As every Monday night the Beijing Jugglers group met at the bar called Yugong Yishan. Today probably due to the very icy cold weather not many people came.
Fede was mainly juggling balls.
And I tried some tricks on a static bike for a performance in Tokyo where I will only have 3 times 4 meters.
The “DiVINE” CD Release Party of Jess was so great! Such a good concert, great performance and nice vibe in the venue with energetic afterparty. Here are some pictures of Jess with Sarah Vossler (background vocals) and Zac Courtney (drums) and other musicians:
The Italian juggler Federico Moro did a ball juggling performance with up to 5 balls choreographed to a new song of Jess.
After playing all the new songs that are on the Divine CD then Meiyouwenti Records brought some reggae music with the DJ Oscar who gave us a nice grove for dancing.
There was a nice article about the concert published in the Global Times. Check it out!
I am so looking forward to this. Jess Meider has just finished her new album and is having a special CD-release concert tonight at Dos Kolegas starting at 10pm. The album is called DiVINE. Her new songs are so beautiful… If you are in Beijing come on out and listen and experience!
Do you know about TED? Well if not then you need to check out their website: www.ted.com
Today was the first TED event in Beijing. As it was an independently organized event but with the TED license it was called TEDxBeijing. And I was selected as a speaker! I was so excited when I heard that news on October 30th!!! Since then I was in an extreme speech preparation mode. I re-wrote my speech about 8 times. There were too many topics to talk about. It was hard for me to chose. In the end I chose the title: Changes of Perception. I was wanting people to change their perception about bicycles and re-consider to ride. Especially in Beijing.
And to inspire people that cycling is not just about pedaling I also did some tricks on my artistic bicycle. Of course… 🙂
There was some pictures of it on tech.sina.com of me speaking as well as doing tricks on my bicycle. Also I found some pictures of the event on flickr. And more pictures.
This was such a great event! So many great speakers and interesting topics. It showed the different perspectives of Beijing and China. We had live online screening of all the speeches. And the videos will be edited and hopefully soon uploaded. I am looking forward to that. Now I first need to get a good nights sleep!
There was an article on the sina.com website about my speech at TEDxBeijing conference. Click here for the original version.
图文：伊泉在TEDxBeijing发表演讲
http://www.sina.com.cn 2009年11月13日 18:44 新浪科技
新浪科技讯 北京时间11月13日下午消息，首届TEDxBeijing演讲活动今天在北京举行，本届的主题是“发现激情”。新浪科技独家直播本次会议。
以下为伊泉在TEDxBeijing发表演讲。
伊泉是一位充满激情的德国自行车选手，她在美国生活了六年。她曾是一位粒子加速器的研究员，之后转向了远程传输领域，并且搬到了北京。在超过 20年的时间内，她是一位有竞争力的运动员，效力于德国国家室内自行车队10年的时间，现在仍在世界各地表演。2007年，在内心激情的驱使下，伊泉和她的一个朋友在北京创建了一个仍然在不断扩大的组装自行车社区。伊泉还创建了Natooke，这是第一个组装自行车以及杂技商店。她是点废成绿 (Greening the Beige)活动的顾问，这是一个环保理念的艺术征集活动，以期为北京的环保组织和个人建立起联系。伊泉希望在中国树立一个观念：自行车是一种运动、爱好和每日出行工具，最关键的是，它可以降低温室气体的排放。她的骑行在各国电视上广为播放，包括德国、瑞士、比利时、新加坡，当然也包括中国 (CCTV3，CCTV9，天津电视台)。
There was also an article on the 236z.com website. And probably also on others…
Today we had again snow in Beijing, but the temperature was just above zero so the snow was slightly melting.
But it was nice to cycle both on the big avenues as well as in the smaller streets.
There was an article in the Fashion Weekly magazine and posted on their Life Style website. The original article is under this link. It is about me riding fixed gear bike and having a shop in Wudaoying Hutong in the heart of Beijing.
伊泉 –在北京街头“死飞”
Text Weiwei Designer Lomo
伊泉的名字很小鸟依人，是根据德国名字的发音来取的，但伊泉却说自己因为爱玩死飞运动，经常要拆装零配件、补胎、加气，再加上很大力地做各种高难度动作，一点儿也没有淑女的风范。她摊开一双刚拆补轮胎而弄脏的手，很调皮。
“死飞”在中国还是一项方兴未艾的街头运动，但伊泉打13岁就开始玩，到现在都20多年了。她能玩很多动作，甚至可以边骑车边煎蛋饼或是包饺子！相比普通自行车，死飞车最关键的部位就是一枚死飞轮：当停踩脚踏板时，普通飞轮会保持车轮的转动，而死飞轮却会立即制动车轮，这样便制造了玩各种车上动作的可能，甚至还能倒骑。此外，死飞轮自行车让很多设计师、时尚人士喜爱的原因，还在于每一辆车都会变成车主的一件作品，他们能根据个性来DIY零配件、车架款式、轮胎颜色等。伊泉在中国就有4辆个性迥异的死飞车，其中一辆还是用北京老牌飞鸽自行车改装的，实在是很拉风。
在五道营胡同里开着Natooke商店，每周跟“杂耍俱乐部”朋友聚会，周四或周日骑车100多公里，到郊外沿着山路骑车，顺带把秀丽的景色也欣赏个遍，这就是伊泉在北京的生活。而经过漫长的等待，外籍的伊泉所经营的五道营商店终于要等来营业执照了。在将来，她希望这里能成为一个供死飞爱好者交流的自由平台。人们可以过来聊天、喝啤酒、玩杂耍、看死飞运动的电影、计划一次出游，或是在这里挑选喜欢的零配件改装到自己的爱车上。当然，如果你对“死飞”这项运动充满了好奇，也可以来这里，在伊泉的示范下亲自体验一把“死飞”的感觉。
Natooke死飞自行车商店，东城区五道营胡同甲19号，84026925
Q&A
1. 你对北京有什么印象？
我非常喜欢北京。它与上海不一样，这里的人们在城市的变化里，仍然乐于享受慢悠的生活节奏和情趣。另外，北京人认为明天会比今天好，对生活充满了希望，这跟欧洲、美国人喜欢抱怨相比真是好太多了。
2. 听说你出行都是骑死飞自行车？
是的。我从来不坐计程车或是汽车，所以拥堵的交通对我一点影响都没有，只要这些机动车不要开到自行车道来就没问题。
3. 有中国小伙子追求你吗？
有。我本来计划找个中国男朋友，这样能更好融入中国文化。但是这里的小伙子很介意我的工资比他们高，也对我发达的肌肉感到不舒服。呵呵。不过，我现在跟法国男朋友在一起，我们是攀岩时认识的。
4. 在北京喜欢吃什么？
很多。我特别喜欢吃麻豆腐；东北菜跟德国菜很像，像锅巴肉、东北拉皮，我都很喜欢；另外川菜的辣子鸡、水煮肉也是我爱吃的。
5. 如果一个玩家想了解死飞运动，最好的途径是什么？
你可以在网上看到很多死飞的video，当然你要是愿意，可以来我的商店看死飞电影《Death Pedal》，或是加入我们的俱乐部，慢慢认识这项有趣的运动。
Today is the Chinese National Day October 1st. The People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, which is 60 years ago. We were hoping to be able to catch a glimpse of the Anniversary Parade so we headed out by bike. Wangfujing shopping street was closed off for the public.
But the school children that are part of the parade were just arriving in buses and heading to their starting points on Changan Jie.
We were riding around the hutongs that were still very relaxed. Not so many people were out in the hutong. I think most people were staying at home to watch the 60 Year festivities on TV.
Also near the Forbidden City it was not possible to have a look at Changan Jie where the parade would be marching along later.
We did get to see a glimpse of the end of the parade before they started.
It was very nice to cycle on the empty Beijing roads that are usually heavily congested.
From one of the tall buildings we were able to have a nice view of Beijing city on this sunny and clear day. We could even we the West mountains very clearly. I love Beijing on blue sky days!
Unfortunately I had not brought my camera so I could only take pictures with my mobile phone. In the distance there was the line-up ready for the parade on the huge Beijing Changan Boulevard.
This is the last day before the big celebration of the founding of the People’s Republic of China 60 years ago. And this is an especially round number as it means that the year of the foundation was also a Chinese Earth-Ox year just like this year. Each element-animal combination only re-occurs every 60 years.
Beijing is covered with volunteers in yellow sweat shirts to make sure the city is secure. It is mainly the elderly population. And they are always on the watch out during their shifts.
For the last rehearsal before the big event some roads and public transport was shut down from 3pm onwards. 87 of Beijing’s metropolitan bus lines were affected by that. Everybody had been informed that there might be problems to move around and you are definitely required to carry your passport with you as a foreigner at all times. Some other preparation measures were described in this article. And some really great pictures of preparations in different places in China is found here. Especially the pictures at the end are great.
Actually I had no issue getting to the spinning class by bike as I was not crossing the Changan Boulevard. The streets were much emptier than usual. I am looking forward to the celebrations tomorrow.
I found our Natooke bike and juggling shop listed on various Chinese websites. I will just a few here.
1688.com website
ieen.com fashion site
jxnews.com fashion site
5173china.cn where to tour site
szxf.net where to buy site