20 Things You Don't Have to Buy for the Holidays

20 Things You Don't Have to Buy for the Holidays — Holiday Jumpstart

For 10 days at the end of October, Apartment Therapy wants to help you get ahead on the holidays. Together, we're checking off doable daily tasks to get one step closer to the effortless holiday season you deserve. Sign up now (it's free!) so you don't miss a thing.

Just because you need something doesn't mean it needs to be purchased. There are a lot of reasons to try your hand at DIY: It can be cheaper, less wasteful, and it's a heck of a lot more fun. A little crafting is a fun and festive way to spend an afternoon. And the satisfaction of finishing your project? Only matched by the glee on your face when you get to say "Oh that? I made that myself."

In the name of simple living, I think it would be fun if each of us committed to hand-making at least one thing this holiday season. And today is your day to get it going...

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Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Shunji Iwai’s Letters from Shanghai

Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a column devoted to exploring contemporary Chinese-language cinema primarily as it is revealed to us at North American multiplexes. The sneakiest major release of the year is surely the latest from Japanese director Shunji Iwai, whose new movie opens this Friday at a dozen multiplexes around North America courtesy of the distributor China Lion Film. Last Letter is Iwai’s first film made in China, and stars Zhou Xun, who starred in one of last year’s best films, Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come , which was also distributed here by China Lion. That he would be working in a new country is no surprise: Iwai is one of the more eclectic filmmakers of his generation: having started in TV and video in the early 90s before moving into film, he’s since made documentaries and music videos, science fiction films and anime, epics of modern alienation and ravishingly romantic odes to the wonders of youth and love. His last film, Chang-ok’s Letter , was an hour-long...

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House music for those missing the sweaty dance floor, psych-tinged lounge, industrial electro-pop and more new music Solomun: Home From Hamburg-based DJ and producer Solomun (aka Mladen Solomun), sweeping house track “Home” exists as an ode to the “sacred rooms” that were built for music. For those yearning for a sweaty, dark dance floor, this nostalgic and atmospheric banger offers some satisfaction—albeit in your own … COOL HUNTING® https://ift.tt/3dWfZe1 October 25, 2020 at 01:03PM

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