Today, the exhibition of the German painter and photographer Sigmar Polke will be opened in Vienna’s Mumok.
I’m really curious about it. Besides from being a great artist he seems to have a good sense of humour which can be seen in some of his “Capitalist Realism” pictures commenting on German culture and society.
6/10/2007
Industrial Architecture in Essen
On the weekend we went with friends to the Zeche Zollverein, the once largest colliery in the world, now a Unesco World Cultural Heritage site in Essen, Germany. Built in the 1920’s , it’s a technical and architectural masterpiece.
Beautiful, but also a reminder of the dreadful price the relatively well paid miners had to pay for their jobs: deafness, nervous diseases, lung diseases .. you name it.
There’s more pictures ..
Beautiful, but also a reminder of the dreadful price the relatively well paid miners had to pay for their jobs: deafness, nervous diseases, lung diseases .. you name it.
There’s more pictures ..
6/01/2007
A canny load of chink
Tomorrow at the scrake of dawn I'll have to clean this peasewisp of mawkit delf I've collected for days. Maybe I should call the midgie men ...
Need a translation? Just read Andy Mc Smith's article on dialect researchers at Leeds University who are sifting through a vast collection of examples of regional slang words.
Need a translation? Just read Andy Mc Smith's article on dialect researchers at Leeds University who are sifting through a vast collection of examples of regional slang words.
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