Random weekly collection Vol.1

Spent the last few days at art openings, meeting people and eating and drinking local. Oh, and we've decided to adopt...

Getting down at Kai Bar.

A great opening by Gao Xiaowu and "Tamen" collective.

Someone makes cigarettes with hearts inside the filters. Genki-des!

I thought this was more poetic than it was - aapparently calligraphy artists practice in local parks with water on the grey stone. Beautiful to watch, even if it isn't politically motivated.

One of the last remaining bits of the walls that once surrounded Beijing.

More plastic fantastic. Speaking of plastic, I saw a nose and boob job clinic called 'Plastic Aesthetic Surgery Centre'. It was right next to Yuppy Disco.

TI haven't worked out exactly what these are yet, but they seem to appear outside certain types of official areas. They seem to list staff employed there, and this one was at a toll booth.

Ikea is really scary in China - the food hall seats about a thousand people, who don't even like pickled herring.