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Oscar Winners Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and Logorama Employ Autodesk Technology

By Itamar Medeiros | Published: March 19, 2010

For the 15th consecutive year, every Oscar-winning movie for Best Visual Effects was created with the help of filmmaking tools from Autodesk. Autodesk Digital Entertainment Creation software was also used to help shape this year’s nominees and winners for Achievement in Cinematography, Best Animated Feature Film, and Best Animated Short Film. Read More »

Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software | Tagged Academy Awards, animation, artist, Autodesk, Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Lustre, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Media & Entertainment, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Autodesk Mudbox, Autodesk Smoke, Avatar, California, Combustion, Computer, Computer graphics, Creativity, design, Development, Digital Environments, entertainment, Industrial, Inferno, James Cameron, Marc Petit, media, Media & Entertainment, model, Modeling, Oscar, Paul Kavanagh, SABRE, simulation, software, software platform, Star Trek, technology, Technology Development, visual effects | Leave a comment

China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: The Top 10 Consumer Trends Defining China’s Emerging Domestic Market

By Itamar Medeiros | Published: March 17, 2010

With total consumer spending increasing by nearly 15% annually over the past few years, China’s domestic market is in the midst of a boom. As the country’s middle class expands, companies that sell consumer goods are poised to serve consumers with a broader array of high-quality products. Read More »

Posted in China, consumer behavior, economics, trends | Tagged China, consumer behavior, market, Shanghai | Leave a comment

Watch the trailer of Academy Award Nominee for Documentary Short “China’s Unnatural Disaster”, from HBO

By Itamar Medeiros | Published: March 16, 2010

If you’re in China, you probably won’t be able to watch the Academy Award Nominee documentary “China’s Unnatural Disaster” from HBO, which chronicles the aftermath of the Sichuan Quake from the perspective of the grieving parents. You can — at least — watch the trailer here: Read More »

Posted in China | Tagged Academy Awards, China, disaster, media, natural disaster, Oscar, Sichuan | Leave a comment

Watch Bruce McCall’s “faux nostalgia” talk at TED

By Itamar Medeiros | Published: March 15, 2010

Bruce McCall paints a future that never happened — full of flying cars, polo-playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, “The Biggest Thing in All the World.” At Serious Play 2008, he narrates a brisk and funny slideshow of his faux-nostalgic art. Read More »

Posted in design, innovation | Tagged Amazon, artist, design, founder, Illustrator, media, New York, poster, Slideshow, speaker, technology, TED conference, work, writer | Leave a comment

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

By Itamar Medeiros | Published: March 14, 2010

Video: A Brief History of the GFW: Interlocals.net (via Global Voices) posts a video giving a brief history of .. http://tinyurl.com/yexpe4p #
Video: A Brief History of the GFW: Interlocals.net (via Global Voices) posts a video giving a brief history … http://tinyurl.com/yexpe4p #
http://twitpic.com/18a4oo – Moving out to Century Park: Things are so much "greener" in Pudong! #
Johnny Alf, a ‘Father of Bossa Nova,’ Dies at 80 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com http://tinyurl.com/ye6abzn #
Johnny Alf, a ‘Father of Bossa Nova,’ Dies at 80 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: http://tinyurl.com/ye6abzn #
TradersHuddle.com – Is Autodesk Breaking Out? | Trading Ideas: http://tinyurl.com/yhv9tft #
TradersHuddle.com – Is Autodesk Breaking Out? | Trading Ideas http://tinyurl.com/yhv9tft #
China’s Cyberposse: Internet users are hunting down and punishing people who have attracted their wrath. http://tinyurl.com/y8sxldm #
Living in China: Report Shows Severity of Pollution http://tinyurl.com/y93kq26 #
"Tron Legacy" http://tr.im/R9j7 #
Living in China: 85% of Chinese families can’t afford houses http://tinyurl.com/ye3ftv6 #
http://twitpic.com/17hnp3 – Living in China: 3 months after Christmas, we finally get a decent snow fall in Shanghai! #
RT @ChinaHush: Must thank the country before your parents http://bit.ly/c2O1IM #
Watch Xiao Qiang’s “China’s Digital Revolution” Interview for BBC http://tinyurl.com/yezbb57 #
Too bad "China's Unnatural Disaster" did not win the Oscar for Best Documentary Short… still worth watching http://tr.im/R1cZ #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07 http://tinyurl.com/yavkz5e #

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Living in China: Report Shows Severity of Pollution

By Itamar Medeiros | Published: March 10, 2010

China revealed that water pollution in 2007 was more than twice as severe as official figures. Read More »

Posted in China, trends | Tagged Asia, Beijing, China, clean, environment, environmental protection, Industrial, Living In China, media, Methodologies, Policy, pollution, Renmin University, Report, Statistics, US government, Vehicles, work, Yahoo | Leave a comment

Living in China: 85% of Chinese families can’t afford houses

By Itamar Medeiros | Published: March 9, 2010

According to Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), 85 percent of Chinese families can not afford housing expenditure, and house prices are much higher than their incomes. Read More »

Posted in China, economics, trends | Tagged China, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, economics, income, Living In China, real estate, Rural Area, Social security, work, worker | Leave a comment

Watch Xiao Qiang’s “China’s Digital Revolution” Interview for BBC

By Itamar Medeiros | Published: March 8, 2010

Xiao Qiang is adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual collaborative China news website. Here he discusses the Chinese Government’s approaches to the internet and the phenomenon of the “50 cent blogger”. Read More »

Posted in China, information technology | Tagged adjunct professor, BBC, Blog, Blogger, California, China, Chinese Government, Editor, internet, Labor, media, Web, Xiao Qiang | Leave a comment

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

By Itamar Medeiros | Published: March 7, 2010

China’s Cyberposse: Internet users are hunting down and punishing people who have attracted their wrath. http://tinyurl.com/y8sxldm #
China’s Cyberposse: Internet users are hunting down and punishing people who have attracted their wrath. http://tinyurl.com/ye6szpy #
Another session of my alergy treatment shots: Ouch! How many are there left? #
China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: U.S. destinations target affluent Chinese tourists http://tinyurl.com/yzs8xrb #
Living in China: at the wake of Shanghai World Expo, lack of services in English still a challenge http://tinyurl.com/yg2oyd4 #
Autodesk SketchBook Mobile Surpasses One Million Downloads on the App Store http://tinyurl.com/yc5l6a6 #
How To Convert A Flatbed Scanner Into A Powerful Camera http://tr.im/Qm1f #photography #hacks #
RT @smashingmag: Alloy: UI metaframework that provides a consistent and simple API for building web apps – http://bit.ly/cFvHSc #
China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: energy security pushes China into Wind Power http://tinyurl.com/y9kc3hv #
RT @vickytnz: What Magic Can Teach Us About Empathy http://bit.ly/9R0xBK #ux #empathy #Gel2009 #
Just became part of the User Experience community. Join me here: http://mrtweet.com/community/user_experience?v=jt #
Just became part of the Designer community. Join me here: http://mrtweet.com/community/designer?v=jt #
For the Portuguese speakers: "Brazil com z", por Ivan Lessa, Colunista da BBC Brasil http://tr.im/Qe8Y #
RT @shanghaiist: Shanghai smoking ban starts… today! (As effective as the ban on fake goods!) http://tinyurl.com/yffpnzc #
Architecture & Urban Planning in China: the top 10 fast-developing cities in 2009 http://tinyurl.com/ykssmdt #

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: U.S. destinations target affluent Chinese tourists

By Itamar Medeiros | Published: March 5, 2010

Hawaii, California and Las Vegas are among American tourist destinations vying fiercely for a vast and largely untapped new market segment: the Chinese tourist. Read More »

Posted in China, consumer behavior | Tagged America, author, behavior, Beijing, California, China, Chinese Cities, consumer behavior, Economy, entertainment, Expo, Governor, Hainan, instructor, japan, korea, Las Vegas, Macau, Marketing, Paris, population, President, Regions, restaurants, retail, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo, tourism, United States | 1 Comment

Thoughts on Design, Technology and Culture

Oscar Winners Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and Logorama Employ Autodesk Technology

China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: The Top 10 Consumer Trends Defining China’s Emerging Domestic Market

Watch the trailer of Academy Award Nominee for Documentary Short “China’s Unnatural Disaster”, from HBO

Watch Bruce McCall’s “faux nostalgia” talk at TED

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

Living in China: Report Shows Severity of Pollution

Watch Xiao Qiang’s “China’s Digital Revolution” Interview for BBC

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: U.S. destinations target affluent Chinese tourists

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