Chewing gum | The Olympics Edition
Cleaning Tiananmen, originally uploaded by Roberto Castillo.
The Vancouver Sun did a piece with some amazing insights on the “Olympifying” of Beijing for the Olympics which began last Friday, including how the country has mobilized to avoid the “luan,” or chaos, that comes with events like this. You can read the whole piece here, including this description on the cleaning of chewing gum (the photo above, from Flickr and Robert Castillo portrays the same efforts in Tiananmen Square):
On Wanfujing, the famous shopping street, migrant workers are on their hand and knees every sunrise, using razor blades to scrape chewing gum off the pink tiles.