{"id":2640,"date":"2012-04-19T00:35:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdnphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:29:10","slug":"shanghai-awakes-white-plus-on-the-bund-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2012\/04\/19\/shanghai-awakes-white-plus-on-the-bund-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Awakes: White+ on The Bund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20110924_shanghai_bund_dawn_pudong_bull_architecture_urban001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2641\" title=\"The Pudong skyline at dawn in Shanghai, China.\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20110924_shanghai_bund_dawn_pudong_bull_architecture_urban001.jpg\" alt=\"The Pudong skyline at dawn in Shanghai, China.\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>This is a bit of an oddity. I would go so far as to call it an accidental music video. Last September I ended up on <a title=\"The Bund - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bund<\/a> at dawn in Shanghai. This should happen at least once in your lifetime. Ostensibly I was there to photograph a performance by the talented and capable Olek, whose crocheted work I first encountered in New York City this past summer. After she failed to initiate a crocheting enterprise, thanks to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, I stuck around and watched the sun rise in all its glory over the imposing Pudong skyline. Slowly but surely the entire city awoke around me. My favorite part are the old guys walking backwards for exercise. I find their physicality a strangely fitting metaphor for the urban development occurring around them. It was a beautiful sight. I mashed up the video from that morning with a live performance of <a title=\"White+ - Douban\" href=\"http:\/\/site.douban.com\/whiteplus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White+<\/a> recorded at the now <a title=\"China's Little Punk Rock Club That Could - Wall Street Journal\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204301404577170323678131402.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defunct<\/a> D-22. Check out the results below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/32328308?byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff000d\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"949\" height=\"534\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20110924_shanghai_bund_dawn_pudong_bull_architecture_urban002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2642\" title=\"The bull on the bund at dawn in Shanghai, China.\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20110924_shanghai_bund_dawn_pudong_bull_architecture_urban002.jpg\" alt=\"The bull on the bund at dawn in Shanghai, China.\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit of an oddity. I would go so far as to call it an accidental music video. Last September I ended up on The Bund at dawn in Shanghai. This should happen at least once in your lifetime. Ostensibly I was there to photograph a performance by the talented and capable Olek, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[29,79,124,280,282,342,411,434,435],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music_category","category-urban_category","tag-architecture","tag-china","tag-development","tag-music","tag-music-video","tag-shanghai","tag-urban","tag-white-plus","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}