A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
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
Translated excerpts from a PostShow blog post entitled “the 12 Taboo Ways of Using Chopsticks”:
1. 三长两短 Three long two short [an idiomatic expression that translates to “an unexpected misfortune”].
This refers to before or during meals, when a pair of chopsticks is not neatly put together with its ends matching. This is not…
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Check out one of Beijing/San Francisco artist Rania Ho’s relatively new projects: The Contractors. The group makes music, videos, photos, concerts, and apparently can even lead a mean art tour (see their latest video). Their MySpace page is not to be missed.
We are inspired by other superstar building…
Continue reading“music for buying dark landscapes”: The Contractors
