Chinese artist Li Wei. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography. He is an artist and also a stunt man: he doesn´t use photoshop to create his illusions of reality; he uses props such as metal wires, scaffolding, acrobatics and mirrors. His performances look to convey his continual sense of lost gravity. [...]

Images by Zhou Fan, artist and illustrator from China “A series of my paintings is based on dreams that I had as a child of many many jellyfish floating in the sky, some of which fell to the ground on parachutes and became mushrooms. These dreams had a strong impact on me, and I remember them vividly. [...]

Says the You Might Like This Blog: “Hong Hao is a Chinese artist who likes organising and grouping things. In this photographic work “my things”  thousands of scanned images are arranged together on a massive scale. when placed on a black background they become micro universes; personal-size objects to create distant galaxies or river deltas [...]

(Click image to play Monocle Magazine reportage on Olympic architecture in Beijing.) (And this is non-Olympian structure in Beijing was made by LOT-EK, “the gurus of shipping-container architecture”, who are now mixing prefabricated and standard elements in their newest work. Sanlitun South, a soon-to-be retail building, uses 151 shipping containers and other reused materials; the [...]