i lived out near songzhuang for a week two years ago. in looking for new apartments, sometimes
i wish i could just have a corn field right outside my apartment.

i’ll be back in beijing two weeks from today…

this is from a nude model we had last night…
i’m loving painting, and hoping i can get really good with practice!

I’ve been looking through a Yahoo link to pictures of Beijing Architecture, taken by AP photographers in the last few weeks. Now I’m not usually very into contemporary photojournalism, but three or four of the ones by Oded Balilty really struck me. They have odd angles and colors, and don’t really show faces. Anyway, it turns out he is young Israeli who has won some big awards for photojournalism in the last few years.

at the national gallery in beijing…

so here is one of the dead ones from the fall…..

I am heading to New York tomorrow for one night, then Michigan for ten days…
Then it’s back to NYC for 6 weeks or so. I will be back in Beijing in mid-August.

I thought of this song recently, and then its video.
(jamming back-up dancers and David Byrne dancing with a light at the end!)
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Hiyo! I got plenty of time
Hiyo! You got light in your eyes
And you’re standing here beside me
I love the passing of time
Never for money
Always for love
Cover up and say goodnight . . . say goodnight
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