A spate of sand art videos have recently popped up on Youku, many of them from Taotao (Torrential) Sand Art Studio (QQ: 2468897167). We can't be sure that the above is from Taotao, but it's in the same style as their other videos and conveniently Chinese New Year themed, so here it is. Enjoy.
Celine Dion took the stage Saturday night in front of perhaps the biggest TV audience she's ever faced, at CCTV's annual Spring Festival Gala. Watch as she sings -- in Mandarin (impressively?) -- the classic folk song "Jasmine Flower" with Chinese diva Song Zuying.
Better than PSY's performance? You decide.
Shanghai Restoration Project is an electronic group whose latest 12-track album, Pictures in Motion, features tributes to classic Hollywood films set in Shanghai. The "mostly original compositions" were "each inspired by a different movie from the era," according to the description on the above video.
Sarah Peel wins the day. The self-described “cocktail lover, single mom, singer, casual yogini, opinionated Asia watcher, and a master of the preschool dark arts” has just completed tweeting a 27-part homage to Spring Festival. Like Dickens, it’s meant to be read in serial, but if you missed it, here it is all in one place:
The cool kids of Navator are back at it. This recently released video was shot last October in Xuzhou, directed by Navator. Music by Yppah (D. Song), written by Jose Corrales and Toby Campbell.
Recently I received an email and link from a Chinese friend who wanted to share her love of what she called “traditional Chinese whistling music.” This is indeed melodic whistling music. But if you’re old and foreign enough, you may recall “Are You Going to Scarborough Fair?,” popularized in the late ’60s by the US folk duo Simon and... Read more »
In a Super Bowl filled with moments, including Jacoby Jones’s 108-yard kickoff return, Colin Kaepernick’s touchdown scramble (longest TD run by a quarterback in Super Bowl history) that pulled the 49ers within two from 22 points down, Ed Reed’s interception, double-murderer Ray Lewis’s missed tackles, THE POWER OUTAGE (that enabled all of us to play... Read more »
We're fans of music here, so when Jonathan Alpart's latest episode of The Sound Stage on CRI found a band that describes itself as "Radiohead if they played the blues," we had to check it out. What do you think?
16 Minutes is the outfit. They ain't Radiohead, but the moral here is: aim high. Maybe you'll find yourself compared to Coldplay.
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