Tag Archives: Trends In Asia

International Street and Stencil Art Celebrated in Melbourne

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On August 1, Australia will host its 5th annual Melbourne Stencil Festival, featuring works by established and emerging artists from Australia and around the world. The 10-day long festival will showcase a wide variety of colorful exhibitions, artist live demonstrations, artist talks, panel discussions, workshops, master classes and street art related films.

Over the past four years, Stencil Festival has featured some 800 works by 150 artists including Logan Hicks, Kenji Nakayama, Broken Crow, Mephisto Jones, Sixten, and Australian artists Anthony Lister, Meggs, HaHa, Vexta amongst others. For many artists, it has been their first major exhibition and a launching point for their career.

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Beijing Taxi Cards

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What with the Olympics and everything, Beijing is also currently host to tourists from all over the world trying to navigate their way around a city whose street signs are sometimes nowhere to be found. With this in mind comes Beijing Taxi Cards, a booklet of 55 cards along with a map of the city that not only fit in the palm of your hand but can also be clipped onto your belt loop or key ring. The cards display the most popular attractions in Beijing along with directions written in Chinese and a phonetic pronunciation of the place in English. When hailing a taxi visitors can either attempt to pronounce the location or simply hand over the card. In a city with 70,000 taxi drivers where few speak English, this little booklet is a step in the right (or atleast a little less confusing) direction.

Beijing Taxi Cards