Beijing Wide Open

“Maybe the sun will shine today
and the clouds will blow away”
We’re sitting here listening to this song from the new Wilco album, “Sky Blue Sky” and guessing that we probably won’t see the blue sky today. We didn’t see it yesterday either. Maybe tomorrow?

Yesterday I wrote about my experience visiting the racist theme park outside of Beijing. Today, I’ve posted a slideshow of photos taken during our visit.

I hope these images will help communicate the source of the deep, disturbed feelings I was trying to share with you through my written words. Remember, this is all a fake […]

Here’s a short video I shot at the Bird’s Nest which I’ve just been able to upload now. Not sure if it will translate, but the scale of the construction is immense.

Please read my earlier post on my visit to this future site of the 2008 Olympics.

A little while ago, I wrote about the rage I felt at visiting the “Ethnic Minorities” Park right across from the Olympic Village. What I saw there is really at the core of why I’m here in Beijing right now.
Seeing the singing, dancing Tibetans at the park reminded me of the Tibetans highlighted at the […]

Beijing’s “National Ethnic Minorities Park” is a sickening place. Located directly across from the Olympic Village site, it’s a patronizing and offensive display of Chinese cultural imperialism and only a fool could be taken in by it. It’s too bad the mistranslated signs (right) that once pointed the way to “Racist Park” have […]

Strange calls, people following and watching us… is this how it feels to live under oppression?

Outside the window, you can see our “tail” in two cars. They have been following us all day, without trying to hide the fact that they were watching us.

There’s been so much hype and excitement about it. I just had to come see the The Olympic Stadium (nicknamed the Bird’s Nest) for myself. It’s enormous and obviously meant to inspire awe and reverence in Chinese and foreigners alike, regardless of the cost (which at this point is estimated at 3.8 billion Yuan – […]