An amazing series of photographs by collective NAM which where taken for the advertising campaign of a charity project named the Harbour City Chocolate Trail as part of the Hong Kong Blood Cancer Foundation. Using strings and cables to suspend objects and people, they created gravity defying environments that seem to be frozen in time, and without digital manipulations. See the behind the scenes in the video below.
Inside Foxconn: Exclusive look at how an iPad is made
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Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple’s Chinese producer Foxconn. See highlights from his tour of the assembly line and the Foxconn facilities and connect to his full audio reports on your public radio station and at http://www.marketplace.org. Marketplace is produced and distributed by American Public Media.
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Trailer: The Grandmasters
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While my dark apron is the man who runs the cinema dept. I couldn’t help but put up this trailer for Wong Kar Wai’s film new film that is in post-production… The Grandmasters. The film looks like a sweet take on the legendary Ip Man. Surely WKW’s version will be much more philosophical/artistic than the Donnie Yen incarnation… but I’m going to say the trailer does look a lot more slick and “mainstream” than any of his previous films… either way it’s going to be awesome. It’s supposed to premiere at Venice Film Festival, but knowing WKW’s track record, I’m not even going to speculate when it’s coming out.. but let’s just say when it does… I might just fly my ass to whatever country it is showing in.
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Zhang Kechun
Zhang Kechun’s newest photo series is a beautiful tribute to the life and death of the Yellow River in China.
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Cai Guo-Qiang
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Cai Guo-Qiang is a veteran installation artist from China, currently based out of New York. He’s studied stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy, so naturally his work is presented in an epic, awe-inspiring setting. He crosses multiple mediums within art, including film, drawing, performance pieces and even painting with gunpowder.
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Peony Yip Morphing Illustrations
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Lovely illustration work of Hong Kong based artist Peony Yip, aka The White Deer. I’m loving all her pencil work, but especially these animal morphing illustrations overlayed on females faces, aiming to explore the relationship between human, animal and nature.
See more of her illustrations at http://thewhitedeers.tumblr.com
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Quentin Shih’s Latest Work
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The Chinese photographer that the world of fashion & art discovered with his amazing projects with Dior (his prints sold out completely at Basel Miami last December), has been busy shooting for fashion magazines and advertising from all over.
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Yiu Yu Hoi
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Yiu Yu Hoi is a photographer currently based out of Hong Kong, China. Yiu shoots infrared photography similar to another photographer that we’ve featured, Richard Mosse (August 2010, December 2011), who uses the same technique, but obviously in this case, totally different context and execution. Nonetheless, these are some gorgeous images.
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‘Where do we Land?’ (Full Length) Converse China trip to Mongolia
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The Converse China skateboard team ventured up north to give their neighbor, Mongolia, a week long visit! Besides filming skateboarding in Ulaanbaatar, the troupe journeyed through the chilly Gobi Desert via camels, stayed in traditional yurts and experienced some unwelcoming as well as sketchy situations while trying to just film some maneuvers on rough terrain.
“Where do we land?” features the skateboarding of Keng Qu, Thrasher, Xu Ying, Blackie, Dan Leung and Xiao Xing.
Directed, filmed & edited by Patrik Wallner.
More info: visualtraveling.com or converse.com.cn/
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Incredible Photographs Look Like Traditional Chinese Paintings
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Using a style known as pictorialism, Chinese artist Dong Honh-Oai was able to create a series of amazing photographs that look like Chinese traditional paintings.
Born in 1929, in Guangzhou, China’s Guangdong province, Dong Hong-Oai left his home country when he was just 7, after the sudden death of his parents. The youngest of 24 siblings, he was sent to live within the Chinese community of Saigon, Vietnam. There he became an apprentice at a photography studio owned by Chinese immigrants and learned the basics of photography. During this time he became particularly interested in landscape photography, which he practiced in his spare time. At 21, after doing a series of odd jobs, he became a student at the Vietnam National Art University.
In 1979, a bloody border war started between Vietnam and the People’s Republic of China, and following a series of repressive policies that targeted Chinese immigrants, Dong Hong-Oai became one of the millions of “boat people”who left Vietnam during the 70s and 80s. At the age of 50, speaking no English and knowing no one in America, the artist arrived in San Francisco and was even able to set up a small darkroom. Selling his photographs at local street fairs he was able to raise enough money to travel back to China periodically to take photos of surreal landscapes, and more importantly study under the tutelage of Long Chin-San, in Taiwan. This famous master, who died in 1995, at the age of 105, had been trained in the traditional art of Chinese landscape imagery painting, which wasn’t intended to accurately depict nature, but to interpret nature’s emotional impact. The dramatic monochromatic landscapes created using simple brushes and ink combined different art form (poetry, calligraphy and painting) and allowed artists to more fully express themselves.
At one point in his career, Long Chin-San started to experiment with ways to translate that impressionistic style of art into photography.He developed a method of layering negatives to correspond with the three tiers of distance and taught his method to Don. Looking to better emulate the traditional Chinese style, Don Hong-Oai added calligraphy and his seal to the image. In the 1990s, his new art modeled on the ancient style started drawing critics’ attention, and soon he didn’t need to sell his photography from small stalls in street fairs. He was now represented by an agent and his work was being sold in galleries throughout the U.S., in Europe and in Asia, to private art collectors but also by corporate buyers and museums. He was in his 60s and for the first time in his life he had achieved some level of financial stability.
Don Hong-Oai died in 2004, at the age of 75, but left behind an incredible volume of pictorialism work that is as popular today as it was when it first conquered the art world.
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RIĆOR
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RIĆOR is a Taipei based photographer that has a vast amount ambient simplicities. From fashion to portraiture, a lot of his photos are polaroids taken with the classic SX-70.
http://inverselive.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inverselive
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The Liyuan Library by Li Xiaodong Atelier
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This project is modest addition to the small village of Huairou on the outskirts of Beijing, just under a two hours drive from busy Beijing urban life. On the one hand it forms a modern programmatic complement to the village by adding a small library and reading space within a setting of quiet contemplation. On the other hand we wanted to use architecture to enhance the appreciation of the natural landscaping qualities. So instead of adding a new building inside the village center, we chose this particular site in the nearby mountains, a pleasant five minute walk from the village center. In doing so we could provide a setting of clear thoughts when one consciously takes the effort to head for the reading room.
Because of the overwhelming beauty of the surrounding nature our intervention is modest in its outward expression. We can’t compete with nature’s splendor. The building blends into the landscape through the delicate choice of materials and the careful placement of the building volume. Especially the choice of material is crucial in blending with the regional characteristics. After analyzing the local material characteristics in the village we found large amounts of locally sourced wooden sticks piled around each house. The villagers gather these sticks all year round to fuel their cooking stoves. Thus we decided to use this ordinary material in an extraordinary way, cladding the building in familiar textures in a way that is strikingly sensitive.
The inside of the building has a very expressive character though; its interior is spatially diverse by using steps and small level changes to create distinct places. It frames views towards the surrounding landscape and acts as an embracing shelter. The building is fully glazed to allow for a fully daylight space. The wooden sticks temper the bright light and spread it evenly throughout the space to provide for a perfect reading ambience.
Design by Li Xiaodong Atelier
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啾啾 00
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Shanghai photographer 啾啾 00 is also an avid film camera collector, where as some rare cameras I cannot believe she has. Her body of work all feel personal with a delicious touch of contrast. She also shoots with this simple minimal composition through 6×6 film. Personally I’d say she’s my photographer of the month who also sounds like my future wife.
There are 9 images on this website but don’t you worry she has 77 more pages of beautiful work on her flickr.
Let me know ‘What kind of film are you using?’ and marry me.
http://www.flickr.com/people/luck00/
http://luckjiujiu.blogbus.com/
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TrendStore: Lost & Found [Beijing]
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Lost & Found is an amazing furniture store located in Beijing. Offering you some rare to find, one-of-a-kind mid-century furniture. Lost & Found seems like a great destination for interior design lovers in Beijing.
“Deep beneath the veneer of the Beijing’s massive growth is a fascinating world of simplicity. The streets are filled with curious objects from the past, the likes of which no contemporary designer could ever conceive of in a pristine studio.”
“We are in love with this world and we take our inspiration from it.”
Photography by Jonathan Leijonhufvud
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New work from Olly Moss.
