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Forbidden City is an experimental piece combining traditional Chinese cut paper and digital animation techniques, which unveils the unspeakable reality in contemporary history of China.
The scene is set in a serene, traditional interior of a teahouse near Forbidden City in Beijing. The thousand-year-old place looks seemingly steady, peaceful, where a cup of green tea is steaming under sunshine. The window panel, a metaphor of the boundary between social surrounding and individual’s inner world, is decorated with a popular Chinese symbol of “prosperity.” When the red “prosperity” is falling and music suddenly turns to inharmonious, another layer of facts is revealed – the vital confrontation between individual and authority, that is symbolized by “tankman,” the taboo in today’s China.
Toward the end of the film, everything becomes vanished, the blood-like substance transforms to steam turning back into the cup of green tea, and the auspicious “prosperity” character flies back to the window, which again contribute to the peaceful, harmonious atmosphere around Forbidden City. Only the covered facts are left for us, who happened to experience the incident first-hand, or whoever cares its social, historical effects on a global culture, to taste.
Formally, in order to create an aesthetic space where history and the contemporary encounter each other, digital animation techniques have been combined with traditional folk art form, Chinese Cut Paper. The static cut paper imagery then is transformed to moving images for multi-layered narratives. Our interest is to convey serious social and cultural significance associated with folk art, a distinctive form of human expression.. In Forbidden City, Cut Paper is referred to not only an ancient, auspicious symbolic art, but also adapted to propaganda needs throughout contemporary Chinese political life.
The music, composed and performed by American musician Williams David and Nicholas Thibault, is adapted from an ancient Chinese qin melody, Guangling San, which is regarded as a piece of classical “dissident art.”
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Taking on the absurd intricacy, the unique teapot by Cincinnati-based freelance designer Michael Morarity draws inspiration from steampunk to divulge the sham sophistication of the modern era through an art work. Featuring a temperature gauge, spout cover with release key and a percolation window, the steampunk teapot not only prepares tea for you, but also brings the elegance of the Victorian era to your home appliance. “Tea is inserted via the top ‘hatch’ and when the temperature is high enough, the release key that controls an internal seal is manually pulled and hot water percolates through, rotating the key as it does so.”
reminds me of a russian samovar
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Our friends at Attic tea have done such a thing, they have created the marvelous Tea Pouch.
Don't worry, you won't need to furtively enjoy some loose leaf outside on the fire escape, these pouches let you carry your tea everywhere, and it's socially acceptable to brew up anywhere, pretty much...
ATTIC is offering 15% off their pouches online with the code POUCH15 until 31/12/09 giving you time to get them before Christmas...
We love these guys
http://www.attictea.co.uk/
How are thy leaves so verdant...
We're not talking the obvious Cinnamomum verum, synonym C. zeylanicum (Cinnamon), but something altogether more interesting...
We normally blog about tea and creativity in preference to telling you about stuff we sell, but it's December and you may be thinking of what to buy the tea lover in your life, well there's plenty of creative tea ideas for you to choose from... official membership to the Tea Appreciation Society includes certificate with unique membership number, welcome letter, members only badge and sticker
Tea Appreciation Society's range of Tea, organic Tea-Shirts and Tea-Bags are available through our online shop http://shop.teaappreciatio
Oh Christmas Tea, Oh Christmas Tea
How are thy leaves so verdant...
It's officially winter (Northern Hemisphere)
A time for long walks and returning home to a warm fire and piping hot tea
Enjoy...
Huge thanks to Ed Schofield our official photographer
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Here it is for you now...
Animated look at the British obsession of Tea Drinking.
By Lucy Izzard.
Winner of the BBC New Animation Award 2005
Based in Cornwall in the UK we are often in the ocean, and when we're not, we're enjoying good quality loose leaf tea.
Because we are surfers there will often be an element of what we do, and write about at the Tea Appreciation Society that is connected to our surf culture, it's a culture that spans the world and there are many different elements to it.
We embrace creativity in every genre of art, music, tea drinking and wave riding. It is a broad canvas, and we will respect individuals and movements that paint on their canvas in any way they choose.
It’s all about Tea & Creativity
The world is a better place with both...
TEAm Rider Mr John Isaac (Revolver Surf Shop)
The drift surf magazine exhibition in Bristol on Saturday was a huge success, we started early on the tea, thanks to everyone at the howies shop for letting me make the brews ;-) it was good to catch up with you all again since my visit earlier in the year to talk at the wee do lecture about Tea & Philosophy, I'm sorry I missed Matt this time.
A big thanks to Howard and Angela from drift, we all enjoyed the good food and good Traditional English Ale
Here's a short film of the exhibition.
We're all looking forward to the next one.
drift surf exhibition 2009 from teajuana on Vimeo.
