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Platform for Chinese design

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Jason Li
on September 25, 2008
in Art, Blogs, Design, Education, News, Photos and Video Clips
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ijoi’s Chinese name is 视觉我享, which roughly translates to “I Enjoy Sight.” ijoi is a web platform to promote design(ers) from and in China. They showcase work, conduct interviews and have plans to roll out podcasts (video & audio).

For example, here’s an excerpt from the video interview (subtitled in both Chinese and French) that was done with Weestar 魏星宇:

Translation: In fact, I’ve really liked drawing ever since I was a child.

ijoi was started by Gabriel Jorby, who we profiled here.

It’s a pretty impressive effort so far, and reads like a good and glossy design magazine: Visit ijoi now.

Pokemon spotted in Guilin

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Jason Li
on August 28, 2008
in Art, Design, Environment and Photos
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A friend went on vacation and snapped these photos in a kid’s park in Guilin.

Photo credits: Aurelie Glorieux.

They’re made of foam, for kids, and the fathers apparently kept putting theirs kids next to them to take pictures.

asia pacific photos, 1840-1940

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Lyn Jeffery
on August 5, 2008
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A city wall tower and very clearly, the moat, Beijing, 1840-1860: just one of the many photos from around the Pacific, circa 1840-1940, now to be found online at the National Gallery of Australia’s Picture Paradise exhibition.  Well worth browsing through this eclectic collection of shots of everything from Australian aborigines to Javanese dancers, a white European man in Chinese dress in a Hong Kong studio, bathers on the Ganges, and views of Fuzhou, in “daguerreotype portraits, mass-produced views and portraits on paper made possible by the revolutionary wet-plate and dry-plate glass negative-positive process, and prints from the modern era of small format film cameras and photojournalism.”

Start at the themes page and click through to the different collections, and be prepared for the dizzying format of photos sliding into view from left to right.  I wish they wouldn’t do that.

(via The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Aug 2008, Vol. 15, No. 9 (283))

Farmer’s Olympic “bird nest”?

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Jason Li
on July 31, 2008
in Art, Blogs and Photos
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You’ve all seen the Beijing National Stadium by now…

But have you seen this farmer creation?

(Actually, Aw Guo guesses that a farmer made it. We don’t know for sure.)

Via IfGoGo (originally from Xiaonei).

New official site of the Chinese Photographers Association

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Lyn Jeffery
on July 9, 2008
in Art, Photos and Uncategorized
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A few years ago I posted on the official site of the Chinese Photographers Association 中国摄影家协会, but that site is now gone and the CPA has a new one here.

You can browse through the Gallery to find the works of professional and nonprofessional CPA members alike. Just click on any photo and it will lead you to 4-8 examples of the photographer’s work, and below that there will be thumbnails of other people who can you link through to.  You can also click here for the past and current selected photos of the month on the site’s BBS forum, which are submitted by CPA members.  They’re a bit rawer than many of the works found in the gallery, to my eye anyway.  That’s where I found this by Hao Xu.

Check out Fujian photographer He Xingshui’s gorgeous painterly landscapes of fisherfolk, too.

You can contact the CPA via email at cooperate@cpanet.cn


Expressions of grief, sympathy, support

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Jason Li
on May 28, 2008
in News and Photos
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Rough translations given below image.

Source: 青青春春的秘密花园

Source: Daisy*蓓蓓〓部落格〓

Source: 雪茉莉

Source: PChome forum

Source: Ligaohau’s blog

Link sources: China Vortex, China IWOM Blog, ju690 news.

Featured artist: My Little Dead Dick

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Jason Li
on May 2, 2008
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According to a quote from nerve.com on the artists’ website:

“The ecstatically romantic story of Madi Ju and Patrick Tsai (Pat Pat)
tells you everything you need to know about the inspiration behind
their gleeful photography. Taiwanese-American Pat Pat was raised in
California and schooled in New York. Jolted by the Iraq War, he packed
up and moved to Taipei to seriously pursue photography. Three years
later, he met Madi, who lived in China, on the internet. They
rendezvoused in Hong Kong, fell in love, quit their jobs and struck out
on a pan-Asian adventure together…”

And presenting, the photographing duo known as My Little Dead Dick.

Mylittledeaddick1

Mylittledeaddick2

http://mylittledeaddick.com

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Hong Kong’s most famous graffiti artist and typographer

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Jason Li
on March 27, 2008
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Presenting Hong Kong’s most famous graffiti artist and typographer…

Kowloonking

KowloonKing2

And it’s true — I do see his work around town, when I am home. Unfortunately, he passed away in July.

See the Chinese Wikipedia entry about him for more details.

Photo taken by Frank Chan. Kudos to bad taste but smell good for reminding me about him.

Though to be fair, someone’s also done this in the US (in San Mateo):

Sanmeteo

Found at Paul Saffo’s journal.

remembering pleasures of the past: Chinese black and white photos

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IFTF
on March 19, 2008
in BBS, History, Photos and Virtual China
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A recent photo montage on Tianya, called Smiles of the Past 50 Years. You won’t be able to link to it without registering at Tianya, so I’ll post some more below the jump.

Early spring1957, Hubei province, Macheng County, Xujia Village, 549 Production Brigade: soldier Yang Zhiyi shows off on the bar.

Bar_work

Spring 1975, Hubei Province, Macheng County, Zhongyi Commune, Wangjiyi Production Brigade: practicing high jumping.

High_jump

Spring 1976, Jiangsu, Hai’an County, Beiling Commune, Fengda Brigade member. Using the natural elements of the rivers, banks, and ditches in the landscape, the brigade holds rope-climbing and other kinds of activities.

Ropeclimbing

July 1978, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous District, Du’an Yao Autonomous County, Gaoling Commune, 5 Bamboo Production Brigade: foot-race.

Mountain_path_race

January 1960, Heilongjiang Province, Longjiang County, Baishan People’s Commune: In the space of one short month the entire commune got together to build 9 ice rinks where over 4000 people participated in ice sport activities. This is a group heading to the rinks with their home-made ice skates and blades.

Skating

Summer of 1958, Liaoning Province, Beipiao County, Under Elms Village, Longtan Farming Commune, taking a break from work and “leap-horsing” in the fields.

Leapfrogging

on the BBS: fortune tellers on the edges

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Lyn Jeffery
on March 10, 2008
in BBS and Photos
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Netease’s "news" forum has this item today, on a group of rather shabby streetwide fortune tellers: On those who know the fate of others. 

With great difficulty I managed to sneak up on these people and secretly take a few photos.  Could it be that they can see their own fates?

Life_on_the_edges

Selected responses:

Yes, their fates are to remain this way for the rest of their lives!

They’re all fakes!

Maybe they told their own fortunes and found out that this was the best thing for them to do?

Hey, they’re making a living.

Fate can be told, but it all depends on who’s doing the telling.  Really good fortune-tellers don’t sit on the street.

When someone dies his or her relatives can’t stand the feeling of being separated.  Even if one knows it’s fake, still sometimes they do make pretty accurate predictions.  There’s a willingness to spend the money.  Whose fault is it, anyway, that China’s psychology profession is so backwards?