How is 2017 treating you lot hence far? Jan is ever a skillful fourth dimension to verbalise well-nigh goals together with plans for the twelvemonth ahead, together with amongst all that happened concluding twelvemonth inward the world, approaching 2017 has been a piffling chip challenging for us (how has it been for you?).
That is until nosotros watched "Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang" (thank you lot Matthew McCormick for the recommendation nosotros flora on your instagram); a documentary out on Netflix which captures the locomote together with thoughts of Cai Guo-Qiang, a contemporary Chinese creative soul (now living inward New York) who has been exploring diverse mediums since 1986, only to a greater extent than specifically it's his fireworks (gunpowder drawings - that attain total the heaven amongst colorful smoke together with shimmering light) which attain got exploded him onto the Blue Planet phase (remember the Bejing Olympics Ceremony)? In this documentary, Cai's (pronounced "Sigh") locomote together with life's dreams are uncovered together with how he applies it to the Blue Planet stage, keeping his authenticity together with integrity inward check. It has us re-examining our ain work/ life goals together with forthwith inspiring us to accept on the novel year.
Photo past times Zhang Feiyu, Cai Studio
With that said, nosotros attain got been planning a few novel serial hither on the weblog for the novel twelvemonth which nosotros think volition endure inspiring together with can't hold off to launch inward the side past times side span of weeks. We attain got too been thinking dorsum on what inspired us to start the weblog inward the showtime house (almost 12 years forthwith - this March) together with nosotros await frontwards to hitting the reset push clit together with returning to a greater extent than or less of that essence equally nosotros await forward.
In the meantime together with for the weekend, if you lot don't attain got fourth dimension to sentry the documentary, nosotros locomote out you lot amongst Cai's explosion effect (below), nosotros flora for the opening of Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave exhibition at the Power Station of Art inward Shanghai from 2014. Sure to inspire! And if you lot postulate to a greater extent than inspiration, nosotros highly recommend "Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang" on Netflix. Happy Fri together with nosotros promise you'll bring together us this twelvemonth hither on the blog!
