Absurdity, Allegory and China

The CCTV HQ project & site-specific graffiti. December 9, 2009 4:16 PM Larger version here.

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Beijing 3:45 PM, December 9, 2009 Larger version here.

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Warning: imagined full-frontal content below In my last post I wrote about the pornographic flap over the CCTV Headquarters complex, the project that continues to knot a lot of knickers. And there is no sign that it’s about to let up. It has become the piñata that won’t stop giving: whack it again and it [...]

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An old joke: first day in prison a young inmate sits silently in the cafeteria spooning his gruel. The rule for all meals is a firm ‘no talking.’ As everyone quietly slops it in a guy jumps up and yells, “Fifty-six!” and quickly retakes his seat. Everyone breaks into hysterical laughter (gruel spraying through the [...]

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This one almost got by me. (Thanks to MMG for bringing it to my attention.) Rem Koolhaas was featured in the Wall Street Journal last month in a piece entitled The Sky’s No Longer the Limit, concerning architecture and the the end of this latest golden age as major building projects throughout the world have [...]

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I thought I would give a video slideshow a try, so here is my first attempt, a few of my photos from the OMA / Koolhaas CCTV Headquarters project. The music is from Red Unit, Shanghai, a techno CulRev mix entitled The Ideal of Maoism. The music is Open Source. The voice-over is Zhou Enlai [...]

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Often when I take photos I don’t get around to looking at them for a while. I find I need a bit of distance between shooting and looking at what’s been shot in order to get a clearer perspective on what is good and what is not. So, last night I found this one from [...]

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Here are several b&w photos of the TVCC (Mandarin Oriental Beijing) and the CCTV HQ Building taken in the late afternoon on New Year’s Day, January 26, 2009. Click photos for larger versions More photos: Rudenoon Photostream CCTV HQ Photos Project

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On the afternoon of December 3, 2008 I went to Beijing and (surprise! surprise!) shot more photos of the CCTV Headquarters Building, 366 days – it’s a leap year – after I shot my fist photo of the building. Obsessions being what they are, it seemed to be a thing I needed to do. For [...]

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