New Media Chinese Art from Yang Yongliang

How do you update an ancient art tradition? With Photoshop, of course. New media artist Yang Yongliang was classically trained in Chinese painting and calligraphy from a very young age but uses digital tools to capture that time-tested aesthetic. View the amazing results in the video above.

Shanghai-based artist Yang Yongliang has taken the eyes and heart of the more traditional Chinese landscape and calligraphy, and invested it with the expressive ability of the newest technology and techniques, including digital manipulation, video and photography.

"As long as the characteristics don't change, the media you use to express the art doesn't matter."

​I think these landscapes in Chinese Porcelain are pretty amazing, and I am absolutely in love with the video landscapes. 

Here is a sample of the video referenced in the Creator's Project piece:​

Uploaded by Brian Peter Tan on 2012-11-25.

And a more recent one:​

Uploaded by Brian Peter Tan on 2012-11-25.

This is Shanghai: A Rob Whitworth and JT Singh Timelapse

In 1980 Shanghai had no skyscrapers. It now has at least 4,000 — more than twice as many as New York. ‘This is Shanghai’ explores the diversities and eccentricities of the metropolis that is Shanghai going beyond the famous skyline. Photographer Rob Whitworth and urban identity expert JT Singh joined forces combining deep city exploration and pioneering filmmaking. ‘This is Shanghai’ is a roller coaster ride seamlessly weaving between the iconic, sparkling and mismatched buildings of the financial district travelling by boat and taxi touring Shanghai’s impressive infrastructure whilst glimpsing some of the lesser-known aspects of Shanghai life such as the lower stratum areas or the stunning graffiti of Moganshan road. And of course there is the opportunity to try some of the vast variety of street food and Shanghai’s most popular homegrown delicacy, the pan-fried pork dumplings, the shengjian bao. Wherever you travel in Shanghai the cities skyline is always present. The looming silhouette of the almost constructed Shanghai Tower now dominates and perfectly encapsulates the new heights this city is yet to reach. Once completed, in 2014, it will be the tallest building in China and the second tallest in the world after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. To understand the city, the team carried out rigorous urban exploration. In the words of JT “we walked, walked and walked, the Jane Jacobs way”. Weibo, China’s main social media platform was used to ask local Shanghainese people to share ideas of different vantage points and what they thought were the over-riding characteristics of the city. Stealth and curiosity were required to find and gain access to rooftops and locations. It became addictive for the team discovering breath-taking vantage points of the city. There was always an adrenaline rush upon reaching the top of a different building to see the vast urban jungle of Shanghai. Rob Whitworth (www.robwhitworth.co.uk/) is a creative time lapse photographer from the UK based in Asia. His previous videos, ‘Traffic in Frenetic HCMC’ and ‘Kuala Lumpur DAY-NIGHT’ have received international attention including being short listed for 7 film festivals, and have had received well over 2 million online views. JT Singh (www.jtsingh.com/) has explored hundreds of emerging cities around the world and is a next generation thinker about the value and impact of 21st century cities. Having grown up in Toronto JT is now based in China. He explains: “The over-riding reason we made this video was to creatively show the world visually how China is rising, in particular Chinese cities. Just as New York City exemplified the strengths and ambitions of emerging America in the 20th century, Shanghai, perhaps more than any old or emerging rival, will personify the power and dreams of rising Asia in the 21st century.” A ThrillingCities Production - www.thrillingcities.com Engineering cutting-edge Identities for Cities on the Rise JT Singh Website: www.jtsingh.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jtssingh Twitter; https://twitter.com/jtssingh Rob Whitworth Website: http://www.robwhitworth.co.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RobWhitworthPhotography Twitter: https://twitter.com/kwhi02 Copyright all images Rob Whitworth 2013 - www.robwhitworth.co.uk | Soundtrack used under license Artist ‘Subscape’ Track ‘Shanghai’ © submergedmusic

Shanghai has been growing as a city for at least a thousand years. The neon signs and skyscrapers are fairly new.  

 

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2 - Shanghai Timelapse in Black and White

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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2 - Vibrant Timelapes of Chinese Cities

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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