Winnie comes of age for the nth time, taking all of us down (to Aliang’s) with her (November 2001; 4.6MB)
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video | Mio’s Fiery Jolly Awakening Day, Yanming Shan 2001
Grand arts poobah Mio summons the flames for her birthday, scorching the eyebrows of Bronwyn, Peng Hung-Chih, Natalie and Adm. (October 2001; 2.7MB)
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video | Taiwan 2001: Rebecca’s House Party
Francophone Rebecca and Liberian Letefa take you on a tour of the Jen’ai Rd area, the local 7-11 and Adam’s First Friday Friends party (October, 2001; 2.2MB)
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video | Dali 2001: Torch Festival
The annual Torch Festival of the Naxi people, in a village near Dali, Yunnan province, China. The people not dancing or playing instruments try to set each other alight, and stunned tourists, with fireworks (August, 2001; 0.7MB)
The Sounds of Science
With music mixing as easy as logging on to a website and typing on a keyboard, everyone is getting into the act
There was a time when music’s cutting edge was all about jamming. Performers would gather in a room and just play, picking up on one another’s riffs and rhythms, on the moods and environment they shared. It’s the defining image of the pre-electronic jazz era and, subsequently, of improvisational rock groups like the Grateful Dead or Phish. In other words, it’s all very 20th century.
video | Yunnan 2001: Tiger Leaping Gorge
Tiger Leaping Gorge in the mountains around Lijiang, Yunnan province, China. Your faithful videographer sings The Sound of Music in bad Chinese, accompanied by goats (August, 2001; 9MB)
Independence Day
When body surfing, stage diving and head banging came to Hong Kong.
video | Oh My Gawd! Time Inc. Spring Dinner, 2001
If you put free food in front of the TIME massive, it will be eaten, worn, strapped to our heads and spun around on those spinny table things. And, we’re gorgeous. (January 2001; 5.8MB)
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pics | 2001 :: 14
2001: Chillin’ in Australia at Matt and Jill’s infamous shed. Regretting last night’s fuel load but getting into the Boxing Day cricket, Adam and bro Todd get reaquainted. Credit: probably some well-trained native Australian marsupial.
pics | 2001 :: 13
2001: Struggling for attention with some stupid wooden music thing, Jay and Anji help Adam out, with Andy and Tom waiting for the ‘applause’ cue. Credit: Edo.
