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“the chinese love the monumental ambition. they hate the monumental price tag – and the ‘foreign’ design. a portfolio of the grand ideas and grim realities behind the contentious new vision for china central relevision.” wired 12.08: beijing manifesto follow the link for a ten page adapted extract from the oma/koolhaas book ‘content’

it took me ages to get around to getting some photos printed so i could send them to my brother and sister and show them what finnish life was like. they were all jpgs so i burnt them to cd and went into a place in the centre. i had 41 pictures, the place told…

just got back from a few days in st. petersburg. such a crazy city, almost five million people living in a city seemingly in a constant state of disrepair. we had ten or so hours on thursday and about 7hours yesterday to look around so we only took in the main parts of the centre.…

when i was younger i spent a lot of time hanging around the soccer pitches beside my familys pub. i played soccer there and watched the local team there, cycled around and did loads of other silly things that im sure i’ll remember when im least expecting it. i got chased by tibor (my uncles…

got back late last night from the festival in turku. festival itself was pretty average, didnt blow my socks off in anyway. we didnt get to see much music for some reason. the city is so nice, we only got to see the centre of it but it seems like a relaxed version of helsinki…