I’d never seen this magazine before, but I picked this issue up because it is about the relationship of architecture to contemporary Chinese society. The articles, mostly by Chinese authors cover a wide variety of topics: city planning, building conditions, preservation, Chinatowns in the Chinese diaspora are a few of the topics. (more…)
The Center for Asian American Media puts on the Asian American Film Festival (AAFF) every year in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s a well-run festival, and every year, it presents an opportunity to see a LOT of really good films. (more…)
If you’re interested in games, mathematics, African culture, or a variety of these topics, The Complete Mancala Games Book: How to Play the World’s Oldest Board Games is a real find. And once you have the book, a bag of beans and an empty egg carton (plus a partner) are all that you need to begin playing. (more…)
China Contemporary: Architecture, Art, Visual Culture catalogs the exhibition China Contemporary, which occurred concurrently at three museums in the Netherlands in 2006: Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and Nederlands fotomuseum.
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If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area (or more specifically, if you’re in Berkeley), the Pacific Film Archive is a great place to see great cinema. A lot of films show up here that you might not get to see elsewhere, even on DVD.
The new schedule for Pacific Film Archive showed up in the mail today, and when I opened it, I was delighted! On page 3, it announced that Bela Tarr’s Satantango will be showing in its full 450 minute glory (and in a new print, to boot) on February 17, 2007 at 1 pm.
As Susan Sontag said: “Devastating, enthralling for every minute of its seven hours. I’d be glad to see it every year for the rest of my life.”
I’m sure there are much more authentic ribs adobo recipes out there, but this one tastes really good: (more…)
I watched Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of Happy Together today. It’s a 59-minute documentary about the making of Wong Kar-Wai’s film Happy Together. While the making-of-the-movie aspect is interesting, looking at all the footage that wasn’t used in the final film is the best part. There are some really compelling images in this film. (more…)
I’m finding Blog Design Solutions useful in learning how to set up a blog with WordPress. It covers a number of other blog engines as well, and explains how to set up a local test environment in OS X or Windows for trying out your blog before you launch it on the world. (more…)