a shameful waste of madhouse time

上海世博会门票9月28日首发 价格拟160元_社会频道_新华网 via kwout

What is more interesting to me is this weird picture from the Xinhua article where I got this information. Maybe this design image has appeared somewhere else on the internet before, but this is the first time that I’ve seen anything like it, though, like with the Olympics, the Expo is one of those things that I have to be dragged kicking and screaming into caring about.

Some interesting tidbits from that article: many of the buildings used during the Expo are temporary, and are destroyed after the Expo is over…however the UK one will remain—because it’s just that good? In any case, the report is just a status update (as if the Expo people were tweeting, Peijin!)…now that I’ve seen how, in certain areas, Beijing and its infrastructure has really been overhauled I feel a bit more anticipation for the Expo than I did before. Of course, we are all easily bedazzled by showy things, aren’t we—a distraction from deeper issues that we’d rather not think about.