I love photos from the Olympics that exhibit the beauty of the host cities. Look at this beautiful Equestrian park in Tokyo! It is unmistakably Japanese. How about this picture of cyclists zooming through the legs of the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam?! And then, BMX bikes meandering through patches of pink flowers? (≧▽≦)
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Golds For Hong Kong & The Philippines
115 million+ people cried their lungs out last night, because of these two names: Cheung Ka Long🥇🤺Last time Hong Kong won a gold medal was before its return to China 25 years ago Hidilyn Diaz🥇🏋🏽♂️First ever gold medal for the Philippines Sports -> 😭
Skateboarding @ Tokyo2020
I love the story of Nike SB- skateboarding, and today, almost poetically, the world got to see the products Nike created for Olympic skateboarding athletes, an effort 24 years in the making. When Nike first produced its own skate shoes in 1997, the market was strongly in favour of brands such as DC and Vans….
China Bags 1st 🥇 (again, of course)
1st #tokyo2020 🥇goes to Yang Qing of China, winner of the women’s 10m air rifle event. Fun Fact: Yang Qing took the notorious competitive college entrance examination in China, scored high, and was admitted to Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management. She kicks ass everywhere. Photo: Yang Qing joined by Russian markswoman Anastasiia Galashina 🥈and Nina Christen…
Do Our Parts For Tokyo 2020
The biggest lesson I learned from athletes while working for Nike-The Olympics create the most important chapters of their life stories. And I feel bad for them. The Tokyo Olympics is stillborn. The pile-on of all the negatives will tint the overall narrative of Tokyo 2020. The games will be coloured by COVID, low viewership,…
Review: “How to Start a New Country”
By someone straddling between the real Hong Kong and a Hong Kong in the cloud Article reviewed: https://1729.com/how-to-start-a-new-country/ SUMMARY: The article does a clarifying job laying out the foundational questions of what makes a cloud country. The version of citizenship in the cloud it laid out echoed with what suppressed citizens in Hong Kong have…
I Made A “CleanER” NFT Art
NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. It is a type of cryptocurrencies. If you don’t know what this is, start here. I have been struggling to keep up with the blockchain/crypto world. It felt so foreign. It was complicated. I couldn’t understand it. So when NFT art became a thing, when Beeple sold a collage of…
Ray Chen Reacting to TwoSets’ Sibelius
Ray is handsome. Brett and Eddie were courageous to perform the piece. And then together they demonstrated the meaning of 一山還有意山高 and orders of magnitude different. Listening the above section. 🤯 Adorable and amazing.
3+1 Tips to Maximise Clubhouse
It’s 7am in Hong Kong. Jason behind basecamp / hey email and Tobi of Shopify just showed up on clubhouse. I have 👋🏼 up. While I am waiting to be picked, I want to share with you what I wish I did when I first joined Clubhouse. 1) Write down the names of 10 people…
Understanding Comics
I finished the book “Understanding Comics” by Scott McCloud. It was written in the mid 90s. I already miss the book. The author helped me understand why I felt the way I felt while reading comics- how time transpired, how emotions manifested, how actions were imagined …. He also contrasted the comics between the east…