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NFSWednesday: Play us a Song, You’re the Piano House

Apr. 13, 2011

funny real estate - China Brings the Music

No! You may not move into Piano House, for today is Wednesday and this house is Not For Sale. And perhaps not even a house, as I’m having problems tracking down information about it. More (not much more) here. Original story here. Amusing but awesome if you stop to think about it translation here.

Then I was curious about Huainan, the Chinese town where this building is located, so I went to a local site here, and learned that Huainan hosts this:

Imagine the stage is a boat, a boat full of joy and happiness down the wind and in full sail, at the time, this boat is drifting towards our energy resources city—Huainan, a place full of vitality and hope, as well as the earth abundant in treasures and experiencing the shift of four seasons. Who bears the weight of this boat? Its nearly 20 thousand live audiences, who are inspired by passion, and its Huainan people with the population of over 2.40 million who are confident of the future, meanwhile, it’s the 3000 guests in and abroad, and its over 500 business merchants, and the last but not the least, is the Chinese Bean-curd Cultural Festival.

Bean-curd Cultural Festival! Buildings shaped vaguely like musical instruments! Sounds like my kinda place! Or so I thought until I kept on clicking along through the website of the People’s Government of Huainan, as one does, and came to this:

I may have accidentally stumbled on to some web equivalent of a numbers station. I think it’s best if we all just slowly close our browser windows and pretend we saw nothing.

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Talk About a Wise Use of Space!

Dec. 15, 2010

By: Not Sara, Sorry

Michael Bay is getting all domestic on us with this new Transformers installment. NEEDS MORE ‘SPLOSIONS!

Found by: SilverShields

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NFSWednesday: One Studio, Over Easy

Dec. 15, 2010

*peck peck peck*

Wha’?

*crack*

What’s that sound? Awww… look! It hatched! It’s a 24-year-old Chinese architect, fresh from his $1,000 portable shell! Just what everyone needs.

Found by: Vivian. More here.

Loveliest comment, by NotBeenThere: You can tell he’s a college student, he’s shoveling out his dirty laundry.

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Chairturday! Lost in a Sea of Chair

Oct. 2, 2010

funny real estate - Lost in a Sea of Chair

Isn’t that always the way it is with Neapolitan ice cream? Someone scoops all the chocolate out, leaving nothing but the freezer-burnt strawberry and vanilla until someone gets really desperate.

Found by: Florian

Loveliest comment, by JMixx:  Apparently SOMEBODY forgot their sunblock! The sensible Chairs in the front applied their SPF 900 dutifully, but the ones in back thought to themselves, “Pssh! The Graduation Chairemony won’t be THAT long! We won’t be outside long enough to need sunblock!”

They won’t sleep very well tonight, but they WILL learn something.

funny real estate - Lost in a Sea of Chair

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Chairtuday! Roots.

Feb. 6, 2010

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Like so many who immigrated at a young age, Chair has always been curious about the land of Chair’s birth. Here, we see Chair taking in Hong Kong before heading off to the Pearl River Delta, hoping to meet relatives Chair left behind.

Found by: Sue

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You had the last box SX-70 film and you used it for this?

Jun. 24, 2009

Oh look — David Hockney needs a housemate.

(Found by Leila.)

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