Compare to our competitors, my company is very late to the Olympics bandwagon. We don’t even have a channel dedicated to 2008, only a sub channel. The day before yesterday, one day before the 1 year count down, a VP mentioned that we ought to have at least a count-down clock on our home page. So the web team scrambled to get it up, a few hours before the start of the official celebration party on During the brainstorm on how to get on the bandwagon, I suggested that we leverage our global network: we could translate into Chinese content from other territories and call it “Laowais on Olympics!”—god knows how we Chinese treasure foreigners’ opinions—and feed original user-generated content, made here in
I thought the idea brilliant and the group considered it interesting—we have to differentiate ourselves somehow from our competitors who are bigger stronger and have started much earlier. So I did more research. Our
OMG, my idea wouldn’t work! No way the censors would approve “(disgruntled) Laowais on Olympics!” posted on our site. Come to think of it, no way either for foreign audience to enjoy “Live (but sanitized) from
Either we remain incredibly conventional and lose to the conventional but bigger competitors, or we could become incredibly innovative within the limits of being positive, prosperous and harmonious.
The question for the latter is—how?
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Greetings from NYC,
It is troubling to have your efforts thwarted, thoughts and dreams deconstructed, colored and reinterpreted by others. Still, it's all about how you channel those images. I am an artist / chef planning a trip to Beijing in the hopes of opening a small art gallery / cafe in the city. The concept; to create a thought neutral environment, where art and urban culture can fuse harmoniously (or not) in an attempt to manifest future platforms of expression. Am I being too vague, perhaps obtuse? Your choice of reading material is commendable although classic in nature. May I suggest; Guns, Germs and Steel [The Fates of Human Societies] by Jared Diamond, Simone de Beauvoir by Lisa Appignanesi, World Civilizations by (Sherman, Grunfeld, Markowitz, Rosner and Heywood) published by McGraw-Hill. These recommendations all share a universal concept of cultural self (Beauvoir; more gender oriented) forms of progressive expression and concept.
It is this type of sociocultural esthetic I am attempting to propagate in art and your input would br sincerely appreciated.
ethene-98560@mypacks.net
Live ( but sanitized ) from beijing.
Muahahaha.
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