Singers who lip-synch or musicians who pretend to play their instruments twice or more in a two-year period, face having their business licences revoked.
Only professional performers will be covered, which will presumably mean the country’s most celebrated case of faking it – at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics – would be exempt.
Nine-year-old Lin Miaoke was lauded around the world for her performance of Ode to the Motherland at the event. But it later emerged she was miming to a recording made by Yang Peiyi, aged seven . Officials replaced the younger girl because they judged Miaoke more photogenic.
Fact is, I loathe bored games. I dropped an entire group of friends because the only time they get together is to play bored games, and if there’s one thing I detest it’s getting 20 minutes into a strategy in an unfamiliar situation when suddenly someone says, “Oh, did I forget to tell you? Clovers are trumps!” or whatever. Sure, most murders have alcohol as a motivating factor, but I’m inclined to believe that bored games are #2 and closing.
Nonetheless, this result does make sense. Just ask my boss:
You Are Boggle
You are an incredibly creative and resourceful person.
You’re able to dig deep and think outside the box to get things done.
You are a non linear thinker. You don’t like following directions
You draw your inspiration from the strangest places sometimes. You’re constantly inspired.
Ever wondered how those swanky hotels manage to be so irritatingly perfect all the time? It takes people like this, and if you think this is exaggerated, you’ve spent your work life in places with lower standards.
“At Your Service” is a fast ride of traditional 2D animation (composited in Adobe AE) with a new character from Michael Jantze, creator of “The Norm” comic strip. Mr. Lux is only happy when he delivers five-star service to his hotel guests. This LXR Hotel orientation film was an official selection of Festival de Cannes 2008 Short Film Corner and winner of three Create Awards 2008. More at http://jantze.com
You can tell that’s translated from swanky French by the word “composited,” which to Canadian ears sounds like it was fished out of the bin in the garden, along with several exotic species of mushrooms. Which we do not rule out entirely.
cross-posted from FearlessCity, just so you know what I’ve been doing with all my copious spare time recently. And a damn good thing, too, because with all the extra exposure that site is up and down like a toilet seat.
As most of our readers know, Fearless City Mobile was all over the Heart of the City Festival this past weekend, streaming live video interviews and interacting with people all over the Downtown Eastside, incorporating their texted questions into the interviews as they came in.
As some of you also know, interest in our coverage of the closing gala was so intense that it temporarily overwhelmed our servers and our site had to go for a little “time out.” While that’s flattering, it’s also a bit of a problem.
Fortunately, because the internet IS, in fact, a web and not just a series of straight lines, we were able to work around it.
I was at home on Twitter, bouncing between the FearlessCity account and my own (because I have no life) and Irwin was in Ottawa and on Facebook when the site went down.
Irwin had used his phone to take a video of OUR streaming videos on his laptop, and he posted it to Facebook and put that news out on his Twitter stream.
I saw that and immediately emailed him, telling him to put it on YouTube (yes, I know the quality sucks, but at least YouTube is wide open to the public, whereas Facebook is restricted). He did, and once it was posted I put the news out on the Fearless City Twitter stream. Then I signed out, signed into my raincoaster Twitter stream, and re-tweeted it (don’t laugh, that’s what it’s called!) and Irwin put the news out on his stream as well. That makes a total of about 400 people who got the news within a half-hour of the whole thing happening.
The video became, if memory serves, the 68th most viewed Canadian video in the Arts & Activism category, but it only has two comments, so what are you waiting for?
And here it is:
Three scenes captured with Nokia N77 mobile devices streaming to the Mobile Muse 3 platform and projected on a live screen at the Closing Gala of the Heart of the City Festival in the Downtown Eastside. Also streamed to http://live.fearlessmedia.ca/ and archived on fearlesscity.ca.
At the live screen people were able to send txt msgs to the 3 interviewed subjects.
(The audio on this video switches between all three channels.)
Nov 9, 2008
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