Beijing's been trying to blow its nose for days.
The heavy gray skies obscuring even near buildings are stubborn. The rains came twice this week to wash them off the horizon, but even after yesterdays downpour which flooded the courtyard of my apartment complex, the skies look poisonous.
The air pollution scale runs from 0-5. An average day in Beijing is a 3. In the US, if it reaches a 4, they issue a public warning advising people not to leave their homes. A bike ride thru the "mist" last week has left me wracked a lung half-full, half-empty with god knows what I'm trying to cough up.
Small price to pay.
And still, the sunsets wouldn't be half as beautiful if not for the vaporized by-products of our plastic toys, nike shoes, and acrylic sweaters floating over the country.
The heavy gray skies obscuring even near buildings are stubborn. The rains came twice this week to wash them off the horizon, but even after yesterdays downpour which flooded the courtyard of my apartment complex, the skies look poisonous.
The air pollution scale runs from 0-5. An average day in Beijing is a 3. In the US, if it reaches a 4, they issue a public warning advising people not to leave their homes. A bike ride thru the "mist" last week has left me wracked a lung half-full, half-empty with god knows what I'm trying to cough up.
Small price to pay.
And still, the sunsets wouldn't be half as beautiful if not for the vaporized by-products of our plastic toys, nike shoes, and acrylic sweaters floating over the country.
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but my banananess comes from growing up in vancouver and having a strong only-child resentment to my parents
which now i feel shame for
balls
I mean, Bertolucci's ideas intrigue me, but it's the cine-photographic nerd over here who's been wanting to see it for two years, or whatever. And after two years, it'd have to do much to not disappoint.
I sometimes get this funny idea about artistic evolution, and that--especially with something as technical as motion picture photography--something isn't the the best, but the best up to that point. On the other hand, the photography of The Conformist is as artistically sophisticated as any movie I've ever seen. Maybe Storaro was merely ahead of his time (and he clearly was, ages), but I do think it's as close to perfect as I've seen.
(What's this about anti-DVD policies? After all, the first thing to usually follow a restoration and rerelease is a special edition DVD.)
[Edited on Jun 07, 2006 1:59PM]