All is Fair in Love and Exercise: Hoan Kiem Park, Hanoi
Before the advent of the Internet, societal consciousness was generated in physical public spaces: on the streets, in cafes, on buses, or in parks. These hubs of human contact were, and in many ways still are, essential for the dissemination of information, for the formation of relationships outside of the home, and occasionally for spreading […]
Dance Like Nobody’s Watching: Observing Vietnam’s Exercise Culture
Here is the link to my observation post on exercise culture in Vietnam.
Life in Hanoi begins early. Over the two weeks I have been here, I have been able to see the city at night, in the morning, and in the heat of the day: for sheer energy the morning takes the […]
Kicks, Jumps, and Leaps of Progression in Hoàn Kiếm Park
Here is my post about Hoàn Kiếm Park and civilization in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Get Your Weird On: Hanoi Edition
Members of society can become worked up over many different types of things, be it Americans about Ebola, Kurds about the Islamic State, or Vietnamese about their public space: and when the people become upset, governments usually intervene. The Vietnamese are an old people with many longstanding traditions and practices, their capital city, Hanoi, is […]
Parks and Recreation: The Individuation of Expression
On my walk through Hoan Kiem Park I began to people watch. I noticed that many people were exercising. This does not seem out of place on the surface. It is a public park, people work out there. But then I began to watch them closer. Their exercising practices seemed incredibly peculiar. I would not […]
Community spaces, community dance lessons at 6am
This morning I arrived at Reunification Park, formally known as, and sill commonly referred to as, Lenin Park, at exactly 6:25am. I paid the entrance fee of 4,000VND, equivalent to roughly 20cents USD and walked around the lake taking pictures of as many activities as I could until 7:30am. I was in awe of […]