Not much time for words, so Photos will suffice for now...

 

 

 

 

Back in the PRC

So here we are back in China, this time in Bejing. Its day three and already things are out of control. Not really, but the pace here is so fast. Thus far we've seen the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall, which is the oldest section built by the Qing dynasty. We then saw the MIng Tombs and the next day the SUmmer Palace. We've gotten lost looking for bars and instead stumbled upon a back alley street with an old Ay Yi selling food and beer and we hung with her, getting drunk and eating for 20 rmb. We met our Peking University counterparts yesterday, and I was matched up with a very intelligent and open minded student who was all about talking about the taboo issues of China, and seems to have a revolutionary flare that Mao would be proud of. She'll be a big help with my thesis. We walked around yesterday and did some location scouting, Tetsugo actually got a photo, and I found an entire street of the housing complexes I'm looking for, as well as the burnt out Hotel next to the CCTV building which looks incredible in its shelled out glory. So hopefully today I'll actually be able to shoot, though I need to coordinate today's activities with how I will lug around the 4 x 5 camera I'm using. Not much time to write in detail, and i need to pick up a CF card reader before I can upload photos, but i've been shooting alot, and will soon have some good stuff up.

Yo Gabe! this is for you

One of my professors, Gabe Martinez, teaches a course on the nude figure, and was a great help to me as I began exploring the nude and its infinite complexity as an incredibly loaded artistic subject.



photo courtesy chinadaily.com



http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/18/content_392782.htm

"The girl said: "As an adult, I know what I am doing and of course have the freedom to do this, if I like."
I like to work with amateurs, friends, non-professionals because I value sincerity in the relationship between the model and the photographer; and the one thing each of my friends has said about posing nude and later being displayed nude is that it is an extremely liberating experience.

"I think it's worth the money. I can leave my most beautiful time eternally on the negative and photos," a 20-year-old girl with a nearby university said, on condition of anonymity"
But it think the service is feeding off a very image concerned culture that values beauty almost religiously. The Egyptian society functioned under the Death Cult mentality, and the Chinese functions under the Aesthetic-Cult mentality. So as these girls attempt to capture themselves at their most beautiful stage using modern means, they are paying tribute to an ancient obsession with everlasting youth and aesthetics

When is Philly going to get on the ball!

I know there have been situations where Karen, Gabe, or Brent would have definitely appreciated a little "constitutional" support

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7564654.stm

Their justification for this is so ridiculous, I can't even comment. Words are very unnecessary... (depeche mode)

"When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that's when all of these shootings started,"