Saturday19thMay07

Today, a friend invited me to an exhibition in Taipei. She's an amazing singer in a band that was the inspiration for work by one of the exhibiting artists. So I headed on down with a few friends to the old abandoned brewery it was being held in.

The venue was kinda cool (and I found a hairy tree down the side of one of the buildings) but the work wasn't amazing. It was good, it just didn't really do anything for me though. The most impressive thing for me was some of the artists' take-away postcards. There were some pretty smart ones, but I found myself more impressed with them than the work. It was a commercial design exhibition though so maybe it would have been better if I knew more about design (or could read Chinese.) That being said, it was still fun. People here really show support for exhibitions so there was a great turnout.

Later, we went off to sample a little more of Taipei's night life. It's so funny.

People seem to get dressed up more casually to go to clubs than they do to walk down the street through the day. It was fascinating people watching at the bar. It was like watching a watering hole. You could totally pick out the predators. And I'm sorry to say, but the worst offenders were the over aged white guys.

Nonetheless it was a good night. Taiwan has to be one of the safest places I've ever been so it was far more relaxed than most bars I've been in. (Despite the mental music.)