L o o k i n g f o r m y E v e: November 2012

30.11.12

International Business in the Era of Globalization

Hi guys! I had a very interesting lecture about globalization in world business and I want to share some shocking fact I heard:

ZARA

hot fashion clothes are fabricated in EU countries (such as Spain, Portugal), here the production is expensive, this way all product can reach shop in a short time.
casual, always-going clothes (like black jeans, white t-shirts) are made in countries where the production is cheap (China, Bangladesh), because there is no rush to sell classic clothes - people buy them despite fashion trends

Coca-Cola

Diet Coke in the USA are the same as Cola-Cola light, because europeans don't like word "diet" , which associates to "loosing weight" to them
Although the taste of Cola-Cola in the USA is different to the European

The European Union

Different wings for the Eurofighter Typhoon (biggest plane-fighter in EU) is produced in defferent counties, because of the euporean countries' political agreement, even if the production price of these plains increases.
Special planes are made to transport parts of the Eurofighter. It's called Airbus Beluga.

McDonald's

Every McDonald's restaurant has nothing in common with the american McDonald's. For exaple, McDonald's restaurant in the Italy is an italian restaurant!
Any conponent in european Big Mac is from the USA

I Met A Genius by Charles Bukowski

I met a genius on the train

today

about 6 years old,

he sat beside me

and as the train

ran down along the coast

we came to the ocean

and then he looked at me

and said,

it’s not pretty.

it was the first time I’d

realized

that.

29.11.12

Bags Then and Now

inspired by Andy Warhol

inspired by James Bond - Agent 007 (?)

Friend Day

My two most beloved friends:

GRETA

honest to herself, never predents to be somebody else

her creativity surprise me a lot

always behaives in a calm way

URŠULĖ

her hilarious jokes always makes my day

has an ideal figure

always sincere with other people

Love You Girls !!! <3 **

26.11.12

The Skin video rearranges 191 words from the original story into a whole new story that is read aloud, collectively, by the words themselves. Originally commissioned by the Berkeley Art Museum, it was on display on their net art portal from March 1 - May 31, 2011.

"Shelley Jackson's story 'Skin' exists only in the flesh -- the flesh of about 2,000 volunteers. In 2003, when she wrote the story, she called for participants to each be tattooed with a single word (some also get a bit of punctuation, like 'ankles,' with the comma included). The story has never been published in any other form...[For] the Berkeley Art Museum, Jackson has cut together video footage from a small set of participants to tell a new sub-'Skin' story. Recently Jackson e-mailed them to ask that they record a video of their word tattoo, and to say the word. From those words recorded by participants, she's edited and assembled a new story." - Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times