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Date: 1996
\nPlace: Hong Kong, HK
\nModus operandi: Jet lagged
\nWeather: Muggy
\nTime: 3 pm
\nGear: Olympus Stylus Quartz
\nMedium: Kodachrome 64
\nMe: Awed by the electricity of this special place
\nMy age: 45<\/p>\n
There’s nothing good about the flight from LA to Hong Kong, unless you include the lovely Singapore Airlines stewardess waking you with a warm meal and a smile. You arrive so zonked out on jet lag that for the first day or two eveything is strange. Sorround that strangeness with the frenetic pace of the world’s most crowded place and you have a prescription for strangeness. And fun.<\/p>\n
These statues were patiently awaiting probably illegal export to some loony collector in New York; long live free trade!<\/p>\n
As this really was meant to be a business trip, I restricted my gear to the small, clamshell Olympus Stylus, as sweet a piece as Olympus ever made. When not in use the built-in cover slid over the wide angle lens and the whole thing slipped nicely into a pocket. Or suit. The lens may not have been the greatest – barely better than the one on its predecessor, the Rollei 35 – but it was adequate for little memorabilia like this. And how could anyone resist the wild surrealism of this scene?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wrapped Heads Date: 1996 Place: Hong Kong, HK Modus operandi: Jet lagged Weather: Muggy Time: 3 pm Gear: Olympus Stylus Quartz Medium: Kodachrome 64 Me: Awed by the electricity of this special place My age: 45 There’s nothing good about the flight from LA to Hong Kong, unless you include the lovely Singapore Airlines stewardess … Continue reading About the Snap: Wrapped Heads<\/span>