One of the best ones yet! Reserved the entire bar of new restaurant 3TOP, and invited new and old friends alike. Got so wasted I completely do not remember what happened at Karaoke between 2am and 5am. Very scary thought. Ok, next year, will definitely scale it down. Thanks to my buddy Ozzie for taking all these great photos! Click on the photo above or at this link here to access the entire Flickr album.
I think the black cat that hangs around our building is pregnant again. If I’m right, this will be the third time since our studio has been here she’s been knocked up. Maybe it’s because she lives in a building full of Chinese bohemians that she knows how to love so well. All she does lately is lie around in corners and sleep. Is that a sign that she’s about to hatch? Anyway, I’m tempted to get one of the kittens as an office cat, but first I need to learn how to take care of my plants first before I can seriously consider putting another life in my hands.
@terencelau finished meeting in neighborhood, was between this and cantina. I will never listen to myself again. in reply to terencelau#
Had a friendly exchange w/ st. cavish via email about yakitori in shanghai. His latest SMSH article neglects Daikichi, one of the best. #
@siumuimui no dice. I use VMWare and online pay Chinese style: through IE. Tough noogies. If you find a better way, please share. in reply to siumuimui#
About to dig into the corned beef at Southern Belle. Doesn’t make me too excited, by the looks of it. http://twitpic.com/8xqg9#
Republic Shanghai celebrated its one year anniversary two days ago in typical, sushipanda fashion: red-faced, stinking of cheap wine, and completely unaware that I was stroking his portly stomach the entire time while directing dark philosophical questions to his lady friends: “If I was gay I would have sex every minute of every day, because gay white men have yellow fever, too.”
During the day, however, I had little time to reflect on what we have accomplished these past 12 months, as I was busy trying to get our 3D software to work on our intern’s new computer. Now, I’ve had some time to absorb and digest where we are in relation to where we were last July 1st, when I welcomed my first two full-time animators, took them to lunch, and then promptly scared the shit out of them by giving them the impression I was trying to renege on our verbal salary commitments.
1) We doubled our workforce. Well, in reality, this happened only in the past week, as we hired animator #3 and hired intern #1. But in the space time continuum, this accounts for something. We now have two more bodies in the same little office as we did two weeks ago, which means Clint is suddenly managing two more people while I get to boss two more people around. My friends, there is indeed a distinction.
2) I have maintained my “creative” goatee for well over a year. In fact, it has been more than a year and half since my chin was last smooth and barren. Sadly, my chin roots have taken a beating; there are flecks of white, gray, and brown that are quite visible from Google Earth. But alas, I need some street cred with all these other “creative types.” Apparently, they don’t consider sporadic blogging to be art. Bastards.
3) In all honesty, both Clint and I are fairly happy with where we are right now. We’re being asked to pitch a lot more, which means our name is really getting out there. Lately, we’ve added some bigger, sexier names to our client roster (H&M and Nike, that’s you!). And people genuinely seem to like us and our work. I guess as far as post-mortems go, we could have done a lot worse.
Buy either one of us a drink if you’re in LA or Shanghai, we earned it! And in the meantime, check out our latest work for Jameson Irish Whiskey:
Media, politics, culture, and personal thoughts and tales from one Eric Hu, hapless American food editor and motion graphics studio owner living in the hot, spinning, thumping craziness that is Shanghai.
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