Originally posted on notesfromcamelidcountry:
Berlin is synonymous with street art, and a handful of street artists are famed as much for their relationship with Berlin as they are for their art. That balance has been a little disrupted by initiatives like the Berlin Mural Fest, which brings international artists to paint giant murals on buildings…
Originally posted on POINT de VUE: PARIS:
‘What’s gone so wrong with France suddenly? What’s the story with the Yellow Vests?’ Outside of La Hexagone I’m pelted with such questions, as if coming from Paris confers some sort of special insight. It doesn’t. After five months of increasingly violent protest, no one, including the actors…
Originally posted on POINT de VUE: PARIS:
Those talking heads who say they saw the insurrection coming? – in this amplitude, in this form? are lying. Or, at best, kidding themselves. A few facts, as the rain and the sanitation trucks collaborate to try to clean the trashed streets of Paris: Yesterday didn’t quite add…
Originally posted on Artist- Ted Giffin – Musician:
Hell is always for Rent. A raid to clear it out, only made it move to a new location. Police lining their Pockets, Graft and Grime, wanted for more, Motivation for Vice, Pleasure, and Wealth. It’s the World’s Playground- without wives. On stage, Hear Freedom Flow through…
Originally posted on notesfromcamelidcountry:
Many parts of Hamburg’s urban landscape can really only be described as “gritty”. That grittiness often comes accompanied by small oases of street art, both the glorious and the mundane. Whole buildings are frequently used as vast canvases, while small scale pieces can be found just about everywhere. The epicentre of…
Originally posted on Beyond "he" and "she":
Después de entrar en una depresión al terminar de ver el documental The True Cost, me puse a pensar en lo importante que sería que el mundo entero viera este reportaje y que su contenido se compartiera con gente de todas las edades, entre…
Daphne Sheldrick, DBE, just left us at the age of 83. She was the “mother of elephants” (Tembo mama in Swahili). She founded the “Orphanage” near Nairobi where orphaned elephants (due to poaching) are raised, cared for and many later returned to the bush. In 1967, (I know, fifty years ago and change. Don’t remind…
