Notices by ubahnverleih (ubahnverleih@chaos.social)

Danke Kackwarn, dass ich in Shenzhen einen Probealarm für Hessen bekomme 🤪

Wenn’s echt dringend ist.

Server oder sowas, keine Ahnung, bin kein Computer

@GreenSkyOverMe weil die Condor Flugzeuge wie Ringelsöckchen aussehen

Hier wohnen also die Ringelsöckchen?

Am Frankfurter Flughafen weiß man Kunst halt noch zu schätzen.

„Hast du bei deinem neuen Job auch eine eigenen Dienstwagen“ - „Nee nur eine Diensttreppe“

Gateway Gardens. Das Ponyville von Frankfurt.

Erst mal ganz viele Videos runter laden um sie dann während des Fluges nicht zu gucken.

They even guard hardware stores and workshops.

Look at these i found in the electronics markets in Sham Shui Po.

But not only in Hong Kong. We also spotted some in the Dafen oil painting village in Shenzhen.

And in Dafen (Shenzhen) we stumbled across the cutest cat café ever. The cats weren't caged, but could come and go as they pleased via the balcony.
And i totally missed that it's #caturday today, which perfectly fits on this whole thread…

Yesterday I mentioned the Dafen Oil Painting Village. But what is it? 🧵

So, when we hear Shenzhen we think of electronics manufacturing. But Shenzhen is also very good in producing other things: Oil paintings. Let me explain. 🧵

In 1987, back when Shenzhen was only a small city, Huang Jiang had a workshop near the Hong Kong border. He produced replicas of famous paintings for the western market.
But as the city and the electronics industry grew, so did the rents. Huang Jiang needed to move his workshop. He chose the small and quiet village of Dafen. At the time it was not part of Shenzhen, meaning the painters did not require a permit to live there.

Huang Jiang was able to hire more painters and became quite successful. Some of Jiang‘s workers opened own workshops and painters from all over china moved to Dafen. Shenzhen factory workers hoping for more flexible working hours may also have come to Dafen to try their luck as painters.

In 1992, when a client ordered 360,000 paintings and they had to be finished in only 6 weeks, all the village’s painters joined forces and developed a factory-like assembly-line method. Each painter specialised in a specific part of the image. This drastically improved both speed and quality, enabling them to complete the task in time.

If you have a replica of a famous painting, chances are high it was painted in Dafen. I found numbers, that in it‘s peak times 50-70% of all oil painting replicas sold world wide were produced in Dafen.

Today the painters doesn’t only replicate famous paintings, but also make their own creations and develop their own styles and interpretations.