My Weekender is a weekly SmartShanghai column written by changing authors selected from the Shanghai community. According to the various tastes, interests and backgrounds its authors, My Weekender serves as a window into what residents in the city are doing with their time off.
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- Mar 12, 2010 - Come on baby, JUE the locomotion
- Mar 5, 2010 - Sittin around in boxers, eating Hello Pizza...
- Feb 26, 2010 - 30 years of 'Class and Sophistication'
- Feb 11, 2010 - Bikes, busking, and beers
- Feb 5, 2010 - Sometimes his rhymes just hypnotize me
- Jan 29, 2010 - Tie dye till I die
- Jan 22, 2010 - Whiskey, cigars, and Kris Kross
- Dec 4, 2009 - Blacker than a million midnights -- so goth
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- Dec 14, 2007 - A Less than Ideal Weekend with Jane Dee
- Aug 24, 2007 - with Benoit Thebaut
- Feb 1, 2008 - Going under the skin with Zhou Dan Ting
- Dec 21, 2007 - Weekend Sloth and Gluttony with David Flumenbaum
- Dec 8, 2007 - A Light Weekend with Simon Husslein
- Nov 30, 2007 - Shanghai By Taxi with Olaf Hessing
[My Weekender] with Ting
Going under the skin with Zhou Dan Ting - Feb 01, 08
Ting is a Tattoo artist from Harbin. Together with her partner Dylan Byrne she operates the tattoo parlor "Shanghai Tattoo". Read our previous introduction of Ting and Dylan here. [Ed's note: Shanghai Tattoo has moved to the Cool Docks. Click here for the new address.]
Assuming there is anyone remaining in Shanghai over the Spring Festival to read this, congratulations, you're infinitely better off than those stranded on a train half way between here and Yunan. So if you're set for the holidays, and have stocked up on enough dumplings and fireworks to see you through, then sit back and read up on what that tattooist with the green mohawk is getting up to.
Tragically in my business most of my weekend will be spent working as the shop opens from midday to midnight. Friday morning my partner, Dylan, will probably fall out of bed after drinking far too much in C's at the Antidote party so I'm sure our first stop will be the Figaro Coffee shop for a little pick-me-up. Then it's time to open the doors at Shanghai Tattoo and draw pictures on customer's skin that will last forever and ever... well as long as they do anyway. Some hot and spicy noodles at my local Mi Fen will be a necessary filler come dinner time and hopefully I can get my pool fix in at Window's Scoreboard and possibly check out Racks too ¨C can't stand the hiphop though! Dylan will probably split and hit LOgO so I'll head over to meet some friends at Weihai Lu 696. A very talented bunch of artists in residence and great people to hang out with.
