…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.
Tag: Litfass
Litfaß 12. “Creative Intervention”
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.
Deconstructivism II
“Yo! It’s a Rip-Off!”
Deconstructivism
Traces of the Past II
Some pictures I like just do not seem to fit into any post until a good cue gives me new ideas: Paula’s photo challenge Traces of the Past proved quite helpful for this post. She writes: “For the third time this year Thursday’s Special is bringing you a challenge dedicated to past. It can be a distant past or a recent one. It can be a past that is abandoned and about to be forgotten, or past that is still functional and intertwined with present.” And here was my cue. I decided to focus on the traces, no matter how long gone the past might be.
empire of lights 