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Commune Party Pictures...

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With Pan Shiyi... Most charismatic man in China... ;p

ZEVS @ Art Statements

i stumbled upon this and picked it, and a couple of other bits, up...

100% Design...

or 200% fake?  I love Douglas Young because of his incredible wit.  It's finally here, 100% Design has made it to China... I saw a giant Chinese flag in the airport today and was mildly touched... That was right before the gigantic line at customs, at which point i was more than mildly annoyed.  Spent the day being extremely annoyed because Hong Kong's visionaries are not very visionary at all.  To save my soul from eternal damnation, i wont say too much, but really - what is the point of having a design group of even you aren't going to design the best possible thing????  The term "put your money where your mouth is" comes to mind.  At least DY agrees with me.  DELAY NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!  Let's do things properly. 

Anyways so yes, I made it to Shanghai even with the typhoon.  Well, the typhoon was gone but still, the airport was a mess (i always forget that after weather disasters airports are a mess because they have to SHUT DOWN).  Whatever though, I am here.  Cannot WAIT to see what they have done / found.  Perhaps i shouldnt get my hopes up too high but I have FAITH.  (the same faith that i have when i say that my not taking a plastic bag is going to save the world...).

Commes des Paysants

This i absolutely love.  Part of Get it Louder (which would be AMAZING to have in HK), recreating products from China's past into T-shirts... I am obsessed... 

ultimate sin

i am committing the ultimate sin by basically living my whole life from my bed. As an insomniac, there is nothing worse than this as... well whatever. given that i am grinding away at my jaw, i'm probably going to have to work on the whole sleep thing today anyways...
i went to see The Incredible Hulk last night. Thought it was going to end like 3 times but it kept on going... and found the teaser at the end not interesting at all... not that i have read comic books for a while but am actually curious to go back and read a couple... love that films get me back into genres of books that i would otherwise forget about. not that i am going to do anything about it most probably but whatever, fun anyways. Oh yes - and was reminded in the film of the thought that X-Men was about racism? is that a fact or was that imparted upon it? Probably its a fact, but still, how many ideas do we put upon things that arent actually there...
its sunday and i am, as i already said, in bed. Still. Listened to the new Death Cab CD (is that embarassing?) and have decided that they, like coldplay whom they sound like and whom i find SO BLAND, are very backgroundy. We listened to Panic at the Disco in the car yesterday and found it to be beyond edgeless and superpoppy and a cross between way too many pseudo cool images or influences and children's music. but i guess thats what its supposed to be.
Tried to read and get swept up into greek mythology but my brain is too clouded for even that... did manage to see that the margin of difference between US and China's emissions has hit about 14%, that liquidity is king and the savior of all markets, and that Wierd Al Yankovich has a new CD out. Also saw an article about this guy i met in Beijing in the IHT. Qiu zhijie (aka Joe) the artist who works with the guy who saves people from committing suicide off the nanjing bridge. The prints were interesting. love this one...

Anyhow it was a weekend of natural disasters and actually a fashion disaster or two as well. i personally didnt match AT ALL last night but then again, i could have done worse... no further comments allowed...

decotora

http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/

Edward Burtynsky

Grandeur is dead

watching Prince Caspian made me yearn for the days where people were noble and chivalrous... I've also realized that the people closest to you are usually both your biggest fans as well as the ones who are most likely to look you over... i think there is this chicken - egg and noble spiral issue in the world: the more we talk about stuff, no matter how ridiculous it is, the bigger it gets... I love that chinese has tones and when you bring us all together and none of us speak properly we all have absolutely no idea what we are all saying... Am disgusted but intrigued by the prevalence of consultant-speak that has permeated my way of thinking - cycles of learning, process flows / maps, T & A's... can't decide if it just shows that we are all really task oriented or just spend too much time with corporate f's... Shopping round out... Anyhow the long weekend is almost over... Eventful? Always... Just letting the rain wash away troubles and making my world a prettier place...

Famous Eamous

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kicks

am not much of a sneaker person but love these Nash Money for Nike...

aomen.

jenga