anyMeta 4.6.58 - Atom module 0.3.22017-05-11T16:56:16+02:00http://www.couscousglobal.com/feed/atom/56/en?q_objectany=177%3A%3Aauthor%2C177%3A%3AactorSearch resulthttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/15252008-10-21T17:10:41+02:0021-10-08<p>So, what`s up today? Financial crisis? Still going on. Banks? Some balancing on the edge of bankruptcy, others have already tipped to other side and plummeted towards their demise. Governments are still rushing in to give them a financial flu shot......is that the right metaphor? Doesn't matter, never mind. Time will tell if this will be enough. Untill then: stockbrokers will be biting their nails. Glad i`m not one of them...</p>
<p>Anyway, our reporter from New York - Sasha - came rushing in (sort of) with a new clip. She interviewed New York citizen Ekere Tallie about the debates that have taken place between McCain and Obama and Biden and Palin. She poses a question at the end of the video. Perhaps a good one to verbally assault each other over that one. Be sure to check that out over <a href="http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/1521">here.</a> Other items included...for free! :-)</p>
<p>And last but not least, today's message is: coexist. Just click 'read more' to see what i`m talking about. </p>
<p>Love, peace and happiness to all!</p>
<p>PS<br/>
http;//www.twitter.com/couscousglobal</p>Tarikhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/177ARTICLEnewshttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/36942009-05-25T11:23:50+02:0022-5-09<p>Ok, let's draw an analogy once more. Perhaps it might me one of the last that I'll draw here, who knows. There's this left-wing politician here in Holland that once stated in an interview that he's an impatient man. And here's where your webmaster comes in. Me. Have I ever mentioned that I hate waiting? I don't think so but I do. I'm one of the most impatient beings in this hemisphere. I'm waiting for a package but it's not here yet. And it should have been here by now ya know. And I seriously need it....</p><p>The world spins on like it's supposed to and and you're living your life without any drama n stuff but every now and then society get's shaken by news that seems to strike like a grenade. Society in turmoil! It happened this week here in Holland when popular singer Jan Smit (I hear you thinking who the >>>> is that?!) was left by his girlfriend. She traded the guy for Wesley Sneijder, (do I hear you thinking again?) a Dutch soccer player. </p>
<p>Isn't it something that a simple event or a few words can start up such a, well...sh*tstorm? I've said it so many times already but aren't more important tings to talk about? Because to be quite honest and frank with you: I truly don't care that some famous - in Holland that is - chick traded her lover for some professional soccer player. I really don't! I do understand that some people might find this entertaining but I don't understand that the eight o clock news covers a story like this. Leave it to the tabloids, you guys (all you hard-news journalists out there!) are supposed to inform me about the major issues in the world! That's your job! Elections, political developments in my own country and foreign lands, elections, natural disasters..... Can we stick to that? Yes? Thank you! Very nice! It's your job to inform me about serious matters, if I want to hear stuff about so-called famous folk I'll buy myself a tabloid. Yeah? Alright. Cool. </p>
<p>Now that I've got that out of the way I'd wish I could write something like 'new video people!' Or 'Click here'. But I can't since I don't have anything new at the moment. For now. But then again, ya might never know what the future will bring. Hope it won't be something like "Jan Smit-was-left-by-his-girlfriend-gate" Not in the eight o clock news anyway. The package I spoke of earlier is the thing that has put society (that's a metaphor for me, your webmaster) in turmoil.</p>
<p>And it still hasn't arrived..... </p>
<p>And that sucks.</p>
<p>Have a good weekend.</p>Tarikhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/177ARTICLEnewshttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/19722008-11-11T14:09:19+01:0011-11-08<p>Ah! A big welcome to our latest member Fatima Kaatje. Let’s talk about the next hype we’re gonna start. The OTHER FOOTAGE which we shot in Miami and Amsterdam. ;-) Interviews with young republicans in Miama, emotional moments from Amsterdam and lot’s more. It’ll be online in a short while.</p><p>Speaking of election video’s: check out the new reports n stuff Sasha sent us from New York. Click <a href="http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/1872">here</a>, <a href="http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/1880">here</a> and <a href="http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/1120">here</a> for those. </p>
<p>Now! What else! We’ve pretty much blown up on Youtube with our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/couscousglobal">Steve Zacharanda/Adam Smith video’s.</a> Last week it was viewed 5000 times. Now, at the moment that I write this, it’s viewed 301,403 times. This is absolute madness. We’ve allready received nine honours; three of them are number one ratings. Check out the stats at the end of this post. </p>
<p>The story was first picked up by Media Monkey, a blog which is run by British newspaper <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2008/nov/06/pressandpublishing-digitalmedia">The Guardian.</a> Your’s truly exchanged a few emails with the people from the American network <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6213661">ABC.</a> They added it to their site. After that it started to lead a life of it’s own. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449091,00.html">Fox News</a> picked it up, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/drunk-british-reporter-vi_n_142121.html">The Huffington Post</a> picked it up, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084041/Drunken-British-journalist-covering-Obama-win-unlikely-YouTube-star.html">The Daily Mail</a> picked it up... The word was spread on sites such as Twitter and Technorati. </p>
<p>The story is developing a Mary-Shelley-monster-of-Frankenstein-esque kind of twist. Did we create a monster? Maybe we did. It has spread it's way around the web and apparently it seems there's no way to stop it. Media Down Under like <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/drunk-obama-journos-election-night-rant--a-hrefhttpmediasmhcomaurid43592bvideoba/2008/11/10/1226165441469.html">The Sidney Morning Herald</a> picked up the story. So have blogs like <a href="http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17527">p2p.</a> And so on, und so weiter, enzovoort, et cetera...... </p>
<p>Let’s see where this goes...</p>
<p>And the stats for today of course:</p>
<p>#43 - Most Subscribed (All Time) - Reporters - Netherlands<br/>
#7 - Most Viewed (Today) - Reporters - Netherlands<br/>
#86 - Most Viewed (This Week)<br/>
#43 - Most Subscribed (All Time) - Reporters - Netherlands<br/>
#7 - Most Viewed (Today) - Reporters - Netherlands<br/>
#86 - Most Viewed (This Week)<br/>
#5 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Reporters<br/>
#1 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Netherlands<br/>
#1 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Reporters - Netherlands<br/>
#32 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Reporters<br/>
#12 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Netherlands<br/>
#1 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Reporters - Netherlands<br/>
#10 - Most Viewed (All Time) - Reporters - Netherlands</p>Tarikhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/177ARTICLEnewshttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/11832008-09-12T09:52:29+02:00it`s the end..Tarikhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/177ARTICLEnewshttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/30602009-03-26T16:37:10+01:00Passion: Musicians of Tehran: part 1/3<p>This is the first part in a three part series of interviews we had with musicians from Tehran, Iran. In this part: Kiavash. Fiddler and member/co-founder of the Collegium Musicum Tehran.</p>
<p>Contains an excerpt from the song 'The Ladder In My Blood' by Scott Kelly and parts from several classical works (of which I don't know the name. Sorry bout that.)</p><p><!--[embed youtube 56C0JVzAQOE]--><object width="407" height="306"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/56C0JVzAQOE&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/56C0JVzAQOE&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" width="407" height="306"></embed></object><!--[/embed]--></p>Tarikhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/177ARTICLEfilmhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/15422008-10-22T17:56:05+02:0022-10-08<p>The title for today`s update: 'Voters and Coffee'. It might be a somewhat odd title for a news update but believe me! It makes sense. One certain company is jumping on the voting bandwagon since the presidential elections in America are less than two weeks away. This particular company sells cups of coffee for example. These days they`re selling it in blue and red cups: Blue for Obama, red for McCain.</p><p>Customers can fill up a cup with the name of their preferred candidate. People that don `t want to do this (perhaps you`re an independent voter) can use a 'neutral' one which carries the name of a well known soda brand. Well known in the west at least. </p>
<p>The number of red and blue cups that are sold are counted and an electoral poll is based on these figures. </p>
<p>A cool thing that the past has taught us is......that the number of sold cups of coffee (in percentages) comes real close to the actual outcome of the elections! Check out this article in Dallas News: <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-7eleven_29bus.State.Edition1.1adbf8f.html">www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-7eleven_29bus.State.Edition1.1adbf8f.html</a> They were pretty close in 2000 and 2004. </p>
<p>Anyway, I`m ranting for too long. Here`s the URL of the company I mentioned earlier: <a href="http://www.7-election.com/">www.7-election.com/</a> MMMMM. Coffee and voting, Isn`t that tasty? The coffee that is! Voting important, but I wouldn`t call it tasty.</p>
<p>New video`s coming soon!</p>Tarikhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/177ARTICLEnewshttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/39902009-07-07T16:12:21+02:0007-07-09 We have...don´t have conformation!<p>I was thinking the past few days about what I should write up in this spot. I have thought long and hard but the two subjects from my previous posts - the protests in Iran and the death of Michael Jackson - kept rushing through my head over and over again.</p><p>I haven't seen a lot of footage of protests in Iran (on tv) in the past week but that's not what I want to adress today. What we've seen were these green banners and posters with the text 'Where is my vote'? I saw them for the first time on Facebook and later on, when the protests in Iran started, on tv and in the newspapers. Here's what makes me curious: who designed that thing? Holler at me if you know! Pehaps an American advertising agency? (Conspiracy theory AHOY!) In the meantime be sure to show your support to these people in one way or another.....</p>
<p>Preparations are being made on the other side of the atlantic pond for Michael Jackson's funeral. Anyone that has ever seen a live performance by MJ can pretty much guess that his funeral will be a dictionary definition of the term 'going out with a bang'. Once this is over it WILL probably be the dictionary definition of 'going out with a bang.' That public memorial concert will - I think - just be the beginning. Where he will be buried, however, is still a question. :-| </p>
<p>I guess his family could bury him on his ranch Neverland and turn the place into some sort of sanctuary for family and fans alike. If the town where the ranch is located can handle such a large amount of people on a yearly basis. It would sure be good for the economy in California....in times of crisis like these. (HINT! HINT! HINT!) And on the other hand: Elvis has Graceland and Mike would have Neverland. The king of rock n roll has found his equal in death in the form of the king of pop. All that Mike' grave needs now is an estate to go with it. </p>
<p>Lemme know if you disagree. </p>
<p>Back in a sec once more...</p>Tarikhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/177ARTICLEnewshttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/22272008-12-09T17:43:27+01:009-12-08<p>Do you guys ever watch 'The Simpsons'? I'm sure there are people among us here at Couscous Global who've never heard of this cartoon family. (Please tell me if I'm wrong!) but anyway, This show features a clown called Krusty and he's got a catch phrase which I would like to use/ quote today: 'HI KIDS! HUAHAHAHAAAH!' (Cheery laugh!)</p><p>So hello! We've got a new vid(eo) today. It's about an organization called Generation Engage. Our Maartje talked to two of Generation Engage's employees whom told us a thing or two (maybe even three!) about their work at 'Gen Eng'. You can find it at the top of our hottest movies. That's on the right side of the page you're staring at now.......Einstein! ;-)</p>
<p>Couscous Global says: have a nice day!</p>Tarikhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/177ARTICLEnewshttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/11842008-09-12T13:56:28+02:00it`s the end...<p>September 12`th, 9.53 AM <br/>
Current mood: still sleeping<br/>
Music: Something very heavy....to wake up.</p><p>Just a few days ago i was watching the evening news. I am quite happy that I can do so since I`m not working on my MA thesis anymore. And I hope it will stay that way. So thesis: remain at the bottom of the river like you are supposed to. Don`t come back floating to the surface like a corpse which isn`t weighted down properly with stones, concrete or whatever. Just so you know.</p>
<p>But like I was saying; I was watching the news the other day and I saw an item about a large group of scientists who build the world`s largest proton excelerator. I`m not sure if anyone ever build a smaller one but anyway it`s located about eighteen kilometers below the surface in Switserland. You can imagine it as a circular twentyseven kilometer long tubesystem through which they send the tiniest particles - protones, neutrones, et cetera - at the speed of light. (!) At a certain point these particles will collide with each other to stimulate a so called 'big bang'. The type of 'big bang' which occured when the universe came into being. By stimulating such an event they hope to find out more about the way that the universe came into being. They`re especially looking for the Higgs particle. The missing piece in the scientific puzzle. </p>
<p>A reason to start a riot? Perhaps. Some scientists argued that such a stimulation could create a black hole which could swallow up the earth! Others argued that this is not possible since us mere humans can recreate a "big one" but not one like they occur in the universe. Simply said: we can`t recreate a 'big bang' of that magnitude.</p>
<p>I was planning to post this a day before the experiment started and I wanted to end with some sort of a eulogy but luckily for us we`re still here. So it comes down to this. This blog does not have the impact as it would have had a few days ago. So much for my personal 'blogging big bang...' But then again; i`m just a mere human whom cannot recreate a 'blogging big bang' of this magnitude. or can I!? Stay tuned for that. (Insert scary music here.)</p>
<p>HOPE YOU GUYS FIND YOUR HIGGS PARTICLE! :-)</p>
<p>Live your life!</p>Tarikhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/177ARTICLEnewshttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/30652009-03-13T17:57:24+01:0013-03-09<p>Dahaa! Rant, Rant, RAAAANT! Technology is here to serve man? Well I've been wrestling with technology for the past few days to be quite honest and frank with you.</p><p>However, during this man versus machine fight I managed to squeeze out a new video. So to speak then. This is the first part in a three part series of interviews with musicians from Tehran. This video features an interview with a fiddler. You can find it at the top of the Hottest Movies section, or - if you're a lazy little git - <a href="http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/3060">click here.</a></p>
<p>Have a good weekend.</p>Tarikhttp://www.couscousglobal.com/id/177ARTICLEnews