15.9.09

Under the clock... Bonus Vienna trip photo: Drunks made this

For decades, people from Zagreb chose this particular clock at the city's central square (Jelacic plac) as the main meeting place. When someone in Zagreb tells you 'let's meet under the clock', there's no need to ask which clock. The only problem is that there are so many people under the clock e.g. on Fri/Sat evening, that it's hard to recognize whomever you're meeting with. This photo was taken around 9PM today with my cell phone...



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Bonus trip photo this time comes from my 5-day visit to Vienna at the end of August. This is the famous 'Hundertwasser haus' which was built under the principle that everything natural should be left like that. The result is an incredibly fun house (set of houses actually), with broken tiles (if the tiles are broken, then obviously they should be left like that and normally used like any other), uneven floors... I bet that finding a furniture (even custom made) must be hell! And yes, in the end, it looks as if the construction company's hiring rule was to be a drunk... :)

7 comments:

  1. Hundertwasser Haus looks like if someone did a collage. I seem to like it :)

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  2. I love that first photo...with a cell phone? Amazing!

    The second is soooo funny! Can't imagine living there. It looks like it's in the middle of a wrecking crew's work!

    Great colors, though!

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  3. Love the houses ... so long as I don't have to live in them!

    You actually did not take that photo at about 9pm ... there is proof! I would think that with mobile phones, there is no longer the necessity to meet under a clock. In Sydney the place used to be the Town Hall steps ...

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  4. @Julie - I said about 9 PM, but it's actually 8:26PM. That's still about 9PM :-D Errr, I don't get it, what does meeting under the clock have anything to do with cell phones? The point is that everyone's too lazy to explain where to meet and how to get there if the other person is not familiar with that spot. This way, everyone knows how to get there, and where it is and you're immediately in the center of everything. There are two other places, also on the same square, but this one is the most common one.

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  5. @Jacob - I turned it into sepia and included blurring in Picasa :)

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  6. Both shots are amazing! I am really enjoying these posts with photo bonus! :-)

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  7. Nice pictures! The colorful house is surely a tourist attraction, I suppose. But it need some fresh paint, methinks.

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