Table Tennis

ryan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:00:44 +0000

Visitations

ryan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:00:55 +0000

Waiting and Watching

ryan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:00:02 +0000

Jingshan Park

ryan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:59:12 +0000

Sunday morning in Beijing’s Jingshan Park is playtime… for adults. Ballroom dancing, hackey sack, sing alongs, ribbon dancing, sidewalk water calligraphy, synchronized dancing, badminton, kites and jumprope… I showed up to see all of this going on at this park behind the Forbidden City, and it took me a few minutes to realize…that, at 28 years old, I was probably one of the youngest people there. Musicians were scattered everywhere with signs that indicated songs and eras of music (mostly from the 1940s-1960s, I think), and people would gather around, basically by age, to sing along to old familiar songs. Last week’s series of jump rope pictures is from this morning - a couple of guys were swinging a jump rope and all these 40, 50, maybe 60-year old people would smile and laugh and take a couple of running jumps through the rope and move on. Meanwhile, just off to the side about fifty middle-aged ladies were line dancing to Justin Timberlake. Cliques of elderly men held impromptu debates next to groups of hackey-sackers and shouted to drown out the big brass band that was belting out old patriotic songs. It was really wild to see this adult-style recess with its fun and camaraderie.

Unreal City

ryan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:25:30 +0000

Passive Progressive

ryan — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:09:35 +0000

Center Circle

ryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:49:05 +0000

Natural Process

ryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:21:48 +0000

Professional Stranger

ryan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:49:47 +0000

Consolidation and Perpetuation

ryan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:15:44 +0000

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