

...can indeed rock out and look butch and sharp, in his 21st-century incarnation.

2011-11-13T10:58:00.006Z

掛住你/missing you

When I bring to you coloured toys, my child,
I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water,
and why flowers are painted in tints

...

When I sing to make you dance
I truly know why there is music in leaves,
and why waves send their chorus of voices to the heart of the listening earth

Rabindranath Tagore [1861-1941]; from 'Coloured Toys'

Modelos: Mr Robin Li Xiaobing/李小兵 & two unbearably cute - but unfortunately unnamed - kiddie modelos...

Also: It's ever so hard to find good unsentimental unsappy poems for and about children...:(

And here's another one - rather uncharacteristically dark and harrowing - from the late Mr Tagore. Originally written in Bengali, it is entitled, appropriately, 'Karma' [1896]:

No sign of my servant this morning
The door stood unlatched my bath-water was unfetched
The rascal didn't turn up last night.
Where my clean clothes were I had no clue
Nor where my meal was coming from.
Time passed, the clock ticking I sat, irritation pricking -
I would really tell him off, I would.
At last quite late he came greeted me in the same way
As usual, palms pressed meekly together.
I was seized by a fit I cried, 'Go, get out,
I do not want to see your face!'
He heard me like a dunce as if stunned for once,
He searched my face in surprise.
Then he said, 'Last night -' he choked, 'at midnight -
My little girl, she died.'
So saying, in haste cloth on shoulder he went to face
His daily chores alone.
And, as on any other day, he cleaned, polished, scrubbed away,
Left not a single task undone.

2011-11-13T10:43:00.004Z

說說/just saying [updated]

The only possibility that we can think of for being able to do qigong, en masse, is: under Mass Hypnosis, a rather frightening state of affair.

Are there any qigong practitioners out there among our dear Gentle Readers? Care to share your experience with us? TIA.

PS: In the somewhat distant past Thinkcount had been put under hypnosis, several times, by one of his shrinks, so we do know what that feels like...

[Updated 15112011]: Please see Comments for a detailed description of the modus operandi of Thinkcount's version of 'qigong'.

2011-11-08T13:30:00.026Z

只愛陌生人/only strangers need apply

Modelos [images are numbered; mouse over or click on pics to get number]

Messrs

Pics 1-6. Jacob Lu Xi-an/盧希安

7. Qian Cheng/錢晟

8-9. Harry Shum Jr

10-13. Ludi Yuen. We love Asian boys with AtTiTude.

16. Jiho Lee

17. Twins Hu Tianxing & Hu Tian-ge/雙胞胎胡天行 & 胡天戈

21-22. Guan Jiarong/官加榮

24. Laurence Liang Chao/梁超 [left] & Brian Ye Zi/冶子

26-28. Korean gay film '알이씨'/《錄像》/Rec

30. jd

31-34. Rock Ji Huanbo/紀煥博 [the one in his birthday suit/全裸者] & fellow modelos

Incidentally, pray do not be misled by Mr Ji's macho persona. In real life he's rather sensitive/頗感性, adores literature, loves writing about his feelings inspired by seasonal changes, and is given to quoting from the works of the late Ms Eileen Chang/張愛玲女士, Thinkcount's idol.

Oh and he doesn't eat much either...

Fresh off the Press: Messrs Rock Ji & Domenico Dolce @ Dolce & Gabbana's Shanghai party, Wednesday, 09-11-2001. That's tonight, dears.

Three's Company: And Mr Stefano Gabbana was there, too.

43. Jack

63. Chaiwat Thongsaeng for Adam's Love; Bangkok

Enjoy Safe Love dears...

67-72. Koh Masaki/真崎航 [top] & a rather cute fellow performer. Does anyone know his name?

[Updated 09112011] Thanks to a dear Gentle Reader from Japan, we now have the ID: he's Mr Wataru/渉＠games video. These stills are from '極タチ 3'/Gokutachi 3/Extremely Top 3 and you may view the trailer here

Currently feeling: Mainland singer Mr Jason Zhang Jie/張傑's 《秋天的童話》/'Autumn's fairy Tale'.

Great tune. Gorgeous arrangement. Gratifying singing. But rather gratingly hetero-normative lyrics. One can't have everything. Enjoy.

2011-11-03T00:52:00.005Z

蕩粉/painted skin

I never saw that you did painting need
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
The barren tender of a poet's debt;
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself being extant well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
This silence for my sin you did impute,
Which shall be most my glory, being dumb;
For I impair not beauty being mute,
When others would give life and bring a tomb.
There lives more life in one of your fair eyes
Than both your poets can in praise devise.

我從不覺得你需要塗脂蕩粉，
因而從不用脂粉塗你的朱顏；
我發覺，或以為發覺，你的豐韻
遠超過詩人獻你的無味繾綣：
因此，關于你的歌我只裝打盹，
好讓你自己生動地現身說法，
證明時下的文筆是多麼粗笨，
想把美德，你身上的美德增華。
你把我這沉默認為我的罪行，
其實卻應該是我最大的榮光；
因為我不作聲于美絲毫無損，
別人想給你生命，反把你埋葬。
你的兩位詩人所模擬的讚美，
遠不如你一只慧眼所藏的光輝。

William Shakespeare [1564-1616]; Sonnet 83/威廉•莎士比亞 [1564-1616]; 十四行詩第 83 首

Modelo: Mr Jacob Lu Xi-an/盧希安

PS: Thinkcount is in the somewhat painful process of trying to master a new Photo-editing software; plus our arm/hand has been acting up in this wettish weather, hence the infrequency of updates. Sorry sorry...:(

2011-10-28T01:55:00.005+01:00

早餐晚吃/best consumed past noon

'I might have to go on breakfast TV, which would mean getting up early.'

Nik Kershaw [b.1958]

Modelo: Mr Rocco Wang Ziyu/王子彧

Just in case you were wondering who Mr Nik Kershaw is, dears...

2011-10-25T23:53:00.011+01:00

到家/home safe

Modelos [images are numbered; mouse over or click on pics to get number]

Messrs

Pics 1,3,8,9,15: Wang Zhe/王哲

2,4,5,6,7: Hao Yunxiang/郝允祥

12. Eric Zou Chen/鄒晨

13. Mike He Junxiang/賀軍翔

14. Clint Mauro

17-18. Hendri Rachman

22. Hideo Muraoka

24-26. The latest from Toot, y'all.

27-29. Benji

32-34. 'Kwang'

37. Thinkcount adores this pic. There's such a sense of immediacy/臨場感 to it, and you just know: they've probably just met, and love - or is it lust - is on the verge of being born...

40-41. Justin 'Vit' Jakkarin Apittanung aka 'Whisky'

49-50. Hunter

51-53. Chad Kittirak [Xiexie Mr DB].

56-66. Victor/子瀚 [the taller chap; 35 years old] & Kyan/凯恩 [29]; both Taiwanese

Photography: Mr Adu/杜達雄

Publication: M1 Magic Man Magazine/《M1 魔男誌》 vol.26
[The mag may be purchased here/雜誌可在此購買].

Image source/圖源 [for the M1 pics; xiexie]

PS: And you know what, dearies, Thinkcount is quite tempted to offer ~~as a humanitarian gesture~~ his free translation service to Mr Adu. It really rather pains us to have to read extended English texts in Chinese publications [e.g. pic 59]...:(

Currently feeling: 《大城小愛》/'Small Love Big City', an oldie by Mr Lee-hom Wang/王力宏.

The smaller - and thus less complex and purer - something is, the harder it is to find, and to hold.

But sadly the virtue and value of minuteness is decidedly insufficiently celebrated in our age of bloated over-hype.

And incidentally we never get the alleged claims of plagiarism provoked by and surrounding this song. To Thinkcount the veteran Chinese pop listener, it didn't - and doesn't - sound like anything we've heard before.

2011-10-18T00:13:00.008+01:00

凌晨 03:13/03:13 am

Modelos [images are numbered; mouse over or click on pics to get number]

Messrs

Pics 1-2. Vincent/明

4. Matthew Chen Mo/陳默

5-7. Zhao Tianhui/趙天輝

8. Rock Jin Xiankui/金憲奎

13. This cute boy looks rather familiar, but we just couldn't for the life of us recall where we could have seen him before...

15. Tan WaiTeik/陳偉德

17-18. Ben

20. imutopia

27. Cory Bond

30. Sean Yang Xiaozhou/楊小咒

32-33. Andrew Ngo

37. Mses Maggie Cheung/張曼玉 [left] & Joey Wong/王祖賢 from the 90s cult classic, 《青蛇》/Green Snake.

The visual styling & costume by renowned art director Mr William Cheung Suk-ping/張叔平 still looks just as fresh and gorgeous today, as it did some two decades ago. Now that's true talent.

38. Jacob Lu Xi-an/盧希安

Snakes & other reptiles are categorically banned on this site as Thinkcount has rather an overwhelming phobia of them. But since it's sweetheart Mr Jacob Lu...

53-54. Tommy Ga-ken Wan

58. Kenji

59. 'Koo' Pirawit Pundeang & Manut Ratdamanee

60. Mr 'Koo' again

Currently feeling: Mainland up-and-coming singer Mr Wei Chen/魏晨's 'Goodbye Goodbye'. It's the Mandarin version of the Korean hit, 'Heartsore Story' by Mr Wheesung.

Per usual Thinkcount adores this rather exceedingly mainstream ballad, but absolutely abhors the tragic hairdon't [and dyed too!], the disastrous fashion choice & the eye-smarting synchronised dancing.

And what makes it extra-sad is that you could tell that they had had a fairly substantial budget - by Chinese pop standard - for the MV production.

It really causes us something very akin to physical pain, having to watch it. An intense aesthetic allergic reaction which, dears, you would have recognised by now from the reduced screen size.

Why do some folks have such poor taste? This question never fails to puzzle Thinkcount. It's not that hard really, to tell & select what looks good, from what does not. Or is it?

Hardy souls may view the full-sized visual horror fest here

2011-10-14T01:32:00.005+01:00

晚安吾愛/'...softer, and they sleep'

They turn the light off, and its white globe glows
an instant and then dissolves, like a tablet
in a glass of darkness. Then a rising.
The hotel walls shoot up into heaven’s darkness.

Their movements have grown softer, and they sleep,
but their most secret thoughts begin to meet
like two colours that meet and run together
on the wet paper in a schoolboy’s painting.

It is dark and silent. The city however has come nearer
tonight. With its windows turned off. Houses have come.
They stand packed and waiting very near,
a mob of people with blank faces.

'The Couple' by Mr Tomas Tranströmer [b.1931], Nobel Laureate for Literature, 2011

[Thinkcount is ever so glad that this year's award went to a poet. About time. And this poem is rather Rilkean is it not.]

Modelo: Mr Jacob Lu Xi-an/盧希安 [he really fell asleep in this pic...]

PS: We wanted to run this poem last week when the award was announced, but we couldn't find a brilliant visual to go with it until this evening. Just so you know dears.

2011-10-12T21:39:00.004+01:00

東方紅/the east is red

Modelo: Mr Hao Yunxiang/郝允祥

Publication: 《智族》/GQ Style China #2 October 2011

Photography: Mr Kai Z Feng/馮志凱

2011-10-08T15:00:00.008+01:00

諧振/resonance

'Rather, our sensitive-spiritual existence is an æsthetic resonance chamber that resonates with the voices that are constantly reaching us, preceding all explicit æsthetic judgement.'

Hans-Georg Gadamer [1900-2002]; from 'The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem' [1966]

Modelo: Mr Anthony Wang Donghui/王東暉

Province: Shandong/山東

Current location. Chaoyang, Beijing/北京朝陽

Occupation: Student/Part-time modelo

Currently feeling: 'Dream Again', an oldie from 2004 by Mr Lee-hom Wang/王力宏. It's one of those rare tracks where Mr Wang sings in Japanese, so enjoy.

And speaking of dreaming again, here's some more oldies - but surely goodies - featuring the first & younger Mr Wang of this post. And especially rendered in monochrome for that nostalgic feel too:

2011-10-03T13:39:00.006+01:00

盜聽途說/scene & hurt: the bright side

Friend-of-Sandy I [of a certain age]: 'That Ashton! Aren't toyboys just the pits!'

Friend-of-Sandy II [also of a certain age]: 'Well...[significant pause]...at least it wasn't one of her daughters.'

Overheard at a supermarket checkout line

See here for a latest reporting of this unfolding saga

PS: Never realised the cute Astro Boy/鉄腕アトム could look so rather camp. The pencil-thin eyebrows, just for starters...

2011-09-29T15:11:00.004+01:00

遺珠/lost pearls [2/2]

Modelos [images are numbered; mouse over or click on pics to get number]

Messrs

Pic 61. Joe Ng

65-67. Zhao Tianhui/趙天輝

68. Zhang Te/張特

69-72. Beefy Vietnamese modelo whose name escapes us at the moment. Help pls...

[09302011] Puzzle solved: his name is Mr Hung Phong. Xiexie Mr Diego.

97. Johnny Angel

98-104. Manut Ratdamanee [pic 98] & "Koo" Pirawit Pundeang [pic 100]

Part I