A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
I can’t say much about other countries, but young people in China’s and India’s cities loooove the Fox TV show Prison Break. On the advice of a friendly DVD shop salesman in Beijing (who, incidentally, hated 24 and loved the Sopranos), we bought the first two seasons this summer in China and began watching. We were hooked. Who knew that…
Continue readingPrison Break, Chinese fan art
Here is the impressive Second Life documentary by China Tracy, an 29 year-old alternative female artist, from Guangzhou, China, who was also invited by iCommons to give a lecture on iSummit this year in June.
To watch the whole film, please check here. You could also find this documentary on YouTube and many other…
Continue readingUncertain Reality, Uncertain virtuality:Cao Fei
Danwei has an interesting post about examples of Tibetan influences in Chinese typography.
I’ve excerpted some images & commentary from Danwei below:
The cover of an album by Han Hong, a singer born in Tibet whose songs
flavor generic Mando-pop with Tibetan influences. The 日 element in her
last…
Continue readingTibetan inspired typography
Atelier FCJZ was China’s first private architecture firm founded by Yung Ho Chang, who is or has been, amongst other things, the head of the architecture schools at BeiDa and MIT. Fourteen years later, it now consists of more than fifteen architects and takes on hosts of projects every year in China.
MAD…
Continue readingA glimpse at some architects in Beijing
The Virtual Goods Summit 2007, that took place last month at Stanford, “is a one day conference focused on the emerging market opportunity for virtual goods and economies.”
Amongst the speakers were representatives/top guys from mostly American companies like Six Apart, Habbo, and Linden Labs. And then there was a representative from China-based Tencent (creator…
Continue readingQQ spotted at the Virtual Goods Summit 2007
