truly neon - Hong Kong

Any article that features Hong Kong in any capacity

attracts my immediate attention. Not only because
Hong Kong relates to me as home but also because
through all my travels,
no other city has been more fascinating.

You can practically smell the culture, the crafts, and the undeniable
ants-like dedication in engrained in so much of its population.

As a child, I remember getting off the plane and knowing immediately
that I was in Hong Kong: the tunnels, the chatter and
the bright neon lights radiating the streets.

The Chinese Palace Nightclub. Once located on Nathan Road in the Jordan District.

NEONSIGNS.HK
is an online exhibit that's dedicated to the iconic pieces
that made/make Hong Kong. With LED replacements and
new regulations abandoning them due to light pollution this

online exhibition documents the city's fingerprints of neon lights
in an attempt to preserve the feeling of this city's urban landscape.

Neon Map of Key signage

How can an old craftsman, in a world where their art is diminishing
NOT pull on all of your heartstrings.

Launched by M+ Museum this is their 7th mobile project using
the power of crowd sourcing to complete a collection that
would otherwise be terribly difficult to capture.

The project runs till JUNE 30,2014 if you're in Hong Kong
be sure to contribute with the hashtag #HKNEON

NEONSIGNS.HK

 by: M+ Museum

 

frozen foods.

It's funny how humans constantly try to preserve things:

Mummys, seran wrap, tin foil... thermos-es...

OR

Freeze them in a block of ice and show them off to the world.

Twisted?

I think not.

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Over 450 types of marine life are frozen in life-like poses in an ICE AQUARIUM.

These blocks of ice are illuminated with a blue light to help

splash some "life" back into them... (or so I assume)

Either that, or they're just really into making everything

look cool and club like with an explosion of LEDs.

Opened in 2002, they've got your entire Japanese seafood menu in here:

octopus, salmon, tuna, crab...& if that wasn't enough

for you, they also have a hunk of Antartic ice & various

forms of ice art =)

It is asked that you wear your Canada Goose/TNA jackets

in this environment since the entire place is @ -20degrees celsius.

Kinda cooooooooool don't cha think ;)

(pun!pun!pun!... so witty i am)

'Kori no Suizokukan' (Ice Aquarium)-- Kesennuma, Japan

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