Besides the very nice filming technique with two perspectives I think this clip is closer to reality than most other clips that appear a lot more agressive with the help of music, camera perspectives, etc.
I like this clip, makes me want to go out and riding 
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Archiv der Kategorie 'why not?'
It’s already out for a bit now but if you get hands on a recent Deuter catalogue (I suppose German only) you will be able to find some photos we took on our trip to Iceland last year. We managed to „test-walk“ their backpacks and other gear in exchange for the photos they can use in their promo-material. I‘m very happy with the backpack, though it’s huge, and I‘m fairly happy we we‘re actually chosen to be printed .
This is already up for a lot longer, click the image to see the website.
… finally released a new album this year titled „Heligoland“. I was listening to the album while working and got stuck at a certain song titled „Paradise Circus“. When I checked for a video to put it on here I came across several websites discussing the video itself which is described as somewhat between a „Mini-Featurette“, an art clip and a clip to jerk off. The main „actress“ of the clip is a certain „Georgina Spelvin“ who used to be a pornstar in the 70s, apparently playing in one of the most famous movies at that time „The Devil in Miss Jones“.
Of course the clip has been censored, but you can still find it here if you‘re interested.
The song is fairly beatiful and I suppose should be enjoyed without the pornography background. Listen below:
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus
With around 120.000 inhabitants Reykjavik is by far the biggest town in Iceland thus the capital of the state. I suppose it is not the smallest capital town in the world but I‘m sure it is the smallest capital that maintains such a cosmopolitan atmosphere. Apart from the architecture which is rather „down-to-earth“ the town is truly different. I have never seen such a wild nightlife in a small town like this (just come to Bolzano and find out yourself – we are about as big as Reykjavik), the music scene is as diverse as you hear it and yet the town is very relaxing and by far not chaotic or „never-resting“ like most other capital towns (I know it’s about the size…).
We spent a few days in Reykjavik mainly relaxing and regaining energy for the next hikes. So most of the time we just walked around and looked at what we saw or simply went to the pool to soak in the hot pools.
I checked my photos and the only place on this trip where I didn‘t take a lot of photos was Reykjavik. Here are just a few of the few that I really like.
The famous Hallgrímskirkja in the city center, its architect Guðjón Samúelsson was inspired by the basalt pillars created by volcanic activities. With it’s 74,5m high bell tower the church is among the highest buildings in Iceland.
who is watching who now?
probably the best website you could imagine for an erotic store
After the disappointment of the Laugavegur we headed to Selfoss, a town close to Reykjavik. The next town is Hveragerdi [Kverageri] which is the starting point of one of the geothermal regions in Iceland. Once you leave the town northward and hike for about 1-2 hours you reach a creek that has a nice temperature to take a bath. One of the smoky sulfur springs flows together with an ice cold mountain spring which creates a creek with an average temperature of around 40°C near the crossing. We spent the whole afternoon relaxing after the days of hiking and enjoyed it a lot.
On the following day we walked further towards Þingvallavatn, a lake that was created by the gap between the eurasian and the north American tectonic plate. It is supposed to be one of the Top 10 scubadiving spots on earth due to the clear water leaving sight of approximately 100-130m.
One of the most interesting treks in Iceland is the „Laugavegur“, a 4-6 day hike either starting in Landmannalaugar or in Skógar, a small town on the southern coast with one of the most famous waterfalls, the Skógafoss. We decided to hike northward starting in Skogar. The first day led across a small path between Myrdalsjökull and Eyjafjallajökull. After the eruption in March the trekking path has been changed and now leads across dark lava fields that are still hot inside.
In the higher parts of trek the landscape turns from grey rocks to black sand. After a while you realize that you are actually walking on snowfields covered by black ashes from the recent volcanoe eruption.
We weren‘t extremely lucky with the weather that day but a big part of the fog is also produced by steam from below.
Many people told us that we shouldn‘t put down our backpacks as they could catch fire very easily. I don‘t know if it’s more of a legend but the ground was hot in some parts.
A lava stream found its way down a valley.
On the first day we reached „Þórsmörk“, a mountain ridge facing Eyjafjallajökull. It’s name derives from the Norse god „Thor“.
The following days after Þórsmörk led across black sand deserts lined with green rock formations sticking out of the ground. Once again I was stunned by the landscape.
Several rivers have to be crossed on the hike which never was a problem except for the temperature.
In Alftavatn, about 1 day trip before Landmannalaugar, we had to turn around and take the bus back to the coast. On the day of our arrival severe snowstorms were raging on the last mountain pass and on the morning of our departure it still didn‘t look very promising. Another reason to turn around was our food calculation, we made a mistake and were running out of food.
The bus was fun though, an old offroad bus that is crossing rivers and rocky paths, rumbling on southwards.
It was cloudy unfortunately but you can still see the volcano smoking white steam into the sky.
Taking a long-distance bus in Iceland is fairly expensive so at some points we decided to hitchhike to reach our next destination. One day I got a ride from the campsite with two Germans we had met on the ferry so we split up considering that just two will be picked up more easily. Well this day we were wrong. While I reached Jökulsárlón in no time, together with Anna & Simon, Stanzi and Max were stuck in Höfn a small coastal town in the far south-east.
I decided to stay over night so I could spend the whole day relaxing in the sun with the spectacular scenery of Jökulsárlón. The lake/lagoon is situated on the southern end of Vatnajökull, the biggest ice cap in Europe covering about 8% of Iceland, which constantly spits icebergs that slowly float in the crystal-clear water. You turn around and just a few meters behind you is a black sand beach that is also flooded with melting ice. In between all this you constantly spot seals diving up from the ocean into the lagoon to hunt herring.
One very happy coincidence was that I met Johanna (my flat- and „soulmate“ from China) who I knew was in Iceland but we didn‘t talk before we both left to exchange travel plans (well I didn‘t have any until I reached the island). We sat for a great while talking and watching the sun set behind the glacier leaving the lagoon in a spectacular light. Despite the trouble Stanzi and Max had it was a wonderful day for me.
Just imagine flapping your tent open in the morning to see the lake just right in front of you. It wasn‘t my last time in Iceland when I thought that this scenery is just extremely absurd.
We had a real shooting star in our little improvised photo studio last night. I think he really enjoyed being under the spotlight.
It seems to be all about bicycles lately… So what? Bicycles are great. Martin just sent me a link to the „Bicycle Portraits“ from South Africa. The website is full of very nice photos and the stories behind the people riding bikes. Absolutely worth checking out.
The Bicycle Portraits project was initiated by Stan Engelbrecht (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nic Grobler (Johannesburg, South Africa) early in 2010. Whenever they can, together or separately, they’re on the lookout for fellow commuters, and people who use bicycles as part of their everyday work, to meet and photograph.
I just came across this very easy and still nice solution of a bicycle basket. It’s made by Mio Design a company from Philadelphia specialised on Eco Design.
I like the look of it but was wondering whether the laser cut metal sheet is that much more ecological compared to a regular basket. The energy used in the production process is assumably high but then again the welding of regular baskets is probably taking a lot of energy either.
via fixpatrix
Well it’s done, the website for my final thesis project is online. I wrote before that my topic is ‚travel‘ or ‚journey‘ so I ended up with the idea of creating a magazine that includes more or less exceptional travel stories. Unlike other travel magazines that try to inform their readers about certain countries giving them hints on where to stay or when to travel, I aim to put the traveler in the centre. Traveling cannot be experienced in the exact same ways others did. There is no conformity so to say.
I‘m still at the beginning of the actual design process but to reach potential authors and readers I decided to launch a website already that serves as an example and showcase of what I have in mind.
The first issue will cover the topic ‚freedom of travel‘ so if anyone who is reading this would like to contribute a story, photos, etc. feel free to contact me and I will tell you more. Contributions are certainly possible in English as well.
Sorry though that the website and the magazine will be in German.
I just came across some more photos of the ‚Eyjafjallajökull‘ which are truly amazing. Check the Boston.com website to see more of it.
(AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)
(AP Photo/Omar Oskarsson)
Although Cuba was among the socialist friends of the GDR it was of course almost impossible to travel there. Interflug, the one and only East German flight carrier, had flights to Cuba in its program but the price for a plane ticket was certainly way too high for the average income.
And not only that it was impossible to reach the island the distribution of books was also highly limited. The photos below show a photo book from 1964 by VEB Brockhaus Publishing. We found it on a street market a few years back and gave it to our parents. A little note inside quotes that it was formerly a present to somebody working in the publishers business.
‚In acknowledgement for your help in the design and publication of our company paper.‘
The socialist education is of course never far – the description of the photos translates to ‚For Zafra, the harvest of sugar cane, thousands of volunteers go to the countryside. – The liberated Cuban farmers work together in a state-owned farm.‘
…and that would be the equivalent photo taken in 1981 from the ‚Gellértberg‘ (see the second image in the previous post).
While looking through my parents‘ library I came across this very nice travel guide about ‚walking tours in Budapest‘. It was made in 1974 and due to the high cost of photo prints supplemented with very nice illustrations and hand-drawn maps by Attila Emödy.
„Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferryboat or something. But [the song] was kind of . . . you‘re just a weekend hippie. Get it?“
Once again it’s been done before but it was still interesting to see what I usually take with me as ‚essential‘ luggage. One thing in the image is already wrong – my camera equipment is much bigger. Here I only put the small camera in the lower part as example. Other that that I carry the usual in my big red backpack: some clothes (including shoes, underwear and weather-proof pants and jacket), passport, headphones and MP3 Player, a cellphone (as alarm clock, usually not as a phone), a pocket knife, a pen and notebook, a toothbrush and -paste, a very handy sewing kit (served me already many times), super glue (also this can help in the worst case), a book, a towel, my house keys, a bag for daily use (camera bag, etc.), sunglasses and some spare shoe laces.
I wonder how far I could reduce it and still be able to help me out in the most situations?!
The second ‚big‘ event of last week was the ‚typo auction‘ initiated by Martin. For his last semester project ‚UN-TYPE-ISCH‘ he collected letters from old neon signs and used them to create a book about typography that has a great 3D effect when using colored glasses.
After taking photos of the letters they were ’stuck‘ in our studio for a while until he decided to sell them in an auction and give the money to Designistan (our unofficial student group) to finance our blog, etc.
I was recording with very shaky hands and ‚editing the video afterwards.
We finally did it we had our first Ping Pong Competition at the university. The Competition table was a regular Eiermann table we have in our studios. It was a great success with 14 people participating actively and many spectators stopping by to have a beer or watch the games.
Sara & Martin as well as myself filmed during the whole evening, I did the ‚editing‘ afterwards. I like the rather ‚trashy‘ style very much but I have to admit that it is due to the little time I have to edit it properly. And besides it fits into the image of the evening and Simones pink bike tights
It’s almost one week now that I have my studio at the university ‚outpost‘ for my thesis. One week without much progress except on the theoretic part but even though the time is short the first week should be used for adapting to the new situation I guess .
Well this post is just to show how much time I use for doing non-thesis nonsense work together with drinking coffee next door and so on.
my strange neighbors 
I have an entry in my notbeook from a trip where I had the wish of beaming myself to my desired destiny. The whole entry started a very interesting discussion with my brother and friends and came back to mind just recently.
‚I‘m once again stuck in a travel bus. Sleep is impossible since the ground we drive on cannot be called a road [European measure] and the driver really seems to insist on the ‚EXPRESS‘ sign on the outside. While I‘m dozing I start thinking about how much time I spent for transportation on this 10-day trip (not inlcuded inner-city transport) and come to a total of about 30 hours. I‘m impressed although not shocked. Wouldn‘t it be nice to be able to beam myself instead of going through all this hustle?‘
The whole idea was mainly brought to audience by the TV show Star Trek with its most famous sentence ‚Beam me up Scotty.‘ but it could become reality one day as scientists already work on it for quite some time.
In all the discussions we found out that beaming is not just about crossing long distances without the dimension of time. There are far more positive and probably even more negative aspects that need to be questioned before anyone should really consider using this technology.
One of the many aspects we talked about were the components ’space‘ and ‚location‘. As we discussed it we figured that they lose their total meaning. It simply doesn‘t matter anymore where I am if I could beam myself to any place in about no time. In the meantime it puts a very high pressure on us. Because we can we also have to be basically ‚everywhere‘.
I think the most important question though was whether it effects my body or different if I can be ‚reduced‘ to a binary code what would be the effect when just a small portion is changed?! We found a possible solution to that but the consequences are immense. My personal binary code of the very moment needs to be registered and saved in a HUGE database to have something like a backup in case of an error. What this means though is that I‘m giving the information of myself to make reproduction possible.
From this point I could go on forever but to me or us it showed that transportation becomes a mere side-product or maybe also simply a justification for scientists to work on it.
I saw this sign this morning while waiting for the ski lifts to open up in Selva Gardena (Wolkenstein) in Val Gardena (Gröden). Just a very lovely use of english at the fassade of a 4-star Hotel.
I‘m more and more thinking about my upcoming thesis and started writing down any kind of thought that seems appropriate for my topic. In general the topic will be ‚travel‘ or ‚journey‘ which sound and are actually quite huge terms that don‘t really give me a point to start. Or I simply would need to choose a ’sub-topic‘ and start from there which of course seems easier to find than it is. I still have time to cut it down a little but then again I would like to do that soon.
So this morning I had a question in mind that is a little abstract but follows the idea of ‚Fischli/Weiß':
„If my mind is traveling can I say I‘m on vacation?“
Well I didn‘t find an answer, yet. Maybe I will be soon…
I was on a rescue mission sunday morning and boy I was lucky…I recovered my lost snow shoe just below the peak. Luckily there wasn‘t too much snow on it so we could see it.
The weather was perfect too so basically a great day.
lucky me with the missing snow shoe
Another great Christmas present that I got in 2009 was a pair of snow shoes which came to use for the first time this morning. We managed to get up very early and head for the ‚Rittner Horn‘, an about 2200m high peak just outside of Bolzano. While it was raining in the city at the time we left it was snowing pretty much all the way up. Being so early we were really the first ones to reach the peak by foot to then see a great winter panorama of the Dolomites. The ride down was not the best powder ride I had but it was still fun except to the point when we realized that I had lost one of my snow shoes that were attached to my backpack. Well I went up again and tried to find it which was useless at this point since the clouds had conquered the mountain. I didn‘t see a difference between the ground and the sky and kept falling which eventually led to strong cursing and last but not least I wasn‘t successful in my search either. Up to this point it was a lot of fun and I‘ll probably have to walk up there again tomorrow and restart my search (Max will borrow me his snow shoes..I sure hope I don‘t lose one again ).
So yes this is 2010 and I‘m still eager to write here. 2010 – a new year and a new decade. Last year has been extremely ‚rich‘ on new experiences and of course it simply keeps going. If nothing goes wrong I‘ll graduate this summer to see myself once again in the state of decision-making for the ‚what’s next‘ question. Obviously I don‘t know what will be but since it has always worked out so far I‘m not too concerned, yet. But let’s switch back to 2009 once again. Christmas was just a few days ago and I got a really nice present from my brother. It’s a comic book titled ‚Shenzhen‘ and was drawn by ‚Guy Delisle‘ a Canadian Comic Artist who spent 3 months in Shenzhen. Despite the very nice drawing style that I really enjoyed reading I found myself in his stories having experienced very similar situations. As I wrote several times before (I believe it was ’several‘ at least) I‘m not unhappy that I went but the more I think about it and the more time passes I realize that it was a very interesting and extremely helpful time but certainly not the happiest time in my life (except maybe some trips in between ). Right at the beginning Delisle writes „I kept realizing that it will be a very lonely time here.“ which is luckily not what I can share with him but I understand what he means. The Chinese culture – to me at least – is simply too different and even confusing that I would not consider spending a long amount of time in the country.
The book is a very nice description of a city that is simply absurd to westerners.
Last but not least two rather general examples of the book that anyone traveling in China will probably already notice:
in the elevator
a very common scene in any public space since Chinese are literally addicted to Mobile Phones
(top-bottom – left-right): ‚I‘m once again in China, this time in the South‘ – ‚Last time I spent in Nanking.‘ – ‚I had forgotten all about the smells, the noise, the many people, the dirt, the monotony.‘ – ‚I realized that only the good sides remained in my memories…the exotic…‘ – ‚Time blurs out bad memories, the impressions remain naively positive.‘
Alright it’s just another quote story no photos or anything. But well it’s almost Christmas and I‘m ’superbusy‘ (this would be the first quote already, an austrian guy told me that not long ago) so only a little story.
A few days ago a friend invited us for dinner. After the eating part we sat and had a few more glasses when suddenly (I‘m dramatizing today ) a book came to the table. I don‘t know whose book it was and where it came from but it caught our attention pretty much for the rest of the evening. The book is called ‚Findet mich das Glück?‘ (‚Does luck find me?‘) and was written by the Swiss artist duo Fischli/Weiß. The book is very simple as such containing ‚only‘ a number of questions that might seem strange in the beginning but make you think after a while, some question that make you laugh and some questions that are simply ridiculous. To some degree I guess it can be considered ‚philosophical‘ although I know that philosophy-lovers among us will probably call it ‚hobby-philosophy‘ in a rather negative sense. Well anyway I guess I should make some examples. So here we go:
‚Is my body a motel?‘
‚Why do I know everything better?‘
‚Should I pull off the muffler of my car and drive through the neighborhood?‘
‚I guess 2+2 equals 4, right?‘
I assume you get the idea of it by now. It’s quite fun to read it and discuss the questions with a bottle of red wine. Of course you also start to come up with your own questions. So the one question that I actually tried to ‚only‘ write about today (my quote of the day) is interesting because it works very well in German but once you translate it to English it’s still an interesting question but the whole play of words is not working out anymore.
‚Bin ich glücklich wenn ich Glück habe?‘ – ‚Ist glücklich sein verbunden mit Glück?‘
‚Am I happy when I‘m lucky?‘ – ‚Is being happy connected with luck?‘
I‘m impressed about the length of this entry when I consider the actual content .
another day another quote, this time from Paul Theroux:
Traveling is a process of disappearing
a lonely road
on a thin geographical line,
that leads into oblivion.
I read a very nice quote today from German graphic designer and typographer Erik Spiekermann:
„I cross the road when the traffic light is red even when children are present. Simply because kids need to learn that red doesn‘t mean anything. They need to check for cars and not just walk when the light is green. I could also simply write ‚rain is prohibited‘ because I want sunlight. Nobody will care about that.“
one of my favorite signs in Turkey/Istanbul…
The translation would be:
‚Danger! There is dog.
No wonder the Turkish have trouble with other languages…
I was out of town once again last week and finally started my photo organization and post-production process (again) today and came across this photo. It’s not that I particularly think that it is a great shot and I ‚Photo-Shopped‘ it quite a bit as well but the content made me smile yet again. ‚Hans‘ is the very Chinese name of a beer that was brewed in Xi‘an and sold for a very low price. Since ‚Hans‘ is a very traditional German male name we had great fun (not only because of the alcohol level) especially because we bought a case of 9 pints to survive the lovely 36 hour train ride to Kunming.
And it’s actually not a bad beer. I had much worse beer before that had a much worse price-quality level.
The Star Ferry is one of the many means to cross the waters dividing Hong Kong. It was founded in 1888 and is since then been extended several times but the boats remained as one of the historical artefacts in this else extremely modern town.
I just like the animation that’s why it’s on here .
While the People’s Republic celebrated its 60th birthday, the tanks were rolling and the women soldier in their tight dresses marching along I could finally experience the ‚China‘ that my ‚Guidebook to China‘ (I had bought the book before I came here to arrive not entirely stupid) talks about. Mark and I had met Lee Ming in Yangshuo 
while were lost somewhere in the rice fields riding our bicycles. So we ended up spending our time with him.
Since the government decided to have one week of National Holiday, which ended my work already last week, I sent him an e-Mail asking what he would be doing these days. So after he came to Shenzhen for two days he invited me to Humen, his hometown, to celebrate ‚Mid-Autumn‘ (the second most important festival in China) with him and his family. In between unbelievably delicious meals (which I would say were definitely the ‚centerpiece‘ of the whole stay ) I had the great chance to get to know his family and friends and to see where he lives. And really everyone who could speak just a little English tried to talk with me which was the first time to see here in China. My colleagues in the office never tried this hard.
Now I definitely have to reconsider my image of China and leave out the numerous rather negative experiences I had in the city of Shenzhen.
Humen bridge is connecting the city with Guangzhou across the Pearl river
friends and family altogether after the Mid-Autumn dinner
Mid-Autumn is also the day to fly ‚Wishing Lights‘ which we of course had to do as well
Lee Ming is an English teacher (just started this year) in a small Elementary School. He told his students of my stay and invited them to come and meet me. Unfortunately his message was misunderstood so only one girl appeared who was very nervous and too shy to ask me something in English (although Lee Ming told me that she is the best student in the class)…which is of course a normal thing if you‘re suddenly around a tall, blonde, strange-looking foreigner like me …
She was very sweet though and kept asking questions through Lee Ming. The best question was for sure ‚How can I become as tall as you?‘ That made me smile…
Humen was the key city for the first Opium War so you have memorials and Museums all around town praising the glorious victory against the British as well as Lin Zexu the Qing official who initiated the conflict.
Himmelweit is an exhibition project covering the ‚peaceful revolution‘ in Europe in 1989 starting next friday, October 2nd. Since my brother is actively taking part he introduced me to the group in Dresden that will have an exhibition titled brüche – Dresden | 1989 | Dresden. I was invited to design the invitation cards for them. The images result from two of the exhibition topics. See the second card here
I‘ll take good photos once I get a print version of it.
*UPDATE: click HERE to read an (German) article and see photos of the exhibition*
I haven‘t actually written anything about Shanghai which I will in the next days. For now just a few more photos that I like.
It’s not a lie either, Chinese really can sleep anywhere and I‘m impressed about that…
the Shanghai Tourism Festival started on that weekend so they decorated many parts of the city center with bright colors
don‘t know what this shop is about but I like the photo for some reason…I know it doesn‘t seem to be too exciting
another ‚non-exciting‘ photo that I like a lot, I don‘t know the name of the building though
China Daily, an english newspaper about China, published a very interesting article about two weeks ago. The author was commenting on Chinas recent step to ‚vitalizing the cultural industries‘. His main concern was of course the word ‚industry‘. China has shown that it is able to provide the world with manufactured goods. Shenzhen is once again a great example for this. It became rich due to the manufacturing industries that are set up all around town. But what does culture have to do with ‚industry‘?
[…] Culture in its broadest sense is the way we conduct our daily lives. […] Yes, our food is unique, and we all use chopsticks instead of forks and knives. Foreigners around the world are crazy about Chinese food, and there are Chinese restaurants everywhere you go. That is about it. […] At the moment there are probably more Chinese elements preserved in Korean and Japanese culture.
Coming back to the company I work at once again. You can basically see this here. Their ‚design‘ thinking is based on ’styles‘, ‚Western style‘ – ‚Chinese style‘ – ‚American style‘ – etc. They keep pretending that they maintain their ‚cultural identity‘ by simply adding a handful of elements found in Chinese architecture (in the few temples and palaces that survived) and copy the rest together from design books or the internet.
I assume the main problem is not that they wouldn‘t be able to do it different but it has proven to work very well for them. Customers ask for this kind of work and since they are the ones with the money a design office just like ours provides it. And I suppose once this cycle is running it’s hard to step forward and change the whole idea of ‚design‘.
When I realized this very early in the internship and talked with my flatmate and colleague about it we thought that maybe we can somehow show them different and make them question their ’style of work‘. Of course this was absolutely naive and turned out to be completely stupid since money controls the business. It seems that you cannot survive in China if you don‘t adapt to this. And what is even more frustrating is when your hear from the boss (behind your back never direct!) that he thinks you‘re just a beginner and have no experience and idea about design. Well yes to some degree that is true. My boss studied industrial design in Berlin though so he has seen and learned a different way. I assume that this should make a difference but I guess I‘m wrong once again. As I wrote before ‚Shenzhen is all about making money…and it better be as fast as possible!‘.
Johanna was once asked by a Chinese colleague if she could help to find an ‚African style‘ dentist clinic 
I found this logo sketch a while ago in the portfolio of icelandic graphic designer Siggi Eggertsson. I really don‘t know whether the logo serves any purpose but of course I liked it .
Eggertsson writes about his logos:
Some of them are done in collaboration, some are for personal projects, some of them were not used and some of them have never been seen before. I quite enjoy making logos and identities.
I like ‚em black & white…more infos to follow.
ok no b/w I had to add this in color – one of the many construction site signs found anywhere across town
kid on the campus of Tongji University
early morning dance session in front of the Shopping malls on Nanjing Road (close to People’s Sq.)
regular Shanghai scenery
Qibao old village far outside of the town centre is one of the main attractions for Chinese – with the usual ‚traditional souvenir shops‘
you couldn‘t simply walk when a car was coming, street guards were always checking that you crossed the road only on green light
the Mao statue in front of Tongji Campus library – one of 4 (at universities) with the arm lifted