Taiwan pictures up, click here to view. Comments are welcomed.
china: March 2008 Archives
Ex-collegues invited me to a field trip couple weeks back. Just got them back today.
View from the top of Houhai hill. The weather in beijing that day sucked, but the forbidden city still looked glorious in the smog.
View of the hill from the boat.
Former Ogilvy colleagues. Thanks Vivian Guo for the invite, I had fun :)
I'm absolutely infatuated with these brand new mega constructions in Beijing. Looking out from HP building and seeing the CCTV tower being finished, I wonder what's it like to work in there. Its a massive 550,000 suare meter development housing the entire porcess of tv program making. There's a second building cleverly named "TVCC" next to the tower, which you can kind of see through that "window" of the tower. It'll be a hotel and visitor center.
I personally don't have a whole lot respect for the station its self though. Its a massive bureaucratic entity much like China its self. Its channel idents are pathetic, CCTV logo is a knock off of CNN's, no consistency cross the board. For example, while CCTV news channel's identity being a spinning yellow+black globe. CCTV money / finance channel just plagiarized the ever so famous Sony Bravia "balls" commercial. Its a bunch of bouncing red balls instead of multi color robber balls going through a city.. and... they waited for traffic lights.
anyways, back to HP meeting, and for those of you curious souls that still haven't seen the Sony Bravia spot i mentioned, here is the link : http://bravia.sony.eu/bravia-html/balls-thead.asp
PS. from now on my polaroid pictures will be presented without borders.
