I hadn’t been to Madrid before and the city has always been a mystery to me. How could one of the most notorious maritime empires have been governed from a landlocked place like this? The geographic location seemed unappealing — no harbor, no impressive mount-range serving as backdrop, not even a noteworthy river flowing through. …
Category Archives: Culture
Esotericism is … [en]
… to belief that A/T/C/G fundamentally differs from 0/1.
Here comes Gentrification [en]
Just stumbled upon an old NY-Times article about good old Glockenbachviertel in Munich. The article is from 2006, and I must say that the foreign autor grasped the essence of this quarter quite well. Of course, things have changed since back then. Cool places have moved away (X-cess) or even shut down completely (KuK). Others, …
Sacral Architecture [en]
Admittedly, religion can be good for something. What I enjoy most, is some of the architecture it left behind. As for Christianity, some of their buildings even prove useful for skiing: Shout-out to the rider and the photo team! I think I know who you guys are;) Btw, found this on Facebook, with no copyright …
Lissabon Street-Art [en]
As promised, here’s some additional photos from my trip to Portugal last summer. This time it’s exclusively from Lisbon, and it’s focused on all the artsy stuff we found hidden in the city’s streets. All raw material ‒ unsorted, uncategorized, unenhanced, unedited. And most sadly, I don’t even know who created the respective works. Feel …