Bella Lugosi's Dead (undead)

A pilgrimage for any designer - the museum archive of the Bauhaus School (for art, design, architecture).

The school was shut down by the Nazis In the 30s because they liked comfortable furniture and non-abstract art.

Location:B96a,Berlin,Germany

Reykjavik plus more visual mediocrity from Iceland

It is a complete contradiction in terms to put "visual mediocrity" and Iceland in the one statement but the photos I post here are only from my not-great phone camera and don't do any justice. Just wait for my mediocre slide night!

(aside: we should bring back the carousel slide projector, they remind me of primary school and some one would fuck up the slide order in the middle of the year six end of year presentation, so there'd be a funny slide of kids mucking around in the giant garbage bin in the midst of the montage tribute to the kid who died of tuberculosis or something).

There's so much I could write about Iceland. All i will say is that its a thoroughly interesting, stunning and unique country,I liked the people I met and Reykjavik easily became one of my favourite cities. I really hope to return one day.

A volcanic crater, only 6000 years old, so young really:

All horses in Iceland are directly descent from the same horses the Vikings brought with them in 930AD.

Geysir of 100C heat, Strokka*:

I have mediocrity rage here as this photo does not show the unbelievable scale of this incredible waterfall, Gullfoss*. And this is a "small" one:

This photo shows the perspective a little better, in bottom left you can see a path with tiny people on it:

Iceland National park, Thingvellir*, and again photo mediocrity rage ensues:

I saw an exhiout on beards and shaving bahaha:


An amazing sculpture, Sun Voyager*:


The Blue Lagoon, highlight of my adventure and no Brooke Shields. Bonus.



*English spellings, probably wrong at that.

Location:Njarðargata,Reykjavík,Iceland

Iceland - a hipstamatic view

Location:Njarðargata,Reykjavík,Iceland

White whine #1

New hate - British pensioners.

Nothing more to add.

Location:Skólavörðustígur,Reykjavík,Iceland

More of my visual mediocrity from The Netherlands

(look closely at the name of the boat!)

Location:Henriette Roland Holstlaan,Rijswijk,The Netherlands

Rotterdam Cubic Houses by Piet Blom

One of my favourite architectural sites so far, The Cubic Houses, located in Blaak, Rotterdam:

Location:Henriette Roland Holstlaan,Rijswijk,The Netherlands

Stroopgate

When doing a review of something, I subscribe to the Andy Bernard school of thought - "I like this painting" or "this muffin tastes bad" - so I don't!

But, of the bars I went to in Amsterdam, this was my favourite:




This is how great I am as I can't even remember the name. But it was apparently, or claims to be, the worlds first openly gay bar est 1927 and everywhere you looked in this tiny place, there was some quirky curio of some nature.




The bruiser in the framed photo was the original owner of the bar and took a dislike to anyone wearing a tie in her bar, so she cut them off with scissors!! All around the room and roof is snipped ties tacked to the beams.

This bar was also a meeting place for resistance members in WW2. The bar lady was also "friendly" with some Nazi officers but when they found out she was harbouring meetings, they warned her they were going to arrest the members. Legend has it she and a bar tender lured the officers down a side alleyway and slit their throats. Awesome.

Also, i have found the new love of my life which shall replace my notorious late night pudding-gates:




STROOPWAFELS!!!! (supported in photo by smoked Gouda cheese... nomnomnom). Lucky I have been walking (and bike riding) everywhere so I can nomnomnom away.

Location:Brielselaan,Rotterdam,The Netherlands

Amsterdam - a hipstamatic view

Now let me ruin the hipness with the funniest van gogh painting I've ever seen, I seriously did a "Bah!!!" out loud in the gallery - I call it "snuggly baby":

Location:Kerkstraat,Amsterdam,The Netherlands