the worlds largest wooden sculpture - zheng chunhui

The four years it has taken the Chinese artist Zheng Chunhui to sculpt this has been well spent.  It's a superb continuous work of art, all on a 40 foot log.  It is based on the Chinese painting 'Along The River During The Qingming Festival', which itself was created about 1,000 years ago (see below). Anyone who dedicates themselves to producing such an undertaking is obviously a madman, but l'm glad there are people out there prepared to take on the task.
Above pictures are from here.

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giant 3d art in china

The Chinese twins Wan Yiju and Wan Yiheng have created the worlds largest piece of 3D art in Guangzhou,  Guangdong, which is 148,63 meters long. It only took them three months, painting for 10 hours a day.  More of their artwork is above, with thanxs to China Underground.  Those crazy kids - whatever next?

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2012 magic art special, china

This show looks pretty good. You can get your photograph taken in front of the 3D artwork (with hilarious results), which is at the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.
All l need now is the money to get there and the time off work.

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photos from china - good, bad and strange

Photographs from China, good, bad and strange, taken from The Atlantic.
A place l would certainly  like to visit (China, not the Atlantic).

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hero (2002) - zhang yimou

This film was a splendid way to spend an afternoon while the FPO was working hard (or skiving on Second Life). Hero concerns Nameless (Jet Li), a warrior who is planning to assassinate the King of Qin. Along the way, he meets other warriors and tries to convince them to assist him in his evil plan. One of them, Broken Sword (an excellent, handsome and introverted Tony Leung), is Nameless' equal when it comes to sword play, but tries to persuade him to give up his assassination attempt for the greater good and unification of China (possibly the world, it depends how it is translated). Will he? Won't he? Watch it and find out. The film also looks fantastic, and the cinematography (by Christopher Doyle) is stunning in places and has some highly effective uses (and changes) of colour. The film is so good, l may even take up the old martial arts again, as l used to be highly effective in the Zui Quan discipline. Ah, they were the days my friend, when l was a young rake about town, speedy both in thought and actions, with a devil may care attitude and hang the consequences. Damn your eyes old age!!!

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