Typhoon Show 2012, Elements

Typhoon Show 2012, Elements

Shot for The Daily Northwestern, also so my colleague (#2) could show her parents what she's been up to.

More macro of ugly fuchsia flowers, courtesy of my mother's garden.

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It's spring, which means it's time to break out the macro lens. I love the way the world smells right now.

“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”

Albert Camus

Beijing Day 22: 前门 and 王府井

1. Ate everything

2. Got stalked by a crazy man who slowly pedaled after us on his bike for half a block while repeating a salacious verse  

3. Watched Alice step in poop

4. Wandered aimlessly around high end malls, soaking up the free air conditioning

5. Spent precious millimeters of personal space playing Dragon Fly on the subway at rush hour

Beijing Day Five: 三里屯

So Beijing gives me a lot of hope for the future of China. Unlike Shanghai, which is mainly a city of crooks, Beijingers are civilized. There's no public spitting, blatant littering or rampant pick-pocketing. People will apologize if they accidentally bump into you. Subway passengers will allow others to disembark prior to squeezing onto the train. So what if there's so much pollution you can stare directly at the sun without feeling a thing? At least the elderly don't encourage their grandbabies to poop in the street. 

Nevertheless, northerners have a painfully stunted cuisine compared to that of Shanghai. Yet compared to the US there's really no comparison at all, and frankly there's just no way around the simple fact that life is pretty good right now.