Archive for July 2008

More Olympics- contact lenses de rigeur

Jul 31st, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
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More Olympics- contact lenses de rigeur

Athletes are planning to wear these cool post apocalyptic style contact lenses, to reduce haze.

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Olympics spoiler

Jul 31st, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...

If you wish to see a preview of the Olympics opening ceremony paste this link into your browser mms://newsvod.sbs.co.kr/nw/0123/nw0123c203089.asf Thanks to a Danwei commentator for the link. The previous youtube, etc, vids are all down. It was sneakil...


More art news

Jul 30th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
More art news

A blossoming of art news articles about new galleries opening in Beijing…. Conde Nast Portfolio has a look at Beijing’s new galleries… “Compared with New York, Tilton says, China is a remarkably inexpensive place to do business...


Avant guarde art

Jul 30th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Avant guarde art

An avant guarde performance artist is calling for an 18 year old virgin Witty BBS types have offered numerous suggestions… Here’s the link, see if you can figure it out. I’m sure its a joke.

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Pace Beijing

Jul 30th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Pace Beijing

Missed this earlier, an interview in Shanghai Securities News (in Chinese) an interview with Leng Lin, new boss of Pace Beijing Gallery ,opening this weekend.

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Visa conspiracy theories

Jul 30th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff..., weird stuff

The following from Stratfor, makes for interesting reading… now my head hurts…. China, the Olympics and the Visa Mystery July 29, 2008 Graphic for Geopolitical Intelligence Report By Rodger Baker Related Links * Managing Change in China FR...


Admin note

Jul 30th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff..., weird stuff
Admin note

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NYT article on female Chinese artists

Jul 30th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
NYT article on female Chinese artists

Here’s the NYT article, darn I’m working on something similar myself. A much-noticed young artist, Li Shurui, born in 1981, began her career while still an undergraduate. She has since become best known for her paintings, air-brushed semi-...


Art-icles

Jul 30th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Art-icles

The Ullens review has been published here by Whitehot Magazine, a new art magazine with an awful lot of good information on the arts! Of course UPdate- and another review of the show here. In other news…. Also related to Ullens, this article wri...


Weird sites of the day

Jul 29th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: News and events, weird stuff

As Typhoon Cheech and Ching approaches here are some weird sites to keep you distracted from flying debris: REformation, a site dedicated to the soon to arrive second coming. Zombie Harmony- a site for zombie dates. A survey of UK residents shows the ...


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