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Tag Archives: Pop Culture
Imagethief movie minute: Wolverines, oil wells and balls of marine brass
For sheer surreality you gotta love Hollywood. And I’m not even talking about the films. Two PR-worthy Hollywood moments to remark upon today. First, the imminent arrival of the needless remake of cold war teen action flick Red Dawn has … Continue reading
Tagged China, Crisis Management, Pop Culture, Propaganda, Technology, Whatever
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Chinese Internet celebrities, forums and other lurid scandals
Two interesting articles today, both having to do with Chinese Internet culture, and both leading into an ethical question that came up in a conversation recently. The question was this: Is it OK to put out “viral” videos that embed … Continue reading
Tagged Business, China, Ethics, Internet, Media, Pop Culture, Public Relations
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I totally want to be there when Ultraman takes these guys down
I’d like to thank the London 2012 Olympic committee for creating mascots that actually make me nostalgic for the Fuwa: As near as I can tell, these guys are apparently the result of cross breeding the Teletubbies: With Ultraman’s archenemies, … Continue reading
Tagged Olympics, Pop Culture, Public Relations, Weird, Whatever
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Sinica Podcast 3: Talking Han Han and Ai Weiwei
The third Sinica podcast is online now. Hosted once again by Kaiser Kuo, this installment features me and Time correspondent Austin Ramzy (@austinramzy), with guest comments from Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei, Forbes Beijing bureau chief Gady Epstein (@gadyepstein) and Chinageeks … Continue reading
Shanghai has the BMW police cars, just needs the zombies
A couple of weeks ago I squeezed a meager few yucks out of a toy Chinese police car that someone gave my son that happened to a) be a BMW and b) feature the seal of the Raccoon City police … Continue reading
Tagged Expo 2010, Politics, Pop Culture, Rants, Resident Alien, Shanghai, Weird
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The zombie-slugging toy police car
Imagethief’s son, Zachary, turned two this week. I’m amazed we made it. By this I mean I’m amazed that Mrs. Imagethief and I made it. If the boy’s engine room telegraph is stuck on “full-speed-ahead”, Mrs. Imagethief and I are … Continue reading
Tagged Beijing, China, Parenthood, Pop Culture, Resident Alien, Weird
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What’s on TV?
Imagethief has a theory that at any given time, any given American cable TV system will be broadcasting an episode of “Seinfeld.” Admittedly, I tend to cruise the channels late, but that’s what I see. Recent travels have given me … Continue reading
Tagged China, Pop Culture, Singapore, USA, Whatever
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Seriously? They blocked IMDB?
Note: This is cross-posted from the old Imagethief blog. The original post is here. Imagethief is as annoyed by the Great Firewall (or Net Nanny or what-have-you) as anyone who lives in China and uses overseas social networks. One of … Continue reading
Tagged Censorship, China, Nationalism, Pop Culture, Technology
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Adventures in pyromania
So CCTV burned down their own hotel. That has got to look bad in the yearly evaluation. However, here is what I am pretty sure didn’t happen: I am pretty sure that they didn’t torch their own building for the … Continue reading
Tagged Beijing, Best of Imagethief, Pop Culture, Resident Alien
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If you’re angry about Guns’n'Roses surely it must be 1991
Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the Global Times, the nationalist tabloid cousin to the staid People’s Daily, which has decided to get indignant about the new Guns’n’Roses album, “Chinese Democracy”. It’s not that the Chinese people don’t have … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, Global Times, Media, Pop Culture, Propaganda
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