The Bauhaus Archive from the outside. Somehow the Bauhaus managed to have poetic modern architecture, wheeas much of the modern architiecture in Berlin I found to be just ugly.
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photo by Lazlo Mohoy-Nagy
This was part of an exhibition at the Bauhuas archives in Berlin. These color photos were taken in 1935 and they totaly blew my mind. The colors were rich and intense and had the quality of an Almodovar film at times. It was hard to beleive that color film had just been invented then. I think this also shows that good composition and photography is lasting, that you dont need photoshop to make good photos, or maybe I am just an analog crank (she says on her blog…). I think also the Bauhaus in general created really moden, clean, simple forward thinking forms that had a human tough, that did not loose the people into the machine, as if the artists and craftspeople of the Bauhaus knew that ultimately, design is for people.
Overnight from Berlin
So the overnight train without a bunk really wiped me out. I never want to see the train station in Dortmund Germany at 2 am ever again… but Berlin was great, pictures coming soon. Here are some of my favorite things to drink in Berlin: Bionade (organic fizzy Brittish lemondate type drink, but German), Schwepps Bitter Lemon, Caprihinias (especially at Tante Horst, a new collectively run bar on Orienstrasse 45 in Kreuzberg, which everyone should go check out, they are opening officially on the 13th, but opened special for a night for Ladyfest Berlin).
Jardins De Luxembourg
I love the chairs set out in public gardens in Paris. The perfect place to hang out and write postcards to my family.
Café Flor
Where the existentialists hung out, it seemed like a great place to write a letter to S, who loves Simone de Beauvoir. The cafe crème was excellent, if pricey.
Monmartre
Okay, all cheesy Amelie references aside and despite the fact that my sister and G. shake their heads when I mention Monmartre, I was really happy when another friend G. took me to a neighborhood bar in Monmartre. It was sweet and friendly and we sat outside and chatted with people at neighboring taables and drank red wine with bread and cheese because we were “obligated” said G. I hope to return.
View of Sacre Couer
How very parisian. This was taken from the 6th floor of the Centre Pompidou (see review of show below). This is one of about 20 photos I have taken of Paris rooftops. I am obcessed.
Butes Chaumont
Last Sunday we had a lovely picnic in the parc butes chaumont. It was really steep and we kept sliding down the hill as we tried to eat our lunch. K. and G. decided to try to roll down the hill, though the grass looked too dry and potentially hurtful for wimpy met to give it a try. We encouraged some small children to try it as their mother’s were ignoring them sunbathing. Are we a bad influence?
Shakespeare and Company
The second floor of Shakespeare and Company is a reading room crammed full of old and new books . Despite all the tourists it is suprinsgly peaceful and offers a really nice view to the cobblestone street and Seine below.
Musee Dorsey
Inside the Musee Dorsey, an old railway station converted into a museum for impressionist paintings. I saw my favorite Van Gogh painting, the one of this blue room with the orange/red bed spread. Unfortunately, my friend J. also shut his finger in the door of the terrace in plein air and we got a behind the scenes tour that included the nurse’s office!
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