Category Archives: Glutter’s Hong Kong

The Para/Site Foundation and Art Space is a converted Barn which hosts artist studios. There is a huge range of artists who work in different mediums and many of them do workshops for school kids around this city. Personally -the art is a little traditional for me, often leaning towards ceremics and metal but IContinue reading “Art Mart 2003 10th to 19th December”

Hong Kong: The identity Issue. D Fresha wrote this on the sixth and I read it today. He jokes that we are connected by an invisible wire because we write about the same things without knowing the other has and it’s never even what we talked about together. I don’t know how but we seemContinue reading “Learning to Speak: Douglas Crets.”

Since Glutter is going to be hosting an increasing number of other voices. I would apreciate if everyone spent a moment to read the new comment box policies. If you do not abide by these policies you will be BANNED. THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BANNED WILL AUTOMATICALLY GO INTO THE TYPEPAD UNIVERSAL BANNING SYSTEM WHENContinue reading “Please Read.”

Hong Kong: The Identity Issue “I think that’s how a lot of Chinese people see it, when we say “country” we mean nationality, race, culture, all mixed into one. Country States is a western idea, in Chinese that’s what “Kuo Ga” means, everything together, all related by decent. We are still one country if weContinue reading “For My Friend Who Lives in the Same Country as Me, Except it’s Called Taiwan.”

Hong Kong This afternoon, as a bunch of us sat around the table for brunch, I was forced to read the paper as that was the only thing to do, since thoughts were not particularly easy to muster. First glance: Tung Chee Wah tells us that the cuts in education funding won’t affect the qualityContinue reading “Education, Crocs and Safest Building in the World..”

Hong Kong I went for a walk with a friend. We started out in old Hong Kong, one that I never lived in but saw in the photos before us. We went onto the university. There I walked through my childhood playground of grown ups and books where both my parents graduated, my grandfather taughtContinue reading “A Walk Home”

Okay, I was talking to someone just now, and I realized when I said, “I don’t know any of those people who came to this site and then went else where and talked shit about me.” No one understands. Let me put it to you again: I. Don’t. Know. Any. Of. Them. NONE. I exchangedContinue reading “Oh Joy! Like I Knew Any of Them. They were STRANGERS”