Ian – Wander Europe

Hieronymus Bosch

August 16, 2015Ian

Tiara and I love Bosch; he’s some weird psychedelic dutch guy from the 1400s that was making paintings of lizardmen and fish knights when everyone else was drawing nobles in furs or windmills. Dali definitely owes a debt to Bosch, as do other recent surrealist things (e.g. the Codex Seraphinianus).

We were lucky that the Gemäldegalerie had two of his 30 odd works while we were in Berlin. Here are a couple close-ups from St. John the Evangelist and The Temptation of Saint Anthony:

Maybe not your typical transit, but it beats sitting in traffic

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Berlin Street Art

August 16, 2015Ian

Berlin was great for murals and graffiti. Kind of a ton of stuff actually. I made some more arbitrary groupings, but this is pretty much just a photo dump. Enjoy.

Low-Fi

Take a byte out of capitalism

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Soviets know how to make a memorial

August 13, 2015Ian

At the end of WWII, Russia quickly threw up some monuments. Tiergarten got the first one, literally months after Berlin was captured. Here’s Tiara and our college friend/Berlin expert John:

soviet war memorial at tiergarten berlin

I kid you not, this is the “small” soviet memorial in Berlin

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Nice is Nice

August 9, 2015Ian

Yes, I know, Tiara already did one on Nice. But I took pictures too, I’m just slower at posting/writing. So here goes.

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Pareidolia

August 9, 2015Ian

This one goes out to @briantobin, who taught me the word pareidolia.

Cranberry danish or evil alien overlord? You decide.

Somebody call this coconut a cab; he’s had enough.

Capitalism: 1, Communism: 0

August 9, 2015Ian

I don’t want to grow up, ’cause if I did, I couldn’t be a bolshevik kid

Marseille Bar Review: Carry Nation

August 4, 2015Ian

While in Marseille we stopped by the one noteworthy bar we could find; Carry Nation. For those of you not familiar with the history of the US temperance movement, Mrs. Nation was a 6′ tall radical famous for her “hatchetations.” This is exactly as bad-ass as it sounds.

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Street art Marseille

July 31, 2015Ian

Marseille was definitely dirtier than the other cities we’ve been to, but it also had some of the coolest street art. Here’s a photo dump of some of the things we saw.