Absurdity, Allegory and China

Alex Pasternack has a piece on the CCTV fire at Far East Economic Review, entitled Beijing’s Trial By Fire. There is an accompanying soundslides picture presentation, A CCTV Building Burns to a Crisp. Some of the photos from the video were taken by my daughter, Moira, who happens to live within a five-minute walk of the infamous project and was present at the witless burning. So I am happy to see that she has gotten her name in the CCTV lights. Perhaps now she’ll take her dad more seriously when he says she needs to get more involved with photography. In China you’ll need a VPN or some other end-around, since FEER is on the Nanny’s bad list.

–The proud father

And just because, here’s another one of my photos of the charred wreckage. (Click for a larger version.)