tobias m. schiel
Winter is almost over (as far as the dark time of the year is concerned) and yet I did not play around with city lights as much as I had intended, so Paleica’s Magic Motto Schilder und Schriften (signs and fonts) presented a welcome opportunity to do just that. I am not sure the Muses will be good to me again, so I think this is the final post for this challenge.
Be sure to enjoy the other participants’ entries!
Paleica just started a photo challenge involving twelve magic mottos for this year. This month’s theme is Schilder und Schriften (signs and fonts). Since the season is still dark, I decided to look for letters that glow.
…or letters, maybe. | Without further ado, let me point to a great photo challenge by Austrian blogger Paleica: She will offer twelve magic mottos throughout this year, giving everybody ample time to come up with something. The challenge will be in German – but there’s always the dictionary. This month’s theme is Schilder und Schriften – and it is a bit hard to translate: I hope that ‘sign boards and fonts’ should cover it.
Looking for traces of use and abuse around Wiesbaden’s former courthouse, I spotted these pictures painted on metal doors. I found them absolutely gripping, and immediately decided I had to show them to Jörg from Dosenkunst. Then I checked with his blog and found out he had photographed and posted them quite a while ago. So what was the point of photographing them again?
I told my wife I had to show her some photos of graffiti, and upon seeing them she replied: “Are you sure you want to call these graffiti? They are art!” So here’s another interpretation of art…
A visit to the museum is a success when I feel like I had my brain massaged, when I literally start to look at things differently. That’s what contemporary art does for me, even if I do not fully understand it.
Season’s Greetings
Contributing to Lucile de Godoy’s 101 Photo Rehab, and an addition to my last two posts – check out the other great entries for the rehab! You are in for some inspiration.
A case, I am afraid, for Lucile de Godoy’s 101 Photo Rehab, and an addition to my last post.
A contribution for Jo’s Monday Walks: You get to see so many pretty things in Montpellier that we could not leave out one single alleyway. So while this was our last visit before heading back home, there will be a few more pictures from this great city.
Creative intervention? When I first read the term, I was at a loss. But then I read Paula’s description:
Shooting an amazing piece of creation in most unlikely places, or making a creation of your own and capturing it by camera; possibilities are countless. Have you recently seen something that changed the original aspect of a place/Thing? Was it a pleasing creation or unsightly one?
Well, whoever tears the posters off this advertising column (German: Litfaß-Säule) is responsible for an unsightly change to an usually unsightly place. But he makes “making a creation of my own” all the more easy – all I have to do is find and compose a picture. Having seen “something that changed the original aspect of the thing,” I do my part in changing the original aspect…
Call it deconstructivism. Or call it creative intervention.
Transition: something that always fascinates me about construction sites.
Uzès is a town in the south of France, and it is definitely worth a walk (or two). So what could be more appropriate than entering this post as a contribution for Jo’s Monday Walk? Jo collects walks from all around the world. I also enjoy her project because walking and photography are a perfect match … ain’t they?
Magic Letters: W is for water.
The Photo 101 Rehab is a great thing, but I rarely participate. So here’s a contribution for Lucile which might be long overdue.
Again, a contribution for Jo’s Monday Walks: We did a lot of walking in the towns of southern France, and here are some impressions from Pézenas’ old centre, soon to be followed by some more doors.
empire of lights 