anyMeta 4.6.58 - Atom module 0.3.2 2017-05-11T17:04:30+02:00 http://www.couscousglobal.com/feed/atom/2601/en Related http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/298 2009-04-14T12:10:45+02:00 Copying fashion is not allowed <object width="407" height="306"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nawGAtoCd1A&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nawGAtoCd1A&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" width="407" height="306"></embed></object> - ARTICLE film http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/505 2009-04-14T12:08:19+02:00 I wanna look like the West <object width="407" height="306"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sGx9JxDpck8&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sGx9JxDpck8&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" width="407" height="306"></embed></object> - ARTICLE film http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/2543 2009-04-28T16:31:19+02:00 Beijing: Queen sea big shark at Mao's livehouse

This is a fragment from a show by the post-punk band Queensea Big Shark from Beijing, live at Mao's Live House on the 16th of august 2008.

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Chinese coolest Magazine 0086 latest issue has as a theme Happy. We like this. More about Gabrielles adventures click <a href="http://www.remarksfromafar.com">here</a> More about the magazine in our movie Ou Ning,

- ARTICLE text http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/1320 2009-03-18T17:17:53+01:00 Introduction: China <object width="407" height="306"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E1mAzSWaLL0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E1mAzSWaLL0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" width="407" height="306"></embed></object> - ARTICLE film http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/1775 2009-01-20T12:06:06+01:00 American election in Beijing

This article is written by our friend Gabrielle in Beijing. Thank you very much! Click <a href="http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/1777">here</a> to read the second article of Gabrielle

November 4th in Beijing. Where can I find some evidence that today is the day of the USA election? In Beijing, as Couscous already heard when we were here this summer, most people seem to have little interest in the upcoming historical event. As I search online to see if I can get any ideas as to where to start, I find a recent article on the website of Gallup about how most Chinese have no opinion regardinig the US election. (read here). Those Chinese that do have an opinion tend to prefer Obama. I decide to cycle to the US Embassy to see of there are any signs of the election taking place today. It’s a sunny day, with little wind and the one American flag I see, is hanging limply from it’s flagpole. In no way does there seem to be anything special going on. At the east entrance people are lining up to apply for a visa. I walk around the walled compound to see if there’s anything worth noting. Nada. Nothing. Just a tranquil moat around the building with sculptures floating in it. It seems to be business as usual. Across the street is the entrance to a rather grimy looking alley full of bars. One of the stalls next to the entrance is blasting hip-hop, which is really the only bit of Americana that I find today. A black hip-hopper doll in front of the stall window sports a t-shirt with written on it: Xzibit, weapons of mass destruction, rap wallpapers. Listen to some of the (obscene) rap coming out of their speakers here: Not a very spectacular report, I know, considering how BIG the elections are, and how many of you are following them closely. But here in China, the whole concept of electing is alien to most people, and that is one of the reasons they are n’t particulary excited about the event. - ARTICLE news http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/1777 2009-01-20T12:07:15+01:00 China and the USA elections November 5th 2008 in Beijing. We are 12 hours ahead of the East Coast of America, so only this morning we start hearing the first results. Thankfully I find a online CNN live video report that manages to stream fairly smoothly. The I-reporters all sound excited, the tone of the coverage is hyper. What will all these journalists do after the election is over? As the results start pouring in, it becomes clear that Obama is the big winner, and the reporters all rant on about how we are witnessing history in the making. Which is true, it is a big deal that America now has it’s first afro-american president. I’m sure that may people in the States, certainly my friends there, are extremely relieved. For now. But now of course the real work comes. After months and months (if not years) of election campaign coverage, which I must admit I was rather addicted to, things have to start really getting fixed. And what about Beijing? Well, I decided to go out and buy some papers to see. Sure enough, on the frontpages there are headlines saying: UNITED STATES ELECTS OBAMA HARVESTS VICTORY (mei guo da xuan obama huo sheng). OBAMA AMERICA FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT (obama, mei guo shou wei hei ren zong tou) In an effort to see what evidence I can find in the street of the election results I head to a street where I know they hang the newspapers for the Beijing people to read. (This used to be a very normal sight, on every street corner people could stand and read. Now these facilities are scarce, and used mainly by the older generation. I guess the young generation gets their news from internet, or just buys one of the many newspapers available at kiosks on every street corner.) These guys are reading one of the two articles that I found on the whole stretch of the reading gallery that are about Obama winning the election. And the Obama article was not the biggest headline on the page! Here’s the paper they’re reading, and as you can see, the Obama headline (the green vertical one) is not nearly as big as the top headline. The headline says: AMERICA TODAY ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT (mei guo jin ri xuan xin zong tou) - ARTICLE news http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/244 2009-04-15T12:03:26+02:00 Made or create in China?

Monique Mulder, founder of Mattmo creative desighn, travels back and forth to China. In these clips she hands out a piece of advice to the new generation of creative people.

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