Image: A piece from Hu Yang’s, “New Shanghai Living” solo exhibition at Shanghart Gallery in Shanghai

I love the post modern cool malaise that permeates the above image. This is tragic hipsterdom in photo form, the Cult of Hipster that has no geographic boundaries and exists as part of a global network of interconnected cool kids. Anyway, just wanted to throw it out there since (as of July 26), photographer Hu Yang’s “New Shanghai Living” will be up at the respected and pioneering Shanghart gallery in Shanghai. If any of you are headed to China for the Olympics pop into Shanghai for a visit. The show runs through August 31. The rest of the pieces cover more diverse habitats like those of migrant workers and diplomats. Got to love the artist for included the trendoids.

And Happy Birthday to me, and to my birthday mates Marcel Duchamps, Beatrix Potter (as Google just informed me), and Jacqueline Onassis (in loving memory), and Luis Aragones (retired coach of winning Euro Cup futbol team Espana). As part of my “Life as Ad Campaign” series, my birthday slogan is: “Old enough to know better. Young enough not to care.”

Posted by Shana Ting Lipton