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Got Green

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Sapporobogen, Munich (OSM)

This image would work in monochrome, too. But I found it even more convincing in color, in spite of not having cranked up saturation to 11. The spring related nuances of the color green hit a soft spot with me since I first saw young rice plants. And then, isn’t green a truly positive color?

GRIPS Theatre

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Altonaer Straße, Berlin (OSM)

The GRIPS Theatre was the first emancipatory (in U.S. terms probably “communist”) children’s theatre in post-WWII Berlin. It certainly was a child of its time – Berlin still in its rebuilding stage, governed by Social Democratic Mayors, but still distressed by not only the ghosts of the Third Reich – and offered new perspectives to…