The island near Shanghai is the home to the small abandoned fishing village of Houtouwan. Since the 1990s no one has lived here, forced to find work elsewhere.
This photo series and drone footage from Shanghai-based photographer and videographer Joe Nafis and photographer Dave Tacon give us a glimpse of what few people ever see.
These wooden bridges in the Fuijan and Zhejiang provinces, on the south east coast of China, show a degree of craftsmanship astounding enough for them to still be standing and supporting daily activity and use. And they are gorgeous as well.
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Kyon.J is a Japanese photographer who's stunning photos of Guilin in China and Mount Fuji in Japan surpass the cliched images with just the right touch of light and wonder.
Chinese illustrator and anatomy instructor Chuan-Bin Chung uses his considerable drawing skills to reveal the form and structure of human anatomy with these precise and colorful diagrams he builds for the students in the classroom.
You know the feeling. There's mention of something you only have a dim idea of, which sends you to wikipedia. An hour or two later and you are 5 layers deep in a part of the world, history or ideas you'd never heard of.
So it was for me today. Here are my 5 new wikipedia links:
Tang Dynasty
Man'yogana
General An Lushan
Nanzho
Wei Gensheng is working on the second highest building in the world – the Shanghai Tower. His stunning photos from 2,000 ft up won him the second prize in Shanghai City Photography Competition.
The Harbin International Ice Festival revealed some of its massive snow sculptures a few weeks before its official opening in January.
The Library of Congress has a putting extensive collection of photos of China and Chinese migrants from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Mexico
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One of the things that i see people doing is creating their own photo projects: The same spot from day to day or from morning to night. One of my favorite things is seeing the sky, the sights, the places from around the world.
I invite you to add your own photos, using the SKYE Weather + Photo iPhone app. We are constantly adding new bits to it and I, as the experience designer, personally would love to hear your feedback.
--Ryan
Beautiful background images showing current conditions
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Wanted to feature some of the great stuff that people are putting up all around the world on the SKYE Weather+Photo app.
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Held since 1963, the Harbin International Ice & Snow Festival can last more than a month, depending on the weather.
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I've been in Shanghai for almost 4 years, during which I enjoyed a 3-year timelapse experience. The scenes from Shanghai's every corner almost certainly formed the main clips of my timelapse work. In Shanghai, usually I did timelapse whenever and wherever possible, no matter working or being on holiday, waking or sleeping (coz sometimes I left my camera working on the roof for the sunrise: P). Thus, I got tons of timelapse clips about this city. I never knew when I could make something from what I had gotten, until one day my friend LT came to me, talking about making a black-and-white Shanghai timelapse. It was really a cool idea to me. Soon I started coloring a couple of clips into BW just to get a little bit feeling. Later, it was a New York timelapse I saw before that gave me the inspiration of the music - deep male vocal, slight electronic, and storytelling. "The Books", which came to my mind, undoubtedly was a optimal match to my crossed line mood. I kept listening to their music until I found "Thirty Incoming". ... That is the whole preparation about this short. Producer: Luo Tong www.lpfilms.net Director, Cameraman, Editor: Liu Jia www.Jiavision.net Music: Thirty Incoming - The Books http://www.thebooksmusic.com/ Additional footage from Joe Nafis Opening picture from: Kevin Gu, Zokki Zhang, Lin Hang, Paul Shubsky, Liu Jia Equipment: Canon 5DMKII, Canon 550D, Canon Powershot A630 16-35mm/2.8, 24-105mm/4, 10-22mm, 18-135mm Edited with Final Cut Pro, graded with Colorista II and Nattress.
Awesome looking timelapse exploration of one of the world's most vibrant cities.
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Цейтраферная съемка в движении / time-lapse photography in motion China (Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen 27.02.12 - 14.03.2012) Canon 5D Mark II Canon 60D peleng 8mm/3.5 tokina 11-16mm/2.8 Samyang 14mm/2.8 sigma 24mm/1.8 canon 50mm/1.4 canon 70-200mm/4lis NDx16, NDx1000, NDx2000, c-pl music: OST_Enter_the_Dragon – The Island & Passion Pit - Swimming in the flood
Unbelievably modern, the Chinese cites of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen get the timelapse treatment from Artem Sergeevich (with his awesome timelapse of Moscow).
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Chris Northey shot these timelapses along the ancient Silk Road from China to Uzbekistan. Beijing and Xi'an in China, Turpan and Kashgar. Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand.
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"Sun Jifa, 51, lost both his hands when a bomb he was creating for blast fishing in Guanmashan, Jilin province, northern China, exploded"
"Could not afford hospital's prosthetic arms so made his own"
You'd think that those folks in charge of handling dissidents and artists would learn early on that tactics meant to silence actually just amplify. Ai Wei Wei for example has reached a height as an international art figure not just on his work, but on what his work is opposed by. His complaints (even after being jailed for a couple of months) are available in English on https://twitter.com/aiwwenglish/
Here, American Alison Klayman, a first-time filmmaker living in China decided to follow Ai on film. It is a tale as much about his art as his way of being handled by the National government.
First-time American filmmaker Alison Klayman decided to follow Ai.
AI WEIWEI NEVER SORRY: http://thefreestylelife.com/ai-weiwei-never-sorry-documentary.html Named by ArtReview as the most powerful artist in the world, Ai Weiwei is China's most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic.
The part of the Great Wall we most often see is just a small portion of this enormous and old structure. In its span, it ranges from majestic to barely there.
Zhang Ke-Chun's photo series, titled and inspired by the poem 北流活活 (Bei Liu Huo Huo), takes along China's rapidly developing industrial waterways.
