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Archive for 2nd May 2009

"Oh, Angela Merkel, the Stasi old bitch, I can again."

[A man in a savvy gray sweatpants, a T-shirt with a completely reasonable free English imprint, white tennis socks with blue and red stripes and - I confess, it sounds so much like prejudice, that it cries out to heaven, but it was so - flip-flops to a vendor at the flea market in Gartow Wendland.]

Oops! Strong stuff, right?

This sentence must be embedded in a context thinging to be able to appreciate it properly.

The stand on which this quote was picked up, offered for sale various computer games. The man who gave the quote about falling Merkel wanted to acquire a well-indexed in the foreseeable future PC game, which the seller promptly conjured out of a box. There was an altercation, during which high rocked both sides against each other. Basically, there was, however, agree that the government should ban any games, not the glorification of violence that are brought into connection with school shootings. Eventually, the rate fell.

True soul of the people at the flea market. Stammtisch slogans at the games booth. To make matters worse the man may be served all prejudices - linguistic, visual and olfactory . The real Dittsche!

Escalator to the subway, main train station in Hamburg. HDR from different treatments (such as solarization), which were superimposed. An experiment with an unusual outcome, but not unread, in my opinion.