Archive for the ‘Wikipedia’ tag
Chinese Farmer Wu Yulu’s Homemade Robots
LINKS:
YouTube
Aljazeera English
Design Boom
China.org
Wikipedia: Wu Yulu
Automotto
Trendhunter
Weird Asia News
Shanghai World Expo
The “Hyper-Realistic” Sculpture of Ron Mueck
LINKS:
Crickey
Brooklyn Museum
Wikipedia: Ron Mueck
Boing Boing
Gautier Deblonde
Sculpture
Life
National Gallery of Victoria
James Cohan Gallery
How To Write A Nicholas Sparks ‘Chick Flick’
Creative Advertising from 37 Signals, “REWORK: America’s Book”
LINKS:
YouTube
Wikipedia: Karl Rove
37 Signals
Amazon: Rework
Huffington Post
Democratic Underground
Mediaite
American: The Bill Hicks Story
ARTICLE: Artist & Poet, Liao Yiwu, Detained by Chinese Government
FIRST 3 PARAGRAPHS:
BEIJING — Chinese security agents in Sichuan Province detained Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, as he prepared to fly on Monday to a literary festival in Germany, human rights activists said.
It was the 13th time Mr. Liao had been prevented from leaving the country. The Associated Press reported that he had been placed under house arrest after being questioned by security agents for four hours.
“How can this happen?” the news service quoted him as saying. “It’s a cultural event, nothing political. Such drama!”
LINKS:
NY Times: Asia Pacific
Wikipedia: Liao Yiwu
BBC Interview on YouTube (2008)
Telegraph
Washington Post
Huffington Post
The Art of Richard Hambleton
Chinese Artists Protest Demolition of Beijing Studios
I had to pull this off Reuters: India because the American site doesn’t offer an embed function (see link below). Whatever… big thanks to India!
This video is from the New Tang Dynasty TV folks, who I’m pretty sure are financially and politically affiliated with the Falun Gong cult movement, but they none the less put together some fairly balanced journalism. In this piece, they apparently got footage from Reuters and then repackaged it with slightly more historical context (Tian’anmen reference), as well as adding stills from Ai Weiwei’s twitpic stream:
LINKS:
Guardian
Global Times
China Digital Times
Deisgn Boom
New York Times
Artists Village Gallery
Wall Street Journal
Reuters (No embed code)
New Tang Dynasty TV
Wikipedia: Ai Weiwei
Shanghaiist
Deutsche Welle
Congressman Anthony Weiner Calls ‘em Out
LINKS:
YouTube
Anthony Weiner
Huffington Post
Wikipedia: Anthony Weiner
NBC: New York
Think Progress
Politico
Sony’s Compact DSLR Camera (Interchangeable Lenses)
Okay, okay… I know it’s bad form to geek-out on the fresh, new thing from corporate America, but this camera looks really cool. It’s a “Cyber-shot” with interchangeable DSLR lenses! Apparently, this is among the front-runners for an impending commercial wave of so-called Micro Four Thirds technology. Don’t know what the price point will be when it officially hits the stores, but this might just be the perfect tool for travelers/bloggers, like me, who want both portability and shallow depth of field. I understand it also does HD video?! We’ll see.
LINKS:
Design Boom
Pop Photo
Tech Gadgets
Engadget
Digital Camera Review
