Photos from July 23 2011

Took a few pictures today as I was walking around downtown Vancouver (Yaletown) July 23 2011

Frontline: The Diamond Empire

Bling Bling ! I wrote this post with the mobile app & didn't have a picture of 

diamonds, so I took a picture of my girlfriends watch. Seems fitting for the topic.

I love this video. I love it when I hear about a good business plan / marketing strategy executed. The diamond industry executed what I consider, an example of THE most successful marketing strategy ever executed... EVER!!

Some of you may already know about diamonds and/or the diamond industry. Most of you may not know how duped you all are. I love reading about a successfully executed business plan and breaking it down. I appreciate all sides of the plan, every aspect of it. The diamond game, in my opinion, would be an example of the most successful marketing campaign ever ! You may feel like you've been played by the top players in the whole diamond game, but you CANNOT deny, that it was one helluva plan !. They were able to control everything we did... made up our minds for us !. "Diamonds are rare", "Should keep a diamond forever", "Love", "Girl's best friend", yada yada yada. I don't think any other marketing strategy will ever come close to the level of AWESOMENESS that the diamond industry executed.

Anyways,  it's a very old documentary, released in 1994, and it looks as though the video was recorded on VHS (for those that don't know what a VHS is, like you don't know what that square thing is on the "save" button, I'll save that for another blog post), so the video quality is not that great. None the less, it's a great documentary, and I think people should give it a watch.





You can watch the video on the Google Video page here.

If your girlfriend is bugging you for a rock....  make her watch!  LOL !

Cheers !