Posts Tagged ‘cities’
- Orchestre
They were playing an instrumental version of Gwen Stefani’s “What you waiting for?”.
Near Oranienstrasse
Kreuzberg, Berlin
- Back
Warschauer Strasse S-Bahn
Berlin
- Gold curtains
1er arrondissement, not far from rue Ste-Anne
Paris, France
- Ian going back to New York
This unassuming Fedex box contained 200 of artist Dan Graham’s empty pill bottles, to be used in a future art installation.
Ian’s hotel room, Park Inn, Alexanderplatz, Berlin
- Noticing things
Berlin Mitte, Berlin
- Sign
Marais, Paris, France
- So
I’ve been wanting to share my experience on here but it’s hard to do justice to what I am living right now. Through pictures or words. I don’t want to attempt to post pictures every day as things are happening, since for logistical reasons I don’t have them in real time and I have stopped obsessively trying to record everything; , I just want to live right now. Also I can only take very few film pictures now because my Yashica is fucking up, and I don’t like to lug my digital camera at night, bla bla bla.
My sisters Marine and Amandine visited me this week (not on the same days). Let’s just say we did not sleep at very Mormon hours. I smoke way too much. My new favorite bar is owned by French guys and isn’t officially open yet. They know my name and make delicious food that is the best thing in the world at 3am. I feel more loved and understood by the people here than I could have imagined. I met some French people that have taken me around the city. I think being the same kind of foreigner in a city of foreigners definitely helps.
I have not seen too many touristy/cultural things, except the excellent Helmut Newton Foundation and some walking around Unter den Linden, but it feels more important to me to do things like walking through Prenzlauer Berg right now and recognize a little more every day. Oh yeah, my neighborhood drunk recognizes me now. He screams “Brigitte Bardot! Jacques Dutronc!” when he rides past me on his bike.
I think I’m going to go lay in the grass in the park next to Kastanienallee five minutes from here right now and maybe have a drink with a friend. The weather is super hot, finally, it’s almost 8pm and really really nice out right now.
Görlitzer Park and Kastianienallee, Berlin
- Snapshots
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Berlin-Mitte, Berlin
- Berlin
I got here on Tuesday. I made some tea, stared at the whiteness and just enjoyed being completely alone for the first time in a while.
The apartment is OK, sort of, as you can see!!!I will be here for almost three weeks. There is an entire foreign-speaking world outside to explore but first I wanted to take care of some photos. I’m close to Rosa-Luxemburg Platz which is really central. The one downside is the construction on the outside of the building that starts loudly at 7am (that’s part of why I was able to afford this place)… It’s lovely anyway, aside from having to make sure there isn’t someone looking at me from the scaffolding outside.
I’ll be dancing alone in here and writing and editing photos and thinking about what is next.
OK, I have spent far too much time inside, time to go out.
PS to Yasmine: look, a palm tree in the corner!
- Paris
I saw the Annie Leibowitz show at the Maison Europénne de la Photographie, and it spoke to me on a more emotional level. I love feeling the tacit understanding between her and the people she photographs.
Paris was seductive and too brief. I spent most of my time walking around the Marais, got to stay in a rooftop apartment from heaven, hung out with Solène from Portland in overpriced clubs with bad music and also great bars with great people, and had some very inspiring lunches (company-wise and food-wise).
Sorry for the weird scanning issues, I have no control over it right now!
- L.A.
I have an extra special fondness for palm trees.
