Someone traveling on business in Longkou, Shandong province took this 26-second clip of a guy cruising down the street in a sofa. Nothing to see here. Just driving my sofa.
So just to recap: we have villagers constructing homemade electric cars; musicians playing guzheng songs on iPads; people making crossbows and rifles; and a farmer with his nebelwerfer (as Blood and Treasure so eloquently puts it). Can we put to bed the notion that the Chinese aren't innovative?
Youku video for those in China after the jump. UPDATES below. A lot of anodyne videos pass through my inbox, from travel companies and tourists at the Great Wall and musical performances at bars. Occasionally I’ll get a gem. And then, because it’s the Internet, occasionally I’ll get something like the above — footage of... Read more »
At a carwash in Shanghai [Netease via Ministry of Tofu] Have you voted in the BJC Bar and Club Awards yet? If no, why not? While you self-flagellate for your offense, here’re links.
UPDATE, 9:37 am: My headline originally misidentified the gender of the person holding the “kids” sign (upon closer inspection, as pointed out in the comments section, the person holding the sign does not look to be a dude after all). Everything makes a lot more sense now, though at the cost of being funny. Allen... Read more »
Wall Street Journal recently interviewed the organizer of one more controversial speed dating events in recent memory, one in which ladies paid 4,800 HKD to spend an evening with “foreigners” (white men) who paid nothing. Here’s what Rachel Chan, founder of HK Speed Dating, had to say for herself: “When it comes to foreigners of... Read more »
Instagram can eat its heart out. As seen on Will Schofield’s 50 Watts, the pictures here, inspired by Lu Xun, are graphic designs from the 1920s and 1930s, a particularly fertile time for creative expression. They’re from the book Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century, by Scott Minick and Jiao Ping. As described on Amazon: Beginning with... Read more »
This is the LinkedIn page (we think) of Wulan Pramita Sari, who identifies himself (we think it’s a him) as the “Sales & Marketing Manager at PT. China Zhejiang Intl Trade Center-Indonesia.” This is how the China Zhejiang International Trade Center describes itself: We are a multinational company of which belongs to China Government that has mission... Read more »
Julia Ioffe, a journalist in Moscow, took the above picture with her cell phone on Sunday in Moscow and tweeted it to her nearly 6,500 followers with the message “Russia’s Tianamen image” [sic]. Reports ABC News in an article headlined — without any trace of irony — “Boy on a Bike Becomes Moscow’s Tiananmen Image”: Tens... Read more »
@China_Daily does not follow @beijingcream, but it does follow @fatlosstips2. I didn’t want to have to tell you this, China Daily, but you’ve been getting a bit soft around the hips. Maybe you’d like to do something about that? Gargle gargle, nom nom nom. I know someone. Or thing. Her name is Marti Gray. Former health educator.... Read more »
It's been 17 years -- to the day -- since Teresa Teng died of a sudden asthma attack in Thailand at the age of 42, yet her fans still mourn. Teng is identified as a Taiwan pop idol, but her influence extends across East Asia. She recorded songs in at least seven languages, the most popular of which is embedded above and after the jump (on Youku for those in China).
