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Finally the Olympics
August 24th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
22-08-2008 Beijing
After Gabrielle stood in line for three hours, we finally got tickets...I do not get it,: it is very difficult to get tickets, but there are lots of empty seats and we hear crowds of Chinese seatfillers are hired to look better on TV.
Any way we are in and enjoy the Olymic spirit in the flesh, after seeing it the whole day on TV like you guys everytwhere. Especially the womens volleyball seems to be on everytime we have to eat.Boxing is OK, the crowd is nicer to look at. All the...
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The day after..in the hutong
August 21th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
21-8-2008
about hutongs and the post 8o generation.
The day after the debate we take it slow. In the morning we go to a cool Hutong.
A hutong is an old part of town, the ones you always see in Chinese movies…
1.5 million people have been moved from their houses because of the Olympics and a lot of hutongs are torn down.
Now off course they are very fashionable and very expensive. In the hutongs are the small café’s where you can get cappuccino and pizza, and the cool tshirt shops are there etc.After coffeer shoppi...
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Talking to the Other
August 20th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
A tribute on Tiananmen square.
"Travelling we feel that something inportant is happening, that we are part of something while at the same time we are witnessing and creating it."
Ryszard Kapuscinski" The Other"Beijing 20-8-2008
Hello everyone. There is a strange silence on our site, where are you guys?
We are open now for a week and a half, and there is not much action goiing on. I startt wondering if we are doing the right thing, if we made the right buttons on the site to react, or maybe the site takes to much time to follow.
Anyway, everyone says it takes time to build up an audience, so I guess I am , as usual, too impatient. For those who are following or stories: Please let...bookmark:
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Holland Heineken House(HHH)
August 18th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
And than the Dutch are afraid of the Chinese Nationalism?
HaHaHaAfter the really nice and soft spoken people on the Boat we decided to make a short stop at the HHH.
Maybe the diffrence in atmosphere was just to big , but it was a complete cultureshock.....We heard that Holland was making the best party in the city and that you should go there.
HHH is a palace too big to be true in a pompues style.
Inside all the Orange Dutch Fans were celebrating, hundreds of them. I guess this is how Dutch corporate and city gouvernement life lo...bookmark:
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Being Gay in BJ
August 18th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
Beijng 18-8-2008
Maartje talks to the BJ Homosexual community on The Boat.
Thank you all visitors of the boat, and thank you Ilsa and Michael for a beautiful conversation on Third Culture/ Global Nomad kids.....we should also make a movie about that......I'll be back....The Boat is floating in the embassy neighboorhood.
Classic Chinese views(waterlilys, ponds, bikes, fisherman) and just new skyscrapers are making a new image in my head of Beijing now.The Boat is a meetingpoint og gay and lesbian Beijing but there are lots of gay bars, disco's and dark rooms in BJ. It is very funny that while shooting on deck ,all the young boys whom are standing in front of the embassys are going home for the day and so they march and yell and sing in a milita...
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First Debate Beijing Art Garden
August 17th, 2008, posted by: maartje nevejan
17-08-2008
In the studio of wonderful Sheng Sheng and her family
camara woman: Xao minYou can see the movies of the debate the first week of September.
For now already some pics of my friend Gabrielle Marks, who is the most fantastic guide in this city.The group:
All people were friends of Xao Min from her village near Beijing. They all came from the country to Beijing and live more or less half an hour by car from the city.
Some were still in highschool(or middle school as it is called here) Some were artists, some study in Beijing. Topics we talked ab...bookmark:
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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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