All the Stops

With extreme vanity, bordering on madness, China is pumping every spare resource into Beijing. Water, oil, food, concrete. The goal: to produce the world's most impressive Olympics this summer.

The future does not exist. There is no life outside the city. No people, no animals, no rocks, no air, no soil, only faceless resources. The city and its magnificent construction is all there is. There is only now, flashing lights, clean concrete, green, manicured grass. There is only instant gratification, a hollow thin layer, seconds of eternity.

Beijing is everywhere. And everywhere darkness creeps closer to the fluorescent lights that only shine inward. Can you see it?

The real light is leaving this world, the light of children's imaginations and growing things and wildness. Can you see them go?