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Midnight talk with Wei wei and Been
August 17th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
2 o'clock at night in room 101
17-08-2008 BejngWei wei is making music. He writes his own lyrics and loves soft pop music.
What do you write about?Wei wei:
About my soul and the pain I have. I feel lonely, lots of my friends feel lonely. Our parents want us to work and earn a lot of money, but we just want to make music, hang out and feel our souls.
The parents do not understand us and so we all feel lonely. But if I make music, that all disappears, it is beautiful and I am happy.
But I do not know how long ...bookmark:
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Mao live
August 17th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
16-08-2008
after the concert of Queen Sea Big Shark...
Mao Livehouse Beiijing 16-08-2008
Today we first filmed Xidan 77th street, a big underground shoppingmall for the young people.
In the main hall a DJ was playing, it was full with people hanging out, not so much buying stuff as just being there. There is one big gameroom packed with all sort of games for different ages, also for the very young.Lots of drumming games. I will try to upload a small movie of one.
Afterwards we went to the Boers-Li gallery. In another artist vi...bookmark:
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fake and real in Beijing artdistrict 798
August 15th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
especially for the Pal West group: remember our debate on copying?
Friday 15th of August
We had an appointment with Sheng Sheng, a documentary filmmaker in the @cafe. One of the big suprises of Beijing is that there are real art villages in the city. It feels more like Berlin in there than China. When I saw these art pieces thought of you guys from Pal West and our debate shown on this site" Copying is not allowed".
How real is fake? And is fake not as real as real?
Who is imitating who, and why always the West? And how do you f...bookmark:
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A call from beijing
China
Chain: China Olympics
August 15th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
The first day of Cous cous Global in Bejing!
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Blog first day in Beijing
August 14th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
14 augustus 2008
Ni hao. We just arrived, Gabrielle and me. It is raining cats and dogs and I see people cycling with poncho;s everywhere. It is very quit, on the airport and in the streets. very clean as well. The hotel we are in is full with young people working there. We get our Beijng telephones and start making phonecalls to meet people and arrange our debate in a few days.
Here you see the ladies from the receptiondesk and the mascottes of the Olympics. According to some people the are the cau...
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Massage salon Ying Mei
Amsterdam 4-8-8
4-8-8
Amsterdam, Massage beauty salon Ying Mei
After 4 weeks in te South of Europe I am coming back to my neigboorhood: in Amsterdam.: the red light district or what is left of it.
I am reading the papers, not only of today, but of the last 4 week. They are all full of Beijng , the sports, the streets, the polution, the human rights.
My head is spinning of all the warnings, all the “be careful of”stories.
In 10 days I will be in Beijng.The red l...
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