Mark Zuckerberg's "FaceBook" Portrait - By RED

A picture speaks a million words and I'm already quite speechless. Couldn't wait to see what this pretty and talented girl is going to come up with next.

Follow the whole creation process on Red's blog.

Red Trilogy - Portrait of Zhang Yimou made of Bamboo Sticks and Socks

This is even more beautiful than the last 2 - and I really like Zhang Yimou. More my generation than Jay Chou or Yao Ming (what to do, old already!). I've actually disserted on one of Zhang's beautiful, powerful but boring work as part of a cinematography minor when I was studying in Paris.

Red's ingenious, fancy having come out with such an amazing (and beautiful) idea.

I repeat myself, but this girl will go far. And she's so pretty, isn't she?

Red - Jay Chou Portrait with Coffee Cup Stains

Red strikes again! Before I had time to recover my breath from her last piece of amazing art work, she has come out with another fabulous portrait of a famous person (e.g. Jay Chou) using a medium that could be associated with him.

This time it was...coffee stains! To think that I was screaming at Hub the other morning when he stained my white kitchen work surface with coffee from the bottom of his cup.

Do you think, that is if I managed to come out with a piece of art using a coffee cup, that my kitchen work top would look nice decorated with coffee stains? Would the management of my residence like it?

Guess not.

Enjoy Red's new masterpiece. I'm tempted to ask her for a signature before she becomes even more famous. But on what support?

Red - Painting Yao Ming with a Basketball

I have been meaning to post the above video for a while but never got round to it. Have been so busy in the past month I lack sleep and walk around nowadays with panda eyes.

But just in case you happen to miss this fabulous short video currently doing its round around the world, I thought I could bring it to you. Yi currently lives and works in Shanghai and is a very pretty and talented young lady. I first saw this video on her mother (a fabulous cook)'s blog and then caught an article about her in City Weekend published here in Shanghai and largely read by the expat community trying to keep abreast of everything happening in the city.

Yi, to me, represents creativity, enthusiasm, joy of life and beauty. She is also a kind of bridge between Shanghai where we live and S.E Asia where we come from. And in between, like myself, she has lived in Europe - yet another culture. But I've not even 1% of the young lady's talent, needless to say I envy her mother.

Yi drew a portrait of Yao Ming (the basketball star) with red paint and a basketball. She's amazing. See it for yourself - if you haven't already.

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland in 3D

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

Even though our Italian is half-baked, we have taken to watching movies at the local cinema on a Saturday or Sunday, usually preceded by a greasy lunch at Old Wild West. And we like it even better when it's in 3D, popcorn and sparkling water safely stuck in the plastic holders attached to the seats.

This afternoon we caught Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. We are very fond of his movies and very much enjoy watching Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter act. However, this story has always been more successful with adults than with children - especially with Hub who never fails to remember that for once in his life, a very very long time ago, his father actually brought him to the cinema and it was to watch Disney's Alice in Wonderland.

The children liked it without disliking it. And it was a little long for them, I think. Though they had enjoyed Avatar which was even longer. Hub and I agreed that this movie could be just as well enjoyed in 2D. The 3D special effects were not anything worth talking about and especially we had a headache because the movie was somehow every dark.

I will try to buy the movie in 2D when it comes out in DVD - it is otherwise a very nice and colourful story with a feminist fibre and as always, nicely filmed and acted.