Amsterdam bicycles 3: front light

in an attempt to differentiate their bicycles from all the others some cyclists decorate their bikes...

Amsterdam bicycles 2: stand

someone even named a bicyle after the country/city

Amsterdam bicycles 1: rear mudguard

 

i  recently spent a few days in Amsterdam and the city must be the most bicycle friendly in the world, in fact statistics produced by the city estimate that the 780,000 people who live in Amsterdam own an estimated 881,000 bicycles – there are so many that I’m sure that some people must just forget where they parked their bicycle and they are left to slowly rust away...

it is a city built for pedestrians – sporting such car-unfriendly features as narrow streets and canals, far too few parking spots (at premium fees), and single-lane one-way only traffic mazes so a bicycle is the most logical form of transportation

they are everywhere

 

sculpture: 'you' by Antony Gormley, the roundhouse, camden town, London, England

sculpture: 'witness' by Antony Gormley, the British Library, Euston road, London England

don’t you just hate it when you’re about to take a photograph of a sculpture and this happens?

sculpture: 'one and other' by Antony Gormley, Yorkshire sculpture park, West Bretton, Wakefield, England

sculpture: 'resolution' by Antony Gormley, leather lane, London, England

looks familiar?

sculpture: 'feel' by Antony Gormley, the Wellcome foundation, Euston road, London, England

sculpture: 'reflection' by Antony Gormley, 350 Euston road, London, England

 

these two figures face each other through a sheet of plate glass, one inside the building, one outside - it is the rusty one that is inside

 

 

 

sculpture: part of 'event horizon' by Antony Gormley this is one of 31 sculptures (casts of his own body) which together make up the whole piece - this one was at the national theatre, the southbank, London, England

beam inside one of the shipbuilding workshops, Arsenale, Venice

death announcements board, fondamente nuove, Venice, Italy

 

 

the fondamente nuove is the point where boats leave the northern waterfront and head out for San Michele – the cemetery island, it is midway between there and the hospital – an ideal place to have death announcements!



boat mooring, arsenale, Venice, Italy

stove, arsenale, venice, Italy