Shanghai - Your Weekly Guide to Online Procrastination

Chinese culture

Contributed by: andrewchin

This week we have: a preview of one of the headliners at the big Strawberry Festival going down this weekend, a look back at last year's X Games Asia highlights, your guide to watching NBA playoff games online, a disturbing graphic showing we're worth more dead than alive, a vintage Soviet arcade game, and an epic performance by 2Pac: non hologram.

Watch Blonde Redhead's 4AD sesDate: Apr 24th 2012 2:37p.m.sion

The Strawberry Music Festival makes its Shanghai debut this year and features sets from such diverse international and Chinese artists like Duck Fight Goose, Tahiti 80, DJ Spooky and The On Fires. Arguably the biggest name on the bill is New York City art-rock band Blonde Redhead who will be performing on Tuesday. The group has evolved from a noise rock group in the vein of Sonic Youth to a more subtle melodic act that's highly respected in indie circles. Catch a glimpse of what their set will be like with their hypnotic performance of "Here Sometimes" from their 4AD session.

KIA X Games Asia 2011 highlights
It's going to be a jam packed holiday weekend and there are lots of events vying to grab people's attentions. However, if trends continue, the KIA X Games Asia 2012 can expect to smash attendance records for the sixth straight year it has been held in Shanghai. Many of the world's top extreme athletes will be in the city performing crazy tricks but if you want to get extra hyped for the event, browse through highlights from last year's festivities including Zack Warden's gold medal winning insane triple tailwhip move during the BMX MiniMega Ramp finals.

NBA Playoffs
It's a busy sports weekend in America as well as the NBA playoffs start. While the abbreviated season was ...

2009 MU Chinese Culture Short Film 中国文化宣传片pt.1

2009 MU Chinese Culture Short Film A view on chinese culture shoot and edit at University of Missouri - Columbia shoot and edit by 薛觀輝Sit Kwunfai 张一鸣Yiming Zhang and 李俍予Liangyu Li directed by Liangyu Li 1. Chinese old instrument Guzheng performence by Yiming Zhang and Shadowboxing by Shuangyuan Du 2. Diabolo performence by Chris Chen 3. A short clip from 2009 MU Chinese Culture Fashion Show - Chinese 4. Beijing Welcom You 北京欢迎你MTV rework by Chinese students from UMC Since Yufei Liao and Szechwan guys' absent, the script was changed a lot at the shooting day but still fine. Thanks to everyone who was involved and made their contribution to this short film! This work is really bad from director's saying but it can be watch..... hope you like it.

Video Rating: 4 / 5