Bakar Beer Poster

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I found this beer brand poster in a window in Bakar, Croatia. The bar behind it was as empty as this poster is weathered.

Meanwhile I am fiddling with the domain name system for my new web presence. What is easy and straightforward when you order domain and web presence in one shot can become at least a bit demanding when you distribute those parts on different companies. At the moment I keep my fingers crossed that by tomorrow the DNS will know about that 'markus-spring.info' domain and point to the correct server.

Update: http://markus-spring.info is now working. I have added another gallery to the 'peoples' category. Now I have to fix the rss links.

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Climate Change!! Yeah!!

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I found this scribbling on a mobile phone advertisement poster in the train station in Munich. To be honest, my colleague found it, I just took the picture again with a short focal length and in a different angle.

The slogan of the mobile phone company is "You are not on this world to be silent". Well, the author of this scribbling really took it literally. But I can't deduce if he wanted to criticize all that talk about climate change or the absence of such a discussion among many young people. But at least he provoked my thinking.

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if you happen to come through munich

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a treasure not only for the photgraphically inclined, but probably also for art business happened to be hidden in an innsbruck basement: the original pictures of magnum's first exhibition, 1955, fittingly titled 'magnum's first'.

cartier bresson's images of his session with mahatma gandhi, only hours before his assassination, are there, followed by the immensely powerful picture of mourning relatives and friends in his sleeping room. the images are still as found glued to the wooden plates, roughly cut from the panel on which they were shown in the sixties of last century and then forgotten in 2 large boxes.

so if you happen to come through munich until may 8th, 2009, this is certainly an exhibition not to be missed.

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unbroken reverence

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found on the wall of a kiosk in the more touristic areas. well, that's probably capitalism: to sell whatever is requested. and here in my county at home, militaria and obscene relics of 1939-1945 also are requested and sell only too well.

but the combination of heroic posters of the cultural revolution and the iuxtaposing movie? posters is extraordinary.

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