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M. Wallerstorfer, Antiques

Salzburg’s Steingasse certainly is a road with many different faces, the modern architecture of yesterday just a small number of steps away from this abandoned antiques shop.

“Art Dealers And Children First” – this begs for a number of questions to be asked, like “Is there a catastrophy ahead, Titanic-like, and the survival of Art Dealers is critical?”, or “Are Art Dealers more helpless than women?”, and “Will the Art Dealers take care of the children?”. I have to admit that I…

More Cubes

An answer to Martina’s comment on yesterday’s post “It’s the same everywhere in Germany, isn’t it?”: In urban areas, probably yes – even in Austria.Admittedly I like Bauhaus design very much, so I am somewhat ambivalent especially regarding the architecture in yesterday’s image. In dreary weather it looks depressing for me, whereas today’s Salzburg example…

Squared Living

Bonn, North Rhine-Westfalia

Civil Servants’ Silo

Bonn, North Rhine-Westfalia After the German reunification it was decided that Berlin becomes the capital again. To mitigate the consequences for the former capital, Bonn, several ministeries and federal administration headquarters had to stay in Bonn. This is one of them.

Soundscape Walker

Transparent Trees

Young Ladies Of Bonn

For sure it was not my intention to tilt the camera that much, but looking at the image I learned to enjoy it, especially as the fervent red box balances it so nicely. That it became a subconscious hommage to Winogrand is not unlikely, as I had recently seen an original print of his famous…

Tramway Approaching

The relative darkness of the half-underground railway station spares you the most ugly magenta I’ve ever seen a tramway painted in – completely (at least only the outside). This is part of the sponsoring the local public transport company has with one of it’s sponsors, the Deutsche Telekom. Whilst I understand that emptied public budgets…

Daddy Cool

Donnersbergerbrücke, Munich Car advertisements still play on the more spinal cord level, it seems. As they are so successful – most Germans are tremendously car-conscious – they do indeed hit the right spot. Myself, I was heading for the train to a meeting in Bonn at 06:19 in the morning. City administration’s rules are strict:…

Grocery Store

Ludwigsvorstadt, Munich “Lebensmittel” means groceries, but the letters are just leftovers now, as gentrification took place in this quarter along with the centralisation of food stores. But people obviously like the reminiscences to the past so much that the keep the now irrelevant lettering.

Copy Center

Ludwigsvorstadt, Munich All the (partially acta-induced) discussion about intellectual property and payments to artists have brought the copy center solution back into public awareness: In these copy centers without doubts a lot of intellectual property gets multiplied without proper licensing. Because it seemed inappropriate to criminalize this business (similarly to the introduction of the music…

St. Paul’s Square

Ludwigsvorstadt, Munich

Freud In The City

The German word “Freud” means joy. I don’t know if the advertisement was here first (and what purpose it should serve) or the graffiti writing, but at least the go together nicely.