city as it is

‘Now let me call back those who introduced me to the city’

Walter Benjamin

This part of the blog is for sharing each others city experiences. The modest aim is to introduce the city theme from a persons point of view. This person can be you or somebody else, but it has to be someone.

If we do not notice the city, it ceases to exist. So help us to keep it real and thought-provoking.

Smacked by the city is meant for your own individual translations and findings about the city. This is your direct way of seeing things in the way they coincide with your life.

City as image is about representations, the way people see cities through certain mediums. Here you will get acquainted with the filtered and somehow distorted city.

SMACKED BY THE CITY

Sometimes the city just hits you, showing its twisted and unexpected sides.

The urban space as a reservoir for expressions is waiting to be translated and revealed. What is happening on the streets, behind the corners or inside the buildings, how do people feel themselves and how do they show it. Whenever you find a message, some unlike logic or a statement, please share it with us by describing and explaining it.

Open your eyes and your mind, the deepest content is often hidden and disguised. Look for the meanings of a city!

CITY AS IMAGE

"It's time we were on our way. I'm hungry, and the city awaits."

-Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

When you first enter a new city, it`s more than likely, that this is not the first date between you... You probably already have some kind of image in your head about the city and the first impression of your new lover can be enchanting or dissapointing pending on the expectations you had before.

We all tend to have a personal kaleidoscopes about every important city in our head, before we have really visited the place. The image is composed of the books we have read, films we have seen, poems we have learned by heart, comics and photographs we have explored.

This blog is a place to share these images, which have had strong influence on you and designed your vision of the citys. You are very welcome to
write personally about films, books, pictures, photographs, comic strips or poems where you have find interesting representations of a city. Visual material to illustrate the topic would be also very welcome.

Bon apetit!