You might remember Mike Sui as the teacher/singer/host/actor who imitated a bunch of people in a video that made it big on Youku. Everything he does on Chinese media these days is rising to the top, evidenced by the latest product, the above below [Ed's note: I'm putting it after the jump because there's an ad... Read more »
I’m mildly surprised that a patient, possibly under anesthesia or drunk, would rise off a surgeon’s table to beat the people he entrusts to eventually cut him open. What I’m really surprised about, however, is that after his bout of deranged violence, he’d agree to lie back down on the table and go under the knife.... Read more »
Stephen Colbert, on Chen Guangcheng (who he calls "Eric"): "Apparently losing your sight doesn't just make your ears better, it makes your balls bigger."
You may remember Li Yingzhi as the model who wore a diamond dress at this year's Beijing International Automotive show (aka Auto China) worth 100 million yuan. (Here are several pictures of her via Ministry of Tofu.) Last week, a video surfaced of Ms. Li, accompanied by some serious softcore porn music. Behind all that makeup and those diamonds, there's a human being somewhere. A human being bedecked in diamonds.
Apparently this dog, Li Li, is a local celebrity in Nanning, Guangxi province. Dubbed "bike hugging dog" (according to YouTube video description), it patiently waits for its owner to get done with his errands, then hops onto the back of the bike, barks to signal it's ready, and somehow maintains his balance as the biped pedals away.
We liked the build-up in this video written by The Blockton Brothers and directed by Matt Peccini, but just wish the punchline could've been rehearsed a few more times, preferably not in an indecipherable dialect of Chinese. Contrast with the Honda commercial: now there's a foreigner who studied at a Mandarin school.
Youku video for those in China after the jump I’ll leave the bulk of the editorializing to you, the readers, but I do want to say this: the person who thought footage of expats and service industry professionals schmoozing on the rooftop of Migas could be enhanced by adding an Ashley Tisdale soundtrack was possibly mistaken.... Read more »
Youku video for those in China after the jump. Remember our post a few days back, “99 Ways to Heaven… on the Highway to Hell,” about a certain stretch of road in Zhangjiajie, Hunan that may be the most dangerous in the world? Well, Jokke Sommer, a BASE jumping and wingsuit expert, decided to take... Read more »
Two days ago, Mike Sui posted the above video onto Youku (embedded after the jump). It currently has 1.71 million views. More impressive, this video's been on YouTube for only a day and it's already well on its way toward viral, with 17,000 views. The thing of it? No one that I know of in the English-language China blogosphere has posted this video (until now, of course; if you've seen this elsewhere before 3:11 pm, let me know). That means Sui's one-man act is being passed around almost exclusively among Chinese users of YouTube and Facebook (which is where I first found it, on the page of a Chinese student in DC), and on Chinese social media (Sui has 206,000 fans on Sina Weibo). We wish Mike well on his road to online stardom.
On Sunday at the Beijing Motor Show, a press event was held to introduce Lamborghini's newest design, an SUV (!) known as the "LB736." It was a pretty big deal, for reasons that car aficionados know all too well. Lamborghini only produces two other models, the Gallardo and Aventador, and for its third model to be an SUV, it better make claims that the Urus is the world's most powerful and least polluting (it makes those claims, of course). And speaking of world, the model's global debut was in Beijing. Think about that. So the China auto market kind of matters, I think that's what we're illustrating here?
