funkypancake wispa story in the Telegraph
funkypancake got a mention in up-market posh british paper, the Telegraph, this week. i was the first place to blog about the end of the wispa. you can read it online (update 17 June 2017 – links is now here)
you can follow the wispa story on funkypancake here
green with envy
these mannequins really were this colour
notebooki and komputery
words look so much less intimidating if you add an ‘i’ or ‘y’ at the end. and changing a ‘c’ to a ‘k’ is good fun too.
table polish
i took this photo of an old house in poland as it looked good, but when i looked at the photo i noticed the table in the bottom right of the photo (click for big)
that was a bit weird as i’d just walked past this table which was doing duty as a bollard.
it’s a small world, and full of tables.
purple trousers
there were someone’s trousers.
a present from stalin
this is the warsaw palace of culture and science. it was a present from stalin which was nice of him
it looks a lot like it’s from ghostbusters
multi-cultural
there were english power sockets in my polish hotel room. that saddened me as i wanted to feel proper foreign.
i say that, but during my few days in poland i managed to visit McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut and the London Steak restaurant. very blending in i was.
giant heroic polish peasants
i went in search of genuine communist era Poland when i was in Warsaw. most of it is being rebuilt like it was hundreds of years ago, so finding something obviously from the last 50 years (other than the stuff which has been build in the last 10 years) is tricky.
these statues are by a square which was built to house political rallies. you can see the scale of them in the top picture (there’s a chap walking by). nowadays they are just ignored. they probably were back in the day too though !
classic powerpoints of our time
i was in poland for this conference. here’s a classic techno-slide. i can’t get enough of these things.
actually, i can
other people’s weddings
according to the polish taxi driver who picked me up from heathrow to take me back home after my warsaw trip, people in Poland have their wedding photos on a different day to their actual wedding. As a result they are a lot more relaxed and can be more ‘set up’. He knew this as he was going back to Poland to get married (today in fact i think)
when i was in poland last week i got to explore Park Lazienkowski which was lovely
there were lots of people having their wedding photos which made for a great spectator sport.
you can see what this place looks like from the sky on google maps
even as i left there were more pouring in !
