http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog Get down on it. Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:38:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Get It Louder & Eat Up are now in Beijing. I guess predictably there's more media coverage here in the capital. We did interviews with Beijing TV and CCTV this weekend, plus a few events related to the exhibition. If anything funny results from it, we'll post it up... Any Pekingese ... http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog/2007/08/21/gil-beijing/ For Shanghai the organizers managed to get the tablecloth into more restaurants and cafes than in the GZ version. We couldn't make it, but the exhibition designer Liang Jingyu sent us a few shots. (Shout out to Jingyu. He's overworked and underappreciated...) http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog/2007/07/26/get-it-louder-shanhai/ Well, 桌志/Eat Up finally made its debut at the Get It Louder exhibition in Guangzhou. There were many bumps along the way, but in the end it's up there and people can check it out. From here the exhibition moves to Shanghai, Beijing, and Chengdu. Here's hoping it goes a ... http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog/2007/06/23/get-it-opening/ Making the tablecloth we've had help from two extremely talented friends. Both were former colleagues of ours at AMO, and both, with very little warning and minimal instruction, came up with great material, without which the tablecloth would have been a boring mess (if messes are boring, depend on your ... http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog/2007/06/10/lunchmates-jeroen-koolhaas-theo-deutinger/ An interview with Takeshi Ikeda, Global Village Beijing Highlights: Earth Day is more popular in China than in Japan. Recycling isn't enough. Everybody knows that plastic bags cause environmental damage. Advocating policy to businesses and government is more effective than promoting conservation among the public. I read in a magazine about the "Bye Bye Throw Away ... http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog/2007/06/02/im-not-advocating-protecting-a-polar-bear/ Jenny Wilson - "Let my shoes lead me forward" [audio:http://www.tablezine.com/music/letmyshoesleadmeforward.mp3] This week's jam comes from our man Ajoy Sahu, cobbler extraordinaire. Ajoy's one of main people behind Terra Plana a global footwear juggernaut that produces "Worn Again" a line of 99% recycled shoes and accessories. Salute! http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog/2007/05/30/tablezine-jam-of-the-week-2/ We finally got around to think about logos. Each of us made a proposal, but I won't say which is which. (But I will say that I think the one of the *left side* is too literal.) We'd really like to know what others think. Make a vote and tell ... http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog/2007/05/29/clash-of-the-titles/ Collecting material for “China’s Appetite,” we came across some information that didn’t directly relate, but nevertheless freaked us out. In the “statastics” section, we’ll highlight some of the best/worst things we found… 7 billion cigarette butts are littered by Australia's 3.7 million smokers every year. Cigarette butt litter accounts for around ... http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog/2007/05/25/statastic-03/ R Kelly - "Sex Planet" [audio:http://www.tablezine.com/music/17%20Sex%20Planet.mp3] Words cannot express. http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog/2007/05/23/tablezine-jam-of-the-week/ Last night, we went to Rock For Schools, a night of charitable drinking and dancing held at Durty Nellie's Beijing's premier Hong Kongese-owned Irish pub. The party was a fund raiser for the Xin Xin School, a primary school for the children of migrant workers in the northern edge of Beijing. ... http://www.tablezine.com/PRCblog/2007/05/21/tablezine-is-for-the-children/