chasing dancing giants...

Had another dream where I was searching for the giant dancing gods of Taiwan (performed during Taoist religious festivals). This is the second this year... the first dream was on New Years Eve 2014 and the second was a week later on my Birthday... I have not had a dream like this in many years... is it a coincidence that I will be traveling to Taiwan this April, the first time since 2008, before I had moved to Kuwait? Click on this video link to hear all the fireworks and hypnotic ritual music and to see how these giant gods dance (the photos are mine but not the video - however the video is at my favorite temple in Taipei, close to where I used to live) and make sure to see the dramatic end of the video! Also note that these photos and video are taken during the day so are clearer but most often these festivals take place at night - making them much more mysterious - in my dreams of chasing these dancing giants it is always at night)...

Tonight 7pm FREE piano recital!

Tonight 7pm piano recital featuring Stephanie Shih-yu Cheng in the AUK auditorium! FREE admission!

Happy Chinese New Year!

新春 愉快，願大家心靈豐盛，日日開心。
Happy New Year (Year of the Snake)! Shared from Wu Shanshan

Merry Christmas from Berlin!

My dear old friend Jimmy from Taiwan cooked wonderful Chinese food for our Christmas dinner in Berlin and I made many new friends!  Thank you Jimmy and Merry Christmas to all!

Anonymous hacks Chinese government websites

Anonymous hacks Chinese government websites. A number of websites are replaced with messages on how to circumvent government restrictions on the internet.

a few posts about my artwork...

radio interview on art exhibit
Click on the words above to hear my interview on the local Madison radio show WORT's 8 o'Clock BUZZ with Jonathon Zarov about my art exhibit titled "veiled ramblings."

Exhibit lifts veil on Middle Eastern tradition
Click on link above or below to read Lindsay Christian's review of my exhibition, "veiled ramblings"...

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  new photos of my work in the 50/20 exhibit!

  "Kuwait 50," acrylic and collage on MDF, 2011, 202 cm x 202 cm ...you might have seen the below Link before but they added some new and c...
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  review of my work in the 50/20 exhibit!

  Exhibition 50/20 Part II|The Sultan Gallery « pretty green bullet
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  last chance to see 'veiled ramblings'

  William Andersen, Global Brands Kids (Kuwait Series #1) , 2010, oil, ink & acrylic on digital print on canvas, 36 x 26 inches. veiled ...
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  my artwork in exhibition TONIGHT!

  Mary Louise Schumacher says, "...MAM will be showcasing some of our community's most important artists, including Liz Smith, Wi...
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  my artwork exhibited at Bayt Al-Othman

  Two of my artworks are on exhibit for the "17th Cultural Festival of Qurayn" at Bayt Al-Othman this January.  They produced a very nice cat...

Ai Weiwei Absent (艾未未‧缺席)

Ai Weiwei, Forever Bicycles, 2011

Absent indeed - Taipei Times

www.taipeitimes.com

Ai Weiwei Absent (艾未未‧缺席), the appropriately titled exhibition currently on view at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), is the best show of the Chinese artist’s work you are likely see in Taipei for at least the next few years. Unfortunately, the displayed works reveal little about why he has become...

Happy 100th Birthday Republic of China!

Happy 100th Birthday since the founding of the Republic of China!

China and Taiwan Reunite Painting

The bulk of the artworks in the National Palace Museum, Taipei are from 2,972 crates of shipped artifacts that once made up the imperial collections of the Forbidden City, Beijing

China and Taiwan Reunite Painting - NYTimes.com

By ANDREW JACOBS (NYT)
The reunification of an ancient painting at a museum in Taiwan has become a metaphor for the possibility of reconciliation between the two countries.

Link to the website (which was very difficult to find) on the exhibit: Landscape Reunited

China’s Taoism Revival?

my favorite Taoist temple anywhere (photo above), mostly because of the otherworldly spectacle of its annual festival, the Qingshan Temple (or 'dark bluish green' Mountain Temple) is hidden between apartment buildings just down the street from my old domicile in Taipei, at the end of Snake Alley, behind the much more famous Lungshan Temple (Dragon Mountain Temple) and surrounded by a dozen other Buddhist and Taoist temples.  If you want to see real Taoism, head to Taiwan or Hong Kong, but there seems to be a revival happening on the Mainland (read New York Times recent article  China’s Taoism Revival), although from what I've seen, it is much more about tourist dollars than anything else.

10-10-10

Sun Yat-sen, founding father of modern China, a view agreed upon by both Mainland China and Taiwan

‎The 99th anniversary of the success of the revolution!   Long live the ROC (the Republic of China)!!  革命成功九十九年紀念！中華民國萬歲！！

Double Ten Day is the national day of Taiwan and celebrates the start of the Wuchang Uprising of October 10, 1911, which led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China and establishment of the Republic of China on January 1, 1912.  It is therefore designated by the government as the National Day of Celebration in Taiwan (ROC).   In the People's Republic of China (PRC) it is still celebrated as the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising.

西元一九一一年十月 十日（即辛亥八月十九日） 革命軍發動武昌起義，此役不僅為中國政局開創新里程碑，也替中華民族翻開新頁，因此定每年的十月十日為「國慶日」。

betel nut beauties & pigs blood...

Jonah Whipp's film 'Pigs Blood" is showing at Madison's Play Circle on April 17... Jonah is great, see this if you can... he was zooming around on the back of a scooter shooting on a vintage Bolex camera these 'betel nut beauties' on our study abroad trip to Taiwan... he is heading off to South Korea right after this screening so see it NOW while you can!