onizou idea nomads - china - gerhard seizer & klara sibeck
smile, you are in china!

 

 

 

 

 

2009/MAY/12-JUN/05 & JUL/23-AUG/18

CHINA

Discovering new parts of China, our home country for many years. It's just so damn far to the west parts that we never had the chance to go there. Traveling from Hong Kong all the way to Kazakhstan passing Dimen village, meeting students in Sichuan and nomads in Tibet. More than 22,000 kilometers traveled on land, 10 nights on overnight trains and 3 nights on sleeper buses. Highlight: second day of the train ride from Tibet to Urumqi, spotting yaks in the morning and camels in the sunset.

onizou idea nomads - tibetan nomads - gerhard seizer & klara sibeck

 

meet tsomo, a real nomad. she lives in a water proof tent made out of yak hair... >2009/MAY/30 tibetan nomads

onizou idea nomads - sichuan university speech - gerhard seizer & klara sibeck

 

spicy speech in sichuan. the IDEA NOMADS met the design students at sichuan university in chengdu... >2009/MAY/20 sichuan university

onizou idea nomads - packing - gerhard seizer & klara sibeck


packing our bags and leaving shanghai for our first destination taipei. what we bring? check it out... >2009/APR/16 packing

onizou idea nomads - shanghai launch event with naolab - gerhard seizer & klara sibeck

 

coming alive! IDEA NOMADS launched in Shanghai together with Naolab, introducing naoLoop... >2009/APR/11 IDEA NOMDAS launch

onizou idea nomads - creating onizou - gerhard seizer & klara sibeck

 

behind the scenes – creating IDEA NOMADS. one idea, two designers, thousands of give-aways...

>2009/MAR/31 creating IDEA NOMADS

onizou idea nomads - gearing up - gerhard seizer & klara sibeck

 

gearing up – getting ready for the long trip with travel-friendly electronics and shoes...  >2009/JAN/29 gearing up


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distance traveled 22,285 km
elapsed time 50 days 1 hour 0 minutes 24 seconds

 

 

 

dimen dong village

guangzhou train station
hard sleeper train - not bad
road block - the mountain fell down
our good driver
ahh dimen
water supply
minority advertisement
so much rice
dimen village
weaving
terrace
handicraft
drum tower
neigbor village
plants
rice field mirror
hard work
more rice
and rice again
incredibly heavy
onizou in dimen
coffin storage

 

chengdu

Sichuan face
swedish lunch at IKEA
thinking of home
climbing on characters
staying connected
big mao
cancer pandas
more cancer pandas
approaching the real pandas
bamboo breakfast
fitting in
good life
mmm
panda lookalike
panda hat
fake panda
hot hot hot pot
OMG is that spicy
uhuhhh. too spicy
street life & best dumplings in town
tibetan flags

 

train to lhasa

waiting with the crowd
serious work
swedish lunch
getting GPS location through the window
IKEA provided us with swedish bread
wow
oxygen supply
extra oxygen
high altitude = low pressure = exploding cornflakes
high altitude computer work
our wagon
passing slow trucks
tibet permit
real cup noodle meal
power supply
planning future adventures
snowy mountains
great place for a lunch
reading about the silk road


lhasa

lhasa sky
tea packs about to explode
can't get enough of potala palace
jokhang temple
nice day
colorful wall
fish
jokhang temple
potala palace
lhasa sky
toilet for monks
praying
long way up
potala palace
lots of prayers
yak head
connected city
meat
nice ride
doing the laundry in front of potala palace
drying laundry in front of potala palace
potala palace rooftop
stone animals
wall
indian star
strangled doll


monasteries in shigatse & gyantse

nuns in lhasa
paiting a mandala
mandala in action
color for the floor painting
dark monastery
happiness
light
scripts
gyantse monastery
paint for a mandala
gyantse monastery
evil guys
water leaves marks
bring on the tea
carrying the breakfast
no shoes in the temple please
we are here to pray
gyantse monastery


mount everest base camp

swede & lake
lake
honk when you see a mountain
5000 km to Shanghai
high altitude sheep
will we ever see the everest...?
the weather almost stopped us
we stopped to help some guys fix their bike
snowy road
tent camp
inside the tent
toilet wagon
skulls for sale
tent accomodation
everest onicon
yak
prayer flags
base camp
everest peak
tired travelers
everest base camp
everest camp
our vehicle
meeting traffic
everest and beyond
high jump
with our driver and guide
the highest we got
top of the hill
turn left


on the road in tibet

attentive audience
funny guys?
countryside dance performance
the dudes
hi there
watching a play
decorated yaks
happy together
village life
village life
the offbeat track
prayer stones
roadside village
high altitude natural hot spring
taking a bath
hot spring
train to lhasa
dramatic skies
camp at namtso lake
yak & pool table
waiting for summer
namtso lake
trying to catch a glimpse of the lake
go away clouds, go!
above namtso lake
longsleeve man
yaks
Untitled
scary bridge
risking it


tibetan nomads

good road, dramatic skies
woman approaching
distant nomads
smiling woman
nomad tent
nomad tent
inside the tent
yak butter maker
buddhist water bowls
stove
fan for fire
small nomad
taking a rest outside the tent
nomad tent
tent & solar oven


urumqi

yet another train
train to wulumuqi (urumqi)
going nuts
there was steam all over town
tea, anyone?
Madena's restaurant
waiting around
great bread that never made it to shanghai
for a comfortable life style
our little car in official outfit
morning routine
BMW socks
uighur cola
carrefour right in the center of events


sary tash to kashgar

early morning in sary tash
hitching with a kyrgyz truck
in good company
on a truck through the mountains
nice road ahead
camel crossing
kashgar tea house
out shopping
sugar sugar honey honey
dried camel?
carpet seated scooter
kashgar deconstruction
old town door
lonely boy
wall
call an uighur
hidden woman
demolishion
stocking up on bread
soft-seated scooter
scooter collection
peeking out
tough game
blue door
covered up
street food
dentist
BBQ
passing by
coal for the grill


kashgar sunday market

bringing in the goods
sheep line
throwing sheep
piling up the sheep
sheep on the move
this way, little donkey
bad air
sheep parade
fluffy butts
bagels
sheep transport
donkeyman
donkeyman
sunday bloody sunday
waiting around
stacking up some goats
double sheep
summer outfit for the sheep
fenced up
under the red roof
drinks
hanging out
hiding the bull
all pimped up
time to leave

 

southern silk road: yarkand, hotan and across taklamakan desert

through the bus window
donkey carts
streets of yarkand
streets of yarkand
streets of yarkand
for big portions of fried rice
surprising a driver
hand made spades
banging about
better bring a fan
donkey carts
women on bus
hiking shoes!
south silk road to hotan
bumpy bus ride
in the middle of nowhere
looking out the bus window
people passing by
yet another bus
taklamakan desert
chilling out in the bus
28h bus ride
sand storm toilet break
toilet break in the desert
sand storm in the desert


eating grapes in turpan

turpan hotel
watching our driver's wedding DVD
house for making raisins
contents: grapes
looking into the grape house
one of many police checkpoints
ancient uyghur village
in the uyghur village
there's always a bed
better sleep on the roof in this heat
view from top
mosque
taking care of the grapes
dry land
peeking out
door
125
old uyghur village
flaming mountains (with some photoshop aid)
ancient watering system; a karez
turpan is all about grapes
roadside grape sale
guarding the grape fields
it's so hot the grapes turn to raisins
onizou in turpan
desert ruins
stupa
river canyon
desert village
turpan mosque


dune cruising in dunhuang

hostel cats
miniature sand dune
long way up
dunes all over
exhausted
a long way up
looking down
huge dunes
made it to the top
cold beer and hot sand
onizou in dunhuang
sand all over
bathing in sand
sunset over dunhuang dunes
munching
bringing home the camels
racing camels
stranded in our hut
flooding at the hostel
cleaning up the caves
lots of buddhas
mogao caves
good night
the taxis in dunhuang run on gas
pay per cubic meter
filling it up

 

operation camel ride

long shadows
the gang
proud rider
caravan
lookalikes
dunes
top of the dune in the moonlight
camp
sunrise
blending in
so happy together
go, cowboy


back in beijing - one year after the olympics

warning
best drink in BJ
onizou mc nuggets
dressing up for dinner
before the rain
playa del Beijing
on sale at 'the village'
playing at 'the village'
ice skating in the mall
waiting in line to see the mao-soleum
nah, not joining that line
sunny day
onizou at tiananmen
lining up
PET bottle bike
new subway lines
wheel protection
lama temple
mandala
painting
hard working monkey
monkey, monk and elephant
spin in this direction, please
cctv tower
burnout house


short stop shanghai

our expo tickets for 2010
expo site
strong man
big jump
the old slaughterhouse
view from top
good ol' shanghai rivers
ahh, shanghai
head in the ice bucket
cooling off
best haircut in the world
charging up haibao
a worker and his map
street sale
autumn is here
cleaning up shanghai
constant construction
nothing better than a warm italian
that familiar view
onizou in shanghai
I want YOU for the green toenail army
ahh, the onizou toenails!
the boys
japanese shinkansen train shanghai to beijing
beijing railway station waiting hall
beijing to ulan bator
looking out
russian train
toward the transsib