Macgyver Battery… my battery creation is causing buzz in the audio which has forced me to keep looking for a battery solution (just found one this morning on TaoBao (China’s Ebay). It just came out which means Chinese guys have reverse engineered the Panasonic batteries!)

Camera Crew – Here is the video I took of our crew the other evening (shot with the little Kodak Playsport waterproof cam) Irene is the Assistant Producer, couldn’t be doing this without her.

Random Chinese Greatness – This picture was taken on Saturday by Irene as we were moving Long Qing into her new house. I’m guessing these 3 elderly ladies didn’t have enough money for a cab. The lady on the end must be using some kind of Chinese Kung Fu to hang on.

We don't need no stinking taxi...

I went downtown to film some shots of typical American life and continue warming up my chops on the Canon 550D. Well, it turns out you can’t film in America anymore. I was filming in the Plaza of Americas and was promptly kicked out and made to delete all the shots I had taken inside of there. So I moved outside which I figured was a “free” place and then a different security guard showed up and said people were asking if I was a terrorist filming buildings. He said he was surprised the police hadn’t stopped me yet because of 9/11. So I packed up and came to Starbucks.

8 years ago when I first went to China I had incidents happen there like this. Now it seems I can film more freely in China than America. Interesting…

On a side note, I can’t believe it’s taken Starbucks this long to appear on the new blog.