Shanghai World Expo highlights

I can’t believe it’s already been a full month since i’ve returned from my trip to Shanghai! During my time there, I was lucky enough to spend 2 days at the world expo, which will soon be running their closing ceremony at the end of this month. This means that in 3 weeks from today, they will no longer be offering public entrance to THE largest fair in the world (checked wiki to make sure i didn’t make that up).

If you can withstand waiting in long lines and the asia heat, then what you’ll find is a global exhibition of what each country has to offer. Not to mention some of the most amazing performances. 

Whats MOST IMPRESSIVE is the sheer architecture for the buildings itself. The china pavillion (photo by Meiguoxing) will be kept there and remain as a flagship landmark, but I was told many of them will end up being deconstructed when the expo is over. Some of these pavilion buildings were so incredible that I could NEVER justify tearing them down.

Unfortunately, you won’t find too many good expo pics on my flickr. I reasoned against bringing my mono/tripod because of the extra weight in the 110+ degree weather, but that’s ok. Whats a lifetime amount of regret anyways.

I did, however, take lots of handheld video on my T2i/550D. I took so much that I decided to go through the footage to find the coolest stuff for maybe a montage vid of some sort. Hopefully i’ll get around to making it soon. 

EDIT: video is up!
http://vimeo.com/15652304