Different baristas: selling coffee on bicycles and showing movies for the blind

The veteran of Starbucks

Have been working in the coffee field since the age of 19.

After more than ten years of working at Starbucks

He opened a Berry Beans boutique coffee shop in the depths of Beijing hutong.

And the reason for resigning is a little strange-selling coffee by bike!

He is Wei Hanye. For those who often shuttle to and fro in Beijing's hutong coffee shops, the familiar Wei Hanyi is a barista with a dream, but he doesn't know that he is also a dubbing artist in a blind cinema. It was his maverick "alternative" temperament that attracted the attention of Su Li, the only Leica certified photographer in China. On a sunny afternoon in early spring, photographer Suri took this picture of Wei Hannight with the new Leica double lens of Huawei P10. Through this photo, we seem to have a clear sense of the touching story of the barista as the third eye of the blind.

"most of the reality is cruel, so you slowly, wait a minute, or take a look, slowly you will get older and you will become lazy."

It seems common to spend several years as an apprentice learning to make coffee and open a coffee shop to start your own business. Shops like Sanlitun and Nanluoguxiang in Beijing can be found everywhere.

The eight hutongs near the Qianmen fence used to be the famous place of the wind and the moon in the capital. The legends of Xiao Fengxian and Cai E were submerged in the commercial cries of the big fence one after another. Although the Zhujia Hutong in the eight hutongs is not deep in the big fence, it is not well known compared to Shaanxi Lane. Today, Berry Beans, the boutique coffee shop run by Wei Hannight, the protagonist of our story, is hidden behind an inconspicuous red plank door in Zhu's hutong. In his thirties, Wei Hanyi resigned from a well-known coffee chain that had worked for 12 years. With his own understanding of coffee, he loomed in the city and established a utopia behind the wooden door.

However, our hero is an "alternative"!

For most people, watching a movie is a common thing, and in the cinema, we will consciously keep quiet to ensure the quality of the movie. However, in Beijing, there is a cinema that is very special. There are not many audiences watching movies here, but almost everyone has never seen a movie before, and the whole film, in addition to the plot of the film, is also interspersed with a variety of off-site commentary from time to time. It can be said that here, the audience is not watching, but listening to the film.

Listening to movies is new to the blind. In fact, for ordinary people like us, it is also a new thing. It seems not difficult for a commentator to describe the movie. However, you can try to close your eyes and listen to a film. You will soon find that although you can understand it, it is not the same as watching a movie. How do the commentators of blind cinemas enable blind people to enjoy movies with their sense of hearing?

In addition to having perfect projection facilities, another indispensable part of the cinema for the blind is the commentator, as Hou Di understands, a competent commentator can interpret a complete film for the blind. In fact, behind this small blind cinema, there is a group of enthusiastic volunteers working hard for the release of every film.

Wei Hannight, as a barista, is creating a silent art space for the blind cinema. However, every weekend, his other job is to come to the blind cinema to carefully prepare the dubbing and interpretation of the next film.

Speaking of watching film dubbing for blind audiences, this is not an easy task. Although the dubbing staff have also come into contact with speeches, hosts and other work on the side, they still need to invest a lot of energy in the face of film dubbing. At the same time, they also need to have good expression skills and rich imagination and the ability to play on the spot. Often few people are qualified for such high standards. But Wei Han Night silently insists on creating invisible art for the blind.

A lot of people like me.

Want to leave mediocrity.

Be a different person.

But I'm not like them.

The duties of a barista

Is to bring happiness to everyone.

Duties of volunteers in blind cinemas

My life is chasing dreams.

My dream is to follow the life of my heart.

Under the lens of Huawei P10 portrait photographer

Wei Hannight seems to have installed the third eye for the blind.

Artist in me