Over the course of the last month I have had the chance to stretch my legs a bit further than just my local street art and urban exploration trips ( Read more... )

This weekend was the annual “Tag des offenen Denkmals” all over Germany (with the exception of Cologne which celebrates it next weekend due to this week’s marathon). Again I took this opportunity to explore Hamburg a bit.
Yesterday I stayed north of the river and started my day with a destination befitting this year’s topic: colors.

The ( Read more... )

While I am busy, I still managed to make two more street art expeditions, both of them exploring St. Pauli. In the end I took over 150 images.

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Not sure if it was the geographer or historian in me who was the giddier one when I stumbled over J.E. Fullerton's maps.
I also enjoyed some of these episode placecards quite a bit.

I have loved Nathalie Merchant's song since I heard it for the first time over ten years ago. I always thought it would make for a fantastic fan vid one day and now it has :-)

( Lyrics )

I admit, I have always been a DC reader, preferring Batman, Catwoman and Teen Titans, not to mention Sandman, Fables and a few others, before sliding into the (sometimes) edgier indie comic scene ( Read more... )

This morning, due to today being such a gorgeous spring day, I decided to take an extra-long “lunch break”. In the end said break was almost 4 h long and I walked about 6-7 km through the Karo and Schanzen Viertel ( Read more... )

Well here's a couple more street art shots that I took. This time in Hamburg, there is plenty to be found both in Ottensen and Bahrenfeld if you know where to look. Not to mention that most of what you find - aside from the typical tagging - is pretty darn good

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Last weekend we got talking about books and there have been quite a few new reads, as well as some repeats, over recent months. So here goes nothing ^_^

Crime Fiction

As mentioned before not usually my forte. Yet my job called for quite a number of reads in that area and look and behold I even liked a couple. Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt and the ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening we were talking about street art and that reminded me that I had not posted any of the images I took while on a guided tour in Berlin a couple of weeks ago. So here it goes, it's just a few, but they nicely highlight some of the broad ranges of style currently out there:


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