“Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighbourhood.”
Christopher Columbus
Linked to Travel with Intent where more photos inspired by the Christopher Columbus quote can be found.
Tag: Mannheim
Night – light – show
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Fantabulous.
Connect with someone today!
Although the words on this mural read: “Family is everything” I think “family” can be defined in much broader terms than merely blood relations.
Connection can happen through physical touch – but it doesn’t need to. The internet is much maligned these days because the role it plays in agitation and false information but we shouldn’t forget how it can bring people together. Bushboy who came up with today’s prompt is in Australia. I am in Germany. Yet we share a connection via our posts and photos.
Here is the whole mural:
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Connection.
Warped
The brick floor was completely straight but the lights made one think one was standing on solid waves.
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
Henry Miller
To end the confusion, it would have been enough to switch off the light.
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more posts inspired by the Henry Miller quote, click here.
The last stand
This abandoned building is in the heart of the Mannheim quarter of Jungbusch. It’s near the old industrial harbour and the whole quarter is a mixture of run down, turn-of-the-last-century residential buildings, industrial buildings like warehouses and pre-war factories. At the same time there is construction work going on and new fashionable buildings have gone up, a mixture of offices and residences. One large block directly at the waterfront is the “Popakademie”, a private music school of national renown.
I don’t really understand the graffiti. It is against gentrification but I have no idea how the music school fits into this.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: All about buildings.
Nations in Peace
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
Thomas Huxley
This mural was conceived and transferred to the highrise building by the internationally acclaimed Bahaider. He based it on working with students from this area in Mannheim, who expressed their different ethnic and cultural heritage in drawings. He wanted to remind us that living together peacefully doesn’t happen intuitively but needs mutual respect and tolerance, in a neighbourhood where people with backgrounds of more than 127 nations live. The piece is called Nationen in Frieden (Nations in Peace).
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the quote from Thomas Huxley, click here.
Painted windows
I’ve used a panaroma shot of this housing development before and was asked why there are no real windows on this side of the building. I don’t have an answer. But I like the building nevertheless, at least from the outside.
Linked to Monday Windows. For more window shots, pop over there.
Taking a step back
A detail from a housing development. Now, let me put this in perspective:
My Square Perspective no. 16 is linked to The Life of B.
Mountain Meadow – tetrahedron
I’ve been waiting to use that word!
Linked to Color your World. For more photos with the shade mountain meadow, click here.
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