Back to Beijing

...back to the usual rush of Beijing.
but enjoying the last days of "Beijing's blue sky" and traffic regulation!
working on Air's show (coming up at Yugongyishan 26th and 27th).
re-listening to Virgin's suicide at the office
preparing the BUC 's october issue doing a little investigation about the Olympic-post-effect: will it be like a big hang over , or will it be the beginning of a new era , or hasn't this era already started 7 years ago when Beijing's big facelift for the Games started?
It's always hard to think about the future here in China, because it's already here , melted in the present.
for this topic, we chose to interview photographer Chi Peng , whose new works revolves around the city a lot (like a lot of others of course) but we especially like his adaption of the cctv towers mixed together with japanese Transformers:



Bert de Muynck from Moving cities(www.movingcities.org) also contributed a super nice and acid article. You'll see it in the hard copy.

And i also went down the street to track down one of these thousands of nice retired volunteers with their Yanjing beer sponsored Olympic Polo shirt.
Most of them are just "laobaixing", member of the neighborhood comittee. In Jiaodaokou and on Pingan avenue you can find one at every ten meters. They just chill ,the usual way , but they feel they have a new responsability, they serve the country and the games, and they're very proud of that.
Next week they'll go back to their normal life, which consists on chilling at the same corner of the street, observing people and things, notifying whose dog shited on the pavement, whose bike is badly parked. But next week they won't be wearing the polo shirt anymore.