August 18, 2014
Ljubljana street art
Ljubljana is a city for street artists (and for everybody who wants to publicly express their feelings and wishes them to stay permanently expressed). Lots of the graffiti works are just some scribbles on some walls…
…but very often they carry important philosophical messages.
They blend into the cityscape…
…or stick out of it.
You can find them at unexpected places, too.
Sometimes they display personal political views…
…and offer practical advice on how to survive in our society without getting hurt.
A wake-up call for the nation…
…to prevent an impending biological disaster.
Sometimes it’s about gastronomy (Ljubljana street artists seem to have developed a healthy obsession towards donuts)…
… or important culture references.
An artist’s manifesto…
…and the confessions of a misanthrope.
Sometimes it’s a call for self-love…
…and sometimes it’s thoughts on loving somebody else.
Is this meant as the evidence for praiseworthy family feelings or is it a confession about having necrophiliac tendencies? I really can’t tell.
Sometimes the artists are eager to create a portrait of the loved one…
…and sometimes it’s just about them giving some general life advice…
… or an unasked for personal info on the family physician’s love life.
Most of the graffiti are pictures of cute (even if somewhat creepy and often really distorted) animals, though.
December 20, 2013
unreal city, under the brown fog of a winter dawn
Guess in which city I am right now!
(Okay. This isn’t a fair question. Feel free to examine the tags.)
November 17, 2013
things and places I will miss when I leave Salzburg
This field, with the view of the Festung. So many adventures of mine started here.
The times when I was living in the same house with Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. Or with his ghost. Oh well. At least with his memory.
Cemetery art. If I die (and I undoubtedly will) I want to be buried à la Salisburgensis.
The mountains. I’ve never been that lowland-girl. I need my clouds and peaks and high places to feel good.
Leopold Mozart. I really am the last to question the rare genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart but in my opinion the one who did the big job, was his father, Leopold. Music training in the 17-18th century is one of my pet peeve themes (I actually wrote one of my Bachelor theses about teaching children instruments using entirely historical sources already from beginner’s level), and I can’t stress enough the importance of a good teacher. Developing a close relationship with your teacher ist actually unavoidable while learning an instrument and your teacher makes you or breaks you. A good teacher makes you. You get my point. So I love Leopold Mozart way more than I love his son. His son was simply a genius. But Papa Mozart was the man who gave him the opportunity to be one. And that’s the real job, I tell you.
The house blessings and stories painted below the roofline of those pastel-coloured houses.
The dialect which I’m just starting to finally understand.
The Candela shop. Christmas all year round.
This weird little garden by the bike road under the Staatsbrücke, made and cared for by Mister Wolfgang. I have no idea though, who he actually is, but hey, Mr. Wolfgang, thank you!
Kitschy Mozart-souvenirs. I’ve grown to love them during the last one and a half years. (I know. It’s embarrassing. But I don’t care. I feel no shame.)
Sphaera. He looks like the kind of man a girl could trust and marry.
The guild signs.
People wearing dirndl. Like, all the time. They wear it to church, to the coffee-house, to meet friends, to the Festspiele, just because it’s Sunday (Monday, Tuesday, etc). Dirndl is real, at least here in Salzburg. My Inner Princess, who is usually pretty much suppressed by the jeans-wearing Everyday Me, totally loves it.
The easy access to grass-fed, organic meat and row dairy.
The open-air free opera movies or, the Festspiele Of The Poor, which I visited on numerous occasions. I’ve never set foot in the Festspielhaus, though. Those 700 euros tickets are somewhat out of my budget. Ha, ha.
Carillon music. I will really miss hearing those out-of-tune Mozart arias and German folk tunes three times a day.
The roses of Mirabell…
…and Pegasus, of course.
