Art Fest!
There is a local art fest competition going down in my neck of the woods, and i was thinking to myself "hey todd, wouldn't that be totally sweet to win an art fest comp.. yea that would be totally sweet." After that it was pretty much set, i was going to submit a masterpiece to the art fest at any cost, even five dollars.The big question on my mind was "what for the sake of pete, was i going to submit to this Art fest.." What are they looking for in an art fest anyways? Well i was thinking of things to submit when all of a suden, like a flash of lighting, a memory came into my head.
When i was in china, in tienamen square, there were these really cool watches! They were mao zhe dong watches, where the second hand was mao's arm and he was waving at you! I bargined with the lady in chinese, and she was asking for a rediculous price. She was asking for 200 RMB wich is 25 USD! The watch was probably only worth 2 dollars, so i haggled with her for a while, but she wouldn't budge. She knew that i was a forgeiner.. so that automatically means i have money. So, i started to walk away. She would not stand for that, she followed me and lowered the price. I refused, and walked out of tiemen square. Now the thing about tienamen square is that its huge! Its like four square football fields. She followed me all the way out of tienamen square! By that time, she had all of her entourage following her. She was getting really pissed off now because i kept on refusing. However she wouldn't take no for an answer. Finally i told her that i would take it for 50 RMB, thats about 6 USD. She was almost in tears at this point, but she agreed. After that experiance i felt like i understood the statue in tienamen square much better.
The statue that i shoot is right outside Mao's grave and is called "The peoples struggle." I think that its a decent shot and it has a lot of emotions. So we will see what those judges think of it. What i have posted is the original photo that i took.
posted by toddevan @ 7:30 PM
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