Sun 7 Feb 2010
“I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand,
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain.
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook’s.
Going to get himself a big dish of beef chow mein.”
From the “You Never Quite Know Where The Next Surprise Will Come From” department, comes this…
A year ago I received an e-mail from a former professor of psychology at California State University (CalState) in Long Beach. He wanted to buy a photo of mine he had found on my Flickr account . It was an old black and white shot I took in the late 1970s of the alley behind a restaurant in Vancouver’s Chinatown district. For his new book John Jung was writing about life in Chinese family-run restaurants, and he thought the photo would fit well with the stories he was telling, and indeed it did. I received another e-mail from John yesterday telling me the book has now been released and available for purchase.
Sweet and Sour: Life In Chinese Family Restaurants
I’ve sold a number of shots on my Flickr site with absolutely no marketing on my part at all. I like this Internets thing.
Thanks and congratulations to John.