ghost of nature.

three contemporary examples of modern architecture in gdynia: the looming  sea towers , PKO bank polski & the courtyard hotel . after visiting gdańsk we had heard of another nearby city that promised the total opposite of the medieval/renaissance flair we encountered there. gdynia , which was greatly advertised as 'the city of modernism'. gdynia is a very young city ( it got the municipal law only in 1926 - a time when modern architecture began to fully become part of city landscapes with styles such as bauhaus, new objectivity and functionalism ). before that it had been a rather sleepy little spa village. the reason why it grew so quickly in such a short time was the prospect of work on poland's most modern harbour, which drew thousands of people to the place. in around 20 years time the city grew from 1,300 inhabitants in 1920 to 127,000 in 1939, which was a massive growth for that time! consequently they had to built tenements and housings quickly for the new popula...

lucas foglia . human nature music for when you want to fight against earth intruders ( us/yourself ), but also try to search for a calm garden of eden inbetween to find a way to keep breathing and seek out the small things and not fall back to burying yourself in a cage while it turns out to be a sisyphean task. playlist: björk . earth intruders bon iver . woods yeasayer . sunrise novelty daughter . kindness, calmness yann tiersen, dominique a . monochrome the dresden dolls - the perfect fit ordo rosarius equilibrio . flowers & moonshine in my garden of eden sting . the wild wild sea ben howard . small things nezick, projet (n) . calm the war on drugs . knocked down ingrid michaelson . keep breathing ásgeir . king and cross christine and the queens . girlfriend radiohead . talk show host lcd soundsystem . call the police xmal deutschland . kämpfen sleater-kinney . bury our friends arcade fire . my body is a cage

curious meerkat in the zoo of the charlotta valley. on a rather rainy day we were struggling to find something to do with ourselves. after researching a bit i found out that there was a little zoo close to the city of ustka, situated in a small valley called dolina charlotty . we figured a visit to the zoo when it was rainy wasn't such a bad idea after all, since most people decide to stay indoors somewhere and don't seek out places like this. with an umbrella in hand and a zoo mostly to yourself it can be quite a nice visit, and since the summer sun also isn't shining her full hot self, animals probably are much more active as well. so that's what we did, we hopped in the car and drove to dolina charlotty. entry fees in poland were generally pretty low, a thing that always took me by surprise on our visit - many things attraction-wise were about 5 to 10 euro less expensive than in germany! which is a huge gap and made me wonder why western european countries were so da...