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In my secondimpress 2 , the workshop sustainable design, the nightwatcher does got a friendly face, new FEbike and turtles dance!
So sometimes I think it is quite hopeless what I am doing… A sustainable / recycling workshop in the country where resources are utmost exploited. Whereas traditional chinese production has to do with sustainability in its purest form, recent wealth and economy-growth are known to be the reasons, as far as we see. I’m told that not even 20 years ago china was everywhere much much cleaner. But now even in the remote places, waste is being dumped basicly everywhere. So when I started my workshop in order to make awareness of the resources we throw away in our daily lifes, many “new” resources for our course where already available in close sight. And actually I started to make some paper to cardboard in different shapes. Also local industries are contacted to enrich our workshop. Many mis-printed KFC packaging is now being re-designed by fifteen very motivated students. I try to give you an impression of the first results. I hope the photos explain themselfs. (anyway I post a seperate article on the workshop once everything is done)

And tomorrow I’m looking forward to watch the turtles again in lee’s appartment who is a collegue and has two turtles I’ll be in charge with.
I had the honour already once and also this dancing turtle has become a friend. Wish I could understand their bodylanguage, and yes on the menu I’ve seen them several times now, but I refuse to order them. Now I prefer for my health a recycled bike (Yellow) this time. A foldable one which is quite small but lasts better then the other bikes. And again I got a smile from the brand name: FEbike. I made already some amazing trips with this little bike, quite easy to pack in a cab aswell if I underestimated the distance once again. To get from A to B in Beijing feels sometimes from A to Z actually. But you know me, without a bike i cannot think properly.

As you can see I found new patriotism in one of my busy phonecalls trying to get an original accordeon of a chinese brand (daishenze 798). Almost I found it in this beautiful shop. But with help of my friend LONGKING, i found an old accordeon specialist in the deepest inside of the biggest hutong i’ve ever been to.
Due to the olympic games this hutong is still alive, and actually it is renovated to leave some impression of the old beijing in sight for foreigners, but I wonder how many people will find this acordeon specialist. Amazing, 1 hour of one little street after the other, thanks to my new friend LONGKING (who is on the picture in another store not far from the hidden city). Next time i’ll add a photo of my secondhand ” baile” accordeon. Couldn’t listen to the PARROTS anymore so i give “baile” (spanish for dance) a real good new chance!

Daishenze 798 keeps on suprising me. Cause actually the newest art of asia is proudly presented in a very proffesional way. And I love the miniwigs in this object. As I’ve been impressed by other works not far from daishenze in the winefactorydistrict such as this Nike Bomb and the work of Shuyong. Hope you like it too :-)

Actually one of my favourit bars in my un-favourit bar-district street next to shanlunti, you can get a fine if you do shit. Recycle somewhere else is the message. Don’t hope the chinese wealth will provoke to export our and their waste back to us …