Daniel Traub has photographed a curious spaceship parked somewhere in the periphery of a Chinese city. Many more will soon be arriving, apparently: “China intends to build 400 new cities by 2020. We see all the elements of this new and contradictory world: homogenous, industrial parks and residential communities pressing against age old rhythms of villages and farms; the new rich living in gated communities next to migrant workers shanty towns; burning mountains of trash next to lushly watered golf courses and country clubs.”
I read somewhere that in Jia Zhangke's Still Life, a film which chronicles life in a Chinese city affected by the Three Gorges Dam, there's a scene where an abandoned building is transformed into a rocket ship, and it blasts off. Should be reason enough to seek out this movie.
And matt: If you haven't already, you should organize a hunting party. Or maybe one of those "Flickr meets" I've so often heard about, and take lots and lots of photographs. Contact Taschen and they'll publish your photos in a $500, 100-pound coffee table. A copy of which will be my referral fee, of course.
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