Here are a couple of great discoveries on the Internet in the last few days that I would like to share with you. First, a charming little story from my friend Leah (she's an anthropologist, you know, so she has some sort of excuse for trawling the Web for this kind of thing) on the Ghanaian novelty coffin industry. The outsize Nike trainer above is one of the most striking examples of their handiwork.
And then (via the already indispensable Webside Gleanings) there are these weirdly beautiful sculptures of jellyfish, crafted out of plastic mineral water bottles by Japanese artist Miwa Koizumi. There are several more examples to enjoy on his website, here.
A leading presenter on China Central Television's English-language channel has revealed himself to be a xenophobic hate-monger. WHY does he still have a job? Lobby for his dismissal - by any and all means.
Days Ai Weiwei was detained
80
With ironic, sinister symmetry, the celebrity artist/activist was incarcerated on the same day that my friend Wu Yuren was finally released from 10 months' detention.
Now, like Wu, he's been released on extremely restrictive 'bail' terms - but could face re-arrest at any moment. He was detained incommunicado from April 3rd to June 22nd 2011.
Days Wu Yuren was in prison
307
"Released on parole" after 10 months; "parole" lifted another year later. The original charges against him were apparently dropped without his trial ever being formally concluded.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
Here are a couple of great discoveries on the Internet in the last few days that I would like to share with you. First, a charming little story from my friend Leah (she's an anthropologist, you know, so she has some sort of excuse for trawling the Web for this kind of thing) on the Ghanaian novelty coffin industry. The outsize Nike trainer above is one of the most striking examples of their handiwork.
And then (via the already indispensable Webside Gleanings) there are these weirdly beautiful sculptures of jellyfish, crafted out of plastic mineral water bottles by Japanese artist Miwa Koizumi. There are several more examples to enjoy on his website, here.
4 comments:
The jellyfish are beautiful
Yes, astonishingly delicate. And I can't work out how he suspends them in the display.
And where have you been all week?
Is Grendel not dead, just brooding over his severed arm??
I've been.... having a tough week.
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