Everyone Is In London!

39 degrees of body temperature, strangely strong literary cravings, magic autumn lights, crispy colours and colds, China buffet in China Town, boat trip at sunset, sexy voice... and almost no voice at all, the Big Smoke, yet another reunion with old friends, foggy Sunday, enjoyment of work and 'planment' of b-day ...

... and too much paperpaperpaperworkworkwork to do. But that's next week..

This week I'm going back to Gdansk for a long weekend, which is going to be so much fun!! Overexcited :) Envy me!


this superb image is by Arek

Artsy Post Tonight

A couple of pretty great things for tonight I wanted to share with you, guys..

.......First of all let's see if you enjoy this multicoloured blurrrinesss:

Untitled from yeji on Vimeo

Secondly, here are my current 2 favourite things from Tate Modern - these amazing hand crafted and hand painted ceramic sunflower seeds by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was detained by Chinese authorities this year and spent several months under arrest for political reasons.



images via Google

And this floating gauzy red staircase by the Korean artist Do Ho Suh.


image by Arek

Actually, another interesting work by Ai Weiwei is the one below. The caption to this self-portrait of him, called 草泥马挡中央 or "grass mud horse covering the middle" sounds almost the same in Chinese as 肏你妈党中央, "Fuck you, the Communist party central committee". Grass mud horse or 'Cao Ní Ma' is a Chinese Internet meme widely used as a form of symbolic defiance of the widespread Internet censorship in China. The 'horse' is actually what he is holding in his hand.


image via Google

Do also check out this Atlantida-esque underwater exhibition by Jason deCaires Taylor, it is very impressive - especially with all the algae on top of the sculptures, which created some sort of art of their own.


image from underwatersculpture

Lastly, I'm dying to go to this musical here in London based on the movie also called Backbeat, which was my favourite movie when I was a kid.

Let me know what you are up to these days and if you know about any other interesting things going on close to you around the world :)... G'night..

I Often Think Of You. Imagine. Come On...

A story from today.........................................................................................

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British Weather

Do you think weather can be photographed?




images by Arek

This ^^ Weekend..

You know those moments when the light is so good that you just can't pass by without taking a photo. These are the only occasions we actually notice the light. This time it was so soft and warm and foggy.. almost inexistent.






images by Olga

PENETRATING, PROVOCATIVE and Somewhat BLURRY

Sharing some of my recent sunny and blurry London impressions... I liked the way autumn colours came out on the blurry pics I took. Also, I'm currently having a big blurrrrr of experiences here in London. With so many things going on, one needs to really choose what to do here and life is happening very fast (this apparently is with exception of getting an internet connection, which took us almost a month, hence all my lack of posting!). But the choice of what to do for fun (and where to fly cheap!) is tough and seems to be almost endless :)

Some of the things which happened to me over last month which I enjoyed most are The Alternative London Tours, textile field in V&A, Tate Modern - over and over again :), Greenwhich market and probably Inamo restaurant, where (good Japanese) food is being projected on your table before ordering and each table has a touch pad to order. Also, if you are yet not sure whether ice cream is sexy - check-out The Icecreamists - the SCREAM of ice cream (they even serve human milk ice cream - if you fancy trying that :)). If not, they serve their other delicious vice creams in black cones and martini glasses.


The Icecreamists

Oh, and I almost forgot! By pure luck our friends and us ended up in the House of Commons watching this very debate on a referendum on the UK leaving the EU - live. After this I surprisingly concluded that politics is kind of exciting :). For less exciting debates in the UK Parliament check out this site.

If you are interested in some more fun to do in London do check out this great book and this site!

Hope you all are having a good autumn!








V&A textile field








Inamo restaurant


all images by Olga & Arek except for those of Inamo, Icecreamists and V&A

Summer Athens

While I'm still trying to learn my ways around London, here are some glimpses of hot summer Athens. Greece turned out to be expectedly and unexpectedly amazing! More photos of the white & aquamarine Greek islands to come soon.
























all images by Olga & Arek

Summer Berlining

For me going to Berlin is like to going to a modern art museum. Only calling it a 'museum' would definitely be a wrong thing to do, as it's much more dynamic than that. You can literally see art happening on the street - right in front of your eyes. Everywhere. I swear! :) See for yourself.


What things one can do in Berlin?

Inhale the history, walk under the lindens, stay in a funky urban industrial style hostel, eat the best kebab in Berlin (and probably the world :P) - with lemon juice, crumbled cheese, mixed fresh and grilled vegetables and fresh mint! (I know the address). Make stupid faces and take a real photo of yourself in an old FOTO AUTOMAT - your pics will come in a series of 4 and the best thing of all? they are developed the old way and you gotta wait some 5 mins until they dry off!

Roam the streets and imagine who could live behind those weirdly painted and decorated walls in those funky Eastern Germany style blocks. Tired? buy yourself a weißbier and drink it on one of the numerous beaches created on the banks of the Spree. (You can take a nap there too).








Pay attention to details:













Go visit one of the numerous markets where vintage, hip and simply junk things are sold.


Absorb the street art and watch people creating it:



Contemplate The Wall:







...and leave your own mark on it :)



Pick your favourite graffitti style and point out those you haven't seen before to your friends:













Help support Tacheles art center - a huge (9000 square meter) building on Oranienburger Straße in Mitte. Impressive colorful graffiti-style murals are painted on the exterior walls, and modern art sculptures are featured inside. In April 2011 the owner scheduled an eviction, but it was not carried out. Instead, on the next day, the gastronomy and cinema left the building peacefully in return for a payment of 1 Million Euros from an anonymous source. Eighty artists vowed to stay inside with their ateliers and metal workshops. One week later, the sequestrator ordered an almost 3 m tall wall to be built, separating the Oranienburger Straße from the building's courtyard. The future concept for the building remains undecided.











Go see some well known historical places made look modern - Check point Charlie:





Go party and get to know some new cool people:















In the end you can just pretend being a normal tourist and have some good currywurst ;). Whatever your style is, I'm sure you would enjoy Berlin.


all images by Olga & Arek