work: March 2008 Archives

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.

"Chinese Maza Bling Baby... Jello, Famas Western Delicacy." This actually is one of my favorite commercials. I still remember that day where I watched in John Evan's Class and laughed really hard about it. Despite its over the top racial connotations, it's one of those rare moments where I think the intention is possitive. It's to make a Chinese baby look cuter than he already is. A message to Chinese people, our Chinese babies were actually considered cuter than western babies once upon a time. Not the other way around like now in China.