Not a lot to say here. I’ve seen several French videos of Parkour, but it’s nice to see it being done in Berlin. Usually our German kids are really sluggish, but these guys are obviously quite fit. I’d love to be a traceur, but at my age it hurts my knees just watching them.
I don’t know much about Patricia Piccinini, except that one of Karen’s neighbors growing up shared the same name. Her most recent work is being exhibited in Sydney, Australia at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. The series of covers some highly-realistic looking fleshy creatures interacting with small children. There’s one image that I find oddly disturbing, so I’m posting it here until someone can explain to me what the hell is going on.
Yikes. Click on it to enjoy a larger version…
Berlin is a huge city, with millions of people distributed over an urban bowl of spaghetti-like streets which go on for miles… but change their names every twenty blocks. Since I was a child I’ve wondered who the various streets were named after, or what the names meant. Occasionally there would be a tiny sign on top of a street sign, giving a birth and death date and a full name, but no indication if the person was a composer, politician, murderer or famous cook.
Well, rejoice! For those of you with absolutely nothing else to do, there is now a comprehensive index of Berlin street names. Nothing Wiki-based, God forbid, or even something that cross-links to any actual useful information… that would be too much to ask… but it’s a start. Berlin Geschichte is a site that covers our capital’s history, and in the process the site operators have put together a list of all streets, their names and location, and the source of the name.
It answered one question for me. It irked me when people pronounced it “Fränklin Strasse” but it turns out the street is really named after Benjamin Franklin.
As a frequent reader of this blog (LOL!) you have probably come to appreciate my fascination with the whimsical, the obscure, the unnecessary.
As such, I am delighted to introduce to you Mr. David Horvitz, who posts a creative project for people to participate in every day. He posts a bite-size task, and you are welcome to use it as a little inspiration. Every day needs a good meal, some exercise, a little art appreciation, and a quantum of personal creativity.
Some excerpts, try one:
This one also makes a fine birthday present:
This one obviously appeals to me a lot, and I’ve done a number of these. Cell phone cameras are great for this kind of project:
Art world rebellion:
..and I already completed one task:
Go check out his site, I really like it a lot.
This one is for Karen:
One more week till we hit the sun and beach.
