When walking home tonight I saw this weird combination of products;
a box, a can, a suitcase and a brick.
I gave it some thought and the best I came up with was they probably wanted the parking space and this was their way of claiming it?
I went back to make the shot of the treehouse shop again, this time with tripod to get a crystal clear shot. 30 meters to the right however I found this mushroom (which is some weird looking ventilation shaft for the subway). They don’t need Disneyland over here, it already exists!
Looks like I got a new fetish. Hate going for groceries. But it’s like public transportation; you avoid taking it at home but abroad it becomes fun. It’s the same with supermarkets. In the village I found this half empty one. I go there everyday to check if it’s still half empty it looks so serene.
It’s hard to find anybody in the western hemisphere that’s more superstitious than me. Must be because of my catholic upbringing, although the religious part didn’t really rub off on me. I saw these tiger socks and thought they would be a fine first Chinese gift for myself.
A friend told me people celebrate their animal year. Which means if you’re born the year of the tiger -2010 is also a year of the tiger- you either have a really good year or a bad year, nothing in between. To make it a good year people wear all sorts of reds things.
And now I find myself always picking the red version when buying things.
You also see a lot of kiddo’s wearing tiger outfits.
The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre is located in Caochangdi which is a migrant workers village in Beijing. The village is illegal meaning that all the houses and businesses are build without having the right permits. The future of the village is uncertain. There’s talk that the village will be torn down and the numerous art galleries will survive but some say everything will be taken down. However people are always building new houses or adding another level. So you can find these walls of bricks allover town. Sometimes they just build a little room around the pile such as in the last picture, I think it’s a toilet.
