I need this in my back yard
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Since the beginning of this year, the levels of air pollution in Beijing have been dangerously high, with thick clouds of smog chasing people indoors, disrupting air travel, and affecting the health of millions. The past two weeks have been especially bad — at one point the pollution level measured 40 times recommended safety levels. Authorities are taking short-term measures to combat the current crisis, shutting down some factories and limiting government auto usage. However, long-term solutions seem distant, as China’s use of coal continues to rise, and the government remains slow to acknowledge and address the problems. * Starting with photo #2, a four-part set of these images is interactive, allowing you to click the photo and ‘clear the air’, viewing a difference over time.
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Ai Weiwei may be traveling, some say last seen at Tumblr offices. Have you seen him?
Free Expression and Freedom of Movement are our Universal Right. Share it.
United Expression Media, Producers of the Film: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry have launched “Friends of Ai Weiwei” to encourage artists, musicians, writers, actors, and film-makers to join in the promotion of Free Expression throughout the world.
China’s Online Community Reacts to Mo Yan’s Nobel Prize
Mo Yan’s Nobel Prize inspires mixed responses among China’s internet community.
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After Mo Yan won the literature prize, Sanlu and Mengniu won the chemistry prize, the prime minister won best male actor, hallucination realism.
继莫言得文学奖后，三鹿和蒙牛又获得化学奖、仰视总理拿最佳男主角，魔幻现实。
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Sanlu and Mengniu are two Chinese dairy producers who tainted their milk with melamine, making tens of thousands of Chinese children sick.
Rare footage shows extreme measures of Tibetan protestors
In the last year, nearly 50 Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire in protest at Chinese rule and we have rare footage of what is happening there, but be warned this story contains disturbing images.
Art TV captured our protest and an not amused chinese ambassador
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I feel sick- my hometown promotes and hosts an exhibit orchestrated by the Chinese Ministry of Culture
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” …But any show curated without respect for the people’s struggle, without concern for an artist’s need for honest self-expression, will inevitably lead to the wrong conclusion.” Ai Weiwei
thanks. RT //Sonja_Jo: ¤°.¸✿¸.•´¯`»ღ ♫ Happy Birthday, dear Ai Weiwei //aiww and many happy returns of the day! ¤°.¸✿¸.•´¯`»ღ ♫
thanks. RT @Sonja_Jo: ¤°.¸✿¸.•´¯`»ღ ♫ Happy Birthday, dear Ai Weiwei @aiww and many happy returns of the day! ¤°.¸✿¸.•´¯`»ღ ♫
THE ARTIST IS AN INSPIRED HUMAN BEING
In the experience of awareness, you do not just get hold of one chunk of mindfulness and stick with it, but you experience the mindfulness and its shadow, the environment around it. There is a tremendous appreciation of life and of how to conduct one’s life. So awareness practice is not just formal sitting practice or meditation-in-action alone. It is a unique training practice in how to behave as an inspired human being, or an inspired sentient being. That is what is meant by being an artist.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
From “Art in Everyday Life,” in True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art, page 28.
Ai Weiwei: The Daily Frame: Documenta: Art Festival 2012
Visitors of the dOCUMENTA (13) contemporary art festival in Kassel, Germany, pose with portraits of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in front of “The Importance of Telepathy,” a sculpture by Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Friday’s demonstration was part of the project “All for Ai Weiwei,” which aims to draw attention to the dissident artist. Photo by Uwe Zucchi/AFP/Getty Images.
Khyentse Norbu is talking about his new film VARA, original post at: http://varathemovie.tumblr.com/
