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- Warsaw photo log #7: Chlodna 25
There is more to say about the place itself: one of our favorites , if only for the fact that it can be counted on to be opened through Christmas and collect all the refugees from family dinners. Also it’s filled with happy memories and serves one and only cheap polish cherry vodka (I only managed to find an article in the Polish wikipedia, apparently in English it’s referred to as Cherry Cordial)…
- Warsaw photo log #6: sky over Warsaw
This is Warsaw, how I remember it all the (20) years growing up - this precise sky color and this sky line. This type of a building is characteristic for where I used to live, but not solely. It takes over most of the city outside the strict center. But I wrote about that before. What struck me here were the exact colors that are always on my mind when I think of Warsaw - at any time of the year really. If you ever come here, you will know what I mean…
- Warsaw photo log #5: back street
I photographed this the other night on the way back from my gym at the Hilton hotel. I’m not, thank you very much, mentioning this to show off. I hope the gym effort will excuse the poor quality of this photo, I really wanted to post it and mention that this place is near a Hilton hotel (take this, Paris), because it show one other characteristic of Warsaw: everything is mashed in together. Rich, poor, cheap, expensive, flat, tall, cultured and rough, everything goes. No mercy and no sleep for the wicked - or something…
- this photo is me #6 (the ending)
What is a completely new experience for a “normal” member of society is being exposed to an abstract audience of the World Wide Web – audience that they can identify very vaguely if at all. Additionally through the Internet photographic services an ongoing conversation is enabled. Services like Flickr allow the users to “comment” on each other’s photographs. And by this ongoing conversation such services become social institutions in their own rights – with a complex web of social connections, own codes of conduct, own law enforcement etc…
- Warsaw photo log #4: Tram no 10
I believe in states these are called streetcars? As in Streetcar Named Desire, where - accidentally - Marlon Brando played a character of Polish origin. This, however is not why I took a picture of it. This particular one, number 10, starts in the neighborhood in which my parents live, equivalent I would think of end of zone 2 in London, except there’s huge estates and Warsaw only goes as far as 3 zones - and that if we’re being generous. It goes further through the strict city center through to near where my flat is and one of Warsaw’s favorite parks Pola Mokotowskie. Pola is a nearly mythical place for me and my friends, as it’s packed with pubs of dubious quality in which many a nights turned mornings were spent…
