I am a little sad… last week I made a photo of a typical object in the public space of Amsterdam: the “pepper can”… used as advertisement-pillar and electricity-house… yesterday it was gone… after more than 60 years…. now there is that grey thing in the background… :-( article in Parool
some days, like today, many airplanes fly close above our neighbourhood… it feels much closer in reality, than it looks on this photo… ”If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”-Robert Capa… but how can I get closer?… and much more important, what are those stripes: fuel?… :-/
PS Hans Peter Feldmann made little artist books, one with 12 photos like this, now sold in series… recently for $9.375 at Christies
yesterday a nice radio item about this DogWalkingCity-blog… as part of the exhibition My City Drifts at Retort… by Merel Bem, in Dutch… item starts at 01:10:30 KLICK HERE
I like this mix of architecture… every time when I pass this, I have to look aside to this entrance… it even has his own website with interesting information and pictures of its history: Lightfactory
portrait of a tree overlookig the Heemstedestraat
Beneath every streetname there is the name of the district… like here “Oud Zuid”… in 1962 our district got the name “Overtoomse Veld”… which you still can read on all signs, when you look very very close… in 1990 they covered the old name and wrote the new: “Oud Zuid”
PS in 2010 it changed again, now into “Zuid”… except for these signs, they didn’t change… don’t know why… maybe they expect the next change soon ;-)
Always when I see this, I automaticly smile… don’t know why… maybe because I like bird-watching, but what bird is this?… art-paintings, but who is the artist?… or Turkish pizza’s, afiyet olsun?… mmm
Big Brother… When you enter our neighbourhood you are photographed, and tagged on Facebook… ;-) PS who knows what this thing really does?…
“Can I ask you something personal?”….. ….. eh?… “Because I often see you walking here with your dog: I am curious: Are you a writer?” ….. I said yes, very good, indeed, I am a writer… with light: a photographer… PS again I realised how anonym I live in this city… NOT ;-)
Sorrysorrysorry. I failed… Yesterday I made this lousy picture… Because I wanted to inform you about this bargain: a hometrainer and a child-chair for free! Today I went there again, but it was gone…
