(I have a personal rule of not taking photos of people based on what they're wearing, especially when it's about such a weak premise as matching clothes. But I'm sloooooowly getting better at finding stronger reasons to break this rule)
Dyrektorem artystycznym Narodowego Starego Teatru w Krakowie został Jakub Skrzywanek (rocznik 1992), reżyser m.in. "Śmierci Jana Pawła II" (Teatr Polski w Poznaniu), "Opowieści niemoralnych" i "Mein Kampf" (Teatr Powszechny w Warszawie). Czy Stary Teatr czeka upragniona rewolucja?
During my long May weekend in Kraków I had a rare occasion to grab a few beers with my remote teammates. We finished the evening early, but two of us decided we're not done and went for a late night walk.
Half an hour before the alcohol prohibition (yup, it's a thing in this one city in Poland!) we bought a few beers and started sipping them illegally in one of the local parks.
And guess what? Well, my teammate had a skateboard. And I had my fastest lens on my camera.
So, what happened next? Well, around 2am somewhere in the center of Kraków one IT nerd started testing his old skateboard skills. The other IT nerd sat on the ground and started stress-testing his Viltrox f/1.4 lens and an ISO setting well above 20k.
My lovely friend successfully landed a few jumps.
I missed a lot of frames because focusing late at night is hard, but a few serviceable frames happened as well.
So yeah. 90% of people will stop to look at my boring touristy snapshots and move on. I'm more excited about this spontaneous drunk session in extreme lighting conditions. 🤷
I just bought a book “Strong Female Character” by Fern Brady & it’s a good preparation for “#Diversity in Tech” session on Thursday at #RIPE88 : it “ is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the 'right kind' of woman.” #ActuallyAutistic#feminism#books#Krakow#neurodiversity
The third face of Nowa Huta in Kraków, perhaps the most surprising to me, is the "natural" one.
It takes about 50 metres of detour from the usual urban area to discover a huge grassy meadow, often frequented by locals to sunbathe and relax. It was so calm and silent my jaw dropped and I couldn't pick it up. The only thing that reminded me I was in one of most populous parts of Kraków was that thermal power plant in the horizon.
My peanut Warsaw brain keeps yapping: how come a housing estate hasn't been built here yet?
Nowa Huta in Kraków (that industrial-ish one I guess)
The other face of Nowa Huta begins as soon as socrealism is abandoned and modernism gets to be all the rage (which is somewhere between late 1950s and 1970s I guess?). I'll be honest though: I know very little about architecture and I may have made factual errors in the previous sentence. All I know is that I'm attracted like a moth to lines, patterns and geometry.
Also, in a weird way that style evokes specific images in my head. I have some kind of synthwave-like nostalgic feelings about Poland as seen by my parents in 1970s and 1980s. All of which is of course fake because I'm not forgetting who ruled the country at that time.
Built from the ground-up as a separate city to settle workers employed in the newly built steelworks (it's even in the name, which literally means 'the new steelworks'). Designed as a poster city for Soviet propagandists. Huge, industrial, pompous. These days it's one of the most populous parts of Kraków, even though it completely didn't feel that way during my long weekend visit.
I barely scratched the surface, as severe planning mistakes were made on my end. Plus I don't like taking cliche postcard photos in harsh light. But I managed to see three different faces of this place and that counts I guess.
We start with the socrealistic face. The one that dates back to 1950s and truly feels different than whatever my peanut Warsaw brain assumed Kraków to be.
Examples of street art at the Banksy Museum in Krakow, Poland
Kilka migawek z krakowskiej wystawy reprodukcji dzieł Banksy'ego w postindustrialnych wnętrzach Fabryki Platerów, Srebra i Wyrobów Metalowych Marcina Jarry przy Berka Joselewicza 21. "Ciekawe aranżacje i opisy wprowadzające w klimat okoliczności i miejsc, w których mieszczą się oryginały" - podsumowuje autor zdjęć, Marek Nogieć. Niebawem zamieścimy kolejne.
(back from Kraków with geez-how-many-gigabytes of photos and 4k30 short videos. And downloading them from my iPhone took hours, with Airdrop simply noping out at 700+ files)
#Wybory w #Kraków to jedne z dziwniejszych ostatnich lat… Lewica popiera Miszalskiego, ale Razem Gibałę. PiS raczej Gibałę, ale Wassermann Miszalskiego. Ten zły bo ma kontakty z deweloperami, a ten zły bo ma kontakty z deweloperami… A sondaże 50/50. I bądź tu człowieku mądry 😵💫
Może ktoś z Krakowa z Samsungiem przejść się po matecznym? Zgubił mi się portfel, miałam w nim lokalizator ale jest tragicznie niedokładny, parę razy nawet byłam w jego zasięgu bt, mam wrażenie że się przemieszcza, odtwarzam dzwiek ale go nie słyszę, jest za głośno, plus okolica pełna krzaków i ciemno nie wiem czy zaraz padnie mi bateria, niby wystarczająco blisko drogi by może raz na jakiś czas ktoś przejechał ale za głośno i jednocześnie za dużo krzaków bym mogła wykluczyć błąd lokacji. Te iphoneowe podobno co do metra mierzą, Samsungowy smart thing musi się opierać na bt, jakby ktoś pomógł mi moglibyśmy na zasadzie triangulacji go znaleźć, nasluichwalby w innym terenie, chodzi mi głównie o dokumenty już z strata kasy się pogodziłam #krakow#fedipomoc