Link About It: This Week’s Picks

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1. The Culture of Counterfeit Shanzhai refers to the massive counterfeit market in China, encompassing everything from imitation smartphones and sneakers to bootleg shampoo and Coca-Cola. With the sustained rise in consumer culture in China, along with the confluence of globalization and the internet, Shanzhai has recently begun to transcend commerce into its own culture—and even a form of art. In Chinese culture, copying is …

T Burnett’s Analog Aspirations

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With 50 years of professional experience and 13 Grammy awards (among countless others) on his shelf, T Burnett knows a thing or two about producing music. His recent collaboration, composing the soundtrack for the Coen brothers’ film “Inside Llewyn Davis,” has once again put him in the limelight and in an interview with Variety, the creative force speaks about the “sonic realities of the day” …

London’s SkyCycle Concept

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Over the past decade, cycling has exploded in popularity in London. Despite the city’s best efforts to allocate a safe space for bikers on crowded roads, accidents persist at staggering rates with 14 riders killed in 2013. British architect Norman Foster proposed a “cycle utopia” concept this week, dubbed SkyCycle. The lofty idea places 10 cycle routes above the city’s expansive train system with over …