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Song Hye-kyo - Korean Actress & Model

Song Hye-kyo, born November 22nd 1981, is a South Korean model and actress. While studying for an arts degree at Sejong University, Song Hye-kyo made her debut by winning the Grand Prize in model search in SunKyung Smart and starring in a Sunday morning drama called Happy Morning (KBS, 1996). She is currently signed to Eden 9 talent agency, but hasn't finished her arts degree. Well, it is nothing one would prioritize up to numero uno, right?

Song Hye-kyo debuted in the entertainment industry when she won the Grand Prize in SunKyung Smart, a school uniform company in 1996 when she was finishing her third year in junior high school. It was not long until she starred in her first drama, Happy Morning. Since then, she would continued to star in a string of various dramas and sitcoms but it wasn't until the KBS drama Autumn Fairy Tale in 2000 with Song Seung-hun and Won Bin that Song rose to fame throughout Asia. The show quickly became popular as it depicted a tragic love story between three people.

Song Hye-kyo's popularity continued to climb when she played a leading role in the poker drama All In, alongside Lee Byung-Hun. They say in Korea the drama was so popular that the title of the show itself entered into everyday Korean vocabulary.

Song Hye-kyo then played a supporting role in the drama Sunlight Pours Down, and later in the popular TV comedy series Full House, in which she co-starred with pop figure Rain. Full House became one of the highest rating drama during its year.

My Girl And I, which was critically panned by audience and critics alike. Song went on a 2-year hiatus afterward, returning to acting to star in her second film, the movie-version of Hwang Jin-i, which was released in South Korea on June 6, 2007, as the kisaeng Hwang Jin-i. Though promoted heavily, it fared poorly at the box office.

Song Hye-kyo is planning to release a video album, produced by StarM Planning entertainment company because she has been pursuing her dream of becoming a "hallyu queen" in Japan. However, while the shooting is already completed, the release date is still unconfirmed.

This work of art was uploaded to cgsociety.org forum in 2006.

Song Hye-kyo also became known in the computer graphics scene in 2006 when an Indonesian 3D artist Max Edwin Wahyudi created a photo-realistic 3D picture of her. Max briefly explains the process of making her 3D creation:

http://www.3dm3.com/forum/articles.php?action=viewarticle&artid=69

Now who would complete it altogether? what is left to do is the rendering of her lower body, and a skilled team of developers to program an Artificial Intelligence, and eventually a portal for virtual dimension to meet up with her, or alternatively a team of engineers in nano robotics. 

 

Chinese American Actress Bai Ling - just a wannabe bi?

Bai Ling shaking her arse with another ho - respectfully. Can anybody tell me who she is?

Bai Ling was born in Chengdu, People's Republic of China. Her family name, Bai, literally means white. Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever. Her father, Bai Yuxiang was a musician in the People's Liberation Army, and later a music teacher. Her mother, Chen Binbin was a dancer, stage actress, and a literature teacher in Sichuan University.

Bai Ling has described herself as a very shy child who discovered self-expression through acting and performance art. She has said that acting allows one to ignore how society tells one to behave and allows other parts within oneself to be expressed. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Bai Ling learned how to perform by participating in Eight model plays her elementary school shows. After her graduation from middle school, she was sent to do labor work at Shuangliu, a suburb county of Chengdu, where the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is located.

Before long, she managed to pass the People's Liberation Army's exams, and became an "artist soldier" at Linzhi, Tibet. She also served shortly as an Army nurse. Three years later, she was discharged from the army, and joined People's Art Theater of Chengdu, and became a professional actress. Her performance as a young man in the stage play Yueqin and Little Tiger drew the attention of movie director Teng Wenji, which gained her her first movie role in On The Beach (1985), as a village girl who becomes a factory worker and struggles against her father's will for her to marry her cousin.

In later years, she appeared in several movies. She temporarily moved to New York in 1991 to attend New York University's film department as a visiting scholar, but later obtained a special visa that allowed her to remain in the United States until she became a citizen in 1999.

Bai Ling certainly has had an unusual raise to stardom, It makes one wonder why does she keep flashing her nipple to paparazzi's all over the place? Yes, I use the singular form of the word nipple, as it hasn't come to my attention that she's been shot on camera with both nipples on sight. If anyone knows better, please keep the comments coming.

I can't help but pondering if it's her way to compensate for her shy military teen years? It mustn't have been easy for her in the hugely male dominated people's Liberation Army. Just imagine the harsh environment of Tibet; over 5000 km above the sea level, the rugged mountain winds whispering to the PLA soldier's ears; "I don't know what you've been told, but I know Bai Ling's hot pussy is worth much more than gold!". Sorry, was that Frank Zappa on my mp3 player?

Whoever it was, don't be alarmed, PLA soldiers are heavily trained to resist temptation (and I am not being ironic).

Bai Ling is a controversial American-Chinese Actress, enough so that I'll write more posts on her, and no, not because she's a bi nor a semi-exhibitionist, that isn't controversial enough in my weblog, and sexual undertones don't qualify for controversy if you ask me, sex's way too over-rated and over advertised.

Still, there is something captivating about Bai Ling, she's like a spoiled, mischievous femme fatale diving into the camera flash lights while almost dancing on the red carpet, promoting her cleavage up to a point where other stars start to frown upon her behavior but she just can't be bothered to think what others may or may not think about her actions.

Check out her filmography on IMDb.

Read her ramblings and prose on her personal blog.

Omega and Zhang Ziyi's beach photos

Chinese Actress Zhang Ziyi was signed up by Omega for their advertising campaign for 2009, alongside with Nicole Kidman, Georgy Clooney and Michael Phelps. It didn't take many weeks after when private beach photos of Zhang Ziyi appeared all over the Internet drawing a lot of attention.

In my opinion, the photos weren't really not much to write home about, nor to upload online for that matter. There's public nude beaches all over Scandinavia and many other European Regions, where these things take place all the time.

It seems that Kevin Rollenhagen, a top executive for Swatch Group's China operations takes the "incident" calm as well.

Mr. Rollenhagen points out to a similar incident which took place years ago with the Omega brand. Not long after signing American supermodel Cindy Crawford to represent the brand, she appeared on the cover of Playboy. While awkward at the time, it “never really made any long-term impact,” Mr. Rollenhagen states.

“Now are Chinese superstars held to a higher standard than Western ones? Maybe, but there’s no sign that this incident was inappropriate,” he said. “She’s a beautiful woman, on vacation with her boyfriend on a private beach. And some photographer climbed over a fence and took some photos that shouldn’t have been taken.”

You can read more about it here.

I don't know what else to say but any publicity is good publicity.

Everybody wants a better contract

The Korean government and entertainment industry are looking for ways to revive the popularity of Korean pop culture in other Asian countries, which has been declining steadily, meanwhile Korean celebrities are getting frustrated about their agents being overly controlling.

Last year the Korean Fair Trade Commission surveyed 350 celebrities about their contracts. About 200 said that they were forced to report on their whereabouts even when they were not working. More than 100 said they totally lack a private life. One Korean singer told that her agent constantly rings her up to check her whereabouts.

Oppressive contracts and intrusions into personal lives create unsatisfied stars, and conflicts between agents and celebrities do have an impact on the entertainment industry, and not a good one.

The agencies response was that this monitoring is necessary because they have made big investments in their stars and need to prevent celebrities defecting to another agency.

Yeah right, if my supervisor would ring me up on my mobile on weekends and holidays, just to check up on me, to make sure I'm not looking for a better job nor contemplating on handing over my resignation letter, there's no doubt I'd entertain myself with the idea of defecting to North Korea.

And if he would dare to copy my SIM card, or let alone tamper with my mobile, it'd be war, I'm talking  software vulnerability exploitations, bot farms, DoS attacks, redirecting history to /dev/null, db injections...

Rinko Kikuchi - Japanese Actress

Rinko Kikuchi, born January 6, 1981, is a Japanese actress and fashion model. She is the first actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years - from Japan, that is.

Rinko Kikuchi was born in Minamigaoka, Hadano-City, Kanagawa-Prefacuture. She debuted in 1999 under her birth name, Yuriko Kikuchi in Ikitai (Will To Live), a film directed by Kaneto Shindo.
In 2004, Rinko Kikuchi appeared in the critically acclaimed Cha no Aji (The Taste of Tea), directed by Katsuhito Ishii, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

Rinko Kikuchi made her Hollywood debut in 2006 with a role in Babel, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. She played Chieko Wataya, a deaf-mute teenage girl, for which she was critically acclaimed and nominated for numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 
Her first English language role was in The Brothers Bloom in 2008, directed by Rian Johnson.

Rinko Kikuchi in "The Bloom Brothers", directed by Rian Johnson (2008).                                         

Rinko Kikuchi is also a fashion model and stars in Chanel's cruise 2008 collection of handbags, photographed by Karl Lagerfeld.

 

"She has real power in her gaze, and an enormous potential to be a great actress," said karl Lagerfeld, who shot the campaign in June in Paris. Next year Rinko Kikuchi will be seen starring together with Gong Li  and John Cusack in Shanghai, a film directed by Mikael Håfström (currently in post-production).

Trivia

Height 169 cm (5' 6½")

Is skilled in sword-fighting.

Lives in central Tokyo with her long-time boyfriend, actor Federico Aletta.

Is an accomplished motorcyclist and horseback rider.

Sources:IMDb & Wikipedia