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Paris in July 2024

Robert — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:29:24 +0500

Paris was much cleaner than I foredeemed, both on the week before the Olympics in July, and in early September as well.

This train is goïng to Pont de Sèvres. But instead of lighting up previous stations, the linear metro map lights up those the train is yet to stop at. The opposite of a progress bar!

For residents’ tranquility, please do not throw away glass bottles between 22⁰⁰ and 7⁰⁰. Very thoughtful!

Beautiful tower, bridge, river, and trees, all surrounded by ugliness:

Amongst the trees:

Next to the bridge:

Up close to the tower:

Chimney pipes require a different kind of brick:

Parisian café tables and chairs:

Doors:

The doors of liberty and fraternity are closed. Only equality remains:

Spirals:

Other textures:

Posting not allowed:

A bricky building:

A bookshop:

A propeller on the French aero-club’s building:

Just a pretty building:

A pretty café:

The sculpture on the left reminds me of a man whom I will not name (you don’t know him):

Fascinating ugliness:

A statue:

Bonjour Amour!

Design:

The information display on my platform:

The conspicuously missing plaques will get their own post.

London in May 2023

Robert — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 03:49:25 +0500

Robert:

First of all, the euphoric smell is still there. I didn’t find it as common as in 2020 and before, but it does come from the Tube and it also came from a bus. May it stay.

A beautiful window:

A beautiful lantern:

Greenery:

Plaques:

Other address lettering:

Soviet architecture:

A traffic light:

An outdoor table:

Doors:

A mighty entryway:

A lovely face:

Trees and bricks:

A brick wall:

The London Fire Brigade’s coat of arms reminds me of the Kiribati flag 🇰🇮:

Chinatown:

A gallery:

A patriotic flag display:

An ice cream van:

A charming car:

A square:

The London Eye:

Big Sister is watching:

A pharmacy swastika:

Wokeness at the Wellcome Collection:

My message:

The first words of one of my favorite poëms, Leisure, on a sticker:

Other city details:

Unlike Italy, there is a lot of Asian and Indian cuisine in London. Its spicy aromas are a delight.

Packaging at the supermarket:

Drinking from a coconut:

A water bottle:

Swedenborg’s Rules of Tremulation:

It’s a shame Selfridges doesn’t sell fridges.

Call it Bricks

Robert — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:52:45 +0500

Robert:

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) will have 6 other countries join next year.

Let’s call it Bricks from now on.

Moscow in 2020…2022

Robert — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:46:29 +0500

Robert:

Textures:

A Russian postbox:

Grass:

Parks:

A fallen leaf:

A squirrel:

A turtle:

A peculiar brick arrangement:

The Italian consulate’s plaque:

Apartment no. 64:

Metro train no. 76204:

A ventilation grid with the metro’s old logo:

Metro wayfinding:

The sky:

The night sky:

Me next to a tree:

My tanned hand next to a university groupmate’s:

I saved the best for last — the delivery robot:

Pìsa in June 2022

Robert — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:27:49 +0500

Robert:

Bricks:

Other bricks:

Yikes! A contamination lab:

The Arno:

A public slaughterhouse:

A door:

A doorbell:

Train alarm esthetics:

London in January 2020

Robert — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 19:49:33 +0500

Robert:

Having arrived in the UK for the first time in three and a half years, I recorded my first feelings:

Notice how the Tube train’s buttons are on the doors’ edges rather than next to each other in the middle:

The waffle marking usually applied on road intersections extends to train-station platforms:

Good London wayfinding extends to its Transport Museum:

Parking sign:

Plaque in South-East London:

The classic Westminster street name plaque. Nice bricks, too!

Sale Place:

Two gorgeous plaques next to each other:

English heritage:

The man is turning into an octopus:

The exciting and thrilling danger of death:

Crooked Billet Yard. I’m not making these names up!

Air quality monitoring:

Nice little square:

Greenery in a street:

Vitsœ store:

London shops don’t just sell things. They are places where people come for an experience:

Novelty Automation is home to fun and unique arcade machines:

As well as to a beautiful plaque:

And this marvellous request. (Boycott banks into irrelevance):

The wall subconsciously tells us that this is a cinema:

London’s other side:

Beware of tailgaters:

Hats repurposed into lamps at Luton Airport:

My other photos, videos, and audio recordings of London:
Oat drink ads
Canada geese
Thameslink voice announcement