{"id":9902,"date":"2013-12-21T14:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T13:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eltono.com\/?page_id=9902"},"modified":"2015-12-26T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T14:25:03","slug":"promenade-no3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/projects\/promenades\/promenade-no3\/","title":{"rendered":"Promenade N\u00ba3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beijing Haidianqu \u2013 \u5317\u4eac\u6d77\u6dc0\u533a
\n21 November 2013
\nFrom 8h51 to 13h30 (4h39min)
\n16,10 km.
\n\u5f80\u897f\u8d70 (Wangxizou, going west)<\/p>\n

\"\"Departure at 8h51.<\/p>\n

\"\"Another way to use bricks, as a weight.<\/p>\n

\"\"After walking a little more than 4 km, I ended up on a small quiet street. It follows a very busy road connecting the university district to the Summer Palace but a river separates them. The access is closed to cars and I came across no more than 3 persons along its 500 m. I don’t think this quiet street connects any relevant points of the neighborhood and people would rather stay on the main road to get where they have to go. In such a busy city like Beijing, it is rare to find quiet spots with few human or vehicle traffic. Moreover, I found this street quite charming with the river and the big trees all along.<\/p>\n

\"\"Right after entering this street I saw a round rock on the floor.<\/p>\n

\"\"I mechanically started to kick it. I do that a lot when I am walking and normally I keep on kicking until I can’t reach the rock anymore.<\/p>\n

\"\"The configuration of this street – no cars, no people and high sidewalk edges – made it possible for me to kick the rock all along the 500m. These last three pictures are for illustration only; they were taken after the action, which happened spontaneously.<\/p>\n

\"\"Once I reached the end and entered again the normal flow of people, cars and bicycles, I took the rock, put it in my pocket and kept on walking towards West.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"I walked for another hour and half, reached the Summer Palace – which was the farthest point west I wanted to reach – and started walking back. During that time I couldn’t stop thinking about what I could produce if I noted down the sequence created by the movements of that rock. I decided to go there again on my way back and note down which foot was kicking and how many steps were separating each kick from the next one.<\/p>\n

\"\"Once I arrived at that small quiet street again, I took the rock out of my pocket and kicked it all along the road, one way until the east entrance of the street.<\/p>\n

\"\"And another way, back to the south entrance.<\/p>\n

\"\"I simultaneously noted down the two sequences created. “G17”, for example, means I kicked the rock with the left foot (gauche) and walked 17 steps to reach it again.<\/p>\n

\"\"On my way back, I ran into this magnificent brick installation made by construction workers.<\/p>\n

\"\"Once at home, I checked the notes.<\/p>\n

\"\"I transcribe it into a graphic interpretation.<\/p>\n

\"\"And generated a drawing out of the sequence.<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nThe rock after 1,5 km. of rolling on the asphalt.<\/p>\n

\"eltono-promenade3-map\"<\/a>The GPS track record (click on the map to make it bigger).<\/p>\n

\"\"Detail of the track record, in green are the three times I walked and kicked the rock.<\/p>\n

> Back to Promenades Journal<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beijing Haidianqu \u2013 \u5317\u4eac\u6d77\u6dc0\u533a 21 November 2013 From 8h51 to 13h30 (4h39min) 16,10 km. \u5f80\u897f\u8d70 (Wangxizou, going west) Departure at 8h51. Another way to use bricks, as a weight. After walking a little more than 4 km, I ended up on a small quiet street. It follows a very busy road connecting the university district … Continue reading Promenade N\u00ba3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9854,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9902","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7sWFx-2zI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9902"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9907,"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9902\/revisions\/9907"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}