First mobile phone call from Everest's summit

"It's cold, it's fantastic, the Himalayas are everywhere," Rod Baber said in the phone call from the top of the 8,848-metre peak early on Monday morning. The British mountaineer's achievement was made possible by China Telecom, which has set up a mobile phone tower at base camp on the north side of the mountain.

Dashanzi @ Arles

Arles, a beautiful medieval city in the south of France, each summer plays host to one of the longest running and best-loved photo festivals around. This year, Les Rencontres d'Arles as it's known, starts on July 3 and runs through Sept. 16, and features a wide array of contemporary photography exhibitions, slideshows, competitions, and educational programs, including the the Dashanzi [at] Arles exhibition. Highlighted photographers include Huang Rui, the Gao Brothers, and Rongrong & inri, in four exhibitions bearing on the output of the Dashanzi art district – also known as 798 – in Beijing.

Wang Ningde

"He captures the tension between an ever-changing contemporary China and the always-present memory of the Cultural Revolution", Goedhuis Gallery commented in the introduction to Wang Ningde. Yes, that tension is present everywhere in the contemporary Chinese Art. I wonder in how many years we can ever resolve that tension...

Apple iPhone from Fujian

Apple's iPhone won't be released until June. But Fujian Huamin Import and Export Company Limited is selling this iPhone (shown above) on its website. engadget calls it "Keepin' it real fake".