Posts Tagged ‘tv’
Up in flames.
On the last day of Lunar New Year festivities in Beijing, a major new building burned from the ground up. Designed by architect Rem Koolhaas, the building housed a hotel, cultural center, and CCTV’s new headquarters. The images of the flames are kind of incredible.
Apparently this was built last year for the Olympics as [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, controversy, olympics, tv
Guilty pleasure.
I’m really excited about the Sex and the City movie and feel a bit embarrassed about it. It’s partly because the show is so unrealistic about living in New York and also because I feel strange relating so much to a show that is absolutely not targeted towards me, a 20-something Asian female. Perhaps it’s [...]
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Tags: film, irksome, japanese, media, tv
That questionable ad with the Chinese-accented panda couple has been taken off the air after viewers complained. Bye bye, Ling Ling’s Bamboo Furniture Shack.
From the NYTimes article:
Vinod Gupta, the chairman and chief executive of InfoUSA in Omaha, the parent of Salesgenie.com, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that a commercial featuring two animated pandas speaking [...]
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Tags: chinese, irksome, media, pandas, south asian, tv
