Only in China?

So I'm working in the JW Marriott for YPO. They have a group that's coming in tomorrow and I'm helping the management team get ready. It's a short term job but a lot of work. I've been working about 12 hours a day the last couple of days, and I think it's going to be longer days once everyone arrives and the program starts. 

At any rate, next to this hotel there is a really tall smoke stack. Nothing is coming out of it now--maybe the factory (or whatever the place is) is closed during the Olympics. At any rate, the reaction to it during the day is nothing pleasant--it's a polluting structure that is unpleasant to look at and is ruining the planet! And it's in the city next to this nice new hotel. It's an obstruction and I don't think you'd often find a smokestack in close proximity to a hotel.

Well, at night this unpleasant product of China's unbelievably fast industrialization lights up. Figures dance on it and spotlights light up. It's actually got it's own light show. Sometimes it has Olympic figures dancing on it, other times it changes colors fully green to blue to purple in slow fades. It's really quite pretty. The first time I saw it, I think I let out a "wow."

And then I think, how often do you say that about a smokestack? Only in China, I guess.