Comments on: SilverDocs Shorties: The webs we weave http://silverspringpenguin.com/2009/06/17/silverdocs-shorties-the-web-we-weave/ Your neighborhood news source Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:09:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: J. Bernstein http://silverspringpenguin.com/2009/06/17/silverdocs-shorties-the-web-we-weave/comment-page-1/#comment-50955 J. Bernstein Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:18:46 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=4170#comment-50955 Re SilverDocs more generally, we just saw "Trimkin" last night - if you're interested in music and sound as a medium (or even if not) a remarkable documentary and wonderful to have the film maker and the fellow himself in Q & A afterwards. This is screening again tomorrow - read about it here: http://silverdocs.bside.com/2009/films/trimpinthesoundofinvention_silverdocs2009 Jonathan Re SilverDocs more generally, we just saw “Trimkin” last night – if you’re interested in music and sound as a medium (or even if not) a remarkable documentary and wonderful to have the film maker and the fellow himself in Q & A afterwards. This is screening again tomorrow – read about it here: http://silverdocs.bside.com/2009/films/trimpinthesoundofinvention_silverdocs2009

Jonathan

]]> By: Springvale Roader http://silverspringpenguin.com/2009/06/17/silverdocs-shorties-the-web-we-weave/comment-page-1/#comment-50906 Springvale Roader Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:32:37 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=4170#comment-50906 I stayed in Chungking Mansions for a week while visiting Hong Kong, because it was cheap and I was broke. It was an amazing experience. Remember that building in "Blade Runner" where the geneticist lived? Chungking Mansions is like that, only a thousand times bigger (seemingly) and more complex. It is a warren of hotels and restaurants and living quarters and god knows what else. My room was just barely big enough to contain a bed, but it had a color TV and air conditioner -- both luxuries after sweating my butt off for a month in cheap Thai motels. You could get amazing Pakistani or India food in the restaurants there for hardly any money at all, but first you had to fight your way through all the young men aggressively encouraging you to go to there restaurants instead. The downside is that if there were ever to be a fire, this place is an absolute deathtrap. If you can locate one of the elevators in that maze, you'll find it's only big enough for a handful of people. Stairs are present, I suppose, though I never found them. Honestly, I did this when I was young and stupid, but now I would never set foot in the place any higher than I could jump safely from a window (and I'd only set foot in a place that had windows, not one of the interior cave-like dwellings). Considering all the restaurants packed into this building, I fear it's inevitable we'll one day read about a horrible tragedy there. I stayed in Chungking Mansions for a week while visiting Hong Kong, because it was cheap and I was broke. It was an amazing experience. Remember that building in “Blade Runner” where the geneticist lived? Chungking Mansions is like that, only a thousand times bigger (seemingly) and more complex. It is a warren of hotels and restaurants and living quarters and god knows what else.

My room was just barely big enough to contain a bed, but it had a color TV and air conditioner — both luxuries after sweating my butt off for a month in cheap Thai motels. You could get amazing Pakistani or India food in the restaurants there for hardly any money at all, but first you had to fight your way through all the young men aggressively encouraging you to go to there restaurants instead.

The downside is that if there were ever to be a fire, this place is an absolute deathtrap. If you can locate one of the elevators in that maze, you’ll find it’s only big enough for a handful of people. Stairs are present, I suppose, though I never found them. Honestly, I did this when I was young and stupid, but now I would never set foot in the place any higher than I could jump safely from a window (and I’d only set foot in a place that had windows, not one of the interior cave-like dwellings). Considering all the restaurants packed into this building, I fear it’s inevitable we’ll one day read about a horrible tragedy there.

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