Thank you for those who come visit every now and then. You know who you are.
Tony Blair came over to the States and did a joint press conference over at the Rose Garden at the While House. The guy is really eloquent especially compared to our President here. Too bad, if not because of Iraq, he probably would have come down in history as the smartest politician in modern history. The guy has this English kind of horsey good look, well at least we have Bill Clinton both are slick and smart.
Hong Kong is getting stupider every day. The CU Student pornspaper is much ado about nothing. I don't know about you but to quote series pornographer Picasso, "Good taste is the enemy of creativity." Plus who's to say that it's bad taste to talk about incest and bestiality in a school paper. Art and literature or supposedly art and literature in a scholarly environment is not meant to make everybody comfortable and feel good, it's not like it has to serve that purpose. It's not prime time TV entertainment. On the contrary, I think art and literature are supposed to challenge and reflect the kind of life that we are living, and in this context, the ubiquitous media coverage of sex and online porn. I don't see anything wrong for the university students to explore, exploit and even make light of the topics whether for pure entertainment or literary purpose. The media shit storm is just unreal. If one can't even be a bit liberal in a university environment I don't know where else can.
Pop artist Andy Warhol's Green Car Crash sold more than $71 million, a record.
Online ad agencies are hot. Traditional media companies are in a shopping spree. WPP, world's second biggest ad agency is going to buy 24/7 Real Media for $64 million, sort of a response to its frenemy Google which plans to pay $3.1 billion to acquire DoubleClick, another online agency. Microsoft is in a buying mode as well, it just announced that it is going to buy aQuantive for $6 billion. Publics Groupe, a France based global ad holding company is ahead of the curve, last year it paid $1.3 billion for Digitas, a leading online agency. Who would have thought Google turns out to a big threat to traditional ad companies? It's estimated that US online market can be as much as $40 billion as more print, radio and TV spots are moving online.
Hong Kong Shanghai-born director Wong Kar Wai is making his English language feature debut in Cannes. Blueberry pie is definitely not as Americana as apple pie is. Hope he is not making a distorted Americana, one that is embarrassing and too exotic as he himself has accused other foreign directors' take on Chinese.
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Yo, Blair!
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期待緊王家衛的新戲上畫!
ReplyDelete黎兄除左攝影, 對電影興趣都幾濃厚架喎...
王家衛既電影好少人頂得順, 因為據情單薄, 淨係張曼玉買宵夜已經令到旺角觀眾喊打!
王導演主攻情調, 我欣賞佢電影入面既「氣氛」, 早期既重慶森林, 後期既花樣年華同2046, 都帶畀部份「較岩頻道」既觀眾一種興奮。
唔知 Blueberry Pie (?) 會係一套點既戲呢?
George:
ReplyDeleteTong won't come here. He got better things to do.
bye George.
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Movie is easy, you just sit there and enjoy, much easier than reading. Photography is harder, you need to do it. I can't think of anything more passive than watching movie.
I like WKW's Days of Being Wild, Chung King Express and Happy Together. Blueberry probably would still have his signature themes like time and unrequited love (and beautiful people). We'll see.
I hope this is not yet another Vivendi Universal kind of phenomenon. The company [now called Vivendi SA] disclosed a corporate loss of €23.3 billion in its 2002 annual report, the worst loss to date for a French company. Amid intense media scrutiny, its chairman and CEO, Jean-Marie Messier, who had overseen the most dramatic phase of the company's diversification, was subsequently replaced by Jean-René Fourtou. The series of unfortunate events brought about the downfall of the Seagram Company Limited empire.
ReplyDeleteAs to the CU student newspaper saga, it's hard to argue with public moral standard. In the spirit of academic independence, the university administration could've turned a deaf ear to public criticism and let the student body continue with what they've been doing. But since the school has decided to take possible disciplinary action against the student editors, there's no turning back now. The point of no return has passed.
The student body is on its own and needs to do what they think is the right thing to do or is in the best interest of the students as a whole [or of the student editors], and yet they'd better be prepared to face the possible consequences and ramifications arising from their collective decisions.
Here is my take on the subject.
ReplyDeleteI don't even understand why on earth the paper has to subject to all the scrutiny. Why waste the resources? Who got offended? The students want to jerk themselves off by penning porn that's fine with me as well. Look at other newspapers, widely circulated ones, don't they have porn as well, why target the CU newspaper, what for, it's only a newspaper circulated within the campus, am I right? At least they can pretend it's for literary and academic discussion. The charges land against the CU paper is totally off base and arbitrary and a waste of resources.
now I am watching the TV about the Director Wong's first English Language Moive, HK media were targeting at Zhang Zhiyi's white man boyfriend, this bitch seems more interested in white man, or all kind of man with power. Actually I am not too much interest about those moive. But last sunday I watch a Singapore movie for free, "Just follow the law", with Singlish and Singapore Style manadarin, not too bad
ReplyDeleteEnjoy whatever you are watching Mr. wp2006.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I heard from my colleagues because I'm uninterested in this piece of news.
ReplyDeleteSome female students of CU [or perhaps some parents when the students told their moms and dads about it] and now some CU alumni and some nosy citizens after it became news got offended.
It's a storm in a teacup.