Glutter

Glutter's Hong Kong.

Wah. www.8810903.com just announced that Edison Chen is going to quit the Entertainment "Circle." Poor guy. They are talking about it on RTHK Radio 1 as well. Maybe he will come to the US where people aren't so upset about grown people having sex..

I wonder what the whole statement is. They said he said he's really sorry for all the people who have hurt and that he is not a role model for the youth in HK.

Oh more importantly Mr. Ching Chong who was the HK journalist for Strait Times and was jailed for three years by the Chinese government will have a press conference in half an hour as well.

The radio hosts are saying that today there have been two really important press conference that can be summed up by a phrase. For Edison Chen, it's "Sorry" "Sorry to the family, Sorry to everyone" and for Mr. Ching Chong it's "Thank you." "Thank you for his family's support, the support of the city, and the government of HK helping his release, and the journalistic community for again, supporting his family and helping to secure his release.


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I just heard it. Mainly Edison apologized to the "ladies" (Not the best choice of word I don't think), and their family, his own mother and father, and the WHOLE of HK society because he feels it's led the society astray... (Actually I can promise that most people had a rollicking good time downloading the photos.) and he's sorry he was unable to live up to his role as a role model which is what is expected of him in the HK entertainment industry and he's made the decision to leave the HK entertainment "Circle" after fulfilling his obligations.

Which means he's heading this way to Hollywood. He can now be the Asian version of Paris Hilton! This town loves it!

Glutter's HK

I have been writing this extremely long winded post about the whole Edison affair. Anyway, still haven't finished, and as with all gossip, it keeps changing. Edison is in HK and will have a press conference at 3pm HK time. It's an hour to go from the time of me writing this..

Wah. I can't wait.

It's been a long time that there is some HK stuff that I can really get my teeth into.....

I miss home!

Okay. I decided I still have SO MUCH more to write about.. You know the police aspect, the censorship aspect, the fact people are being arrested in HK, Taiwan and China over this incident. I might as well split it in different sections. So I am posting the first part of the Edison Chen Writing as (1) which is mainly purely gossip...

Glutter's Hong Kong.

I admit it. For more than a week now, I have been obsessed with the "sexy photo gate" scandal of the pictorial renditions of Edison Chen's Sex Life. I have discussed it with my mother: "no mum, I really don't think you should look at the photos, they are really naughty."

My classmates: "I know you don't know who these people are, but it's HUGE! It's not like Paris Hilton at all, because they are already famous before they got naked! It's like Justin Timberlake's computer got hacked and in it was pictures of a Britney (who still claimed she was a virgin who happened to be dating his classmate), Cameron Diaz who happens to be married also to Justin's classmate, some retired star whose about to marry a really really rich man and a bunch of starlets with a underage girl whose uncle owns the record label, management company some of these women are in, plus he is a bona fide gangsta all at once!!"

My brother: "Yeah, they want to hack his hands of for $50, 000!!!" My brother replied, "That's rough, if I was him I would just say, "It's not my fault, they got naked themselves! He needs to stay here."

And one night, Pieter said, "I can't really believe you're sitting in bed surfing for porn and making me look at them."

"It's not porn." I replied, "Think, this girl who is sprawled naked and sucking, was representing your company over Chinese New Year before they pulled the ad! It won't be in the new employee Disney Magazine would it? Anyway they didn't make it for money, I mean it's not intended to entertain."

"Doesn't it tell you something?"

"Yeah, I shouldn't look at it. But I am just waiting for the next Kira installation coz maybe there will be pictures of Maggie Q!! That would make me happy."

"And why?"

"Coz she wasn't very nice to me once, so it would be funny... but really that was a long time ago, and she's really I am sure she is a very nice person now and we were all pretty immature, so really, no reason what so ever at all."

But yet, I can't help it. I am compulsively seeking more news, the next installment, more gossip. Is Cecilia and Nic really going to divorce? They have a baby! Is it true she was cheating on Nicolas Tse her soon-to-be-hubby in these photos? If she was why would she allow photos to be taken? His parents Tse Yin and Dicboli don't look too pleased in the photos. I am sure they thought all the scandal is over now he's married and has a kid. No more crashing one's Ferrari on garden road drunk, and then getting his driver to take the blame. How long did Nic end up in prison? Was it two months?

And what about poor Bobo, playing the smart not very talented actress card of nabbing a rich man. Is that done? Will Bobo's investment banker finance from a good family stand up to his mother and marry her anyway? After all those photos were taken before he met her but a man from such a family, really shouldn't have a wife where everyone has seen her bits especially only a few months before the wedding.

Who is this Mandy Chan person? I can't believe she's licking.. a plastic toy. Is that really Jody? She actually she seemed sweet. I actually fell for the facade!! And who are the other people, and how come some of the not-so-famous starlets all look so similar when they are naked. I can't tell one from the other! Thank god for Cecilia who seems to have a bit of personality! She looks great drunk and in a police uniform. Isn't it funny she's wearing that when her dad was in jail? Ah, mocking the profession.

Best of all... Gillian, the pleasure of seeing Gillian from the really truly deeply awful "Twins" in compromising positions after watching her blubbering over a magazine showing her back and a bit of her bra, saying "I don't know how to face the fans, the public. The idea that the image I tried so hard to create is shattered by these images taken without my knowledge." Oh, the pleasure of seeing a real hypocrite exposed. I always thought she over reacted with the hidden camera situation, considering absolutely nothing was shown, and now.. all she said was that she was "young and naive and have grown up now." Is that all she can muster? No tears, no overwrought emotion of being taken advantage of? No apologies for letting her fans "who are mostly school children and their mums" down? How come she could put on such a big act when she showed nothing and have such a reaction when everything is out?

So are the others terrible rumours about her true? Did she sleep with Albert Yeung (owner of Empire Entertainment Group and Edison's girlfriend's uncle) along with her bandmate to get the "Twins" contract? Does he "hire" them out for $10,000 a night to his friends? If she's not as innocent as she had made herself out to be, what else is she hiding? Could those vicious rumours be true? I never would have thought for one moment they were anything but cruel hearsay. And the ironic other rumour that has been proven to be untrue? Unlike what the message boards were saying. Gillian has never been a spokes person for abstinence of premarital sex, and she never turned up to any Christian Youth Rally.. at least that was confirmed..

That's just the women. What about Edison? How come he's such a stud? Do you think it's true about the rumours of him being cheated on when he was 15 and that's why he acts that way? Or do you think it's because his dad is purported to be gay that he needs to prove his masculinity? Really Edison, Edison Chen from HKIS? What did they see in him?

And now with this blowing up is his life really in danger? Was there really $50 000 bounty given for his hand? Left or right? Does it matter? And why not his face? Did he really threaten to commit suicide if his girlfriend Vinny didn't marry him? Did he slit his wrists? Did he do that, just so her uncle won't hurt him or stop the people who want to get him? I mean you can't hurt the Empire Entertainment group's president's niece's husband? He's powerful with the triads, he's powerful with the Chinese government. And who the hell told him to do that apology video in English?? Then put it on youtube? Did he honestly think that anyone would delete photos of naked women and him off their computers because he urged them to? Sadly the funniest "translation" video in youtube has been pulled probably because of the explicit language. Mainly it was him admitting, bragging and insulting the women who appeared in the photographs. If one makes a video of explanation and apology to scandal in a foreign language to most of it's spectators, you're asking for trouble.

But then sometimes I think he's been punished enough, when he's been pulled from Stephen Chow's highly awaited new film Jump, some of his credit card endorsement has been dropped a la Kate Moss. Levis and Pepsi is in the wings waiting to see what happens. And he thought maybe he would make it Hollywood? He is supposed to appear in the Dark Knight, the batman movie (which has it's own share of problems now Heath Ledger so tragically died), and now his name is all over the American gossip columns with no one knowing what the hell he does.. oh, wait, maybe there are some Paris Hilton parallels. Maybe this will be the thing that propels him to Hollywood. Maybe Maggie Q is regretting she didn't make a sex tape with him coz she might become a household name over here....hmmm...

Then there are rumours that the photos were taken for his boss so he could bribe them. Did he use these photos as a "casting couch" for unknown girls with promises of chances to be introduced to the right people? Was is true that he was already been blackmailed by these photographs last year, but didn't pay up because he figured the photos will be put out there regardless? And now the reason the photos are out and about is because one of the people who were blackmailing him has disappeared and as retaliation, the blackmailers have put the photos out.

Were those pix taken for himself or his boss? Why is Edison Chen asking for not only police protection, but a promise that he will not be charged? What has he done? Did he coerce any of these women or bribe them with the photos? Was his girlfriend Vincy really underage at the time...

To be Continued.......

Glutter's Hong Kong

Today is the day they might set to demolish the queen's pier (or at least I think because the reports as choppy and I think the government is going to do it on the sly). I just spent an hour writing about this, how I feel (angry), what I think (the government is useless and again maybe the only way forward is democracy) and mourning the lost of another little part of my home. Sadly, the post got lost, although I do not know why.

I must go. I am working on a small art project to commemorate the Peel Street Market. Another historical space going to be over taken by monster malls.

For now, please visit the photos of Chris at Hong Kong Digital Vision

Last Night of the Queen's Pier

http://hkdigit.blogspot.com/2007/08/last-night-at-queens-pier.html

Glutter's Hong Kong

Hong Kong's first and premier street artist turned Christie Auctioned Artist passed away today at the age of 86.

There is a lot to say but it's three am in Los Angeles.

I am sad he's gone, but I am sadder that more of his work will be destroyed if the reclamation of the harbour continues. More of our heritage will be lost. I don't live in HK anymore and my want for the government and the people to preserve more of it exponentially increases. One day I will like to come home, and coming home means having a place that I remember to come back to. I wish I owned a piece of his work. Sad I never did.



http://www.pbase.com/frankomania/tsang

I have been writing... about the handover, about China, about being in the US. But it's taking a while as all my thoughts are changing. I haven't forgotten...

Hong Kong

The tenth anniversary of the handover is in a few days. I spend my time hiding on facebook. Not exactly hiding but just hanging there with my old friends. I am not so sure it's an coincidence because within a few weeks, hundreds and hundreds of old expat brats has signed up and we're all spending a lot of time on it. A lot of people I haven't seen or talked to for ten years is suddenly in contact, and we wake up and go on the site and we go to bed we are on the site. We talk several times a day. We joined groups such as "In Place and Thingamies Appreciation group" and look at old pictures of ourselves and reminisce about the "old days." Nothing spectacular. Places we used to go, hang out, get too drunk, junk trips, and growing up.

We never talk about the handover, we don't talk about the reasons our parents retired, left their jobs, and moved out of Hong Kong. We don't really talk about the last time we all saw each other before we went off to different parts of the world. But the subtext is there. There is a reason we are not where we all grew up and in some ways, why most of them were all there in the first place.

There is a lot of political things I can say about the handover. I think it's a good thing. I think Hong Kong should be at least part of China if we don't rule ourselves. But on a personal level, my response is childish: it sucks. I want to whine about the fact because of politics, we moved out of our homes, we settled other places, we did other things in our lives. It was a political exodus that left so many of us not where we grew up. I came back to Hong Kong for the handover, but I also left in the end. I know politics had a huge part in my decision to move.

I can't talk too much about it because really, deep down I am angry at the fact people who didn't live in Hong Kong had all the power and say about the future of the city, and all those decision had nothing to do with any of us.

I actually just don't want to deal with it. I just want to go and talk about things with my friends who I grew up with, whom some I may never see again. I want to look at pictures of their babies, and look at pictures of ourselves when we were young and we were together in the same place.

I know people want to talk to me about free speech or the handover. I know that journalists have contacted me. And I want to talk to them or write to them, or do what I am supposed to do. But really I want to say, "You want to know what I think? I think the whole thing sucks, and not in the way you want to hear about it." I don't want to put the interviewee face on because there are things I think I should say, and there are the things in my heart that is more real.

The government can have their parades, their fireworks, the news can have their stories. All I have of a life I lived, and the people I grew up is a social networking site where everyone comes off in flat photos, in typed words, and clicks of hypertext. It's better than nothing I suppose. It's better than not being in touch at all. But ten years ago, we were all there in Hong Kong, hanging out and trying to avoid the journalists crawling all over the place always ready to stuff a microphone in your face.

I remember hating them, I remember giving the finger to the camera people who were always putting the lens in my face. I remember thinking that "I am not a new story. This is my home. Go away."

I was much younger than, and I know how much the press has made Glutter what it is, and I know how nice so many of the people who interviewed me were, and how i genuinely liked them. But maybe not right now. For me the handover is a personal time, it's a time when things changed a lot in my life, and the lives of people around me.

Did Hong Kong change in the last ten years because of the handover? I am sure. But more importantly for me in the most personal of ways -life was never the same.

第四屆香港社會運動電影節已在進行中
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23／１０　（星期一，　７：３０）
美麗青年全泰一 (又名:星火) A Single Spark

導演：朴光洙／南韓　　片長：90min 語言：韓語／中文字幕

「可惜我生前沒有認識一個大學生。」自焚致死的青年工人全泰一在日記上這樣寫著。

據說，因為這句話，令許多知識份子內疚得不得了，進而從大學自我下放到工廠、農村，透過與基層一起工作進行組織工作，韓國的工運、農運才有今天的燦爛。
「我要回到這些受欺壓的朋友身邊，你們是我心靈的故鄉。」於是全泰一從工地回到工廠，最後走上自焚之途。
自焚，不過是為了女性要有月經假、注意工人職業健康等等；口號，不過是「我們不是機器」。

可惜黑白片道出的這個悲傷故事的訴求，在彩色的當代世界中，仍是一樣沒有實現。另一位男主角，正在寫全泰一傳的一個當代知識份子，也因為政治異見被追捕中，而在被追捕的陰影裡，道出這個平凡的、貧窮的、孤獨的韓國青年的一生……
去年十二月大家都對韓農的抗爭感到「大開眼界」，大半年過去，讓我們再重新思考韓國社會運動的經歷，進而自我觀照一番吧。
地點：香港職工會聯盟
地址： 香港九龍油麻地彌敦道557-559號永旺行天台(油麻地地鐵站A1出口)
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２４／１０　（星期二，７：３０ｐｍ）向麥當勞宣戰 (台譯:卯上麥當勞)　　Mclibel

導演：Franny Armstrong／英國 片長：85min　　語言：英語對白／中文字幕

兩個人，在麥當勞門外派單張，指麥記食物不健康，同時製作過程破壞環境，又用超低薪來壓搾勞工。
老麥看不順眼，便告二人「誹謗」。
兩個人，一個離婚爸爸帶著兒子，一個單身女子，身無十兩金，無錢請律師，卻勇敢地出來自辯，與麥當勞對質，想不到，一辯十年，人生如此度過，最後竟然官司得勝……

地點：嶺南大學永安廣場
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２５／１０（星期三，７：３０ｐｍ）希望工程．實驗十三　
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination: 13experiments in Hope

創作：吸塵機工作群　vacuumcleaner　　片長：100min　　語言：英語對白／中文字幕
假設你在街上突然見到：
1) 有人在商場內大聲向商品禱告，虔誠萬分；
2) 有一堆人一起指著街上的閉路電視，一起倒後行；
3) 有人在寫著不准塗鴉的牆壁上，貼上巨紙塗鴉可也；
4) …….
你猜，你會做什麼？
1) 報警
2) 上前八卦，無趣就離開
3) 覺得他們阻街、搞事，上前理論一番
如果，你的答案，是X及Y，那麼……
無論，你的答案是什麼，都沒有所謂，來享受一下這十幾齣皮趣餡硬的實驗小電影吧！
地點：嶺南大學永安廣場
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２７／１０（星期五，７：３０ｐｍ）　沉重而絢爛的十二月──紀２００５８香港反世貿人民抗爭
Our heavy yet beautiful December

創作：反世貿錄像游擊隊（八樓＋錄影力量）　片長：130min
語言：多國語言對白／中英文字幕

廿多齣短片，講述2005年的灣仔，似乎發生了驚天動地的大事，又似乎現在塵埃落幕，到底，發生了什麼事？
世貿前我們組成了反世貿錄像游擊隊，世貿期間有個博客網站日日報主流以外的所見所聞，世貿後我們繼續拍攝和剪接，紀敘這次本應對香港有深重意義的抗爭，把錄像藝術具有的激進性盡情發揮，與各地基層人民並肩作戰，絕不旁觀他人的痛苦！

來與不同的游擊隊員一起看這個十二月吧
南韓農民，除了激進以外，還既純情又大方……
農民示威，也有來自東南亞不同地方……
反對世貿，不只有農民，也不只有外國人……
人民不單可反對政府，更可反對壟權財伐……
反世貿過程中，還有不斷的自我反省……
等待被捕中，可以做體操，可以踢波，可以談戀愛，可以唱膽小非英雄，決不願停步…..
我們反對世貿，反對壟斷，所以，在這兒，沒有一齣紀錄片，這兒，有很多齣片，很多個人，很多個視角…
地點：學聯會所　　地址：香港九龍旺角道7-9號威特商業大廈9樓
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２８／１０（星期六，７：３０ｐｍ）天堂花園　　Heavenly Paradise

導演：艾曉明／中國　片長：138min 語言：國語對白／中文字幕

如果這個世界已急速得沒有時間讓我們思考關於公義，關於義理，那請給我們一批盡責的官僚。
黃靜案，至今在內地仍是一個成不了案子的懸案，兇案現場是一位可人女教師；她死後就留下了一個母親和一些惦記她生死的人。
天堂花園，只是一個疼愛她的不平人叫大家來看這案子的網站。
那就請大家來，來看一位母親為義理、為公義、為天下遭受性暴力威脅的女子及為她那已死去的女兒，跑遍天下塞責官僚，只為女兒立案；所求的，只是中國這個地方發生的性暴力案子，能為這些婦女進行合法合理的調查。

地點：學聯社會運動資源中心 (自治八樓)
地址：香港九龍旺角彌敦道739號金輪大廈天台（電梯１６字樓上一層）
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特別加場２場：　浸大同學自發搞的浸大分場！
２３／１０　星期一　７：００ｐｍ　樂生保留運動紀錄片

創作：青年樂生樂盟，黑手那卡西等 ／台灣　　片長：104min
語言：國語、閩南語對白／中文字幕

「得到這種病真見笑，我不想給別人知道，…我親戚都沒人知道。」
「突然覺得我們哪，已經不再是人了。」
也許疾病最可怕的不是肉體上的痛苦，而是心靈上的催殘，且本來不必承受。
數十年前患上痲瘋病的人被當成怪物隔離，與世隔絕了半個世紀。
如今當地要建捷運機廠，突然又把他們當成人，說要「保障病患權益…讓病患亦能隨時代的進步，獲得現代化更妥善的醫療及生活照顧。」想把他們從親山的自然村落遷到八層高現代化醫療大樓。
患病不代表病人的需要可以被旁人定義，更不代表當權者可以籍此趕走病人。這種情況在病院以外，譬如我們的社區生活裡，又是否以各種形式一再發生呢？相比起樂生保留運動中痲瘋病人的大聲吶喊群起反抗，我們又作出過怎麼樣的反應？
地點：林護國際會議中心NAB209
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２６／１０　星期四　７：００ｐｍ爭取過才真正屬於你
導演：阿為．路易士、娜娥美．克萊恩／加拿大　 2004
片長：87分鐘　西班牙、英語對白／中文字幕
「佔領．抵抗．生產！」


全球化下，阿根廷曾出現短暫的「經濟起飛」，然後？然後，當阿根廷可以被吸的資源都被跨國企業吸去之後，老板們又跑去找人工更平更賤的地方，工廠丟空，工
人失業，曾一起建立起經濟繁榮，幫老板賺不少錢的基層工人，生活頓失所依。阿根廷又貨幣貶值，銀行搞到唔俾人提款，連少少積蓄都失去。
還剩下什麼？

有，有一間又一間曾努力生產的吉廠。 然後，可以怎樣？ 佔領工廠，重建生產線，工人當家，共同管理──不可能？阿根庭工人做到了。

然後，國家機器當然不會放過你，於是俾差佬打，打官司，上國會，最後會怎樣？

乖乖聽話的香港人，真該看看這齣戲！
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行腳三：深水土步－地舖智慧增生空間
導遊：周綺薇(9279 2102)
日期：28/10/05 (星期六)
時間：下午2:00至5:00
集合地點： 長沙灣地鐵站近C2出口站內7-11

一個滿是舊式商舖的舊街區，有老字號的醬油舖，人情味濃厚的小檔口和樓梯底舖，還有街坊中醫舖、茶葉舖、洋服店、花牌檔、車呔舖……到底在這樣一個各展所
長的街區上，除了各自各做生意，還有什麼特別的地方？社區網絡、社區經濟和社區保安有何自然而生的關係？而各個小舖的空間運用又如何形式了這兒的社區特
色？
自小在深水土步這個舊街區長大的周綺薇，便帶你遍遊她心目中的社區地圖。

導遊簡介：周綺薇，深水土步街坊，老爸在深水土步重建區有間老舖，小時候幾姐妹在街上跳自己畫的巨型跳飛機，長大後本來對四周街道街坊都漸漸模糊，重建警號響起，
她不忍看見街坊獨自徨恐面對，跑回來與他們一起爭取，意外地拾回一段段街坊故事，復更對這地方有難以言喻的歸屬感……
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