Urban Impression

[Billy]

Sliding Weight of a Steelyard. This copper sculpture is at the center of East Gate shopping street in Shenzhen. It warns that the stors must have good professional morality, not cheat on the clients.

[Billy]

East Gate shopping street. There are crowded of people. As you see, the USA chain stores have invaded every Chinese big city.

[Billy]

Skyscraper The two high skyscrapers in Shenzhen, China. The right is the highest in Guangdong province, China.

[zippyt]

Billy , i was woundering just what all Sliding Weight of a Steelyard said .
I am in the weights and measure business .

[xoxoxoBruce]

I don't think that's a real weight, Zip. Just a copper sculpture in the shape of a steel yard weight.

[zippyt]

Bruce , i can tell from the copper representation of the rope that it IS a sculpture . Besides copper is not acceptable for a test weight it is to soft and to thermily unstable .
For you folks that don't know a steelyard weight is the weight that is slid along a scale to determin the weight . http://www.ham.muohio.edu/ent/egr303...g_machine.html

I was just woundering what was written on it , ya know something like " Don't cheat your customers or the Emperor will have your head cut off !"

[Billy]

Originally Posted by zippyt

I was just woundering what was written on it

The words is how to identify the scales on steelyard. To be frank, I cannot understand the steelyard. My mom taught me three times, but I still forget how to read it.

[zippyt]

Thats ok billy , I looked around some and found this artical that explaine EVERY thing about a steel yard . I may try to build on one day .
http://mech-history.ihns.ac.cn/paper...-e/zhang10.htm

[Billy]

1=Santa Claus with Mobile Phone
2=China Unicom Service

[Billy]

I went to see the Exhabition in Guangdong Museum of Art today. It was a big pity that my DC battery power was off. Or I could take more pix.

1=Drawing on Electric Bulb
2=Lamp designed by Children

[Billy]

Drawing on Beer Bottles

[xoxoxoBruce]

The world continues as always to require an open China. At the same time China is trying to harmonize with the international world with an enthusiasm rarely seen in the country¡¯s history as numerous people learn to not only to speak English but also earn their MBA.

Ah ha, MBAs, so China is positioning itself to destroy it's industry and businesses.

Interesting museum, Billy.

Originally Posted by Billy

Drawing on Beer Bottles

Was the second Beer Bottle picture taken while your battery was dying, or was that a really cool-looking PhotoShop effect?

I love all of these pics you've sent in this last group (and in the others) They are so colorful, like the lamps (excluding the toilet-looking one), and the light, and I certainly never would have expected to see painted beer bottles. Too bad you weren't able to get a close-up, but since you got that cool motion trail, I'm happy.

I think my favorites so far have been the eldery woman in the painting, dressed in delicate shades of pinks and greens, with nothing to do but await her death. My other favorites I can't narrow down between the statues...they are everywhere, and in a LOT better shape than any that are here in the US, and the ones in the US, sadly enough, are newer.

Originally Posted by Billy

I went to see the Exhabition in Guangdong Museum of Art today. It was a big pity that my DC battery power was off. Or I could take more pix.

1=Drawing on Electric Bulb
2=Lamp designed by Children

It may be my morbid streak, but is that a *skull* in the first piece, 'The Electric Bulb'? As for the second...the white 'Lamp' looks suspiciously like a commode.

(I don't think I've ever been so glad that Freud is no longer alive)

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by TheDormouse

It may be my morbid streak, but is that a *skull* in the first piece, 'The Electric Bulb'?

Bottom right looks like two skull and crossbones to me.
Billy, it that rice straw they were using?