Beijing

DrCarnage · Beijing

I know i'm shit at taking photos and photoshop. But here's my 2p:

All taken around my flat, except the third one which is by Mao's Mausoleum in Tiananmen Sq.

wraeth

Those are brilliant

I especially like the cool walls

DrCarnage

Isambard

I loved China, wanna go back sometime, rather try and blag a trip of work than pay mind.

wraeth

Definitely want to see more walls

DrCarnage

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Isambard

2 Years! That's a longizzle time!

I went nine months away once and had really heavy work and I got all snuffy and emotional when we landed, I thought Heathrow looked LOVELY!

wraeth

Cool!

So you coming to districtline's drinks on Friday?

Isambard

That can be a rough pub mind!

Nah, it'll be a cool drinks, pity I'm not around cos I'd have liked to have met DistrictLine too.

DrCarnage

Can't do friday as i'll be in sunny 'alifax. Be down London town next week though.

DrCarnage

districtline

everyone is looking forward to the districtline drinks

what are you doing in china carnage? and why did you move out there?

i want to go to bejing

DrCarnage

districtline

i like concrete

but i can't teach english, so i'd need to find something else to do

DrCarnage

Ninjadmin

those pics are wicked, i wanna see more.

you're gonna have a mad culture shock coming home

DrCarnage

I nipped down that alley this afternoon on my way home from work and took some more photos. It's a kilometre long so I couldn't get everything, but here a few good ones:

wraeth

Those pics are aces

I particularly love the 4th one and the last two

I really want to visit Beijing now

We needs these pics in the photo gallery, this is one of the coolest threads ever

DrCarnage

ta !!

i've heard of a few more places around the city but i'm not sure exactly where they are yet.

i'm lucky i found this place actually. I stumbled upon it whilst looking for a shortcut home. Defo beats walking along a skaggy ring road.

wraeth

I bet you could spend hours just looking at that graff

boskysquelch

World Service had a mini_two-parter series about Chinese NuArt last night n before...goes looks for listen agin.

oh pffft..I hate the Beeb webshite...I can never find nish I want jus stuff I'll miss anyways...pffft

Apparently it's China week on there next,,,not that you can see it?

wraeth

China week, eh

I'd listen to it if I knew what to listen to

DrC prefaces everything by saying his photos are shit

But most of us normal people's photos are shit

Don't matter

What you see is what counts and capturing that, technical shizzle catches up

I know you think that too bosky, tis the eye

Look at how he's brought it to life, got us all engaged and lookin and wonderin

He's fkkn

I reckon

DrCarnage

I'd love to find the time to look at the whole thing. Everytime I walk past I discover something new.

I think it's great to find something so imaginative in a city which is largley uncreative (in terms of architecture and city planning). The best thing about it is that it is virtually undiscovered and therefore not thrown into the whole "Chinese NuArt" thing.

The main reasons the photos are crap are because I used my phone and it was chucking it down. Plus I always say anything I do is crap.

wraeth

That's one of the things that struck me most - all that high rise concrete jungle, then you show us that oasis of brightness and colour and so much care with the drawings. So much detail and effort, all those people must have spent ages creating those paintings, and they're all so different.

I think I said it on the celeb thread about Rolf Harris - 'can you see what it is yet?' One of the things I loved about his programme was his ability to work close in on detail but building a picture that you have to step back to see properly.

I imagine those graff artists with their cans of spray paint, standing near the wall and drawing and colouring, sometimes taking a few steps back to check their close-up progress against the scene in their head.

Aces

Much better than the tagging we mostly see here (with notable exceptions)

Hiccup and mavis have taken some good shots of graff art too - mavis did a brilliant stitched together one. They're all here DrC but I can't remember the exact threads.

That's a phone camera? They've come out really well. Bosky takes cool phone camera shots too.

Cheers DrC

DrCarnage

it's the sheer varitey of different appraoches to painting that amazes me. the individuality and creativity that goes into every piece is really refreshing.

hiccup

Wow, there's some wicked graf stuff there. Love seeing how different coutries differ with stuff like that.