Beijing's Digital Scavenger Hunt.

Last Saturday, slightly more than one year after Exoweb's digital scavenger hunt, it was again "digital scavenger hunt" (click here for more info about what a digital scavenger hunt is all about) time in Beijing. This time Vinny, creative as hell and spicing up not only Beijing's impro theatre scene, and MCK called and a bunch of roughly 30 people responded. Among them:

"toodle pip"

.. meaning Tas, a BBC-phile Brits with a tendency to SPAM, even friends, who also talked us into our distinctly British name, Claire, a seemingly endlessly creative (aka nuts) Northern-Irish with a flair for, as I had to experience, (rhetorical) warfare, Chee Ming, a charming (he almost managed to convince an elderly Chinese lady in night dress to pose for our camera) refreshingly geeky Malaysian and a random Swiss.

Digital camera drewn we set out to hunt the following:

• Something from the country
• Something green
• Something brown
• Something scandalous
• Something unexpected

The result:

• Something from the country - actually the last pic we took: an Irish hick (of course with other qualities..) among watermelons from the country.. ok, passes. Done.
• Something green - Beijing is terribly urban and polluted. So how about assisting plants to claim what might be the symbol of urban development, a well frequented cross-roads? We kidnapped a plant, moved it (we could have watered this bloody plant with our sweat.. ;)) from the office to the intersection and started watering.. Some honking supported our cause: greenen Beijings crossroads! ^^ Done.
• Something brown - something brown (of course with other qualities as well) passed by a brown rubbish bin. Brown in brown? Great. Let's put Tas into one of Beijings public rubbish bins. Done.
• Something scandalous – Given this picture might cause some unwanted trouble for persons that do not deserve it, I won’t publish it here..
• Something unexpected – an ocean of mannequins in Beijing’s “Alien market”. Joining this somewhat unusual crowd, pretending to be one of them might have some customers passing by go “oh, this is unexpected” (or simply, aaaah get that… thing.. out of there.. ;)). Done.

After a jiving 4 hours of hunting and a quick shower we joined the whole hunter crowd in Dave’s factory, a breath taking private loft in Beijing’s bustling art district Dashanzi. We feasted on pizza and some good Italian wine and were excited to see what the other teams had hunted down. There were pictures from people in houhai (very “green” lake in Beijing), nipples pained in green, dog in left hand, beer in right and Chinese “cheerleader” in the back to Beijings police officers exhibiting “scandalous” behaviour.. A fun range of snaps!

Nice side effect: toodle pip won not only 2 “best of category picture”-, “best overall picture” - and “best group” awards but also 6 bottles of wine.. a nice end (well actually start, since the fullmoon party was to follow) of a, IMHO, rocking Saturday!

Toodle pip!* ^^

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* for all of you as ignorant as I was before Tas “enlightened” me: toodle pip means as much as “bye bye”, cheerio

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