So..Apparently the shoot begins today again! I asked She to organise 4 funeral criers for the same day – so the price won’t change again etc. Yesterday she tells me she found 4 – but I have to buy them tobacco as a gift – and give them 1000 RMB. Just got a call and its gone up again. Gosh, things are shifting in China – you never know whats going on, and best to be zen with it I guess.
Anyway, it will be great to continue the shoot. I am charging all batteries, clearing all disks. Lets hope for the best. I am meeting She at 2.45 pm.
Yesterday we got the sky train into town again – I shot a lot of footage – just of the smog and the incessant building – yesterday the pollution was quite normal – you could see a mile or so. I am hanging out for a good dose of clean air and a bit of wild nature, and open spaces. Chongqing is one of the fastest growing cities in the world – and the biggest – reaching 35 million people. Everywhere is filled with people, and more people and more people. On the public transport we fight for space – now it comes quite naturally – everyone just forces there way into the carriage as people are forcing themselves off. Noone seems to get angry – its just the way it is. We force ourselves on and off – we are getting used to it.
Pablo fell asleep in the pram, so we went and had a few beers in town. Pablo still drew a crowd while sleeping and then the old ladies started to touch him – sort of motioning that he might be cold or hot or what ever – I just motioned – please don’t wake him up – he needs to sleep. He was very rugged up – and its not that cold – but in China, the people seem to be obsessed by the clothes you are wearing and have no problem telling you if you are not dressed right – I walked out in sandals the other day and was told off – ‘too cold!’ I think they were saying as they were shaking their head as they stared at my feet. At a gallery opening in Berlin, I had a women literally start yelling at me for wearing sandals when she thought I should have had shoes on.