Vienna–April 9, 2019
As per usual, click any picture to see it at a larger size.
I arrived in Vienna a couple of days before the ReasonConf (dedicated to the ReasonML programming language). I got in during the early afternoon, so I had some time to walk around the hotel area. I have only a very few pictures of the typical buildings and sculptures that I like to photograph:
Almost everything else is...
Signage
The hotel I’m staying at is near the University of Vienna, and they apparently have some sort of public transit ticket that you can buy (translation below the picture):
This May, the Austrian University Student Union (ÖH—Österreichische Hochschülerinnen- und Hochschülerschaft) is having elections. Here’s one from the Socialist Student Association:
The text reads:
We want more!
- Aids that make studying possible
- Study conditions that meet (needs of) all students
- Housing that is affordable for all students
An opposing group, JUNOS, (Young Liberal NEOS), has these posters, with the “want” in “We want more” crossed out and replaced with “do,“ as in “We do more.” I doubt Evergreen Valley College’s Associated Student Government could get away with the second poster.
Signs from a burger restaurant, a store that cells cannabidiol (CBD), and a hair styling salon:
This van for a heating and air conditioning company just looked cool. The words at the lower left translate to “hot. cold. warm.”
The this logo for the building that house the collections of the Medical University of Vienna has an interesting switch from a serif to sans-serif font:
This is a weathered wall advertisement for a curtains/materials/flooring store:
This one became more interesting the more I looked into it:
At first, I thought, “Well that sounds like a not very fun movie.” Then I looked closer and asked, “What is the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, anyway?” If you go to their web site, their home page is pretty weird. It turns out they are a performance art group out of New York. So who knows, the movie may actually be really amazing. But I don’t think I want to spend a couple of hours to find out.
Stickers
There seem to be a lot of interesting stickers on light posts, etc. The first one, courtesy of the Communist Youth of Austria, is my favorite:
And I’d really like to see the whole sticker that this came from: