The Gang of Four in front of the Tsinghua University (btw, it's the MIT of China)

uhm, have you seen my bike..? that joke kills around here.

U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A...

The hot date spot hangout part of town...

very romantic... rent a little boat, cruise around the lake, see what develops.

The boys kicking it in the street... this is the soho of beijing...

i feel ya brother...

Beating the heat Beijing style... for real.

I killed them...

Sven and Ben (say that 5x fast) working on the pneumatics for our installation piece... it'll make the bikes bounce up and down.

The Millenium Museum, where the show will be and our installation is going. It's a big sundial.

Look at the top sign, what the heck?... seriously... we have no clue... Do not enter if your car is on fire?
Do not enter if your car has a bomb in it? The sign below is fun too, but that's all it is, cause it's totally upstaged by the top one.

Mona Lisa Smile? Noting the mole on chin I enter the forbidden city...

A side garden in the forbidden City....

...more like Hey, Everyone Come in Here City.

who needs to learn characters when you've got coporate logos to tell you all you need?
yeah, the american express company made the info signs within the forbidden city possible.
(signs also in english, or american, depending on how much of a patriot you'd like to be)

...But no american (english) in the restaurants... my busted chinese and some pointing got Walid and I a tasty meal for a $1.20 apiece...
woulda been $15 in america. The food is really really good.