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Yellow Earth Theatre is a London based British East Asian touring theatre company, revenue funded by Arts Council England. I built their first website more than 8 years ago, and now, I’ve just redesigned and rebuilt their new one!

It’s now fully dynamic with a massive Archive section that contains photographs, videos and the synopsis of their past productions.

I’m quite proud of the site, so if you’re interested in theatre, particularly in relation to East-Asia, then please do click over and check it out!

YellowEarth.org

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Hundreds of video game fans have dressed as characters from their favourite games to set a world record.

A total of 342 gamers dressed as icons from games such as Final Fantasy, Zelda and Metal Gear Solid in east London as part of the London Games Festival. They narrowly broke a record of 337 set last week in Germany.

The record was verified by Guinness World Records at the Excel Centre in Docklands on Saturday.

Read more on the BBC website

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New restaurant Inamo, in London’s Wardour Street sounds like an interesting techie East-Asian destination for the night. It’s a restaurant that uses individual hi-tech ordering systems where you can click your choices to order.

You can also apparently, change the design of your table, see into the kitchen or play games!

See more on the Inamo Restaurant website

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A silica-gel sculpture called Communication by Cang Xn is displayed as part of the exhibition The Revolution Continues: New Art from China in the new Saatchi Gallery, in London, on October 6, 2008.

Via Activate.us

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The Red Mansion Foundation in London, is staging a dynamic group show that brings cutting-edge, urban Chinese art to the UK.

Called Down Town Production, the show is curated by one of China’s leading artists, Yan Lei who brings together eight rising stars of contemporary Chinese art whose work reflects the recent dramatic social and economic transformation of China.

It is anticipated that 70% of China’s 1.3 billion population will live in urban areas by 2035. At the end of 2002, records showed that China’s urban population totalled 502 million, living in over 21,000 towns and cities. Down Town Production is a selection of art that reflects and explores this dramatic shift.

The artists will give us a taste of China’s emerging popular culture, with works as such as ground-breaking L.A.S.E.R. graffiti by conceptual artist, DJ and rapper, MC Yan. L.A.S.E.R. tagging is the very newest form of graffiti art developed only a year ago and currently cropping up in cities all over the world.

The Red Mansion Foundation works to bring China’s contemporary art scene to the UK, discovering new talent and establishing an exchange program between London and China for some of the biggest names in contemporary art. Many of the works in the exhibition will be for sale.

DOWN TOWN PRODUCTION
An Exhibition of Chinese Urban Art
Curated by Yan Lei
23rd September – 11th November 2008

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The 4th International London Tattoo Convention happens from tomorrow until Sunday (26th - 28th September 2008). Its a chance to see all tattoo related stuff from around the world, in (my back yard) London. This Chinese dragon image from the website would make a bad-ass tattoo.

More on the London Tattoo Convention website

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The Asia House Festival of Asian Film brings an eclectic mix of the best of recent Asian cinema to the Renoir Curzon Cinema in London.

Asia House, in partnership with Curzon Cinemas, is proud to launch the festival, premiering works from South Korea, Singapore, China and India.

The films are all UK Premieres, starting on Friday 22 August with 881 (Singapore), and continuing until Thursday 28 August with SEVEN DAYS (South Korea), NIGHT BUS (Iran), THE PHOTOGRAPH and THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON (China).

More on the Curzon Cinemas website

Asia House

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Director/writer/producer Johnnie To, Hong Kong’s prime mover in the crime genre, returns with frequent creative collaborator Wai Ka Fai for a thrilling, complex and psychologically fascinating action-drama.

The idea of an outcast detective who uses unconventional and violent methods to crack cases may feel familiar, but To and Wai give it a fresh and exciting spin: their anti-hero Bun has the power to actually see the personal demons of those he meets.

Given one last chance to prove himself, Bun embarks on a case that requires him to use all of his very special methods.

Mad Detective
Director:  Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai
Hong Kong/China 2007
89 mins, Cert 15, subtitles

At the ICA, London, 18 - 31 Jul 2008

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