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国家大剧院

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my last panorama... for now.
i think.
this one was 7 images.

yes, it's the national grand theater, beijing, again.
from 2008.

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eclipsoid

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the grand national theater, beijing, china.
again, a panorama -- this time, 7 images. shot in 2008.

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national grand theater, beijing

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or the egg.

shot in 2008. i lacked a wide-enough lens back then, so i had to take three shots and then stitch them together.

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tian an men

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from 06/2008.

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live the language -- beijing

pangs of nostalgia

via dimitrio's travel pages

martin jacques: understanding the rise of china

at TED:

two years [in china] in five minutes

i don't know what it is about china that excites me so much -- i loved this torrent of images by david gilbert, who runs a blog i follow, randomwire:

frazzled...

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picture by roger dong.

me, holding the olympic torch, at BOB.
beijing, 2008.

plastered t-shirts transform yet another life

lucky xiao zhang!

you can get plastered too.

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i picked up one of these 'ancient' chinese death gloves at the pan jia yuan flea market in beijing in 2008... but when master haggler, mr.G, arrived, he managed to acquire three more for much less. so now we have his&hers!

nix obliged yesterday and we got a few good shots... made me laugh. they're a little klingon-y, no? and so perfect for halloween!

mommy! gimme hug?

tres death glove chic

new uses for old classics

gardening death gloves

mao zedong in a hong qi

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this is a reprocessing of a picture i shot in march 2008. a hong qi [red flag] sedan was parked outside wan guo cheng for quite a few days. it had a lot of interesting details, but the likeness of mao hanging from the rear-view mirror was my favorite.

©2010 helen sotiriadis

the fragrant sunset

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another image from the archives: bei hai with the white pagoda and the sun setting behind xiang shan gong yuan [video from the fragrant hills]. shot from jing shan gong yuan, the hill directly north of the forbidden city, beijing, china, on may 24th, 2008.

this image was shot just a bit after this one, but processed last night. i wish i'd known more about photography then.

this is geotagged, looking northwest.

©2010 helen sotiriadis

diasyndesis

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yesterday i had to teach till 10pm. when i finally got home, i still wanted to busy myself with photography but had done no shooting all day, so i started digging deep into my archive of RAWs -- and thankfully i'm an image packrat and almost never delete a capture.

that was a painful experience -- how awful the images are! i started shooting regularly in china, but not only did i know next to nothing, i had no idea what i didn't know. i'm thankful that i started, and i can see i've improved, so i guess i shouldn't feel so bad, but really, so few frames are salvageable!

then this morning, i saw a wonderful video by lisa greenfield, called the future of the brain, that immediately flew and embedded itself into my blog, all about the mind, the brain and how its structure defines us. i knew most of this information already, but the video presented things in a comprehensive manner and i enjoyed it thoroughly. together with the improvement of my skills that i perceived last night, it gave me a very deep insight into the nature of our existence, the plasticity of minds, and why we should substitute anger with compassion for others who don't think like we do.

the structure of beijing's bird nest kind of reminded me of interconnections, thus the title from the corresponding word in greek.

i've geotagged this on flickr.

©2010 helen sotiriadis

little planet: beijing olympic green at dusk

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this is one of the first little planets i made before the olympics in beijing. it's not at the best intersection and it really was just an experiment. i'd finally settled on uploading this one. i'd forgotten all about this and saw it yesterday when i was digging through some pictures.

i've added notes on the original flickr image page for the various buildings:
national stadium (bird's nest)
national aquatics center (watercube)
national indoor stadium
digital building
pengu plaza (to me, an eyesore)

i've added it to flickr's map.

more little planets here