Posts from — January 2008

Time.com has a recommendation of the five Asian acts to watch in 2008.

Sounds like an interesting range of non-clichéd styles from the low key digital composer, The Analogue Girl, to the diverse fusion of genres (rock, deep funk, soul, R&B, jazz and latin) offered by The Out of Body Special.

Find out the 5 Asian Acts to Watch in 2008

Thanks Lilian!

Technorati Tags: East Asian Music, music, The Analogue Girl, The Out of Body Special

More Japanese game show pranks - this time held in a library, where the contestants need to keep quiet!

This is a rather long clip, but if you see it through, you’ll watch a variety of things the contestants have to do, when they pick out an unlucky card, all while keeping quiet.

E.g. eating wasabi, being exposed to a balloon of bad odour, and having an old man take out his dentures and suck on your neck (eew!)

Technorati Tags: entertainment, game shows, Japan

Workers sculpt “Romantic Feelings“, which debuted at the 20th International Snow Sculpture Art Expo in Harbin of Heilongjiang Province, China, on Dec 17.

“Romantic Feelings”, measuring approximately 115 feet high and 656 feet long, is designed to be the world’s largest snow sculpture.

From Sun-Sentinel

Via Neatorama

Technorati Tags: 20th International Snow Sculpture Art Expo, China, Romantic Feelings, snow sculpture

Here’s a nice little collection of clips from some of martial arts film star, Jet Li’s back catalogue. If you’ve seen most of these films, its good to see them again for a bit of nostalgia.

Via AsianPopcorn

Technorati Tags: China, film, Hong Kong, Jet Li, martial arts

The blog Beautiful Newsmakers has compiled a list of the 69 most beautifully sexy East-Asian women of 2007!

They will reveal ten women each week over the next five weeks and at this moment, are at 59 - 69. Here are two of them Jocelyn Zen Yi Wang and Michelle Zen.

Keep updated on the list at Beautiful Newsmakers

Via AsianPopcorn

Technorati Tags: beauty, Jocelyn Zen Yi Wang, Michelle Zen, sexy east-asian women

Just came across this amusing trailer for a forthcoming animated film called Kung Fu Panda. It’s distinguishable angle is that it uses animals to depict animal kung fu styles.. No idea why this wasn’t done sooner!

Read on for the synopsis…

Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around… which doesn’t exactly come in handy while working every day in his family’s noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po’s dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five - Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey -under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu.

Po puts his heart - and his girth - into the task, and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.

Voiced by Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Ian McShane, Lucy Liu

Via AsianPopcorn

Technorati Tags: entertainment, Jackie Chan, Kung Fu Panda, Lucy Liu, martial arts

R Todd King visits the 2007 annual Ice and Snow World, a beautiful winter event in Harbin, China.

His photos show stunningly huge and complex ice architecture - pagodas, towers, churches, a massive Buddha, and even a restaurant.

During the night, they’re all illuminated from within creating breathtakingly colourful buildings.

See more photos below…

Technorati Tags: China, Harbin, Ice and Snow World

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This video clip shows a bizarre (to me) way of learning English. It teaches the Japanese how to react verbally when faced with the prospect of being mugged, in order to escape unharmed (sans property).

The subject matter is serious, but the approach is “entertaining“. Aerobic demonstrators bleating out the phrases (Take anything you want!) repetitively? Gotta see it to believe it…

Technorati Tags: entertainment, Japan, learning English