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Originally posted on Smashing Applications by AN Jay
August 21, 2008
Today, we are compiling a list of 17 Beijing 2008 Olympic Advertisements. In this post, you can see how different companies conveyed their marketing/promotion message for their products or services for the Olympic season. They want their customers to enjoy the spirits and adventures of Olympic with them.
You are welcome to share if you know more Beijing 2008 Olympic Advertisements which our readers/viewers may like.
Ever eat deep fried sparrow? How about seahorse or snakeskin? Swing by Beijing for the 2008 Olympics and stop by the Dinghy Men or Wangfujing Food Market and have an odd delicacy on a stick.
Here is my take-out order at Donghua Men:
"Ahhh.....I'll like to place my order to go please. I'll have a portion of fried sparrows, a cup of seahorses, and bowl of small worms. Oh, oh.....a diet coke as well. I need to watch my figure, so no noddles...."
Okay, food prejudice aside. It may be a bit unusual, but this type of cuisine is all protein. You can live without grains and starches, but not protein!
China has one of the world's oldest people and continuous civilizations, consisting of states and cultures dating back more than six millennia. It has the world's longest continuously used written language system, and is the source of such major inventions as what the British scholar and biochemist Joseph Needham called the "four great inventions of Ancient China": paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing. Historically China's cultural sphere has been very influential in East Asia as a whole, with Chinese religion, customs, and writing system being adopted, to varying degrees, by its neighbors Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
This is a spoiler post. So if you don't want to see the leaked dress rehearsal videos of the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, don't play the videos on the media players in this post. These videos were take by secret cameras from a Korea film crew. They were uploaded on the internet on several major news and sports sites, but have subsequently been taken down by the request (demands) of the Chinese government, IOC, and the major TV broadcasters of the games.
Here are a ccouple that are still up on the net.
From the Huffington Post by David Flumenbaum on July 30, 2008:
"A Korean film crew gained access to the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium yesterday to rehearse the Korean national broadcast of the Olympic Games. While the cameramen were inside, they secretly filmed a rehearsal of the opening ceremony, also being rehearsed at the Bird's Nest. This video has been banned on the Chinese news site Sina.com and has been taken off YouTube in mainland China.
The Korean news report claims that the ceremony has been prepared for over 3 years and China has spent over $300,000,000 on, what according to the Korean station, is the most "magnificent, brilliant and mysterious" ceremony in Olympic history. The report claims the video features over 10,000 performers -- kung-fu fighters, trapeze artists and traditional Chinese dancers -- using the "most modern of laser technology" to execute the 10-second Olympic countdown. The only mystery still left for the opening is how the Olympic torch will arrive to the Bird's Nest and who will be the final torch bearer."
Picture (foto) of the dress rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics:
