:: I just came across Chinese multimedia designer Ray Lei (雪磊)’s latest work, titled City Mobilization, via his blog. The piece was done as a promo for the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture, and, as with anything Ray produces, it’s superb. For more fifty 5 posts about Ray Lei‘s work, link here. Bravo, well done. // AjS
:: a great 2D animation short titled 胡同的梦 (Hutong Dream) by Li Chao (李超), an undergraduate student at China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Li made this video as part of a Digital Media Workshop. Through a series of interrupted dreams, the animation shows a lonely old man’s blurred perception of reality as his monotonous life hurdles toward its end – death. Bravo, well done. // AjS
:: I recently re-discovered the work of Hutoo (北京互象动画, blog), a Beijing-based company that, among other things, creates superb 2D animations. Hutoo’s cartoons are humorous, full of post-1980 China nostalgia, and horrifically violent at every turn in the trials and tribulations of their bloody-nosed main character Kuang Kuang (哐哐). If you haven’t had a chance to enjoy any of Hutoo’s work before, I’ve shared an episode below titled Bombing Schools (炸学校, probably better translated as School Bombing). It’s hard not to love. Enjoy. // AjS
