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Ju Duoqi is a Beijing-based artist who definitely works in an original medium…cabbage.
Five years ago, Ju started creating images of beautiful women out of the vegetable. Because cabbage has a bad habit of eventually rotting, Ju takes photographs of her completed works (which she sculpts using knives and toothpicks) and reconstructs them on her computer.
Check out some of her pieces below which sell for $2900-$4300 a pop. Art that makes you both hungry and horny…what more can you ask for?
40ish some years ago, many of our parents immigrated from Asia to the United States for a shot at a better life and greater opportunities for themselves and their kids. I think about my mom and dad and how scary it must have been to pack up what little belongings they had and move away from everything they loved and found familiar to the other side of the Earth. The language was totally different as was the food, the streets, the people, the sights, and the sounds. Talk about a scarier than hell life change. They had very little to no money but they ended up making it work. I wonder if I possess the guts and/or the balls to do something similar today…
How come they get all the cool stuff in Asia? A 215,000-square-foot “Chocolate Wonderland” theme park will open in Beijing on January 29. The park, which will be located near the Olympic Stadium, will feature an architecturally realistic chocolate Great Wall of China, life-size chocolate replicas of the Terracotta warriors and other Chinese artifacts made out of…yup, chocolate.
The chocolate items will be displayed in five temperature-controlled indoor venues and two outdoor facilities. But there’s just one problem which is why the park will close after April for a hiatus before re-opening on January 2011.
Who said it takes money to make money? My bootcamp instructor always told me; Work smarter, not harder. I think Li Ning might have had the same instructor. Wait Li wha? Ning who? LI NING man! Mister 6 time medal winner at the 84′ Summer Olympics. Present day, he’s known as the founder of Li Ning Company Ltd aka China’s version of Nike. Never heard of his product. Well it does resembles a hint of the Nike swoosh (hmmm). And while Yao Ming wears Reebok on every Chinese television, Li Ning has Chuck Hayes (Yao’s teammate) reppin his company.
Still don’t know him. Well, when you can’t compete with Adidas’ $80 million dollar bid to sponsor the Beijing Olympics, then just be the MAN in front of the entire world lighting the ceremonial torch to start the games for the price of…um…NOTHING.
