... white spaces
05 Mar 10
Entrance to the Today Art Museum offices with a work of Yeh Yu- Hsuan.
CAFA, museum, ‘End of the world’. The work reminds me of things I’ve seen from Anish Kapoor.
W.Y in front of ‘End of the world’
... downtown
04 Mar 10
Yesterday I had a nice thought while passing this place: ‘it’s impossible for me to get lost in BJ; since I don’t have a clue where I am to begin with’.
I found it a very comforting thought, so now I can wonder around for 3 months without worrying too much about directions.
Stairs in the Dongdan Sports Centre swimming pool. Totally Yayoi Kusama going geometric. The sign is -I guess- literally translated out of Chinese, you see that a lot. This one is almost poetic. The pool is great, at least twice the size of our petite 25meter pools. So now there are no excuses for not following my training schedule.
... 798 brides
03 Mar 10
798 is the old bomb & ammunition factory area turned into an art district. Although it stills hosts some nice galleries and museum (UCCA) it’s really commercial nowadays. I was passing by this morning and found out it’s also very popular with newly weds for taking bridal pictures.
They call it ‘walking your bird’ (forgot the chinese name). I’ve seen men before bringing their birds to an outdoor game of checkers but I’ve never seen them hang on trees in a group.
... kill your darlings
24 Feb 10
For the Dutch Cultural Media Fund (Mediafonds) book assignment I had to do some hard core photo selecting. 15 projects with numerous fine pics. As they say: kill your darlings. These weird stills are among the unfortunate ones that didn’t make it.
... mittens
22 Feb 10
So it finally looks like winter is over. This morning I woke up at 6.30 by the singing of a lonely bird! Only nice thing about winter are these fine mittens made by old Lithuanian women. Jan gave me the brown with pink ones. Funny thing is they kind of are ambidextrous since the thumb is in the middle of the mitten. So it always feels a bit funny when you wear hem. I have a habit of losing gloves but with these beauties I make sure not to leave them behind.
