Image of Asia: Walking apples and a phone in China
By The Associated Press, Associated Press
Oct 16, 2014 8:01 AM CDT
EXPLAINS WHY THEY ARE ESCORTED BY SECURITY GUARDS - Chinese performance artist Han Bing, left, and his friend Hui Li, center, drag an iPhone and a string of apples, respectively, as they are escorted out by security guards of a shopping district after performing outside an Apple retail store in Beijing,...   (Associated Press)

In this photo by Ng Han Guan, performance artist Han Bing drags an iPhone and his friend Hui Li drags a string of apples in a shopping district where an Apple retail store is located in Beijing. Passersby stared at the performance, some snapping pictures, before security guards escorted the artist away. Han Bing says the walk is intended to highlight our obsession with the mobile phone and in particular Apple's product. The performance is a continuation of his past walks with a brick and a cabbage in various cities to raise questions about our attachments to things.