CCTV television headquarters, Rem Koolhaas. New York Times, In Changing Face of Beijing, a Look at the New China: “(…) Mr. Koolhaas has set out to express the elasticity of the new global culture, and in the process explore ways architecture can bridge the gap between the intimate scale of the individual life and the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'china'
In Changing Face of Beijing, a Look at the New China
July 15th, 2008
Tags: architecture · beijing · china · rem koolhaas
A Kind of True Living. On the Art of Ai Weiwei
June 10th, 2007
ArtForum: “Ai Weiwei contribution to Documenta 12 is titled Fairytale, but in China, where Ai is as famous as a movie star, people have acerbically taken to calling it “Yellow Peril.” The original concept for the artwork was simple: Round up 1,001 Chinese people from the artist’s sprawling, blog-mediated social network, give them matching clothes [...]
Google, be evil!
May 12th, 2007
PCworld: “A majority of Google shareholders today voted against an anti-censorship proposal that took aim at the way the search giant conducts its business in China and other countries that engage in active censorship.” Het voorstel luidde: Data that can identify individual users should not be hosted in Internet-restricting countries, where political speech can be [...]
Tags: censorship · china · google · privacy
Chinesen lassen Schnee auf Tibet fallen
April 18th, 2007
Spiegel: “Über Tibet zwangen sie Wolken zum Niederschlag – der Umwelt zuliebe. Denn die Himalaja-Gletscher schmelzen, Dürre droht.”
Tags: china · climate · climate change · tibet · weather
Modern troglodytes in southwest province
January 20th, 2007
China Daily: “In the caverns deep in the mountain in Anshun of southwest China’s Guizhou Province, live nearly a hundred villagers. People of the Tajing village, all from the Miao minorrity group, have lived there for centuries.”
Tags: china · troglodyte
links for 2006-09-19
September 19th, 2006
Netkwesties: De glascoupe van Dick Wessels “Met Volker Wessels voor aanleg en Reggefiber voor exploitatie doet Wessels wat de Rijksoverheid nalaat: Nederland de toekomst van ICT bezorgen.” (tags: nl fiber) SHRIIIMP – GRAFFITI ON GIRLS BODY ART > GRAFFITI ON GIRLS (tags: graffiti art) Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna [...]
Tags: afsluitdijk · apple · architecture · art · board game · businesscards · china · design · fiber · food · graffiti · housing · jonathan ive · nl · paris hilton · piza · reggefiber · reverse enginering · terrorism · totem · war
links for 2006-06-10
June 10th, 2006
Record meteorite hit Norway – Aftenposten.no “As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.” – Nooit meer slapen. (tags: norway space meteorite) Dreams and Nightmares of the African Astronauts “Italian artist Marco Boggio Sella travelled to Burkina Faso in search of people who had [...]
Tags: burkina faso · china · cloud seeding · culture · data mining · literature · marco boggio sella · meteorite · moon landing · norway · nsa · privacy · space · w.f. hermans · weather
links for 2006-04-04
April 4th, 2006
nrc.nl – Economie – Gestolen producten hema goedkoper “De vijf meest gestolen producten van de Hema gaan een kwart in prijs omlaag. Zo hoopt de winkelketen potentiële winkeldieven ertoe te bewegen de producten te kopen in plaats van te stelen.” (tags: hema economics) Maopost.com – Vintage Chinese Propaganda Posters (tags: art mao china propaganda)
Tags: china · economics · hema · mao · propaganda