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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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

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

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 [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

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! [...]

Living in China: Report Shows Severity of Pollution

China’s government unveiled its most detailed survey ever of the pollution plaguing the country, revealing that water pollution in 2007 was more than twice as severe as official figures that had long omitted agricultural waste [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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”.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

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 #
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: U.S. destinations target affluent Chinese [...]

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

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