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Ten new cities are built every year? Out of control. I was just having a conversation about the economic bubble in China, as experience in Japan in the late 80s. It’s happening now. They build cities, malls, and the entire place is near empty. How’s this supposed to work?! Where’s the money coming from and where’s it going? Is it from a super imbalance of wealth? A billion dirt poor folks working for a handful of a rich? This video touches upon the economic future. What’ll happen when it bursts?
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$10.1 million that’s the new record for a contemporary Chinese work and done by one of the more familiar artists Zhang Xiaogang. His works look different these days, since this piece is an older work from 1988. Look familiar? His works are often portraits from his “Blood line” series and the only way I can afford one is to buy a bootleg on the street in China. Yes, they can be had at a low prices. The cool thing of the rising prices of Chinese art is that these days with the Chinese bubble economy, Chinese people are buying the highest end of art made by their fellow country persons.
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The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the UFW (United Farm Workers) Cesar Chavez day just passed and some of you might have had a holiday. Yes, he get a holiday, but what about the Pilipinos who were setting up the unions. In fact, the Pilipinos were setting up a protest (1965 Grape Strike) and then that’s when the Mexicans joined in. Larry Itliong looks bad ass in this and no one really knows who he is. I’ll admit at the Smithsonian Advisory Panel I tried to help at, his name came up a few times. Yes, I know some of the players, but I didn’t know who he was. Where was he in my history books? This doc should change that for some. Hope it gets to Netflix for the rest of the world. Here’s some more info here at multiamerican.scpr.org and more at the documentary Delanomanongs.com website! (That’s where I will credit the photo of Larry Itliong) The Delano Manongs from Media Factory on Vimeo.
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Most of the time, I can careless about this show, especially when they show hip hop artists homes that look like they just rented for the shoot (this would be called “frontin”). Manny’s house. Yes that’s real. I hear it’s in Hancock Park where Ali and George Takei lives.
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Amazing videos of the “Tsunami Dog” The pile of floating debris was found a mile off shore. No humans found, but how did the dog survive without water and food?!
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