Ai Weiwei - Never Sorry (Chinese artist/activist)

[mtmynd]

The attached link will open a window on Ai Weiwei, a Chinese activist artist which many may find fascinating. I did and would like to share this with you.

The second picture has another link which is a trailer for a movie about him... a very tasty morsel.

Below that picture you'll find two more links that will give you some more brief info on this man.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10 ... sorry.html

Enjoy.

[mtmynd]

The Chinese government demolished Ai Weiwie's art compound as these pictures document -

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10 ... ished.html

[still.trucking]

I would like to see that film. Thanks for posting the link.

considered one of the most outspoken contemporary chinese artists / activists of our time, ai weiwei's studio was deemed illegal by the government who said it did not follow the proper building permits, so plans for the building's demolition were slated.

funnily enough, it was also the government and jiading mayor sun jiwei who originally approached the artist two years ago, inviting him to open a studio space in the chinese city's agricultural district as part of their plan to develop into a cultural centre of the metropolis, and they had promised to help him acquire the necessary documents to erect the building.

[mtmynd]

the trailer on this movie makes me want to see it, too, JT. if you happen upon it some day share it w/me, eh? radicals are unbound.

[stilltrucking]

ten four front door

Raining here
fifty degrees
rainy day knees

Hope you are doing okay too.

[mtmynd]

Can't complain, JT, especially when there are so many doing far worse than my little family... we have food and I have a beer or two whenever I want. My cataracts are now gone and I can seen in stereo quite well w/glasses.

where have you parked your ass, buddy? more west than S.A.? I believe you teamed up with your sis', eh? Hope it's going good for you... we all deserve good in our lives no matter what.

[stilltrucking]

"you always gets what's coming
you never have to ask"

I been
Bouncing between Corpus Christi Texas and New Berlin Texas.

A month of solitude and sea air, lost 15 pounds ore more, feel like a new man.

I am back in the monkey house again, the house of the puppet masters, where we pull each others strings. but my sense of humor is restored by my month of sweet solitude.

It was beautiful Cecil, I would like to live their more, going back again this winter may be for just a week or so, found a run down motel mnaz would like right on the waterfront for 25 bucks a night or a 150 a week.

Glad to hear you eyes are okay.
That is good news.


Strange day weather here
forty eight degrees at four am raining that thermometer did not move more than two degrees all day with rain and drizzle . Kind of like a winter day in Seattle I think.

more about China

Solar Panel Maker Moves Work to China

BEIJING — Aided by at least $43 million in assistance from the government of Massachusetts and an innovative solar energy technology, Evergreen Solar emerged in the last three years as the third-largest maker of solar panels in the United States.

But now the company is closing its main American factory, laying off the 800 workers by the end of March and shifting production to a joint venture with a Chinese company in central China. Evergreen cited the much higher government support available in China.

The factory closing in Devens, Mass., which Evergreen announced earlier this week, has set off political recriminations and finger-pointing in Massachusetts. And it comes just as President Hu Jintao of China is scheduled for a state visit next week to Washington, where the agenda is likely to include tensions between the United States and China over trade and energy policy.

The Obama administration has been investigating whether China has violated the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization with its extensive subsidies to the manufacturers of solar panels and other clean energy products.
the rest of the article here
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/busin ... solar.html