Bei dem wunderschönen Wetter muss man am langen Wochenende einfach ‘raus in die Natur.
Der Neckarsteig führt 128km am Neckar entlang von Heidelberg in neun Etappen flussaufwärts bis nach Bad Wimpfen.
Borders in Europe
Valerio Vincenzo: Borderline, Frontiers of Peace.
“Today, with 26 countries belonging to the Schengen Area, 16,500 km of borders can be freely crossed. The attribution of the Nobel Peace Prize to Europe in 2012 has confirmed the historical importance of this slow, almost imperceptible, but radical change.
With the help of a GPS and detailed maps, I have conducted many trips along these “erased” borderlines, with the intention of capturing the essence of these now-peaceful crossings.
Even if sometimes these pictures have been taken thousands of km away from each other, they all provide images that are far from the stereotype that we tend to associate with the notion of border. What is a border anyway?”
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Earworm
Shorewood Lip Dub and how it was filmed.
“You Make My Dreams Come True” by Hall & Oates went through my head all afternoon, and it took me about two hours to figure out where I knew it from. (The lip dub didn’t show up in my search results on YouTube because it was blocked by GEMA.)
… but not the ‘Painted Ladies’
Hoodline: Meet Dr. Color: How Bob Buckter Repainted San Francisco. His website is DrColor.com.
“Quick: imagine a colorful San Francisco Victorian. The way it looks in your mind’s eye probably has something to do with Buckter’s decades of steady influence.
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One vista he hasn’t directly touched is the famed “postcard row” of painted ladies on Alamo Square. He’s done other historic work on the park, but not on that uniquely iconic stretch of Steiner St. They are “a bit understated for my taste,” he says.”
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Autorotation
Smarter Every Day: Strapped into a falling helicopter.