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My name is Will Moss. I spent 17 years in Singapore and China doing computer games, e-commerce and public relations before returning to the Bay Area in 2013. I am director of international and corporate communications for Motorola Mobility. This is a personal blog, and the opinions here are my own. For more information see About Imagethief or contact me at will [at] imagethief [dot] com.
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Tag Archives: Travel
Down the rabbit hole in Kansai
So here’s how it goes. Someone inconveniently dies on your airplane just as it is about to take off. You experience an odd mix of feelings. On the one hand, you sympathize with the family and feel bad for their … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, Rants, Travel, Weird, Whatever
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Further adventures in the glamorous life of an international PR consultant
Imagethief is headed to Hawaii this week to speak on a panel called “NewsMorphosis 2.0“, about how technology is affecting the news business. There are three panels, each one of which has two local media luminaries and a “thought leader”. … Continue reading
Diving with the whale shark at Dalian’s Tiger Beach
Dive nerds: This weekend I went with Steven Schwankert of Sinoscuba to dive in the whaleshark tank at Dalian’s Tiger Beach Marine Park. Here’s a little video of the weekend’s fun. It was shot on an iPhone (I didn’t really … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, Scuba Diving, Travel, Video
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Imagethief and the top-secret dam of Panjiakou: A Great Wall diving adventure
Regular readers will recall that Imagethief recently accompanied Steven Schwankert of Sinoscuba to dive a section of the Great Wall that lies underwater in a reservoir at Panjiakou, near Tangshan. A prior blog post about that trip is here. We … Continue reading
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Further adventures in glamorous international travel
Having arrived in Macau, the romance continues. First was immigration, where the lines crawled as officers stamped arriving passengers in with the indifferent sloth that seemed circa Vietnam, 1996. My immigration officer painstakingly inspected every stamp in my generously stamped … Continue reading
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Imagethief and the man-eating otter of Changbaishan
I’ve posted to YouTube a video of the trip I took to Changhbaishan last summer with Mrs. Imagethief and my father. It took me the better part of a year to get around to editing it, but here it is. … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, Resident Alien, Travel, Video
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Imagethief and the hell of yurts – video companion
Note: This video was originally presented as the companion to a long, written travelogue that is no longer posted. I reposted the video when I restored my archives because it’s much more fun than the long-winded written version. -WM It’s … Continue reading
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A week in the life of a China flack
Imagethief has recently had several e-mails from young foreigners in China who are interested in embarking upon a career in PR here. Why these students should choose such a career as opposed to, say, enlisting in the Navy as a … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, Public Relations, Resident Alien, Travel, Whatever
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Coffee, tea or bleeding ears
With the exception of the Americans, who are in a league of their own for depersonalized airborne misery, the Chinese have done more than any other civilization to make flying as much like riding a bus as possible. Today’s flight, … Continue reading
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Imagethief and the spectral tiger: A Dongbei travelogue
It was the same conversation I’ve had a hundred times in China. “Where do you come from? How did you learn to speak Chinese? Do you like China?” But it was the first time I’d had it buck naked in … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, Travel
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