Monthly Archives: August 2012
The Internet Cat Video Festival
As I write this post, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is getting ready to screen a curated 65-minute programme of internet cat videos to an audience of 5,000. Post-screening, the official selection and winning entries will be posted online.… Continue reading
Category art, cat
Tags art museum, cat videos, cats, film festival, fontshop, matthew carter, minneapolis, walker art center
The surprising secret to selling yourself
The Harvard Business Review blog talks about how to sell yourself in a job interview. Experience wins on paper but when it comes to signing on a new hire, potential trumps experience – even in salary. >> Harvard Business Review:… Continue reading
Category food for thought, presentation tips, work
Tags Harvard Business Review, interview, salary
The ways to prepare for a typhoon
Around this time last week, HK was bracing itself for the possibility of being hit by one or two typhoons (Tembin and Bolaven). A local grocery chain on Central side put up some helpful posters, with suggestions on what to… Continue reading
The 4-day week and the value of change
Surprise! Not really… but here’s ammo for the next annual review: what every office employee wants is also beneficial to the company’s bottom line. Jason Fried, co-founder and CEO of 37signals, gave his employees what most would dream of but… Continue reading
Category food for thought, productivity, work
The wet dog shake: 70% dry in 4 seconds
Interesting article from The Atlantic about how and why mammals shake themselves dry. Dogs, mice, elephants – all shake to remove moisture from their bodies for survival. Back in 2010, three researchers from Georgia Tech – Andrew Dickerson, Zachary Mills,… Continue reading
The “it’s impossible” challenge
Two stories, both bicycle-related, where inventors were told by various naysayers that what they wanted to do was impossible: Hövding the invisible bicycle helmet by Swedish industrial designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin Seven years in the making, it was… Continue reading
Category design, science
Tags anna haupt, BICYCLE, black box, canoe, cardboard, helmet, hövding, invisible, izhar gafni, Sweden, terese alstin
The megalopolis called Twitter: Ai Weiwei’s city
New interview with Ai WeiWei by Jonathan Landreth in Foreign Policy, via The Atlantic. Beijing’s greatest problem is that it never belongs to its people. Though it’s a city of more than 10 million, people living here are like people… Continue reading
The death of an icon: art critic Robert Hughes
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. – Robert Hughes Robert Hughes, art critic / writer / historian, R.I.P. >> NYT obit for Robert Hughes Shock of… Continue reading
Category art, food for thought
The Anniversary: 10 years ago today
TEN YEARS ago today, I left Canada for what I thought would be one year in Japan. That year quickly became five, followed by another five in HK. I’d never imagined this. As a student, I thought about moving to… Continue reading
Category Uncategorized
Tags hong kong, tokyo, video
The story behind ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’
Interesting but too short Q&A with Alison Klayman, director of the documentary “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” >> TIME Magazine / Documenting the Dissident Film trailer
Category art
The Spectacle: Rashaad Newsome @ FEAST Projects
This was back in May but I’ve just come across the video and had to share it. A special performance by Rashaad Newsome at FEAST Projects during ArtHK – it was a true spectacle, the energy was uncontainable. The show… Continue reading
The Sachiko Kodama show @ Hester Chan in London
I wish I was in London… This Thursday, the HCFA is holding a private screening of Japanese media artist Sachiko Kodama’s 8-minute film “Breathing Chaos” – definitely worth checking out if you are in the neighbourhood (closest tube: Bethnal Green).… Continue reading
Category art