That's What Xu Said : Understanding New York City
Look at all the amazing city-related projects our students are doing svainteractiondesign!| Tumblr
Look at all the amazing city-related projects our students are doing svainteractiondesign!| Tumblr
multientry: If you’ve been paying attention to Kpop news recently, you may have heard about the incident last week wherein Chou Tzuyu, a Taiwanese member of the Kpop group Twice, stirred up some geopolitical drama by waving a Taiwanese flag during an online broadcast. Sensitivity around Taiwanese independence is always a heightened issue around the general election, so she found herself facing cancelled appearances and pulled endorsements until she (possibly with pressure from her label, JY...| That's What Xu Said
thecleaverquarterly: You can now pre-order Issue #6 of The Cleaver Quarterly at our online store. Magazines will ship as soon as they are back from the printer after China’s National Day holidays. Look how gorgeous the cover of the next Cleaver Quarterly is! One of my favorite discoveries of the year (thanks, Leah!)—it’s a magazine devoted entirely to stories, illustrations, essays, interviews, etc. about Chinese food in all of its glorious forms. Side note: is there a more universal ...| That's What Xu Said
oamul: Little gluttonous monster eat the moon This is a few days late, but here’s a happy Mid-Autumn Festival gif from Oamul, an illustrator based in Xiamen! I had so much fun hanging out with him last Friday, I almost missed my train to Fuzhou :O| That's What Xu Said
China loves the lingo of games: I wrote a thing about how in-game lingo went mainstream in China, and it’s the featured article on Offworld today! ^_^| That's What Xu Said
mingsonjia: inkjadestudio: mingsonjia: inkjadestudio: changan-moon: Ancient Chinese silver tea utensil. Tang dynasty. Fameng Temple museum. via 铜镜大观 Just wanted to add that in the Tang dynasty, people did not brew loose tea leaves like present day Chinese. That only became common in the Ming dynasty. Back then, tea leaves were made into compressed cakes and the cakes were ground in the silver mortar you see in the third and fourth row with hot water added for consumption. Also, in th...| That's What Xu Said
In case you haven’t seen it yet: I’ve been running a Kickstarter campaign for Multi Entry, an online zine about what life in China is like for young creative Chinese people. The campaign ends on July 21st, so please help me spread the word! If we hit $20k I’ll get a tattoo, for reals. The Chinese internet is a magical place, and it’s spawned a ton of slang that can be hard to figure out. I’ve learned a lot of them from my friends and research and they’re too awesome to keep to mys...| That's What Xu Said
I stumbled upon Pérez Firmat’s Bilingual Blues, a 1995 book of poems, 10 years after its release. A high school freshman enamored of literature but only beginning to like poetry, I saw myself reflected in his brooding diasporic meditation: The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don’t belong to English though I belong nowhere else Indeed, I never know what language to use when explaining myself. En...| That's What Xu Said
orbitalnyc: The first run of our latest program, the Orbital 1K, concluded last week. The program challenges people to launch a project in four weeks that will likely earn them $1,000. While the tone of the challenge seems transactional in nature, in reality most participants use the framework of the program to determine the viability of their vision, where the first step is to see if they can find an addressable audience. The four-week time constraint forces the question from “how do I...| That's What Xu Said
Between teaching the 1K and a few other conversations, I’ve been thinking a lot about how difficult it is to teach people how to exist online. People have so many deeply held misconceptions about how social media should work for them—how they can trick and “solve” it—and resort to all kinds of different bad behaviors which don’t do them any favors. My philosophy: it’s not so different from moving into a new neighborhood and trying to fit in. You introduce yourself to people and ...| That's What Xu Said
Last week, we welcomed 14 students to the June session of the Orbital 1K, a four-week program designed to coach them through launching a crowdfunding project, MVP, or community that can generate $1,000 in revenue. The program is led by Gary Chou and me, assisted by fantastic advisors from around the Orbital sphere. You can find all the students, instructors, and advisors on Twitter here. I’m teaching the 1K because it sits at the intersection of a lot of things I care about: building supp...| That's What Xu Said
fuckyeahchinesefashion: 26 Chinese dialects edition of Let It Go. By order: Mandarin普通话, Shanxi陕西, Dalian大连, Shanghai上海, Shantou汕头, Jinhua金华, Shanxi山西, Sichuan四川, Dongbei东北, Taizhou台州, Taiyuan太原, Beijing北京, Suzhou苏州, Hefei合肥, Hangzhou杭州, Kejia客家, Minnan闽南, Tianjin天津, Wenzhou温州, Nanchang南昌, Wuxi无锡, Fuzhou福州, Changsha长沙, Guiliu桂柳, Wuhan武汉, Cantonese粤语. Notes: there are more than 80 main d...| That's What Xu Said
How Fruity Loops Changed Music-Making Forever: Fruity Loops / FL Studio is the foundation for so, so much global dance music, from dubstep and bubbling to 3bal and reggaeton. I’m glad people are writing about the history of this little piece of software! My favorite section of this piece, unsurprisingly, talks about the importance of the expert novice, playful interface: Another fundamental appeal of FL has been its playful quality. At a time when Pro Tools was still seen as an industry ...| That's What Xu Said
sizvideos: Kitten hanging out in their own sections of a shoe organizer Video| That's What Xu Said
This year’s Met Gala had the unfortunate theme “China: Through the Looking Glass”, which was, according to their curators, “not about China per se, but about a China that exists as a collective fantasy.” Um. Oookay. But what did the 600 million or so internet users in “China per se” think about the Met Gala? Armed with their ancient, mysterious language, I used my looking glass laptop to check out the conversation happening on Weibo. #2015MetBall# had been trending throughout t...| That's What Xu Said
When you find out you’ve been the side chick to an Apple Watch Wife all along :(| That's What Xu Said
Photo/painting hybrid from Sun Jun’s “Classic of Tea” collection, which inserts models dressed in contemporary fashion into traditional calligraphy settings. This series is based on 茶经, the first book about tea ever.| That's What Xu Said
latenightseth: Sorry, Kumail. Signed, America. The first photos my dad sent back from America were of him at the mall around Christmas time, so my belief that the US was just a giant Disney World was completely unshakable until I got here.| That's What Xu Said
This is damukare, a new style of curry presentation in Japan where the rice is used to build a damn that separates the wet curry from ingredients that need to be kept dry. This one’s the most architecturally impressive example. It looks like the wall from Game of Thrones! IT HAS A FLOODGATE! Thanks Tina for bringing this into my life!| That's What Xu Said
wechatvids: The one that inspired the account. If you know where this video came from (or had it sent to you earlier than the date posted, please let me know! I’d love to track down the original creators of these amazing videos. I’m ripping all the videos that come my way on WeChat and posting them to Vine / Tumblr for your viewing pleasure, starting with this one. If you see any good ones, please pass them my way on WeChat (chrysaora) or upload them yourself and tag with #wechatvids!| That's What Xu Said
