Results tagged “video”

Since around March this year, a sad-looking panda has been spotted roaming the streets of New York City — on the subway, in Times Square, at various parks and around Wall Street's bull statue. Over the next few months, the Sad Panda has intrigued and fascinated New Yorkers — his short disappearance on Wall Street led a few concerned individuals to put up a missing notice, and his great makeover as Spongebob Squarepants did not go unnoticed. Turns out this Sad Panda is a 62 year old man from Guangzhou, Chen Jialing, who has now lived in the United States for many years.

Sad: a Bryde's (pronounced Brooda) whale was found beached this week on Hengsha island. Rescue workers tried for a good two days to rescue the poor thing and return it to the sea, but bad weather conditions made saving the whale impossible. All things considered, the whale was in pretty good health, leading experts to think that it got sick and lost its sense of direction, wandering into the Yangtze delta. Which makes sense: what would a whale want to do in shanghai, anyway? Visit the aquarium? That was an overwhalemingly bad joke.

Earlier this year, Aritz Parra of the new video news network VJ Movement took his camera and followed Dylan Chen, one of the organisers of Shanghai Pride, mainland China's very first gay pride season. He followed the young man over the course of two months, chronicling the ups and downs Dylan and his team experienced in putting together the event. The result is this beautifully and sensitively edited video clip you see below. Check out the money shot of the plainclothes policeman videotaping one of the Shanghai Pride events.

Is there anywhere in the world's most populous nation where there is absolutely no one? As it turns out, yes, there is! In the southwestern part of the Inner Mongolia region lies the spanking new and ultra-modern Ordos City (鄂尔多斯), which government officials have raised from the desert in just five years with tonnes of public money. The only problem is, nobody's moved in from the old Ordos City, located just 30 kilometres away.

Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei sits down for a chat with Yang Yang and celebrated gay film director Cui Zi'en (催子恩), masterminds of the Beijing Queer Film Festival (北京酷儿影展) which took place in June this year.

We love it when we find some Chinese-made animation that absolutely rocks our socks off and this 16-minute anti-war film definitely fits that definition. Made by an amateur CG hobbyist called "Jokelate" (饺克力) over the course of three years, it's better than most of the things we've seen come out of the actual Chinese animation industry.

We reported on Liu Xiang's comeback at the Golden Grand Prix last weekend, but we were so distracted by his Christ-like stigmata pose that we didn't actually think to look on Chinese video streams to watch the magic moment happen.

We can't seem to find any info on this kid (the video summary didn't offer much). But man does he know some great yo yo tricks! Ah, yo yo tricks! Doesn't that remind you of the 1990s? How nostalgic!

From the cut-and-paste of actual Bond scenes to the homemade CG to the misspelled "T1HS SUMMER," this is some quality shanzhai. In fact, we can't help but think that there would be a market for inserting yourself into movie trailers - it could be like those funny photo frames you see at amusement parks, only a full mp4 file instead!

Shot by Jakob Montrasio along Zhapu Road in Shanghai with a Sony Cinealta PMW EX1 for Father John, an upcoming feature film by Meiwenti Productions.

German national Christoph Rehage shaved his head in the fall of 2007, walked from Beijing to Urumqi on foot (yes, all 4,500 km of it!), taking pictures of himself wherever he went, and this awesome video is what he ended up with. Especially appropriate is his use of the Chinese song, Olive Tree 《橄榄树》with its haunting lyrics, "不要问我从哪里来" (Don't ask me where I'm from). We're already looking forward to the next video of his walk from Urumqi back to Germany -- if he ever gets down to it, that is. Check out the rest of his website The Longest Way.

We have fond memories of destroying cars in the bonus stage of SFII at our local arcade, and part of us always wanted to try wailing out on one in real life. Well consider that wish shattered. We guess there's a reason why movies based on versus fighting games always sucked.

That the Cantonese will eat anything that has legs apart from tables is a time-tested truth. And they will travel loooong distances and search high and low for places where they can put weird things into their mouth. Of course it always helps if you've heard from someone who's heard from someone who's heard from someone else about the marvelous nutritious and alimentary effects of this weird stuff that you're about to eat.

Keyframe Shanghai studio created this five (and a bit) minute animated short for the Harmony Times Square Skyscreen in Suzhou, China. The piece floats through space and zooms around the Earth before going to a crazy alien war/abduction sequence. It's pretty insane... but even more insane are the reactions of the mall goers, none of whom seem to notice what's going on above them.

So not only is Wonder Girl's song "Nobody" a phenomenon here - we've seen it performed by groups of high school students and lonely androgynous chubsters, it's apparently loved everywhere! What is it about this catchy Korean tune that makes it so no one, no matter where they are, can stop humming/dancing to it?

Guanzhou sits to the southeast of the Guangzhou economic machine. It’s a place that was simply leapfrogged by development. Further south, beyond University City, is Panyu, a suburban area now boasting Asia’s largest water park. To the north and west is the dense urban network of buildings and streets of a massive city on the make. Once you zoom out a bit, the wresting of land from villagers not too far from some of the most expensive land in China seems not only inevitable but long overdue.

We recently caught up with Shanghai-based independent filmmaker Luis Tapia of Daedalum Films, who is currently busy preparing for the May 9 premiere screening of his new documentary short about Shanghai band Hard Queen and the life of indie rock musicians in China. Seats are still available for the screening. Advance tickets can be purchased here.

We've highlighted mini-documentaries on the plight of migrant workers before, but there can't be enough said about these 200 million generally faceless people who have borne the burden of China's economic boom on their backs.

It's May, which means that we're about to see a slew of Sichuan Earthquake-related tributes to commemorate the one year anniversary of the terrible disaster. Right now, one of the most popular videos on Youku is of a sand artist drawing images related to Wenchuan.

If you haven't gotten enough of Hard Queen, after our interview, their new EP and the awesome release party at YYT, then make sure you catch the May 9 screening of Daedalum Films' Hard Queen documentary, Up from the Underground.

Multimedia enterprise China Green has been using some very well produced short films to document China's ongoing environmental issues. In this one, they take a look at Sohota Electric, a small Guangdong firm that has been making a big profit helping the country's various giants (including CCTV) retrofit their offices to become energy efficient. Considering that reports by China’s Ministry of Construction have deemed all buildings constructed before 2000 energy inefficient, it looks like Sohota will have a lot of work on their hands in the near future.

NBA Commissioner David Stern is interviewed in a video from NBC Sports entitled "China's passion for basketball." Stern appears to have adopted his own passion for another Chinese invention: the comb-over.

Here's a great party trick by a dude dressed like one of the Blues Brothers. A man calling himself the "King of Dice" broke his own dice-stacking record, creating a tower of 26 dice by shaking a cup.

Kaiser Kuo of Youku Buzz writes:

Here’s a short video of a download speed test of China Telecom’s trial 3G wireless network, which is on the CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO standard. (We usually hear about China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA network, foisted on them by regulators against their wishes, and the “European” standard WCDMA network that will be operated by China Netcom).

Continue reading "China Telecom's 3G to be faster than your ADSL at home?"

Since actors pretending to be doctors in Chinese infomercials are no longer legal, we've decided to delight you today with one of these hilarious - and soon to be rare - specimens. Everything you would ever want in a shanzhai pill ad is here: clipped together Hollywood scenes, a laowai "expert"... and John Voight as POTUS.

.... and no, he's not a eunuch or anything. 52 year old Chinese music teacher Li Wenxing (李文兴) is now practicing to reach six octaves plus one minor triad to break the Guinness record for world's widest vocal range, currently held by American Tim Storms. Just for comparison, the average person sings 1-2 octaves, professional singers with extensive training can sing about 3 octaves unstrained, and Mariah Carey is able to reach 5 octaves.

The last time we heard about Yu Zhenhuan (于震环), he was aiming to be part of the torch relay for the Beijing Olympics but it looks like he didn't get in. While a pair of Mexican brothers may have taken over him as the world's hairiest, Yu continues to reign as China's hairiest man. Today, he's touring around China with his rock band and hopes to record an album soon. Watch him sing and dance here and do a talk show on ABC on his trip to the US last year.

It's Thursday and you're slouched in your office chair bored out of your f*cking mind. We're here to help with the following two suggestions: You can download and play the new game, Jumpman, OR put the video below on loop + fullscreen, and loose yourself in its strangely hypnotic, mesmerising and enchanting visuals. Until your boss decides to jump on you from behind, that is.

“领导，辛苦了！"