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world without people
I personally didn’t like the festivities around China’s 60th anniversary that much.
The TV broadcast of Beijing’s military parade seemed like Kim’s wet dream of “North Korea goes ROTC” – endless rows of pre-ejaculatory smiles and anticipating handclaps included. Stomp-stomp-stomp. This was somehow not the China that I had fallen in love with…
I resorted to being cynical, drinking tea and keeping myself busy with a thesis paper for school. When night broke, I decided to go outside and look for some peace of mind.
…it was just a ride in the elevator away:
…out there, hidden in the dead of night, lay a world without people:
…or rather, there were some people in it, but it was a quiet world nonetheless:
…the city seemed asleep:
…spread out like a drunk girl on a chaise longue:
…but wait! ”小心你上当受骗“ – “Beware of being taken in and cheated”:
…maybe things were not quite the way they seemed?
Something seemed to tell me that sleep would always remain an illusion for this place:
…no matter how dark the night.
Maybe, I thought, maybe all the soldiers, tanks and airplanes on the tele have been illusions too?
Soundtrack: The Who – “Behind Blue Eyes”
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October 2nd, 2009 at 12:56
Can't agree with u more~
October 2nd, 2009 at 22:04
人生如戏 !
戏如人生 ?
October 5th, 2009 at 09:10
This post is another reason why I love your blog so much. Thanks for that!
PS: The 2nd picture is truely amazing…
October 5th, 2009 at 11:33
loved the picture with the house number 84 and the ghost-like blue building in the background.
October 6th, 2009 at 09:48
Great stuff, love the atmosphere in the pics and the simple but telling style in this post.
October 9th, 2009 at 03:22
it's amazing!!!!!! i'm envy you. good luck!!!
October 10th, 2009 at 13:17
beautiful pics
October 11th, 2009 at 04:31
i love your blog, dahlin!
And your walk video from beijing to China is just pure awesome!
October 11th, 2009 at 12:24
Da alles Illusion ist, wird es wohl stimmen. Grüße
October 14th, 2009 at 11:58
love you.
purple.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:28
totally agree. love the country, love the people, the ones running it? not so much.
October 19th, 2009 at 04:29
What a trip!! I just finished reading every single post on this site and I feel so…. so nostalgic of a similar trip I did before work swamped me. Of course I never walked such distances nor witnessed such grandeur but it really does inspire me to do another. Who knows I just might, what with all this economic stuff happening around :)
Loved your photography, loved ur dance moves every 1000 clicks, loved the video, the caboose and the beard. Wish u luck and really hope to see you do something spectacular like this again. The Middle East maybe??
Auf Weidersehen Cristoph!!!
October 22nd, 2009 at 02:44
Momo: Good to know you're still there!
Steven: Ha, you old philosopher! :)
Petra: Thanks!
nati: Haha, now that you mention it – it is a bit ghostlike indeed!
Anto-San: It was a pleasure photographing that night.
sing koo: Thanks, and good luck to you!
Kev: Glad some people still like them. :)
Alain: From Beijing to China? :) :)
Hermann: See Steven.
purple: So many songs have been sung about love.
ZMH: I don't know them that well.
Yathi: Thanks for taking the time to read it all. A great honor for me. Glad you even liked the dance moves, I gave it all I've got!
January 9th, 2010 at 15:39
桥上那些字好囧 = =
February 24th, 2010 at 23:17
don't like the goose-stepping "Wehrmacht" eh ?
see….this is what happens after 60 yrs of peace under US "protection" LOL
oh and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCkOA01oLw
:)