The thing about explosions on TV and movie sets is they have to be manageable. As a result, you’ll get a big bang and some fireworks, but rarely a sense of danger for the characters in the explosions. In real life, things are liable to get more hairy. Take a look at the streaks of... Read more »Read more »
Has unrest again hit Foxconn? New York-based advocacy group China Labor Watch reports that yesterday at about 1 pm in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, “three to four thousand production workers” went on strike after Foxconn demanded they work holidays and “raised overly strict demands on product quality without providing worker training for the corresponding... Read more »Read more »
What's wrong with this scene? Let's count the ways. You have the old man either trying to prevent a fight or instigating one, or doing both. There's the child, tortured by the adults' incompetence, who plugs his ears and wishes he were never born. (Don't fret, kid, life gets better.) There's the young man in what looks like brown leather loafers and hipster-black jeans, the one identified in this video title as a "sissy." (Full title: "Beijing [Railway] Station KFC sissy man fighting over seat strikes woman.") And then you have the fact these folks are at the Kentucky Fried Chicken inside Beijing Railway Station, which has to be one of the saddest places in the world. In fact, this whole episode occupies the lowest pit of sad. I'm depressed now. Read more »
While many of his rivals, including Novak Djokovic, are currently in Beijing for the China Open, top-ranked Roger Federer landed in Shanghai yesterday for an event called the Shanghai Rolex Masters. That’s him above, looking nonplussed about death threats against him posted anonymously on a Baidu message board on Thursday. Perhaps he didn’t see this... Read more »Read more »
The five-member outfit M.I.C. released its second full-length album, Color, on August 8, on which you'll find this track. Wikipedia calls M.I.C. a "boy band," but we prefer this endorsement by cfensi: "What set this album apart from the last self composed album by MIC is that not only are the members penning their own lyrics and compositions but they are also in full control of the production process in the making of this album. Read more »
Wired brings us this story of artist Chris Eckert’s “Party Gift,” a sculpture featuring a creepy, lifelike eyeball in a red box adorned with Chinese Communist Party insignia and a wooden block print of Mao Zedong. Let’s linger a bit on that eyeball, shall we? Eckert explains: “For me, the relationship between the eye, the... Read more »Read more »
White people put on armbands and play the part of assholes, via Ministry of Tofu This is just a normal weekend, like any other — a final rest before the workweek resumes. But these links aren’t normal — they quite possibly form our best Links edition to date. Read more »
As any healthy male knows, the desire to masturbate on an airplane can be OVERWHELMING. Yet who among us is willing to take matters into his own hands? I'll tell you: Cathay Pacific business travelers, that's who.
On September 17, Next Media Animation in Taiwan got a tip that passengers on Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific flights were, if not exactly encouraged to, allowed to join their own one-man Mile High clubs. Read more »
The 18 students from Tiantou Primary School buried under landslides yesterday in Yiliang, Yunnan province have all died. Via AP: Any last hope for survivors evaporated early Friday when rescuers pulled the body of the last missing child from the landslide debris, China National Radio said in a report on its website. What’s even more tragic about... Read more »Read more »
Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures has tabbed Sacha Baron Cohen to make a major motion picture tentatively titled The Lesbian, a story based off billionaire tycoon Cecil Chao and his $65 million bounty to find a husband for his lesbian daughter, Gigi. The Borat and The Dictator star will certainly have no shortage of content to work with, including all... Read more »Read more »
