In Berlin every wall is tagged by defiant youngsters and their fancy pseudonyms, gracefully avoiding any kind of dynamism. Lost within its borders, graffiti has lost its potency at the time when it became l’art pour l’art, when it became predictable and decipherable only within the elitist scene of hipsters who are talented with drawing [...]
Archive for July, 2009
If you happen to feel free.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Increasing stasis; a noisy epicenter of noisy colours: 003
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Exactly six minutes have passed while I was heading out from my street, into another and then onto Dunajska street. When you enter this monster, everything devours you in a sense that the billboards cover more of your visual sensory channels and the noise becomes overwhelming to the point of migrating out of yourself as [...]
Shifting streets; a hovering omni-presence: 002
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged derive, graffiti, ljubljana, metelkova, psychogeography, storytelling, unitary urbanism on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You are probably heading out from Metelkova, as you push your bike softly and slowly towards the crowded areas of town. The horizon closes further in, tighter up. The sun-drenched areas get smaller with every pedal. In-between these walls the historical passage can be read like the layers of ice of a glacier; graffiti has [...]
Shifting streets; a looming presence: 001
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged derive, foodmarket, ljubljana, no more boring buildings, psychogeography, trznica, unitary urbanism on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everything opens up. The looming weight of the surrounding buildings disappears. I am now in a place of a million colours and ten thousand scents. It feels more like a gathering ground for normal people doing normal things as the food market is Ljubljana’s most warm place. The poignancy escapes me as I fall into [...]
