First post: today is day five in Beijing. It's been a busy week so far here, waking up around five or six, getting breakfast and then heading in a taxi towards BASE, our studio space this summer near the fifth ring road, and working there during the day to get things in order as the building is still decidedly under construction. During slow times, we've taken some nice excursions, especially to the village near BASE and 798, an art district that is about a twenty-minute walk from where we are. I took a video inside one of the galleries - its still a little bit jumpy and I had just learned how to use the zoom button.