China on Janik von Rotz

Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:41:38 +0200

Recently I remembered the sunflower seeds art installation by the social activist Ai Weiwei and was curious how he managed to produce those 100 million seeds. I ended up with at a documentation by the tate collective:

A Glimpse of China

Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:47:36 +0000

I visited China from the beginning of last december until christmas. My backpack was filled with prejudice and the expectation of having a hard time travelling there. The reality looked quite different. China was a blast! Vibrant, lively, fascinating, contradictory and quite the opposite from the european life style. Swallowed in Beijing and spit out in Hong Kong I enjoyed China all over. Definitely not the last I have been there. Again my favorite pictures:

How China is changing our internet

Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:47:56 +0000

Yesterday I visited the world press photo award exhibition in Zürich. The exhibition displays the best press photos of recent years. It’s mostly about conflicts and rights activism happening all over the world. This time not only pictures where shown, but also videos. One of those videos gave me a lot of thought. It was about how China is changing the internet or already has changed it for its people. A short and concise reportage tells how the internet has developed behind the great firewall. You should definitely watch it, it’s impressive and frightening:

Hong Kong

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 18:20:12 +0000

The last 4 days I’ve spent in the absolutely astonishing city Hong Kong. So far the most crowded place I’ve seen. Skyscrapers that look like toothpicks stand so close to each other that you sometimes can’t remember being in a city, it rather feels like being in a canyon. However getting around is still pretty easy, the MTR is convenient and some buses are even free to use. Without public transport this city wouldn’t work.