‘HI Art’ Category

everything you need to know about geopolitics in 2010 explained with stickers // 一切需要关于2010年的地缘政治的情况知道的知识由用贴纸解释了

February 3rd, 2010

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exactly like the title says. and while a picture may be worth a 1000 words, i’m not sure that the year end/2010 predictions issue of  Caijing this picture came from is worth the 35 RMB i anted up for it at 7-11 in a weak, under-caffeinated haze.

内容已经在标题说好了。可能按照俗语的说法一张图片值得一千词但是我觉得这张图片来自的财经杂志年底版并不值得35元(在7-11还没喝咖啡特别瞌睡的时候买的)!

** 前句话写的特别差,如果有建议怎么该请告诉我!一直到我的汉语水平进步很多我要用更短更简单的话。

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life in china explained in 1,584,334 words*

January 19th, 2010

we all know i can be pretty down on the us of a but there are things that genuinely cheer me up about my country of origin and most of them have to do with our popcultural output. if i gave examples of what i consider awesome in this arena it would just demean my point in your cultured, chunky glasses framed eyes so i’ll skip it.

harold and kumar escape from guantanamo bay pretty much expresses everything that is manically, delusionally, dangerously great about america. again, i’m not going to bother to explain this; you don’t need to have seen the movie, the title alone demonstrates how amazing/amazingly inappropriate the movie is. basicaly it’s horribly wrong and also terribly right. plus neal patrick harris is on acid and branding prostitutes with his own initials. see above point about horribly wrong and terribly right.

this clip, though it doesn’t have anything to do with china, has a lot to do with communication problems, which, other than food on sticks, is probably what 79% of my life in china is about.

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top best shit of the past 10 years or so/rejoice thee

December 29th, 2009

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this was actually one of the first posts i ever started writing for this blog. in the hong kong airport on august 28th or 9th, 2006. like avatar, it’ s been a long time coming and cost me 500 million dollars but there aren’t really many changes to it. better late than never (really just an excuse to quote my newest favorite lyric, “pleasa, prayin that her period ain’t late like FEMA”) i’m forgoing my normal florid style and even capital letters and letting the good shit shine.

i think i am less excited by things than i used to be and perhaps have displaced some of my irrational excitement onto totally bizarre/drastically less worthy objects of amuse/bemusement like steven seagal and nicholas cage. increasingly i’ve turned away from the best and embraced the absolute worst (not bad meaning bad but awful meaning amazing). it’s possible i’ve started ...READ MORE

Imagination Giants: Go Check it Out

October 13th, 2009

I was fortunate enough to work on the MIAD China this summer. These are great folk and this is gonna be a great show.  Here’s the (bitchin’) poster and a foreword I wrote. Reppin’ the Midwest and the Far East…

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They Might Be, They Are…Imagination Giants

Everyone knows that if you dig a deep enough hole in your backyard you end up in China. So I wasn’t too surprised, once upon a time not long ago, to be with MIAD’s bestest and brightest in a mad minivan dash to a Shaolin mountaintop, acapellaing ‘Children’s Story’ as our crazed driver raced into the oncoming lane, with the 8 of us packed in among army blankets like so much hay.

As America is going through Kennedy withdrawal, it seems a fitting time to bring up John John’s oft-cited quote, “When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.” ...READ MORE

Can You Escape the Cage?

August 12th, 2009

and even if you could, why would you want to?

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(just look at that punem! on the movie box this picture randomly has the Eiffel Tower in the background)

I’m something of an authority on the world’s worst movies (see my post on the Dennis Rodman instant classic “Minis”) and yet I could barely watch “Bangkok Dangerous.” And now I’ve seen it twice.

It’s not just a bad movie, no, it’s way past that. It’s an anti-movie. Consider this — normally an action movie has:

action
an action hero
an action hero with a “haircut”
a sizzling relationship btw said hero and some random girl

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