Thursday, January 10, 2008

Job offer

This is one of those occasions that no idea whatsoever is available as a subject to write the daily posting.
Hence, fervent and loyal blog readers are recommended to stop reading because all next words and sentences are just there to fill up the computer screen.

This morning was an MSN communication with the Chinese journalist Yan Zhang about this issue.
She was challenged to suggest what to write about today.
Her subject to the desperate blog writer was:
why is your work so popular in China?
This because a third Chinese magazine, ZING from Shanghai, has asked permission to publish the project “The most beautiful people in the world” together with an interview with the modest photographer.

How can the one creating and receiving it explain success?
Therefore, Yan was asked to explain the overwhelming success in China.
She being a Chinese in China and a journalist should have an explanation.

Her simple and clear answer was: “I don’t know”.
Great.
Gone the chance to use a possible interesting answer as material for this posting.

Anyway, concerning “The most beautiful people in the world”, the focus is not on China anymore but on India.
That will be the 10th and last country where the project will be performed.

But India is a country where every effort until now to find contacts and collaborators and support has ended in nothingness.
For two years now contact has been made with numerous people, companies and institutions in India.
Initially meeting enthusiasm, always after a while they seemed to have died or lost interest.
They would simply not reply anymore.

Is this devastating?
No.
Does this make India go off the list?
No.
Is photographer made desperate and depressed?
No.

The idea is that each country has its own way of responding to the project “The most beautiful people in the world”.
It cannot be that the photographer has a fixed idea how the project should be performed and that next the people in the country visited should submit to that doctrine.
It is the other way around.
The people in the country decide if and how they want it.

The plan now is to go to India anyway.
And perform the project similar to how it was made in Namibia, Africa.
To go with a team to places, to neighbourhoods, to slums, to villages and simply ask the people that are met if they maybe believe they are the most beautiful in the world.
If so, they are documented right away.

This is an effective method.
Although very tiring and exhausting.
But also adventurous, exciting and rewarding

The issue now is to find one or two persons who are interested to join the team.
To go to India and look for most beautiful people.
Applications can be send to: info@szulc.info

Amazingly, at this point of the blog, there are still readers to be found.
In spite of the advice in the beginning to quit reading.
The posting somehow became substantial and making sense.
The river allowed to flow and we together drifting on its calm waters.

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To learn more about the beautiful magazine ZING from Shanghai, click on:

http://www.xintiandi.com/english/zing_select.asp





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3 comments:

Mark said...

Michel, What has happened to Gorba?

Anonymous said...

How does one get paid? and how much?

Anonymous said...

Even when you have nothing to say, it is interesting to read your writing. I am glad you are willing to print what you think may not be interesting to your readers. You made me laugh out loud at the Chinese journalist answer to why she was so popular in China! Well done for an off day!