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sifu-kisu:

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baelor:

the world of avatar

full size map (3600x1844)

This is really cool :D

Feels like, though, as if there’s a missing continent, or the planet needs to be smaller. Would explain their ability to jump 5 feet straight up if it were. LOL low gravity XD

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tastysynapse:

Korra Harlem Shake by Sherbeeee

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viva011:

korraskorner:

korraphilia:

march 29th

so far away

and yet

so close

wait so does this mean Korra is not coming out in April?! :(

It probably means it’ll come out mid/end of April? Last year when Korra came out I’m pretty sure the release date/official trailer was released early/mid March and we got the first two episodes the end of March because of that contest, but it didn’t officially come out until April 14th.

So my guess is end of April. 

Mixed feelings. So many mixed feelings ):(

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Chinese Art: More free Chinese art ebooks from the Met:...

chineseart:

More free Chinese art ebooks from the Met:

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/Cultivated_Landscapes_Chinese_Paintings_from_the_Collection_of_Marie_Helene_and_Guy_Weill

…

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The Southern Air Temple - Longmen Grottos At the Southern Air Temple we see, at the airball field, window-like structures carved into the mountain. Those windows are not part of a housing complex, they contain Buddha statues and are a reference to the Longmen Grottoes in Henan province, continuing the Air Nomads — Buddhist Monks parallel.  The Longmen Grottoes  龙门石窟 (Dragon’s Gate Grottoes) are one of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art and listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. There are as many as 100,000 statues within the 1,400 caves, ranging from an 1 inch (25 mm) to 57 feet (17 m) in height. The area also contains nearly 2,500 stelae and inscriptions, whence the name “Forest of Ancient Stelae”, as well as over sixty Buddhist pagodas. Also: Another dragon joke. View high resolution

The Southern Air Temple - Longmen Grottos

At the Southern Air Temple we see, at the airball field, window-like structures carved into the mountain. Those windows are not part of a housing complex, they contain Buddha statues and are a reference to the Longmen Grottoes in Henan province, continuing the Air Nomads — Buddhist Monks parallel. 

The Longmen Grottoes  龙门石窟 (Dragon’s Gate Grottoes) are one of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art and listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. There are as many as 100,000 statues within the 1,400 caves, ranging from an 1 inch (25 mm) to 57 feet (17 m) in height. The area also contains nearly 2,500 stelae and inscriptions, whence the name “Forest of Ancient Stelae”, as well as over sixty Buddhist pagodas.

Also: Another dragon joke.

bryankonietzko: EDIT: Hiroshi Sato’s character design was definitely very deliberately inspired by and modeled after Theodore Roosevelt, but also this guy, Goto Keita, a Japanese industrialist who seemed to have the same stylist as Teddy. 2ND EDIT: Oh yeah! And this guy’s stache. Not Ford. View high resolution

bryankonietzko:

EDIT: Hiroshi Sato’s character design was definitely very deliberately inspired by and modeled after Theodore Roosevelt, but also this guy, Goto Keita, a Japanese industrialist who seemed to have the same stylist as Teddy.

2ND EDIT: Oh yeah! And this guy’s stache.

Not Ford.

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chinesecool: toilet waterfall The wall, named “toilet waterfall”, was created by Wei Hua, a ceramist and professor with Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Wei said he made the wall as a gift for his future wife with 6,000 roses in the toilets in the shape of a heart. Would you marry this guy?? Yeah, would you? View high resolution

chinesecool:

toilet waterfall

The wall, named “toilet waterfall”, was created by Wei Hua, a ceramist and professor with Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Wei said he made the wall as a gift for his future wife with 6,000 roses in the toilets in the shape of a heart.

Would you marry this guy??

Yeah, would you?

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Rebloged because of awesomeness. theworldofchinese: Of Tombs, Traps & the Intrepid! Be warned, for this is not the Chinese that your everyday salary-man or pen-pusher will be familiar with. That said, if you enjoy scouring backstreet antique markets for obscure treasures, you’re more than likely to come across a stall or two operated by grimy-fingered grave robbers… Read more in our new Adventure issue For a sneak peek at the hard copy of the magazine, check out PDFs of this issue here! Want more? You can subscribe right here.

Rebloged because of awesomeness.

theworldofchinese:

Of Tombs, Traps & the Intrepid!

Be warned, for this is not the Chinese that your everyday salary-man or pen-pusher will be familiar with. That said, if you enjoy scouring backstreet antique markets for obscure treasures, you’re more than likely to come across a stall or two operated by grimy-fingered grave robbers…

Read more in our new Adventure issue

For a sneak peek at the hard copy of the magazine, check out PDFs of this issue here!

Want more? You can subscribe right here.

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Anonymous asked: I feel like Mike and Bryan have overtly given the characters in LOK East Asian names so that in case a film does ever get made, there would be no questions about the ethnicities hahaha. (Whereas, previously, I felt the A:TLA names were more vague?) I.e. Asami Sato, I don't think you can get away casting a white or Indian girl as Asami Sato or Hiroshi Sato. o_o What do you think? Loving the details and you annotations of LOK so far.. <3

ATLA names are not vague at all. They did give most characters Chinese names e.g. Zhao is a distinctly Chinese family name, Shyamalan just chose to ignore that.

Example: Fire Nation Names: Origins

Fire Nation names can be sorted into six groups of origin:

Chinese, Japanese, both, questionable, other/fantasy land and words that sound like Japanese words, but are not.

Since I do not speak Japanese, obviously that portion was not done by me. My thanks go to my friend Nele in Kyoto.

This collection of Fire Nation names was taken from the Avatar Wiki.

The hands down majority (21 Chinese to 5 Japanese) of Fire Nation names have a Chinese origin.

Chinese: 21

Japanese: 5

Both: 1

Questionable: 14

Other/Fantasy Land: 17

Words that sound Japanese, but are not: 7

Chinese: Names that are obvious puns like the name of the dragons and common (family) names. Please note that there are several ways to romanize the characters and that sound matters more than spelling.

Japanese: Names that are obvious names or puns in Japanese. Since I do not speak Japanese the lovely Nele in Kyoto helped me out here.

Both: Some names, like Mai, are used both, in Chinese and Japanese (and a couple of other languages) but since this is an Asian centric universe I will not include, say, the German meaning of said name.

Questionable: Names that can be tweaked to be a name in either Chinese or Japanese. I am trying to stick with what is actually there in the source material and not what I can make fit. So these names got their own category.

Other/Fantasy Land: Names like Ursa, Fang or Azula, which are either derived from neither Chinese or Japanese or belong in High Fantasy.

Words that sound Japanese, but are not: Pretty much what it says. Words that could be Japanese, but are not i.e. are only mimicking the sounds without any meaning.

Chinese:

Bujing
不敬 is a pun meaning: Disrespectful

Chan陈
Family name

 Ding 丁
Family name

Fat 法
law

Piandao
騙到 to trick
pun: dao can also mean knife/sword 刀 

Jee计
Family name

Jeong Jeong煚煚
Fire Fire

Kwan宽
Family name

Lee  力/离/立/里/李
these, and more, are family names pronounced ‘Lee’.
Liang梁
Family name

Mai 美/梅
Girls’ names

Ming 明
Family name

Qin Lee勤力
hardworking

Qin钦
Family name

Ran  and Shaw
燃烧 to combust
燃 to burn
烧 to roast


Zhao
着 to burn
赵 Family name

Ty Lee太力
great strength

Yao 姚/幺/摇
Family name

Mung
孟 Family name
梦dream/to dream

Shu (Fire Nation general)

束Family name 

Japanese:

Hide

Shinu
(means  ‘to die’)

Sho

Shoji

Roku (means six, transcript, deer, good, reward depending on the character)

Both:

Mai

Questionable

Ozai -both

Lin Yee - Chinese

Chey - Chinese

Ham Ghao - Chinese

Lu Ten - Chinese

Yeh-Lu - Chinese

Shinu - Japanese

Sho - Japanese

Tom-Tom Chinese

Shoji - both

Lo and Li - Chinese

Ta Min - Chinese

    Kahchi - Japanese

Other/Fantasy Land:

Azula (Spanish and Portuguese for Blue) Thanks 2bpencil

Azulon (Spanish and Portuguese for Blue)

Chit Sang, Ilah, Iroh, Fang, Malu

Mongke - Möngke is the name ofGenghis Khan’s grandson. (Thanks darkpuck)

Shinu

Ursa
Latin: bear

Ogodei - Mongolian name of Kublai Khan (I totally missed that, thanks 2bpencil!)

shyu (Just got note from Nele that this got accidentally missorted. It is not Japanese after all)

Words that sound Japanese, but are not:

 Kaja, Kuzon, Ozai, Zuko, Sozin, On Ji

Note: Any name can be force transliterated into either Japanese or Chinese. This post is NOT talking about the transliteration of say “Zuko” into Chinese. Just because I can spell it in Chinese does not make it a Chinese name. This post is about names that are actual names and words.

Rebloged because Anon asked. Original post here.