26 Feb
I have been missing Zaha‘s openings recently. Too much work and too much travel. So, when I got my invite for her latest opening of her Guangzhou opera house, I decided to go even if it was very far. And I am happy I did. Apart from my various exciting Chinese adventures, past and future — Beijing is still to come — I was thrilled to finally see one of Zaha’s spectacular buildings in real life.
22 Feb
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As promised, here is the clip I took of my black chicken: how the vendor plucked it live from the cage, showed it to us to make sure it was the one we wanted; and how he killed it, plucked it in an extraordinary machine then gutted it. Sadly, the place where he slit its throat was too dark and you can’t really see the action, nor can you see the poor bird thrashing its last breath in the plastic drum where he also gassed it!