Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Peking Opera costumes


These two costumes were on display at the Peking Opera performance I attended earlier this month, which was partly a new year celebration, in spite of not being held very close to Lunar New Year. But it was also an opportunity to hear Wu Rujun, who was at the beginning of a tour. Up close the silk and embroidery were quite fabulous. The closeup of the dragon is the sleeve of the red costume.



The concert itself was performed without the elaborate costumes since it was not an actual staged opera, but it was great. The performance/celebration was held in the enormous ballroom of a restaurant on the bay at sunset, and the light was terrible for taking photographs, so these are not great.






Tea Business

I'm working on a tea business idea which I think will be quite good. I'm not ready to reveal too much about it yet, but I'm trying to get all of my ducks in a row. I've built the small network of social networking pieces and parts of the website already. At times I wish that I had a business partner, or maybe even two, but I don't see that happening any time soon.