As a child, I had a series of Ladybird children’s books with fairytales such as Snow White and Rose Red and Beauty and the Beast. The illustration style was a 60s mainstream version of archaic, as if it were a series of oil paintings with the stories set in some ill-defined period between the middle [...]
Archive for the ‘Art’ category
Spray the paint berlin style
I was very much taken by the combination of greenery and graffiti that Berlin has to offer: I was also greatly impressed by some of the more intelligent points made by German street artists: Granted, some criticisms were less clever, but amusing nonetheless: There were also some extremely positive messages, the likes of which I [...]
Stella and the magic carpet
Stella has followed the hallowed footsteps of Scotty G. to Berlin. She will now attempt to communicate an art installation in photographs. All good art installations are of course impossible to capture and document. Nevertheless, Stella will risk diminishing the work to share it with you. It takes place in the Neue Nationalgalerie designed by [...]
Eastern architecture pt. 3: Fernsehturm Berlin
One of the more famous landmarks in East Berlin is the TV tower (or Fernsehturm Berlin), which was constructed by the GDR in the late ’60s as a way to showcase its technological superiority over the West. My first impression as I exited Alexanderplatz metro station was that I was not moved either by its [...]
Eastern architecture pt. 2
After leaving Berlin, I was thrilled to come across some really fabulous cold war architecture in Dresden: Prague: Brno: and Budapest:
Eastern architecture pt. 1
Staying in East Berlin for a week, I became increasingly drawn to Cold War architecture, and I began to sense a spirituality in the stark pragmatism of structure, which tends to feature little in the way of design. That’s not to say that you don’t see flourishes of design from time to time: Of course, [...]
Euro-transit pt. 1
While on my recent trip to Central Europe, I snapped about two thousand photos. Over the next several weeks I’ll do my best to share some of my favorites without boring you all to tears. This was the first time I’ve traveled since becoming interested in taking pictures, and I found myself growing increasingly drawn [...]
Obstruction
I wrote two long posts here in the past few hours. They were about something that has been happening to me recently, which is that I find myself limited in my paths through my neighborhood by various social forces—an ex’s children, whom I miss terribly and who hate me because they think I abandoned them, [...]
“The same, safe, sexy route”
Dave and I were both pretty sauced when he suggested that I write this post. We were leaving a house party where there had been a serious amount of dancing, mostly to our new pop crush Janelle Monae. I haven’t danced as much as I did that night in years, and, generally, I don’t even [...]
Tuesday videos: Sexy CPR
So, I know everyone really likes the more personal TGW posts, but I’m gonna have to go with a relatively impersonal compendium of amusing video clips today. Dave and Stella set the bar very high last week, and I’m too grumpy and tired at the moment to write anything insightful – sorry! (ed. note: and [...]
