I wasn’t terribly happy with my earlier photos of the Bird’s Nest. Behold my vanity.

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It was very Escher wandering up and down the stairs. It looks bigger on TV.

And another one of the bubble cube

Mmm coral reef.

Say what you will about totalitarian regimes, but they sure know how to host large sporting events. Sort of. Case in point – this is either: 1) the Beijing Olympics, 2) dystopian-pan-asian-laser-concentration-camp:

There’s been a lot made of extensive security measures taken at the Olympics. Overall they seemed rather lax; more for show than anything. Beijing right now is an odd mirror of itself as though growth had started 20-30 some years earlier. Traffic restrictions and green initiatives  trick you into thinking it’s almost livable.