I was wandering through town today and saw a whole lot of damage on the street. Evidence of rubbish, fires, signs uprooted. But oddly no bikes damaged. I didn’t know what it was about until I got home this evening and checked out the local news. Apparently there were riots on Friday night, by the [...]
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Squatters’ Rights
Posted in Politics, street scene, tagged riot, squatters on October 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here Come the Elephants!
Posted in Art, street scene, tagged elephant, elephant parade, obama elephant on September 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There’s a new outdoor exhibition around Amsterdam, a series of painted elephants. The elephants are part of a fund-raising effort. They’ll be auctioned off at the Westergasfabriek on 12 November and the money will go to supporting Elephants in Asia. I’ve spotted elephants throughout the city – from the Central Station to Cornelius Schuystraat.You can [...]
ArtZuid – Outdoor Sculpture
Posted in Art, street scene, tagged sculpture on September 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
These wasps are about the size of a pig, and the fruit is about the height of a human – it’s part of the sculpture route set up along Apollolaan and Minervalaan from 16 August to 26 October. (Take tram 5 or 24 and get off at Apollolaan – where you’ll see these wasps) I [...]
Deception
Posted in street scene, tagged gable, Wietje on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With the traditional neck gable and the scale of the windows this building looks like the old monument buildings in the neighbourhood. But looks are deceptive, there’s a plaque saying “The first stone was laid by Nick ten Herkel grandson of Wietje. Feb 95″ I don’t know who Wietje is, but clearly he’s someone who [...]
Gruesome Entrance
Posted in street scene, Zag u dit?, tagged Castigato, Kalvertoren on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This gate is now the entrance to the Kalvertoren shopping centre from the Heiligeweg side.It was originally the entrance to the “Rasphuis” a work camp, where criminals and tramps were put to work grating Brazilian wood to form a powder pigment for the paint industry. The gate shows a woman – possibly justice – holding [...]
Budget Cuts
Posted in street scene, tagged Moses and Aaron Kerk, Moses House, Mozeshuis on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mozes & Aäronkerk has a big sign outside it “Stop economising; let the light shine in the Moses House”. The Moses House is a youth club and social services orgainsation that uses the Mozes & Aäronkerk, and the economising it refers to is a 78% cut in its Council funding. The church started out as [...]
Chileans are in town
Posted in street scene, tagged Amsterdam, bicycle, signs, state visit on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I noticed a forest of yellow signs around the Anne Frank House, these are put up to warn cyclists to remove their bikes. Usually they’re put up in relation with some roadworks or beautification project. This time it’s for something slightly different. Here’s the sign up close. The sign reads “Due to the state visit [...]
Squat
Posted in street scene, tagged kraakers, squat on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Squat on Spuistraat was first “gekraakt” on 6 March 1983 so celebrated last year with a big poster – which is still there. This building is also known as “De Slang“, for the large rainbow snake on it’s front wall. In the 70s the building was the offices of a newspaper – when the [...]
After the Party
Posted in fireworks, rubbish, street scene, tagged fireworks, new year on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After the party, is the mess; and since this was a street party much of the mess is in the street. There were lots of these empty fireworks shells around my neighbourhood today. There were also drifts of debris from the fireworks piled up in drifts by various intersections, it’s in the middle of the [...]
Three Snowmen
Posted in street scene, tagged snowman on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It snowed on Sunday, the snow was all gone by this morning but someone was very busy on Sunday making these three snowmen – now melted into quite arty shapes.
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