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Art/Design, Books

Chinese Book Packaging

Dec 02. 2008

As a follow-up to beautiful Chinese wine packaging, I now present an example of exquisite Chinese book packaging. Who says you can't judge a book by its cover? Via Packagings of the World....

Personal

‘Tis the Season

Nov 29. 2008

Happy belated Thanksgiving! After a crazy two weeks of starting a new job, being sick, and life in general, I packed my bags Wednesday night to stay with my parents for the duration of the holiday weekend. To be completely honest, I haven't been feeling my best emotionally. I have been pessimistic and withdrawn, overanalyzing and dramatizing every minute detail of my life. I will get into this in more detail in a private post (to be written later today), but the point of this mini-spiel is announce that I realized something. Because once again, God has had to knock me over on my lazy arse for me to open my eyes and see what's really important. So although it sounds cliche, this year...

Asian, Korean, Music, NYC

BoA in Times Square

Nov 22. 2008

I've had the good fortune of meeting BoA, the Korean/Japanese pop sensation. My uncle is a very powerful man in the Korean entertainment business. When I visited Korea in 2000, he was the Vice-President of Broadcasting at MBC, which is one of the main broadcasting companies in Korea. (As a side note, I'm proud to say that one of the very last showed produced under his tenure as the VP of Broadcasting was the hit drama 대장금, or Dae Jang Geum, which still remains one of the most popular dramas in Korean history.) While he holds an even higher position now, his former title was an impressive one nonetheless. He took me on a tour of the studios and I gaped and gawked,...