Linz – 11 Jun 2024
To start off the day, I went to the laundromat to make sure I didn’t run out of clean clothes before going home. While there, I met a fellow from Ohio who didn’t speak German and didn’t know how to work the dryer. I showed him the icon on the display screen that changes language, and, together, we got the dryer going. It turns out he had bicycled from near Venice, Italy over the past couple of weeks.
Before that, though, I wandered around the area while waiting for the washer to finish:
State Housing Cooperative (The German language loves putting together long words)
Their logo...
...and their motto: More than usual.
No, not the real Mafia...
...a delivery car for a pizzeria.
A logo for a sports organization (Working Group for Sport and Physical Culture in Austria)
Nearby was a Fachhochschule, which is a University of Applied Sciences, and is roughly equivalent to a community college in the US:
Artwork that changes...
...depending on where you view it from.
Classrooms look pretty much the same everywhere.
This is a great logo.
After returning to the hotel and putting away the laundry, I went out and rented a bicycle to go out to the Mural Harbor, an area at the harbor with lots of graffiti murals.
Even though the letters are only half-formed, it’s still totally legible.
Another long word: extinguisher water feed
To me, it seems weird to see cars parked in both directions.
Mural Harbor
No pictures of Mural Harbor! (site in German) It’s in an industrial zone, and you can’t go through it without a tour guide (though I did not see that sign and rode my bicycle around and took pictures and nobody said a word).
Also, across the street from the main area is a gallery with this warning:
The murals are protected by copyright. Photography and filming are only permitted as part of a booked tour or by arrangement.
So, rather than run afoul of the law by posting pictures of stuff that is totally visible from the street, you’ll just have to take my word for it that it looked pretty neat.
Francisco Carolinum Museum
Onwards to a museum for photography and media art.
A display about the beginnings of color photography
An artist named Steve Pikelny had a sampling of his work, involving defacing money by drawing on it and doing generative art of random pointers and “fake Internet money”.
Works by Zofia Kulik
Some works not part of a particular installation:
The Alchemist Epitaph (Guido Kucsko, 2021)
Then, an installation by Adrian Sauer (site does not seem to be updated recently), a German photographer.
He also had a set of short quotes about art, some of which are here:
A bot is a disembodied robot.
Black Box: Something that you can’t see inside. / Something that you can’t understand. / Something that you can see inside but can’t understand.
Binary Code: The attempt to represent the world in black and white, right and wrong, but as multifaceted as possible
Algorithm: An algorithm is a clear instruction for action, today mostly given to a computer.
Did you read the terms and conditions before opening a Gmail, Instagram or Flickr account?
And these works from Elfie Semotan.
It looks like “partial letters” is the theme for today.
Stickers
Most of these are in front of a bike repair shop called Zum Rostigen Esel (The Rusty Donkey—website in German). The people at the store saw me taking pictures, and I explained to them that I do this for friends in the US. We talked about bike riding, and I commented that it seems safer here because everyone who’s driving a car has, at some time, also been a bicycle rider, so they don’t behave like jerks (as in the US). The guy from the store said that it’s not quite that good, but it is probably better than in the US.s
Autos out of the City - whether gas or electric
Punch Nazis
Signage / Miscellanea
A cigarette vending machine; you wouldn’t see many of these in the US.
A hat store; again, something you might not see in the US.
The King rules here...until the Queen gets back
Hemp plants and seeds
Your advertisement could be here!
A play on the Italian word “delicioso”, working in the city name.
In front of a coffee shop, naturally.
Saw this scale and had to try it...
...63.5 kg, which works out to 140 lbs.
Karin’s Foot Care
What a cool name.
This was near the hotel. Their website (in German).