Thai Recycled Bottle Temple

Barack Obama targeting Chinese voters in Chicago

It reads:

Please cast a vote for Obama
Strong Reforms
Lower taxes, more benefits
Whole-heartedly save the economy

Shaanxi Trip Video!

Apologies for the amateur quality of my camerawork. The interesting bits are the marketplace (from about 5 minutes onward) and the tune at 10mins.

Japanese Graffiti

A forthcoming book on Japanese Graffiti shows artists there have been influenced by American graffers but have given the format their own unique spin, including imagery from anime, japanese traditions and kanji script.

HERE!!!!!!
A number of the more forward thinking Japanese artists can be found here. Their styles and designs are a lot less aggressive than traditional grafitti, briniging life to otherwise dull building fronts. Sasu's blog in particular, shows this.

James Nachtwey's XDR TB Photos

visit xdrtb.org to do what you can to help.

Back from Shaanxi Province China

Got back last Sunday evening from a fantastic fundraising trip to Shaanxi Province in China with Macmillan Cancer Support. Here's a few of the photos I took while I was there but more can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/djkhepburn/



Everywhere we went we were welcomed by the locals. We were cycling through parts of China which are rarely visited by foreigners, so our novelty value was pretty high. So much so in fact that we were interviewed by a local tv station.



We finished the ride in the pouring rain a coal mining region, which was quite a shock to everyone involved. Video of this is to follow but the term on most people's lips at the time was, "it looks like the end of the world". It was clearly the flip side of Chinese economic development.