Saving faces: Brenda Zlamany's "888: Portrait of Taiwan"

 

All images in this post are by Brenda Zlamany and used with permission

"888: Portraits of Taiwan" is an amazing project by American artist Brenda Zlamany, who traveled to 33 villages and cities to create 888 portraits of Taiwanese people from a diverse array of backgrounds. In addition to her watercolor sketches of each person, Brenda also photographed them with their portrait and asked them to sign it at the bottom.

Iphone-agraphy

After avoiding it for half a year, I finally created an Instagram account and discovered my new favorite way of frittering away my precious time. There are so many cat lovers on it! If you tag your photo with #cat, you'll get a bunch of "likes" right away! If you click through the #cat tag, you can see photos of other people's cats! My favorite way of spending time. Oh, and I've enjoyed browsing photos of Taipei, too, and the Bay Area when I'm feeling a little homesick. My extremely creative Instagram username is catherineshu. Let me know if you have an account, too! I'll also share some photos here from time to time. Click through to see a few more of my snapshots.

Bowling alley time machine: Yuanshan Bowling Alley (圓山保齡球館)

Located near Jiantan MRT Station (劍潭捷運站), Yuanshan Bowling Alley (圓山保齡球館) is rich in retro atmosphere -- and by retro atmosphere, I mean it's hella old. My Dad remembers going ice skating in the building, which was constructed in 1966 and is still completely funktastic. (I was totally born too late. Dammit, why aren't I 60 years old?).