SCC will holding a concert in Shanghai on May 20th! He's done a few performances in Beijing at BICF and appeared on TV before, but this will be his first ever debut in Shanghai and his first actual concert in China for the public at large. Who's up for this?
Shameless plug alert... My company was graced this week with the visit of Gerald Tremblay, mayor of Montreal, here in Shanghai on a trade mission. It was covered by Radio Canada, and they had a brief segment at my office. If any of you want to know what it looks like from the inside, check out their video report (in French only, but a picture is worth a thousand words. Scroll down to "Mission commerciale")
Notable is the fact that it, to the best of my knowledge, publically shows for the first time EVER live gameplay footage of the project I'm working on, Splinter Cell 4 on the Xbox 360 (we have yet to release any sort of trailer ourselves).
It's definitely exciting to see the buzz building, and a reward for all the long hours and late nighters that are an inevitable part of this industry...
An article from the Chicago Tribune [mirror] on how much of the supply chain of raw fish used in sushi and sashimi in US restaurants is tied to the Unification Church (aka the Moonies). Yikes... especially given the fact that both are some of my favorite foods (cf. my recent post). Fortunately, I think in China, this particular conglomerate don't have a presence... or do they?
Granted, I don't believe that we should live in a bubble and isolate ourselves from anything that might be tied to anything we don't agree with -- otherwise, that would be allowing legalism to take a hold of us, and there wouldn't be much to live for in life. But still, food (in more ways than one) for thought on how businesses are often tied to more than meets the eye...
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