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Doug Kanter at Beijing’s Midi Music Festival

The Midi Music Festival is sorta like the SXSW of Beijing, where bands from all over the country gather each year to rock out. Beijing-based photojournalist Doug Kanter did a series of portraits of concert-goers at Midi last year that is pretty fun.
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Tom Fun Orchestra’s Bottom of the River

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Cheeming Boey’s coffee cup art

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Pat said | 6 August, 2008

Pity the midi was cancelled/delayed this year. Not sure if it will go ahead this year or when. Last years’s was great.

david lowe said | 13 August, 2008

dude those midi portraits suck. it looks like an avedon wanna be white background but no emotion whatsoever

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Born in Seoul Korea, but now working out of Los Angeles, Ramis Kim creates mixed media pieces which explore idealized childhood memories and invented narratives in imagined landscapes. An MFA graduate from Cal Arts in Valencia, Kim paints film and TV backgrounds when not creating her own art. Her work will be seen in a group show of Little Paper Plane artists, curated by Kelly Lynn Jones at Tinlark Gallery opening September 13. Read more


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