Блоги: заметки с тегом wayfare

Paris in July 2024

Robert — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:29:24 +0500

Paris was much cleaner than I foredeemed, both on the week before the Olympics in July, and in early September as well.

This train is goïng to Pont de Sèvres. But instead of lighting up previous stations, the linear metro map lights up those the train is yet to stop at. The opposite of a progress bar!

For residents’ tranquility, please do not throw away glass bottles between 22⁰⁰ and 7⁰⁰. Very thoughtful!

Beautiful tower, bridge, river, and trees, all surrounded by ugliness:

Amongst the trees:

Next to the bridge:

Up close to the tower:

Chimney pipes require a different kind of brick:

Parisian café tables and chairs:

Doors:

The doors of liberty and fraternity are closed. Only equality remains:

Spirals:

Other textures:

Posting not allowed:

A bricky building:

A bookshop:

A propeller on the French aero-club’s building:

Just a pretty building:

A pretty café:

The sculpture on the left reminds me of a man whom I will not name (you don’t know him):

Fascinating ugliness:

A statue:

Bonjour Amour!

Design:

The information display on my platform:

The conspicuously missing plaques will get their own post.

Udine in September 2023

Robert — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:51:16 +0500

Robert:

Ducks in the river:

What’s that dent in the top part of the sky? A cloaked extraterrestrial craft, perhaps?

Nice greenery:

City gates:

Inside the city:

Dirty textures:

A fancy car:

Closed systems are potential traps

Robert — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 21:14:46 +0500

Robert:

It’s easy to get out of a stuck tram. A stuck underground train, on the other hand, traps folk inside and forces them to wait for help.

Ditto for escalators and lifts. A broken escalator is just a technobrutalist staircase.

An ATM that requires inserting a card makes it too easy to forget it there. Such an ATM can also take the card away in case of a bug, has a place to attach a skimming device, and wastes folk’s time by forcing them to fiddle with things. An ATM that scans cards contactlessly has none of these issues.

Moscow in 2020…2022

Robert — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:46:29 +0500

Robert:

Textures:

A Russian postbox:

Grass:

Parks:

A fallen leaf:

A squirrel:

A turtle:

A peculiar brick arrangement:

The Italian consulate’s plaque:

Apartment no. 64:

Metro train no. 76204:

A ventilation grid with the metro’s old logo:

Metro wayfinding:

The sky:

The night sky:

Me next to a tree:

My tanned hand next to a university groupmate’s:

I saved the best for last — the delivery robot:

Milan in August 2022

Robert — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:04:14 +0500

Robert:

Clock at Milan Central railway station:

Scooters:

Me in a tree hollow:

A gorgeous plaque:

A marvellous building:

The planetarium:

An interestingly-shaped trunk:

The park more generally:

An electric postal-delivery mini-car:

A biolab! Why do I keep stumbling upon these?

A door:

An interesting shape:

Typography and leaves:

Baiardo in July 2022

Robert — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:10:21 +0500

Robert:

Red reflection:

The bus’s honk:

Honk

Approaching the town:

Views:

The forest:

Water source:

Water fountain:

Flowers:

Mules:

Some green insect:

The remnants of a druid church:

A playground:

A restaurant:

A building:

A door handle:

Ornaments:

Plaques:

London in January 2020

Robert — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 19:49:33 +0500

Robert:

Having arrived in the UK for the first time in three and a half years, I recorded my first feelings:

Notice how the Tube train’s buttons are on the doors’ edges rather than next to each other in the middle:

The waffle marking usually applied on road intersections extends to train-station platforms:

Good London wayfinding extends to its Transport Museum:

Parking sign:

Plaque in South-East London:

The classic Westminster street name plaque. Nice bricks, too!

Sale Place:

Two gorgeous plaques next to each other:

English heritage:

The man is turning into an octopus:

The exciting and thrilling danger of death:

Crooked Billet Yard. I’m not making these names up!

Air quality monitoring:

Nice little square:

Greenery in a street:

Vitsœ store:

London shops don’t just sell things. They are places where people come for an experience:

Novelty Automation is home to fun and unique arcade machines:

As well as to a beautiful plaque:

And this marvellous request. (Boycott banks into irrelevance):

The wall subconsciously tells us that this is a cinema:

London’s other side:

Beware of tailgaters:

Hats repurposed into lamps at Luton Airport:

My other photos, videos, and audio recordings of London:
Oat drink ads
Canada geese
Thameslink voice announcement

Psychedelic stop announcement on Nice tram

Robert — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:46:07 +0500

Robert:

Next stop: Airport Terminal 1

Driving a car at age three

Robert — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:19:59 +0500

Robert:

Kim Jong-un learned how to drive a car at age three. People call this fact an outlandish claim, but I can confirm that it’s not:
I myself learned how to drive a car at age three.

Bus route naming

Robert — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:58:47 +0500

Robert:

Bus routes should be named logically, so they can be easily memorised.

This is done well in Bologna. The bus to the airport is BLQ, the IATA code for the airport. The one to Fico food mall is F.