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CCTV Project (video)

March 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments

I thought I would give a video slideshow a try, so here is my first attempt, a few of my photos from the OMA / Koolhaas CCTV Headquarters project. The music is from Red Unit, Shanghai, a techno CulRev mix entitled The Ideal of Maoism. The music is Open Source. The voice-over is Zhou Enlai from what sounds like October 1, 1974. Date correction is welcome.


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Tags: architecture · Beijing · CCTV · Koolhaas · Red Unit · Scheeren · TVCC · video slidehow

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 bhb // Mar 28, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    Terrific!

  • 2 Mark Jungels // Mar 31, 2009 at 9:48 am

    Nice Job!

  • 3 Jim Gourley // Mar 31, 2009 at 10:01 am

    Thanks Bruce and Mark. I hope to do a few more soon. The TVCC with photos pre- and post-fire is on deck.

  • 4 alarmabg // May 21, 2009 at 8:08 am

    more camers more video http://videolost.com/en

  • 5 alex pasternack // Aug 4, 2009 at 11:14 pm

    Very nice Jim. Some of your pictures are also in the slideshow I made for the Far Eastern Economic Review back in March. Thanks again, and excuse that soporific narrator.

    http://www.feer.com/video/a-cctv-building-burns-to-a-crisp

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