I happened across this series of photos from a relatively new (Oct’08) bi-monthly magazine O’zine on Beijing Barefeet. And while they aren’t technically from our Lost Laowai Flickr pool, they’re just too rad not to share.
The series, entitled RedStar Motle[sic] 五星招待所, blatantly borrows its style from the amazing work of NYC-based photographer Lyndon Wade — but with ‘Chinese characteristics’.
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- Migrant Workers
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- Murder Scene
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- S&M
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- First Kiss
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- What’s going on next door?
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- Give me the ransom!
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- Want to buy a fake certificate?
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- Bulk discount
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- Cutting loose
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- On the tracks
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- Pron
Ryan's called China home for nearly seven years now. A short time to some, a long time to others, for him it's just right.
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Isn’t this post “blatantly borrowed” from Danwei.org?
Nope. They’re a Chinese meme at the moment – Danwei’s Eric Mu ran across them the same way I did — through another blog/forum post.
Hadn’t noticed that Danwei posted anything about them until you mentioned it. The Danwei post is here for anyone curious.
ChinaSmack also carries this story.
Big News!
Beijing Art Now Gallery is hosting “Chili Redstar Motel” till the end of August 2009 ( opened from tuesday till sunday 12:00- 18:00, the Gallery is close to the 798 area )
画廊地址：北京市朝阳区崔各庄乡草场地村红一号院E座 100015
adress: Building E,Red Yard No.1,Cao Chang Di,Cui Ge zhuang,Chaoyang Dist. Beijing
tel:86-10-51273292 fax： 86-10-51273293
[email protected]
开幕酒会：2009年7月11日 16：00
展览场地：北京市朝阳区崔各庄乡草场地村红一号院E座 北京现在画廊
展览日期：2009年7月11日—2009年8月31日
开放时间:周二至周日 12:00-18:00
More about Chili’s artwork:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/chilispace
http://chilispace.blog.163.com/
http://www.chilitime.cn/
http://www.ozine.cn/