A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Just came back from ARTHK10, which is Hong Kong’s new annual art fair that promises to showcase artists and galleries, and connect with collectors around the world.
ArtInfo reports from the scene of yesterday’s VIP showings and continues to put up the open question of whether Hong Kong can become the art fair…
Continue readingHong Kong’s bid to become the pan-Asian art fair city
Young teens on a Saturday night in the central business district of Hong Kong…
Doing that skid/drifting thing with their bikes. (See bottom left of the photo below.) But usually by wetting the floor with some water bottles first.
Oh, and did I mention the modded, souped-up bikes? (Modding…
Continue readingHong Kong teenage bike drifters?
Long-time readers will know I have a particular fixation with Chinese typography, so even though the logos below are technically Japanese, many of the characters they’ve used are also Chinese characters.
宮
山
北
青
Continue readingJapanese-Chinese typographic bending
Photo from Time magazine online
Observe: Han Han (韩寒). He’s a race car mini champion, author of China’s bestselling book of the last 20 years (a novel about student high school life in Shanghai) and one of the most read bloggers in China. What’s he blog about? Anything from his latest fling with the press to sarcastic social…
Continue readingThe Han Han craze
There’s already a QQ HD app for the iPad, even though the device has not been officially released outside of the US yet.
