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• August 2007 (2)
• July 2007 (2)
• June 2007 (1)

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- 5 years ago

Zollverein. How beautiful and artful can words sound, when they are in another language than my own. Industrial words, sounding like statues made of steel and rust: "Fördergerust" "Zeche Prosper" "Kokerei" "Erdgeschoss" "Kohlenwäsche". Worth the journey.
Cambrai
- August 6, 2007

I was in Cambrai and discovered that the top of cool is cruising around in a car whilst playing electro in loud mode. I saw a guy circle a parking lot five times, another one (trousers of a red jumpsuit, white t shirt over his belly and moustache and haircut fitting a Schlagersänger lover) standing casually next to his small peugeot, door open, monotones at top volume, people hanging out of windows. It was eerie, I crossed the street and walked away, puzzled.
I went to...
- July 12, 2007

The documenta in Kassel, and on the way back to the Zollverein Essen, industrial site in the Ruhr. Documenta en Kassel itself were great, saw a few things that impressed me a great deal, and the atmosphere was very nice. The Zollverein in Essen was impressive, hadn't the time to see it thoroughly but it was amazing, reader of this blog I advise you: go visit the Zollverein and don't forget your camera,
a bit more
- July 2, 2007

I am getting the hang of how this works, Without the groups it's harder to generate visitors, or find pictures i am interested in, have to use the tags for that. Furthermore, the overall experience seems more directed towards the "social aspect" than to photo sharing, and thus is photography a means to this end. This reminds me (again) more of the dutch Hyves community than of Flickr. And I have to catch up on my knowledge of the german language, it seems to be the ipernity-Sprache at the mo…
I am trying this out
- June 30, 2007

Seems faster and I only just got the hang of how to find other pictures. What I don't like is the way you can personalize your page, it seems to give too few possibilities, so pages often turn out "uneven" the outlook is a bit like the dutch Hyves community, where you can see pages that give you dizzy spells. I miss the groups too Well we'll see.

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