10tonfunk » HI Art http://10tonfunk.com/frog heavy as hell Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:33:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Something that needs to happen, I know you’ll agree http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2010/10/03/something-that-needs-to-happen-i-know-youll-agree/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=something-that-needs-to-happen-i-know-youll-agree http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2010/10/03/something-that-needs-to-happen-i-know-youll-agree/#comments Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:56:37 +0000 fred dintenfass http://10tonfunk.com/frog/?p=912 Combined sequel to Kick Ass and The Legend of the Fist: Chen Zhen 《精武风云·陈真》.

Fake mustaches, bad makeup, and tragic PVC costumes unite as Nicko and Donnie Yun battle both New York mafia and WWI Japanese. This cannot fail.




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]]> Combined sequel to Kick Ass and The Legend of the Fist: Chen Zhen 《精武风云·陈真》.

Fake mustaches, bad makeup, and tragic PVC costumes unite as Nicko and Donnie Yun battle both New York mafia and WWI Japanese. This cannot fail.




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]]> http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2010/10/03/something-that-needs-to-happen-i-know-youll-agree/feed/ 0 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 http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2010/02/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-geopolitics-in-2010-explained-with-stickers-%e4%b8%80%e5%88%87%e9%9c%80%e8%a6%81%e5%85%b3%e4%ba%8e2010%e5%b9%b4%e7%9a%84%e5%9c%b0%e7%bc%98%e6%94%bf%e6%b2%bb/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=everything-you-need-to-know-about-geopolitics-in-2010-explained-with-stickers-%25e4%25b8%2580%25e5%2588%2587%25e9%259c%2580%25e8%25a6%2581%25e5%2585%25b3%25e4%25ba%258e2010%25e5%25b9%25b4%25e7%259a%2584%25e5%259c%25b0%25e7%25bc%2598%25e6%2594%25bf%25e6%25b2%25bb http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2010/02/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-geopolitics-in-2010-explained-with-stickers-%e4%b8%80%e5%88%87%e9%9c%80%e8%a6%81%e5%85%b3%e4%ba%8e2010%e5%b9%b4%e7%9a%84%e5%9c%b0%e7%bc%98%e6%94%bf%e6%b2%bb/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:36:28 +0000 fred dintenfass http://10tonfunk.com/frog/?p=833

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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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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]]> http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2010/02/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-geopolitics-in-2010-explained-with-stickers-%e4%b8%80%e5%88%87%e9%9c%80%e8%a6%81%e5%85%b3%e4%ba%8e2010%e5%b9%b4%e7%9a%84%e5%9c%b0%e7%bc%98%e6%94%bf%e6%b2%bb/feed/ 5 life in china explained in 1,584,334 words* http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2010/01/19/life-in-china-expained-in-1584334-words/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=life-in-china-expained-in-1584334-words http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2010/01/19/life-in-china-expained-in-1584334-words/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:25:31 +0000 fred dintenfass http://10tonfunk.com/frog/?p=804 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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]]> 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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]]> http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2010/01/19/life-in-china-expained-in-1584334-words/feed/ 0 top best ish of the past 10 years or so/rejoice thee http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/12/29/top-best-shit-of-the-past-10-years-or-sorejoice-thee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-best-shit-of-the-past-10-years-or-sorejoice-thee http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/12/29/top-best-shit-of-the-past-10-years-or-sorejoice-thee/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:29:50 +0000 fred dintenfass http://10tonfunk.com/frog/?p=794 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 living more in the “real world” but I doubt it. i believe my excitement remains intact, however. despite my constant bitching about politics and my generally low view of humanity both as a whole and in so many of its constituent parts, i am constantly cheered by creative expression, whether it’s rather ramshackle amateur theater productions or big budget ...read more

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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 living more in the “real world” but I doubt it. i believe my excitement remains intact, however. despite my constant bitching about politics and my generally low view of humanity both as a whole and in so many of its constituent parts, i am constantly cheered by creative expression, whether it’s rather ramshackle amateur theater productions or big budget ...read more

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]]> http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/12/29/top-best-shit-of-the-past-10-years-or-sorejoice-thee/feed/ 4 my lameness knows no bounds http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/10/31/my-lameness-knows-no-bounds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-lameness-knows-no-bounds http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/10/31/my-lameness-knows-no-bounds/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:22:42 +0000 fred dintenfass http://10tonfunk.com/frog/?p=774 Photo-56

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]]> http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/10/31/my-lameness-knows-no-bounds/feed/ 4 Imagination Giants: Go Check it Out http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/10/13/imagination-giants-go-check-it-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=imagination-giants-go-check-it-out http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/10/13/imagination-giants-go-check-it-out/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:59:08 +0000 fred dintenfass http://10tonfunk.com/frog/?p=765 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…

IGposter

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.” One wonders what Kennedy thought about the Cuban definition of crisis, but the Chinese construction of crisis, as Kennedy interpreted it, also applies to living, traveling and making art.

The ...read more

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]]> 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…

IGposter

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.” One wonders what Kennedy thought about the Cuban definition of crisis, but the Chinese construction of crisis, as Kennedy interpreted it, also applies to living, traveling and making art.

The ...read more

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]]> http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/10/13/imagination-giants-go-check-it-out/feed/ 3 Can You Escape the Cage? http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/08/12/can-you-escape-the-cage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-you-escape-the-cage http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/08/12/can-you-escape-the-cage/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:18:29 +0000 fred dintenfass http://10tonfunk.com/frog/?p=660 and even if you could, why would you want to?

nicolas-cage-bangkok-dangerous-remake-2

(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

“Bangkok Dangerous” has Cage: looking like fat Elvis strung out on heroin, clearly covered head to toe in Vic’s Vapo-rub, wearing the same poorly fitting T-shirt in 70% of the scenes possibly not even realizing he’s making a movie. We suspect the ...read more

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

nicolas-cage-bangkok-dangerous-remake-2

(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

“Bangkok Dangerous” has Cage: looking like fat Elvis strung out on heroin, clearly covered head to toe in Vic’s Vapo-rub, wearing the same poorly fitting T-shirt in 70% of the scenes possibly not even realizing he’s making a movie. We suspect the ...read more

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]]> http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2009/08/12/can-you-escape-the-cage/feed/ 2 Olivier Blanckart http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2008/12/14/olivier-blanckart/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=olivier-blanckart http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2008/12/14/olivier-blanckart/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:31:00 +0000 fred dintenfass http://frog.10tonfunk.com/?p=61
NAU-MAN

Sweet.

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NAU-MAN

Sweet.

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]]> http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2008/12/14/olivier-blanckart/feed/ 0 maybe (not) http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2008/10/31/maybe-not/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maybe-not http://10tonfunk.com/frog/2008/10/31/maybe-not/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:21:00 +0000 fred dintenfass http://frog.10tonfunk.com/?p=74 These photos actually marked the genesis of the current mo’blog series. Going through past 2+ years of photos and writing about them a bit heightened my interest in trying to explain – to myself as much as others – Beijing. There are many pictures out there showing monks holding McDonald’s bags and the like and these are great pictures that speak vividly to the paradigm shift taking place on the mainland. But there are many more changes taking place, less striking when viewed one at a time, but they pile upon themselves endlessly, are obscured, merged, and transformed.

下面的照片是我在这个博客上现在写的mo’blog系列的开端. 我在看我前两年照片和图式写出来我的感觉我的对表示我在北京的经历增加了. 写给别人看和让我自己更理解北京. 有很多照片有僧侣他们手中拿着麦当劳袋子. 这种照片很生动地标志中国的改变. 但是中国的变化更多, 比这样的照片更细微的. 假使你只看一两张比较细微的照片, 你不能理解北京的变化, 不能理解变化, 但是这个变化非常多, 一直堆在一起, 联合, 转变.

When I was young I saw Tibetan monks making a sand mandala in one of the dark cavernous wings of the Chicago Field Museum. They were most of the way through, using bags of colored sand like cake frosting to create an ...read more

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]]> These photos actually marked the genesis of the current mo’blog series. Going through past 2+ years of photos and writing about them a bit heightened my interest in trying to explain – to myself as much as others – Beijing. There are many pictures out there showing monks holding McDonald’s bags and the like and these are great pictures that speak vividly to the paradigm shift taking place on the mainland. But there are many more changes taking place, less striking when viewed one at a time, but they pile upon themselves endlessly, are obscured, merged, and transformed.

下面的照片是我在这个博客上现在写的mo’blog系列的开端. 我在看我前两年照片和图式写出来我的感觉我的对表示我在北京的经历增加了. 写给别人看和让我自己更理解北京. 有很多照片有僧侣他们手中拿着麦当劳袋子. 这种照片很生动地标志中国的改变. 但是中国的变化更多, 比这样的照片更细微的. 假使你只看一两张比较细微的照片, 你不能理解北京的变化, 不能理解变化, 但是这个变化非常多, 一直堆在一起, 联合, 转变.

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