Apparently this was floating around the internet a while ago: a YouTube/youku video featuring Hong Kong mega popstar Andy Lau entitled 德华成都演唱会怒打保安救歌迷 (Andy Lau attacks security at a Chengdu concert to save his fan). The video shows:
The fan clambering towards the stage with a bouquet of flowers.
The fan shakes Andy Lau’s hand, in the middle of a song.
The fan gets dragged off and mobbed by a group of security guards.
Andy Lau sees this, stops his song and jumps heroically off-stage towards the mob.
I can’t quite get a good read on this conference, it has a mix of design/branding/art/architecture people from all over, and the scope stretches across innovation, design and brand. It has potential, and isn’t egregiously expensive, and would be good to check out if you’re in Hong Kong then.
I was clicking through news portal Daqi and noticed this obviously fake yet incredibly evocative photograph:
The author is 麦田精灵 (wheat field fairy), and the picture seems to have been hand-picked from a non-Daqi forum: the 云南信息港 (Yunnan Information Port)’s photo sharing forum. The user profile doesn’t yield much information about the picture’s creator, except that she has contributed to over 20,000 posts on the Yunnan forum and that she can be reached at km@sina.com.
A Daqi editor picked up these photographs off of the Yunnan forum and created a feature out of it on Daqi’s new photo sharing section (大棋图海). In this section you can check out the original source of the picture (a feature which is actually often missing on other sites), comment on the picture (actually links to the original Yunnan forum), and vote on the picture in two ways:
送鲜花 = give fresh flowers
拍砖头 = hit [with?] a brick
So far, the votes for this set is 28 flowers to 2 bricks.
How is all this relevant?
This is another example of how China’s internet employs many content editors or seekers to discover "hot" content to bring it to main portal sites.
The trackbacks (being able to find the original post) is a sign of a maturing internet, in case this, at Daqi.
American sites would use a thumbs up/thumbs down rating system, but the Chinese version is more graphical, and has more personality — it’s entertaining, just the way most Chinese people like it when it comes to the internet.
More importantly I wanted an excuse to share the following, which I found on the Sanrio Digital blog. It is possibly the most adorably-Japanese thing I’ve seen all week (though you only need to watch 30s of it):
OK. This is just…where things are going. Ten minutes of nasty American pop music, teenage hormones, voyeurism, and sheer curiosity, raging in broken English. From an Internet cafe in China to a bedroom in some (I’m guessing) Eastern European country. "You make me vidio/I kill you" and "I have this photo in my home. You give me." They make plans to talk on 56.com. Where does the music come from? How do they know each other?
A 7-minute video of a year-long ad campaign 可口可乐365快乐天（Coca Cola 365 Days of Happiness), created by McCann Worldgroup’s Hong Kong Branch (香港麦肯广告). It’s an interesting case study of what advertising/marketing looks like in different mediums (or as some may call it, “multi-channel marketing”).
Warning: The "trendy" beat in the video drove me nuts.
The Third Chinese Bloggers Conference was held in Beijing yesterday, Nov, 3. Around 200 people took part in the first day event. In the two-day conference, they are going to discuss and share different opinions about various topics, such as: SNS and the First Life; Wiki in Mainland China; The Chinese Bloggesphere in western scholars’ eyes and why they are wrong; Art 1.5, etc. There are many other interesting topics, which can be found here.
It seems that today Chinese users could visit YouTube again since it was blocked on Oct 14. It was really terrible when I heard YouTube was blocked half a month ago. Quite a lot of people considered that it was for the National Congress which was held from Oct 15 to Oct 21.
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