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Quilts in Pastel Colors
Quilts in Pastel Colors, hanging outside to dry in the sun in Beijing, China.
The Lobby of The Far East Hotel
The Lobby of The Far East Hotel in Beijing has a simple and functional interior. One champagne colored leather couch with 4 matching chairs, that’s the only furniture to be found in this lobby. This furniture is humongous and placed against the wall, in a row, leaving enough space to fit 2 busloads of tourists in front of the reception desk. It’s all a bit run down because of old age but it’s a very comfortable place to wait, play, read, have a chat, spend the afternoon or even sleep. The marble floors are shiny and easy to keep clean, they are similar in style to the larger restaurants and shops in Beijing.
The lobby of The Far East Hotel Inspired us, at Mimi Berlin, whilst in search for a location to photograph our Mimi Beijing Fashion-Fest group portrait. Hotel lobby’s are always inspiring but we found this hotel lobby the most suitable for our project. Every time we visited the couch and chairs were occupied by at least one person doing something…..like walking through our camera lens.
Cricket in a Jar
Cricket in a Jar, or crickets as pets if you will. In China the people used (early antiquity) to have crickets for the sound they make. Nowadays they are kept for cricket fighting. They can be bought at the local market. The insects are held in little cups ranging from old cans to embellished “cricket pots” The buyer chooses a cricket by listening to the sound he makes and how it reacts when touched. To activate the little animal it gets pricked with a little stick so the buyer can compare the crickets. The size of the crickets on sale varies as well; tiny ones are held in small boxes containing a single corn, bigger ones in a wooden “cage case”. Chinese cricket culture and cricket-related business is highly seasonal. Trapping crickets in the fields peaks in August and extends into September. Cricket fighting season extends until the end of autumn.
cricket cans
testing the insects
cricket cans
cricket cans
cricket cans
medium size crickets
young crickets
To keep the cricket from escaping
fullgrown crickets
fullgrown crickets
fullgrown crickets
NCPA Beijing 国家大剧院
National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Beijing or National Grand Theater of China. (国家大剧院) A.k.a. as The Giant Egg (巨蛋) We, at Mimi Berlin like to call the experience watching this building at night: Close encounters of the third kind. We haven’t seen the building by daylight, it must be pretty as well, but at night the theater mirrors itself in the surrounding lake and is lit by 3 different colors. The pictures we’ve taken haven’t been touched by Photoshop, honestly! The kaleidoscopic effect is the real deal!
The NCPA is an opera house in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. It is designed by French architect Paul Andreu in 2001. The Centre, an ellipsoid dome of titanium and glass surrounded by an artificial lake, seats 5,452 people in three halls and is almost 12,000 m² in size. Believe us, that’s huge!
Rubber Duck in China
Rubber Duck in China. Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duck is very Popular during Beijing Design Week. BJDW adapted the image of the rubber duck for merchandise (badges, an actual bathtub version in a pretty box and yellow shoes), so did everybody else. At the Summer Palace, where it lies, you can find the duck all over the place. First as signing on the floor (so you know where to find it) next as a photo opportunity; re-sized both for parents and kids. The BJDW merchandise is sold in giant white eggs, the (counterfeit?) fluffy toy by people in the streets. The last encounter is with the Giant Rubber Duck itself, together with a gazillion other people you can stroll or paddle your way around this yellow icon. For us, at Mimi Berlin it was a long anticipated, but weird trip …
Why are these photo’s so foggy? You ask of us. Well today the smog-alarm was 305 AQI, that’s why.