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September 20, 2006

Art: Matthias Koeppel

Bilder von Matthias Koeppel

Website

For paintings click on Werkschau. [Via Foire à tout. Finies les vacances. Vive le travail!]

German artist Matthias Koeppel (b. 1937, Hamburg) is also a gifted poet writing in Starkdeutsch (Stronggerman). A short sample (excerpt from Drr Haikfiusch):
…….
Plutzzlüch dutt düch eubarruschn
hickke harck: drr Haikfiuschn,
peißßdt dür app diss gontzze Beunn,
dönn deun Pimmbul [1] üßßd ühm pvill ze kleun.

[1] Pimmbul, Stronggerman for penis

Pictures: Wie es damals war (left) and Vernagelt (Günther Uecker)

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September 15, 2006

Our Weekly Postcard (XXX)

Photo of Tiber, Rome

Rome, Italy. A photo taken last week (with my mobile) in the evening and out of a boat on the river Tiber. In the background you can see Vatican City.

Last week the Italian government gave final approval for sending troops to Lebanon as part of the UN peacekeeping mission, and yesterday the Pope came back to Rome from his visit in Germany.

Blue is dominating in an outstanding way. Therefore a short note about the cultural connotations attached to this color. Negative ones are: depression, coldness, idealism, obscenity, but there are also positive ones: peace, unity, harmony, confidence.

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September 14, 2006

From the Paperholic archives: Sir Vival

Photo of automobile

Massachusetts, 1959. Inventor Walter C. Jerome presenting the prototype of a car called Sir Vival guaranteeing survival in case of a crash… Isn’t it a pity that his idea didn’t find its way into mass production?

Source: Con questa automobile viaggeremo senza guai, Italian weekly magazine Oggi, February 1959

Photo of automobile

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September 9, 2006

Our Weekly Postcard (XXIX)

Putti

Yes, we are back again.

With a photo recently taken in the garden of a Roma (Italy) villa picturing a fresco made in the 16th or 17th century. Two putti (… are those plump little naked boys with wings that one often sees in Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque and Rococo art…) without wings symbolising the fight between two bloggers.

The putto to the left is a harmless figure, in no way a member of Camorra or ‘Ndrangheta. Just a little fluffed up putto (often being an A-blogger or a blog aggregator operator) stealing other little putti’s content. All in all, a form of Puttanesca, we think.

As you can see, history has a tendency to repeat itself. And therefore… until Monday!

By Eric | Category: Backyard, Blogs, In Flagranti
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