Day trip at the Olympics park, where we all got a little tanner despite a hat, sunglasses, and an umbrella (because it was raining yesterday) ensemble. It was hot. It was bright. I want my smoggy, cloudy, egg yolk sun back instead of swimming in a sea of sun umbrellas on a 90 degree day at the concrete jungle that is the Olympics park. So story is, nobody can get close to the Bird Nest/Water Cube/Olympics Park in BJ these days unless you have a ticket to a game, were lucky enough to covet a “tour” ticket that was given to specific companies, or like Rong&I, knew a friend who worked inside who knew somebody in charge of letting people in. To be honest though, the park was a bit of strange experience, a hybrid of commercialization, mediocre sculptures, and one of the biggest McDonald’s I’ve ever seen. We spent the morning visiting a bunch of exhibitions: China Mobile, Johnson&Johnson, Volkswagon, GE, and apparently Coca-Cola has a sweet exhibition but lines are mile long. The day that people start lining up to watch commercials and sweet waterfalls that spell out things like “WIND WATER FIRE METAL EARTH…. GE.” It’s pretty ridiculous. In fact, I don’t know how I feel about this at all.
All in all
to be very honest
I think I may have overdosed on the Olympics
Rong
GE building
That is, GE is imagination
The GE watercube
The FUWA parade
Rain on my parade… ICE ICE baby
Fire baby
Yep, those are plates they are spinning.
Shield me from the sun…
Little nests… big nests…
To be frank, the Bird Nest is quite the monstrosity up close and personal.