PSDTU

Here’s one conception of what our pet project might look like.  It utilizes the traditional trike cart as a platform for creating a mobile urban oasis with music, interactive art from found objects, seating, and possibly eco-friendly merchandise. We are interested in collecting data on more than one of these, tracking both the interactions between [...]

Attached PDF of our presentation at Tsinghua University.

I came across these tiny little shoes at the antique market and couldn’t help the pervasive distaste and social bias that comes with the whole strange practice of foot-binding. The shoes are beautiful, no mistake, but my modern sensibilities recoil to think of the barbarism of restricting an adult foot into so small a confinement. [...]

We explored the our new surroundings in Beijing. 
 
We discovered we weren’t far from home when we came across a Seven-Eleven and a Subway near our hotel.

 
The Llama temple was so peaceful. The architecture was so beautiful. There was such a spiritual aurora surrounding me. I spent most of my time there by myself exploring which was really nice to collect my thoughts and soak it all in. I have never been to anything like the temple before. I really enjoyed [...]

clip-2009-05-28-014024I was so excited to go to the Silk and Pearl markets, but was utterly disappointed when I arrived. Firstly, I thought that it was going to be a outside like the street fairs in NYC. It was weird to go inside a mall like environment and have all of the booths set up with [...]

Today is the Chinese holiday of dragon boat festival! But we went to the galleries at the Liquor factory art district and the 798 area. Most of the galleries at the Liquor Factory were closed because of the holiday

What I thought was going to be a factory filled with worms was actually a building with booths filled with counterfeit merchandise and persistent sellers. It’s very overwhelming if you don’t ignore them. After the market we had an amazing spicy hotpot dinner with the group. delicious!
On Thursday we went to the Llama Temple and [...]

Input: This is a shot of the courtyard leading to Twist’s place at dusk. I like the random assortment of objects. It is very lived in, and it looks as if it’s been lived in for ages. He has lived here for around 15 years and indicates that rent is somewhere in the neighborhood of [...]

We passed a small residential area where people were collecting materials such as card boards, plastic bags, pieces of woods, etc. They live just one block away from the enormous modern banks and financial buildings.

We saw this car on the way to go to the subway station. Looked curious.