Disappearing China

Please stop posting inappropriate shots

nobody@flickr.com (cosmicsausage) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:48:00 -0800

cosmicsausage posted a new topic:

This is a Disappearing China group so you need to ask yourself if your image portrays something which is currently or could - conceivably - in the future be about to disappear. If it's not, it probably doesn't belong here (although I'm sure it's a great shot).

Please respect this. It's not asking for the moon, I don't think :)

Happy snapping and Chinese New Year!

Superb humanistic photo story!

nobody@flickr.com (cosmicsausage) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:40:34 -0800

cosmicsausage posted a new topic:

www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2010-03/08/content_9556055.htm

Reply to needs an icon

nobody@flickr.com (maisonburke) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:20:54 -0800

maisonburke posted a reply:

You are very welcome to use this photo of the Chinese flag from my Photostream for your icon.

needs an icon

nobody@flickr.com (china.sixty4) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:27:50 -0800

china.sixty4 posted a new topic:

the group need an ICON, and fast something with red in it I suppose - Any suggestions?

Read the group's guidelines

nobody@flickr.com (cosmicsausage) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:54:47 -0800

cosmicsausage posted a new topic:

Some folks are repeatedly posting photos (excellent ones, I have to say) which fall outside the remit of the group. Old people will not have disappeared from China in the next twenty years - there'll be trillions of them as ever!

If it's not in danger of extinction, please don't post it. I won't approve it anyway and you're just wasting your time.

Do, however, continue posting your awesome work of Disappearing China! The group already has some outstanding examples - keep it up!

Reply to Avoiding boiled frog syndrome

nobody@flickr.com (GraemeNicol) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:13:36 -0700

GraemeNicol posted a reply:

i'll copy and paste this from the other thread...

in terms of what to document, i also think that it's worth bearing witness to modern trends....

the sudden popularity of sports such as golf, tennis, belly dancing etc, the revival of Tang Dynasty-style frilly dresses, the learning of English, the wearing of matching his'n'hers clothes, massage parlours, pet grooming, beach holidays, tour guides with flags, girls carrying parasols, guys carrying their girlfriend's handbags to show "status", empty houses that look like chateaus, subway crowds, smoking ettiquette, baijiu banquets, small desks in enormous offices, fake DVDs, polyester school tracksuits, etc etc. all this is part of the fabric of urban China, and could be as fascinating to people in years to come as the remnants of old "traditional" or "poor" China" are...

what my view would be, is that to document disappearing China, we document everything we see around us. i would say simply pick something "visual" and preferably with some kind of story attached, and document it. no need to wait for something to begin to disappear or especially go looking for signs of the past existing into the present. so even the beginning of a trend that will in time become MORE popular might seem in 2009 seem somehow incongruous with its environment, to those looking back from 2029, in a way that a photo of the same thing might not do when taken in 2029.

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Avoiding boiled frog syndrome

nobody@flickr.com (cosmicsausage) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:04:44 -0700

cosmicsausage posted a new topic:

You doubtless know the tired metaphor of a frog boiling to death as it fails to notice the small incremental changes in the ambient temperature. Sometimes in life we can be so close to change that we risk becoming oblivious to its true rate. We take it for granted. 'Many fear that by the end of the decade, Flying Pigeons will have fallen by the wayside.' - Telegraph. Just one of countless examples of the modern replacing the 'traditional'. It's not a value judgment. Maybe modern bikes are better quality and value. It's just a statement of fact. When I was growing up in sixties Britain, people ate pigs trotters, tripe and offal. You could see them in every butcher's shop. Not any more. Now these foods are stigmatised as 'poor people's food' and most of the UK's trotters are exported to, well where else, China. Ditto Jamaica: when they began to receive satellite TV from the US, they began turning up their noses at their traditional pulse-based diet in favour of fast food with the inevitable consequences, a trend also well-advanced here. During the Olympics many food-hygiene aspects of everyday culture were temporarily disappeared by a government anxious to cover up potential embarrassments, only to reappear after they were over - a portent of more concrete changes to come as China's health and safety is brought, kicking and screaming, into line with international standards. As the development continues, animal-rights agendas will probably start to kick in too. No more skinning dogs alive on the street (2 million cats and dogs a year according to peta). No more shaves on the street, hair-cuts, the list is endless. These things will not be here in the future, they will have disappeared - in exactly the same way, and for exactly the same reasons that they have already disappeared from other countries which have developed. It's inevitable.China's industrial revolution and rural exodus is changing China in ways we can only guess at forever. Gentlemen, we have work to do!