"pedestrian"; "flâneur"; a "gentleman stroller of city streets"; "lounger"; "saunterer"; "loafer"; a "person who walks the city in order to experience it"; an "idle man-about-town"; a "complete philosophical way of living and thinking".
The walls are the desk against which he presses his notebooks; newsstands are his libraries and the terraces of cafés are the balconies from which he looks down on his household after his work is done. -Walter Benjamin,"The Flâneur"
BEN BRYNMOR FOWLER
Currently living in Ebisu, Tokyo. A lover of city living & city walking, cinema, music, fiction, currently writing a PhD on contemporary theatre in Britain and Germany, and developing an intense relationship with apple gadgets.
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I’m doing the #febphotoaday challenge, set up by @fatmumslim on twitter. Here’s the outcome of the first five days:
Day One: Your View - taking a morning walk along the canal, standing on Hobrechtbrücke at the end of my street.
Day Two: Words - my current flat has had a rotating tenancy of art students, some of whom at some point stole a load of pink letters from an art project at their college and hung them in the kitchen. We recently rearranged them to spell Ice Cream Dream.
Day Three: Hands - flicking through records at my local record store on Sanderstraße, this is Serge Gainsborough smoking.
Day Four: A Stranger - this lady sat opposite me on the U7 on the way back from the theatre, totally absorbed in her book. She was reading Gone With The Wind in Japanese.
Day Five: 10am - choosing my morning poison. I went for the espresso coffee which I brewed on the hob, and drank four shots worth. Which is why I’m absolutely WIRED right now.
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selysias-treasures said:
You like “Grafschafter Goldsaft”?
Nice photoset. :)
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