Twister: a.k.a. the B-Boy Jackson Pollock?

This is really conceptually cool. Would love to see the final product in person.  The b-boy's name is Twister.  Picked up from Artskills.net

The Luo Brothers- More from 798 district in Beijing

I have read about these guys back home in the states.  But to see their work in Beijing is somehow more meaningful.  They really take the piss out of it.  I love that all the work looks like ceramics, but is actually fiberglass.  With the crash of our western financial markets over the last 6 weeks--

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Damn--I didn't get the name of this artist!

This was a crazy light installation at the Mullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing's 798.  I'm pissed at myself, I didn't get the artist's name.  Very cool piece.  It felt like some mind control torture room from a Mad Max movie. So simple-- just a tight metal mesh, a projector and a series of lenses moving and shifting the focus of the projection.  I dig it.

Holy Saran Wrap mummy man!? A "798" performance art???

This is just one of the many random, impromptu performance pieces happening on the streets of Beijing, China.  Pretty bizzare--

Fire! Chen Ke's "Tiger Rabbit" at the 798 district in Beijing

I just had my first stroll the the 798 Art Zone here in Beijing.  It is wild.  I'd challenge it's one of the most exciting art districts in the world-- if not "the one".  To think that the most democratic phenom

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