Art

The Light Move Festival

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The Light Move Festival – the name says what it is about. Moving lights, dancing, changing – together with catchy music. The first night we went out only on our own street. And we loved it.

The gear and the people guarding it were very friendly and helpful –  they even tried to walk us to the restaurant we could not find…

I was happy to see our own Sven Nykvist in the street!

This first night, before the big crowds, we could stroll and only enjoy. Saturday night there was really too much people around, and Viveka and I lost each other several times.

…and children wore red horns and anything full of ligh
On the walls of some houses there were spectacular light shows going on in 5 minute intervalls – grrreat music as well!

So, photographing is not the best thing to do here…instead I filmed some with my phone. Spectacular – but as my site does not let me show movies, I put the films on my Instagram and on Facebook. That is where you should go if you want to really understand what this festival is all about!

There are other things to show than the street lights though…I will be back with more glimpses of light inventiveness and fantasy from the parks and alleys!

 

 

 

Cheers!

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Viveka treated me with a bottle of champagne on my birthday – the last day in Poland. So cheers to Viveka as well, and to the spectacular Light Move Festival!

I will post next week on some of the events – nights and days – in this lovely city of Łódź.

Just prepairing…

Bling Bling or Magical?

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One of the alleyways to Piotrkowska Street sent a magical spell across our path…Viveka saw the shimmering light – and in we went. Hate or enjoy? Anyway it has a special and very touching story – go to Viveka at Myguiltypleasures to read it!

 

Thursday Thoughts – Piotrkowska Street

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Today Piotrkowska Street is the axis of Łódź. Here, in its proximity, almost all of the most important administrative offices, banks, shops, restaurants and pubs are situated. Most events (- like The Light Move Festival we came for -),  outdoor parties, marches and official celebrations, organized by the city of Łódź, are taking place – here:

Bicycles, bicycles…
The Light Move Festival Headquarters
The glassed café…
…and books, of course
Evening – athmospheric light
Nr 91 was our hotel

The Piotrkowska Street is also known as the ”Łódź Walk of Fame”.

Between Tuwima Street and Nawrot Street there is the Monument of Łódź Citizens of Millennium Change, which is a nominal surface covering the part of Piotrkowska Street. This is probably the only monument of this kind in the world, consisting of 13.454 nominal cobblestones.

Some of the very special things I noticed were:

Very few people were busy using their cell phones
Each day there was a wedding photographing going on…
The rickshaws are colourful and frequently used
We had fantastic weather!

Miś Uszatek!

This is the popular Teddy Floppy-ear, a Polish character from the stop motion-animated TV series of the same name.Whenever we passed by (and that was often…) he had admirers around…

But,  it is getting late, so I say good night for now…See you in the alleyways of colour and art – maybe tomorrow?

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CFFC: Topic is Fun or Flowers

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter F – Topic is Fun or Flowers

Why not both? Now I will take a short blog break to go away and have some fun myself too! See you next week!

Thursday’s Special: Traces of the Past

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For Paula’s Traces of the Past – a picture taken in Rom’s Ostia Antica. A magnificent place to stroll and marvel at our ancestor’s architecture.

 

 

Travel theme: Steps

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Travel theme: Steps

Steps and stairs always speak to you, don’t they. The material is of course important, and the age. As often for me, I love the old ones best. Worn down, used for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Ostia Antica, Italy. A theatre, yes, but you also have to walk the steps to get to your seat. And in the header, old steps leading to a house in the abandoned village Castro in western Spain.

Somehow I see the theater’s steps as going down – while in Castro the steps are leading upwards.