Archive for July 2006
Found a pretty cool website today, called SubText NYC, which is a blog created by a person named Chiba, who uses his cellphone to take pictures of what’s going on in the underground of New York. Can’t quite say what’s fascinating me about his work, but I like his attention to detail and the strange atmosphere of his pictures. Unfortunately he seems to have stopped working on his blog 
I’ve been doing some research on Dayyan Eng today, the director of Waiting Alone, and found out that he is a Chinese-American filmmaker who was born in Taiwan in 1975.
Since I really liked Waiting Alone, I checked into his earlier works — one of which was Bus 44 (車四十四 Chē Sì Shí Sì). It’s a short film, obviously based on a true story, that tells the fate of a female bus driver and her passengers encountering highway robbers on a lonely road in the countryside. Yet another excellent short film worth watching.
Bus 44 on CBC Television (click “watch” in the upper right corner)
> more information
Some pictures I’ve taken from the viewing platform of the mdr tower in Leipzig about two months ago. Enjoy.
We’ve been watching a pretty funny movie in Chinese class today called Duzi Dengdai 独自等待, or Waiting Alone. The film is about a guy who desperately falls in love with a girl and tries everything to get closer to her. I don’t know all the details, since we’ve been watching the Chinese version with Chinese subtitles, but the dialogues are pretty simple and the story is understandable, even if you don’t speak the language. Hilarious movie anyway — worth checking out.
> Trailer (scroll down to the bottom of the page)
> Wikipedia: Waiting Alone
Been a while since I last posted something here — sorry about that. University and football have been keeping me busy, especially since my first exams are coming around the corner.
Anyway, what a great World Cup! 
It’s sad Germany didn’t make it to the final match, but I’m still very happy about how things turned out for our team. One thing I’ve been thinking about a lot, though, is why Zidane headbutted Materazzi. I hope the next days will shed some light on the incident.
> Zentralstadion, Leipzig, July 04th
> Revolverheld giving a concert on the Augustusplatz, Leipzig
Late at night in front of an Italian café: photo 01, photo 02
