The Chinese New Year , which in the literal translation means the holiday of spring . It is read by the longest holiday in China. Each New Year is associated with one of the 12 animals and one of the five elements. 2012, the year falls for the year of the dragon, which symbolizes courage, prosperity and mutual assistance. One of the most important traditions on this day is the ignition of fireworks, which, incidentally, originates from superstitions.

Disney studio shared her shots from her new animated 3D project called “Ralph-destroyer” where it will be about video games. The main characters of the cartoon will be the inhabitants of the video game. For example, the same Ralph-destroyer is a villain from the forgotten Arcade of the 80s, who only knows how to break everything in his way. To return the former popularity, he is hired into a new game - a modern first -person shooter - where he will try to become a real hero.

Report from the presentation of the album in “16 tons” and an interview with the band leader Misha Ostrovsky On the night of February 3-4, a bright sound and visual event took place at the “16 Ton” club - the presentation of the first album of the Beat-Off-Silence group “Electric Tape”, a project playing indie-dance/synth-pop and which has already become one of the most interesting phenomena on the modern stage.

Damon Albarn's next supergroup, Rocket Juice and the Moon, which also includes Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and drummer Tony Allen, has finished working on its first album. The album will have the same name as the band and will be released on March 12 via Albarn's Honest Jon's label. The recording will feature Erykah Badu and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Here you can listen to the band playing one of the songs from the album in concert last year.

A couple of weeks are left before the Oscar , but now the nominees are ready to pose in front of the photographers. And all together. All nominees (including the technical section) gathered in the 84th Assistance Award to make a common group portrait. Everyone was free to get up of his own free will, with whom he wants. So, for example, George Clooney decided that he was most pleasant to capture with Jean Dyujarden . Find the one you are for!

Beginner designer Olya Kurishchuk told Look at Me about how to enter the Central Saint Martins and what to study there LOOK At Me continues to talk about the fashion industry and design from the inside in the section “Personal Experience”. We publish the story of a novice fashion designer about studying at Central Saint Martins in London.

Who monitors the development of this model knows that Adidas Decade has always competed with its impenetrable popularity with the Jordans. And all the more pleasant discovery for lovers of Adidas will find out about the new product. She, as well as possible, emphasizes all the nobility of the Adidas brand, using the classic colors of the retro model 85 OG in the novelty. And certainly snow-white high, high, with a blue-red color, will attract the delightful glances of passers-by.

Tested on Animals - a stream about people who know the best places for giving extreme sports. The authors will share their experience and talk about how their hobby began, how to choose, what to ride, how to develop in their favorite business, how to find new places for travel and what kind of music to listen. The project with the support of headphones for Philips O'Neill sports.

In Russia, a creator was opened - an interactive creative agency. Interactive The creator actively combines the work of the full -time employees of the agency with crowdsourcing, striving for the maximum use of all the new opportunities that the Internet provides for the organization of the work of the XXI century creative agency. Creative The main area of ​​activity is creator, the development of original advertising ideas, concepts - creative advertising.

If at home a couple of X -ray snaps were lying in at home, then do not rush to throw them away. Give them the opportunity to find a new life as the English designer Hugh Terwi does. Terwi, a student of the famous English photographer Girid Mankovitz and one of the world -famous designers, has been creating color “X -ray” images of ordinary household items and gifts of nature for several years. It includes numerous exhibitions and exhibitions, the development of prints for cinema and commercials.

Welldone has prepared a special camerabook. It included things from Public, Carhartt, Elvine, Addict, Edwin, Penfield, Pointer, Boxfresh, Hub.

What do you know about Indonesia? First of all, Bali immediately comes to mind - ocean, surfing, sun, sand. But this is far from all, in the country there really is a lot of interesting things. To understand all this abundance of information, Pososhok.ru , one of the leaders in sales of air tickets and hotel reservation in Russia, allocated 10 main reasons to visit Indonesia.

An interesting project: people from different parts of the planet say the same phrase to the camera: “Take it and travel!” - each in their own language. The project lasted a month, with people sending in videos shot on phones and amateur cameras from places ranging from Mexico City to Nagasaki. The result of joint efforts turned out to be quite nice. The video project was organized by the new Internet service Berry Travel . This is a travel planner that shows the real cost of tours.

Puma Social Collection Autumn/Winter 2012: 'Dedicated to teammates' This season, the brand reveals the theme of Puma Social campaigns and night athletes, glorifying “teammates”. The campaign of the Autumn/Winter 2012 collection emphasizes unexpected opportunities for unusual players to use unexpected skills to create a “night athletes” team.

"It is difficult to describe what you feel when students vote, leave a professor or rector at school or not" Look At Me continues to publish the impressions of young people who achieve something themselves, under the section “Personal Experience”. The young photographer and artist Alexei Vanyushkin, who lives and is now working in Germany, studies in one of the main art schools in Europe-Staedelschule in Frankfurt.