“Pékin est pour moi l’antithèse de Shanghai. Plus dure, plus authentique, elle est surtout devenue ces dernières années, le lieu de prédilection de l’Avant-garde chinoise. Depuis mon premier voyage en 2001, elle a bien changé!”
“Beijing is to me the antithesis of Shanghai. Tougher, more authentic, especially in recent years it became the place of choice for the Chinese Avant-garde. Since my first trip in 2001, it has changed a lot!”
Pékin Underground by Alain Le Baquer
I remember the first time I saw this book at Fnac and thought “wow those photographs really inspire me”, I didn’t buy the book back then. Then I moved to Antwerp and decided to search for the book here… It wasn’t in store but I ordered it and about 4 weeks later got the book and I was beyond happy to finally have a copy of it. The book is just beautiful black and white photography with some text about Beijing nowadays or well “Beijing Underground”. It talks about music, art, politics and a couple of more subjects. The book is entirely in french though so I am sorry for you non speaking french peoples.
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anonymous1: Just witnessed a police standoff in front of my crib
aesthetics23: Ohhshit! That’s gangsta!
aesthetics23: That might be the best news I’ve heard all day
anonymous: Mexicans getting arrested at gun point? In central LA? That’s normal! Haha
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Dearest Californians and fellow voters,
While I’m excited about the high speed train prop that looks like it’s gonna pass (right now anyway), and I’m thrilled for the chickens in prop 2 or whatever it is, and I’m sort of ambivalent about prop 8 (sorry dudes, I voted no on it but I can’t say I think “marriage” is anything that should be defined by governments, gay or otherwise), I have to say I am happy about president Hussein, who I did in fact vote for. It’s good to see people actually focus on real issues, like, uh, the economy, and, I don’t know, energy policy, instead of people focusing on the government telling certain groups of people what they can and can’t do, like who can marry who and telling a lady she can’t suck or scrape (or whatever they actually do) a fetus out of her vag.
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