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From Wikipedia: “Flâneur (pronounced [flɑnœʁ]), from the French noun flâneur, means “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”, or “loafer”. Flânerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym is boulevardier.” A holdover from the class divides of 19th and early 20th century in Europe when the gentry could spend their time engaged in […]
Uit het leven gegrepen / Taken from real life / Aus dem Leben gegriffen All the world’s a stage (William Shakespeare) La vie est absurde (Albert Camus) About time and people passing by Das Leben ist ein Theater Pictures of ordinary madness ============================================ Toelichting Nederlands: Op deze website staat de serie StreetLife. De serie bestaat uit […]
Probably took this one at 4am. ©Matt Weber
via 42d Street 1985 — Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber
Today, 1209 Lexington Avenue is the home of a Warby Parker store, part of the trendy national eyewear chain. But from 1899 to 2012, this was Lascoff Apothecary, a pharmacy on the corner at 82nd Street that was so old-school, they used to sell leeches. Lascoff’s was a New York pharmacy at its finest, the […]
via The mortar and pestles of a former city pharmacy — Ephemeral New York
via Exchange Place — For Earth Below – Keith Goldstein
AU BONHEUR DES DAMES is a novel by Emile Zola set in the world of the department store in nineteenth-century Paris. It covers the period approximately from 1864 to 1869 and it’s the eleventh novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macqart series. From Zola’s original manuscript for Au Bonheur des Dames When Zola was writing Au Bonheur des […]
barcelona, 2018 william shatner – common people (click,hear)
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