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Frank Gehry is looking towards Asia for projects as the US Economy slows. Asia? More like China and India. His quotes aren’t so settling. “One challenge of designing in a country such as China is the lower pay for projects, Gehry said in the interview this week. Architects get paid a percentage of construction costs, which in China are about a third of what they are in the U.S., he said. Further, it says he’s going to open an office in China to work with the locals. Of course you should work with the locals! ““I have over 100 people in my office,” said Gehry, who formed the partnership in 2001. “At my age, I would love only to work in Los Angeles, maybe Santa Monica, maybe Beverly Hills.”” Then spend some of your millions and millions and keep working in the places you want. (Business Week -Gehry)
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This is a fun photo set by a person named Adrian Fisk, who with the support of the United Nations is doing a photo project that puts a single message on a board to the youths of China and now India. He’s been working on the project for a few years and it’s growing steadily. Adrian Fisk’s site is filled with great work. He’s a National Geographic photographer as well. The image below used at (BusinessInsider – Adrian Fisk) who reports on his is stunning. The dude below reveals one universal situation.
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All of you Tom Cruise fans or Herge fans know that although your movie ticket purchasing in the past helped the studios and actors out, your money is now in second place. Mission Impossible and Tin Tin are to premier outside of America. Why is that? Is it an economic shift? A test to see if it affect piracy? Is it the typical move of trying to take a billion people’s money before they open? It’s going to happen in India and it’s a shifting market move. Tin Tin is a month early, Mission Impossible is five days early. Video report is below.
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The typewriter factories no longer exist, but repairs and usage continues in India. Power doesn’t exist for a huge population, and that doesn’t mean they’re illiterate. Typing manually is still a feeling that’s hard to explain. One the one hand, mistakes are not easily corrected. Huge shifts of paragraphs can’t be done on the fly. A page needs to be reworked, first manually with pencil or pen, then a retyping after retyping until you finally get the final product. In India, repairs are being done on the machines, and there’s plenty of them of all vintages in circulation. (LA Times – typewriters in India)
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[youtube]H0kxyGAubzM[/youtube] This video has been making some rounds. The fella hanging in front has some long arms.
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